1467 MAURUS, Rabanus [Hrabanus; Rhabanus] (780 – 856)
De sermonum proprietate sive Opus de universo.
Also known as De rerum naturis. This dictionary or encyclopedia is the earliest known printed book to include a section dealing with medicine, and this brief section, Book 18, Chap. V concerning medicine and diseases,…
GMN 2190 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1380
1472 ISIDORE OF SEVILLE, (Isidorus Hispalensis) (570 – 636)
Etymologiae.
The principal work of Isidore of Seville, one of the greatest educationists of the Middle Ages. The Etymologiae, an encyclopedic work, presented the sum of contemporary knowledge on all branches of science. Book IV af…
GMN 6787 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8424
1473 SIMON GENUENSIS, (Simon a Cordo; Simon Januensis; Simon of Genoa) (1250 – )
Synonyma medicinae, seu clavis sanationis.
The first printed medical dictionary. It was originally published at Ferrara, 1471-2?, of which the only recorded copy is a fragment of 21 leaves in the Bodleian Library. ISTC No. is00526000. “The great work of Simon …
GMN 6788 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8426
1475 DONDI, Jacopo de' [Jacopo Dondi dell'Orologio] (1290 – 1359)
Aggregator, sive de medicinis simplicibus.
First printed edition of an encyclopedic dictionary of medicine, containing a large number of medical recipes based upon Greek and Arabic sources. Dondi completed the work in 1355. Manuscripts of his text are preserve…
GMN 6789 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8428
1519 FRIES, Lorenz (Phyres; Laurentius Phrisius) (1490 – 1532)
Synonima und gerecht vrlegug der Auslegung der Wörter, so man dan in der Artzny, allen Krütern, Wurtzlen, Blümen, Somen, Gesteinen, Safften vnn anderen Digen zu schreiben ist.
Digital facsimile from Universität Wien at this link.
GMN 6790 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8435
1541 GESNER, Conrad [Konrad Gessner] (1516 – 1565)
Historia plantarum et vires ex Dioscoride, Paulo Aegineta, Theophrasto, Plinio, & recentioribus Graecis, iuxta elementorum ordinem, per Conradum Gesnerum Tigurinum. Vna cum rerum & verborum locupletissimo indice.
A pocket dictionary of plants. Gesner, the “German Pliny”, produced the most encyclopedic bibliographies of his time. He attempted a Historia plantarum, which was unfinished at his death. See No. 1809.1. Digital facsi…
GMN 1807 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1964
1564 ESTIENNE, Henri [Stephanus] (1531 – 1598)
Dictionarium medicum.
This valuable Greek-Latin dictionary for the ancient medical writers defined and fixed a large number of anatomical terms, and exercised considerable influence on modern anatomical terminology. It was an important aid…
GMN 6791 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8436
1564 GORRIS, Jean de [GORRAEUS] (1505 – 1577)
Definitionum medicarum libri xxiii.
This dictionary arranges all Greek medical terms in order of the Greek alphabet, and carefully explains them in Latin. It was widely used, and exerted much influence on modern medical terminology.
GMN 6792 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8438
1566 EUSTACHI, Bartolomeo [EUSTACHIUS] (1510 – 1574); EROTIANUS (HERODIANUS) (50 – )
Vocum, quae apud Hippocratem sunt, collectio. Cum annotationibus Bartholomaei Eustachii . . . Eiusdemque Libellus de Multitudine.
First edition in Latin edited by Eustachi of the glossary to Hippocrates by the first century Greek grammarian Erotianus. Erotianus's work contains the earliest list of the writings of Hippocrates, including some now …
GMN 13060 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15312
1588 FOËS, Anuce [FOESIUS] (1528 – 1595)
Oeconomia Hippocratis, aphabeti serie distincta. In qua dictionum apud Hippocratem omnium, praesertim obscuriorum, usus explicatur, etc.
A Greek alphabetical dictionary of the vocabulary of the Hippocratic writings, based on an exhaustive investigation of all ancient medical texts.
GMN 6793 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8440
1598 CASTELLI, Bartolomeo ( – 1607)
Lexicon medicum Graeco-Latinum…ex Hippocrate et Galeno desumptum.
The earlier lexicon of Gorraeus formed the basis of this work, which was reprinted in several editions, the last in 1792.
GMN 6794 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8444
1632 NAUDÉ, Gabriel (1600 – 1653)
Quaestio iatrophilologica.
Learned bibliophile Gabriel Naudé eventually became Mazarin’s librarian and built up for his master a famous collection of books. He wrote an important medical dictionary. Four further parts of the above, with varying…
GMN 6795 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8446
1639 BAILLOU, Guillaume de [BALLONIUS] (1538 – 1616)
Definitionum medicinarum liber.
A glossary of Hippocratic terms.
GMN 6796 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8448
1684 BLANKAART, Steven [BLANCARD] (1650 – 1702)
A physical dictionary; in which all the terms relating either to anatomy, chirurgery, pharmacy, or chemistry, are very accurately explain’d.
The English translation of Blankaart’s dictionary was the first medical dictionary to be printed in the British Isles. The original Greek-Latin text was published in Amsterdam, 1679.
GMN 6797 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8454
1691 CALLARD DE LA DUCQUERIE, Jean Baptiste (1630 – 1718)
Lexicon medicum etymologicum.
GMN 6798 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8455
1743 –1745 JAMES, Robert (1705 – 1776); JOHNSON, Samuel (1709 – 1784)
A medicinal dictionary: Including physic, surgery, anatomy, chymistry, and botany, in all their branches relative to medicine. Together with a history of drugs; An account of their various preparations, combinations, and uses; and an introductory preface tracing the progress of physic, and explaining theories which have principally prevail'd in all ages of the world. With copper plates. 3 vols.
The largest, most exhaustive and most learned medical dictionary written in English prior to the early 19th century. Samuel Johnson wrote the dedication and some of the articles. This was Johnson’s first venture into …
GMN 6799 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8456
1746 –1748 JAMES, Robert (1705 – 1776); DIDEROT, Denis (1713 – 1784); BUSSON, Julien (1717 – 1781); EIDOUS, Marc-Antoine (1724 – 1790); TOUSSAINT, François-Vincent (1715 – 1772)
Dictionnaire universel de médecine, de chirurgie, de chymie, de botanique, d'anatomie, de pharmacie, d'histoire naturelle, &c. Précédé d'un discours historique sur l'origine et les progrès de la médecine. Traduit de l'anglois de M. James. Revue, corrigé & augmenté par M. Julien Busson. 6 vols.
James, it may be assumed, had little or nothing to do with this translation, because copyright between England and France was essentially non-existent at the time. In the process of supervising this large publication,…
GMN 12628 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14868
1753 TARIN, Pierre (1725 – 1761)
Dictionaire anatomique suivi d'une bibliothèque anatomique et physiologique.
An anatomical dictionary with most of the entries cross referenced to related structures, followed by a very extensive bibliography of anatomical and physiological works. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 7800 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9972
1775 LAFOSSE, Philippe Étienne (1738 – 1820)
Dictionnaire raisonné d'hippiatrique, cavalerie, manège et maréchallerie. 4 vols.
Digital facsimile from BnFGallica at this link.
GMN 10137 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12326
1812 –1822 SOCIÉTÉ DE MÉDECINS ET DE CHIRURGIENS
Dictionnaire des sciences médicales par un Société de médecins et de chirurgiens. 60 vols.
GMN 2208 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1659
1828 –1839 DEZEIMERIS, Jean-Eugène (1799 – 1852); OLLIVIER D'ANGERS, Charles-Prosper (1796 – 1845); RAIGE-DELORME, Jacques (1795 – 1887)
Dictionnaire historique de la médecine ancienne et moderne, ou précis de l'histoire générale, technologique et littéraire de la médecine, suivie de la bibliographie médicale du dix-neuvième siècle, et d'un répertoire bibliographique par ordre de matières. 4 vols.
Biographical essays with annotated bibliographies of the authors cited. The title pages of vols. 2-4 indicate that they were written by Dezeimeris alone. Digital facsimile from The Medical Heritage Library, Internet A…
GMN 6709.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7813
1832 –1858 COPLAND, James (1791 – 1870)
A dictionary of practical medicine. 3 vols.
GMN 6800 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8457
1849 HARRIS, Chapin Aaron (1806 – 1860)
A dictionary of dental science, biography, bibliography, and medical terminology.
An encyclopedia in dictionary form, combining all the elements described in the title in one alphabetical sequence. This work underwent numerous later editions. Digital facsimile of the 1849 edition from Google Books …
GMN 12893 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15140
1854 TARDIEU, Auguste Ambroise (1818 – 1879)
Dictionnaire d'hygiène publique et de salubrité ou répertoire de toutes les questions relatives à la santé publique, considérées dans leurs rapports avec les subsistances, les épidémies, les professions, les établissements et institutions d'hygiène et de salubrité, complété par le texte des lois, décrets, arrêtés, ordonnances et instructions qui s'y rattachen. 3 vols.
For the second edition (1862) Tardieu expanded the work to 4 volumes. Tardieu described the terrible working conditions of children in factories and mines. He also reported the ill consequences of theses conditions on…
GMN 8892 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11070
1865 –1889 DECHAMBRE, Amedée (1812 – 1886)
Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences médicales. Directeur: A. Dechambre. 100 vols.
A massive encyclopedia based on historical principles, written by the leading authorities, and with detailed bibliographical references. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 8071 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10247
1881 –1899 POWER, Henry (1829 – 1911); SEDGWICK, Leonard W.
New Sydenham Society’s lexicon of terms used in medicine and the allied sciences. 5 vols.
GMN 6803 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8459
1887 HIRSCHBERG, Julius (1843 – 1925)
Wörterbuch der Augenheilkunde.
GMN 5932 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6867
1895 –1928 RICHET, Charles Robert (1850 – 1935); LAPICQUE, Louis (1866 – 1952); LANGLOIS, Paul (1862 – 1923)
Dictionnaire de physiologie. Vols. 1 - 10, pt. 1. (All published).
By Richet, Langlois, Lapique and numerous co-authors. Covers "A" - Moelle épinière only. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 646 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/525
1923 KIRAM, Zeki Hasmet
Vocabularium anatomiae latine-arabice.[Qāmūs al-tašrīḥ Lātīnī-‘Arabī].
GMN 14164 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16479
1931 FISCHER, Isidor (1868 – 1943)
Die Eigennamen in der Krankheitsterminologie.
This dictionary of medical eponyms gives references to the original publications involved and records wherever possible the first use of the eponym.
GMN 6804 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8460
1949 SKINNER, Henry Alan (1899 – )
The origin of medical terms.
Revised and enlarged edition, Baltimore, 1961. Digital facsimile of the 1949 edition from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 8763 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10941
1956 ANDRÉ, Jacques
Lexique des termes de botanique en latin.
GMN 8957 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11136
1959 SCHMIDT, Jacob Edward
Dictionary of medical slang and related esoteric expressions.
This book by the physician chairman of the National Association on Standard Medical Vocabulary includes many terms and phrases that were found in any other dictionary with the word medical in the title. Digital facsim…
GMN 8757 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10935
1963 LIEBER, Bernfried (1919 – 2003); OLBRICH, Gertrude
Wörtenbuch der klinischen Syndrome. 3te. Auflage.
5th ed., 1972.
GMN 6805 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8461
1968 LIEBER, Bernfried (1919 – 2003); OLBERT, Theodor
Die klinische Eponyme.
GMN 6806 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8462
1968 STRAUSS, Maurice Benjamin (1904 – )
Familiar medical quotations.
Over 7,000 quotations, arranged under broad subject headings; author and subject indexes.
GMN 6807 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8463
1968 –1975 SCHNEIDER, Wolfgang (1912 – 2007)
Lexikon zur Arzneimittelgeschichte. Sachwörterbuch zur Geschichte der pharmazeutische Botanik, Chemie, Mineralogie, Pharmakologie, Zoologie. Band 1: Tierische Drogen, Band 2: Pharmakologische Arzneimittelgruppen, Band 3: Pharmazeutische Chemikalien und Mineralien, Band 4: Geheimmittel und Spezialitäten, Band 5: Pflanzliche Drogen, Band 6: Ergänzungen zu Band 3, Band 7: Register. (7 vols. in 9)
GMN 12442 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14674
1969 JABLONSKI, Stanley (1916 – 2004)
Illustrated dictionary of eponymic syndromes and diseases and their synonyms.
Second edition as Jablonski’s Dictionary of syndromes and eponymic diseases, Malabar, Fl., Krieger, 1989.
GMN 6808 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8464
1971 MAGALINI, Sergio (1927 – )
Dictionary of medical syndromes.
Second edition with E. Scrasia, 1981.
GMN 6809 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8465
1985 ANDRÉ, Jacques
Les noms de plantes dans la Rome antique.
GMN 8958 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11137
1986 WALTON, Sir John Nicholas (1922 – 2016); BEESON, Paul Bruce (1908 – 2006); SCOTT, Sir Ronald Bodley (1906 – 1982)
The Oxford companion to medicine. 2 vols.
A dictionary, biographical dictionary, and encyclopedia covering selected aspects of the theory, practice and profession of medicine, including history, by the editors and 150 notable contributors. Produced in the sty…
GMN 6810 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8466
1990 ESTES, J. Worth (1934 – 2000)
Dictionary of protopharmacology: Therapeutic practices, 1700-850.
GMN 9802 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11990
1990 ESTES, J. Worth (1934 – 2000)
Dictionary of protopharmacology: Therapeutic practices, 1700-1850.
GMN 12453 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14685
1991 ANDRÉ, Jacques
Le vocabulaire latin de l'anatomie.
GMN 8959 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11138
1993 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); DURLING, Richard Jasper (1932 – 1999)
A dictionary of medical terms in Galen.
GMN 9963 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12152
1996 SPIEGL, Fritz (1926 – 2003)
Fritz Spiegl's sick notes: An alphabetical browsing book of medical derivations, abbreviations mnemonics and slang for amusement and edification of medics, nurses, patients and hypochondriacs.
Both serious and humorous; illustrated with cartoons.
GMN 8766 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10944
1997 DOX, Ida G.
Attorney's illustrated medical dictionary.
GMN 13678 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15960
2004 RIECKE, Jörg (1960 – 2019)
Die Frühgeschichte der mittelalterlichen medizinischen Fachsprache im Deutschen: Bd 1: Untersuchungen. Bd 2: Wörterbuch.
GMN 14080 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16391
2005 LEVEN, Karl-Heinz (1959 – )
Antike Medizin: Ein Lexikon.
GMN 9983 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12172
2007 GONZÁLEZ, Alejandro García
Alphita: Edición crítica y comentario de Alejandro García González. Edizione Nazionale La Scuola Medica Salernitana, 02.
Alphita, farina ordei idem, an anonymous collection of glosses, documents the linguistic renewal of the medical and botanical technical lexicon, derived from Greco-Latin as well as Arabic sources, at the School of Sal…
GMN 8557 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10734
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