1562 PARACELSUS, [Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim] (1493 – 1541)
De gradibus, de compositionibus, et dosibus receptorum ac naturalium libri septem.
Paracelsus has been called by some “the pioneer of modern chemists” and by others “uncouth, boorish, vain, ignorant and pretentious”. His De gradibus contains most of his innovations in Chemical therapeutics.
GMN 1818 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2080
1644 PARACELSUS, [Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim] (1493 – 1541); LOCATELLI, Lodovico (1600 – 1657)
Theatro d’Arcani del medico Lodovico Locatelli da Bergamo; nel quale si tratta dell’arte chimica, et suoi arcani, con gli afforismi d’Ippocrate commentati da Paracelso, et l’espositione d’alcune cifre, et caratteri oscuri de filosofi.
‘It is apparent that by the 1640’s Paracelsian medicine had gained momentum in Italy and that iatrochemical theories were being adopted by a number of Italian physicians. […] In 1644 there appeared the first Italian t…
GMN 11858 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14062
1660 BOYLE, Robert (1627 – 1691)
New experiments physico-mechanical touching the spring of the air.
Boyle showed the effects of the elasticity, compressibility, and weight of air. He investigated the function of air in respiration, combustion, and conveyance of sound. Most significantly Boyle demonstrated that air i…
GMN 914 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1092
1662 BOYLE, Robert (1627 – 1691)
A defence of the doctrine touching the spring and weight of the air.
Boyle’s law. The above pamphlet was appended to the second edition of Boyle’s The spring and weight of the air, 1662. The relevant passage is reproduced inj. F. Fulton’s Selected readings in the history of physiology,…
GMN 666 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/543
1666 MEURDRAC, Marie (1610 – 1680)
La chymie charitable et facile, en faveur des dames.
A book on practical chemistry, pharmacology and medicine written for the common reader by French autodidact Marie Meurdrac, La chymie charitable et facile, en faveur des dames, was the first treatise on chemistry writ…
GMN 6822 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8985
1673 WIRDIG, Sebastian (1613 – 1687)
Nova medicina spirituum: Curiosa scientia & doctrina, unanimiter hucusque neglecta, & à nemine meritò exculta, medicis tamen & physicis utilissima. In quâ Primo Spirituum naturalis constitutio, vita, sanitas temperamenta, ingenia, calidum innatum, phantasiae vires, ideae, astrorum influentiae, μετεμψύχωσις, rerum magnetissimi, sympatiae & antipatiae, qualitates hactenus occultae, aliaq; caeteroquin abstrusa & paradoxa; Dehinc spirituum praeternaturalis seu morbosa Dispositio, causae, curationes per naturam, per diaetam, per arcana majora, palingenesiam, magnetissimum seu sympatheismum, transplantationes, amuleta, ingenuè & dilucidè demonstrantur.
”A very curious work, attributing the causes of many diseases to spirits and basing their cure on this theory. There is a great deal on insanity. The methods of treatment are partly chemical, partly magnetical, even s…
GMN 12972 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15220
1675 COOPER, William
A catalogue of chymicall books. In three parts. In the first and second parts are contained such chymical books as have been written originally, or translated into English: with a large account of their titles, several editions and volumes. Likewise in the third part is contained a collection of such things published in the Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society (for ten years together) as pertain to Chymistry, or the study of nature by art in the animal, vegetal, and mineral kingdoms. Collected by Will. Cooper, bookseller, at the pelican in Little-Britain, London.
The first bibliography of chemistry published in England. ESTC No. 00608591. ESTC Citation No. R20346. See William Cooper's A catalogue of chymical books, 1673-88: A verified edition by Stanford J. Linden (New York: G…
GMN 8451 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10628
1702 MANGET, Jean-Jacques [Johann Jacob Mangetus] (1652 – 1742)
Bibliotheca chemica curiosa, seu rerum ad alchemiam pertinentium thesaurus instructissimus; quo non tantum artis auriferae, ac scriptorum in ea nobiliorum historia traditur; Lapidis veritas argumentis & experimentis innumeris. 2 vols.
A library of chemical and alchemical works, including various alchemical works (some illustrated) that were already rare by Manget's time. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11175 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13372
1732 BOERHAAVE, Herman (1668 – 1738)
Elementa chemiae. 2 vols.
Boerhaave was the first to separate out urea from urine, and to do so without adding chemical substances such as alcohol or nitric acid. He first published his method for isolating it in the above work. English transl…
GMN 666.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/545
1754 BLACK, Joseph (1728 – 1799)
Dissertatio medica inauguralis de humore acido a cibis orto, et magnesia alba.
Isolation of carbon dioxide. English translation, Minneapolis, 1973.
GMN 919 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/111
1770 RUSH, Benjamin (1745 – 1813)
Syllabus of a course of lectures on chemistry.
Rush inaugurated the first regular course of lectures on chemistry taught in America, at the College of Philadelphia. Includes much on pharmaceutical chemistry. Facsimile reprint with an introduction by L. H. Butterfi…
GMN 9204 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11385
1772 PRIESTLEY, Joseph (1733 – 1804)
Observations on the different kinds of air.
The isolation of oxygen was first achieved by Priestley. He also demonstrated that plants immersed in water give off oxygen and that this gas is essential for animal life.
GMN 920 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/116
1772 RUTHERFORD, Daniel (1749 – 1819)
De aëre fixo dicto, aut mephitico.
Discovery of nitrogen.
GMN 921 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/120
1778 LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent de (1743 – 1794)
Mémoire sur la nature du principe qui se combine avec les métaux pendantleur calcination, et qui en augmente le poids.
Although Priestley isolated oxygen, it was Lavoisier who discovered its real significance. He showed the true nature of the interchange of gases in the lungs and exploded Stahl’s phlogiston theory. Lavoisier was guill…
GMN 922 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/123
1784 CAVENDISH, Henry (1731 – 1810)
Experiments on air.
Cavendish isolated hydrogen in 1766, and later demonstrated the composition of air.
GMN 925 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/128
1784 LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent de (1743 – 1794)
Mémoire sur la formation de l’acide, nommé air fixe ou acide crayeux, et que je désignerai désormais sous le nom d’acid du charbon.
GMN 923 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1063
1785 LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent de (1743 – 1794)
Mémoire sur l’affinité du principe oxygine avec les différentes substances auxquelles il est susceptible de s’unir.
GMN 924 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1066
1794 BEDDOES, Thomas (1760 – 1808); WATT, James (1736 – 1819)
Considerations on the medicinal use, and on the production of factitious airs and on the manner of obtaining them in large quantities: In two parts.
The engineer James Watt collaborated with the physician, Thomas Beddoes, in this project. This was Watt's only contribution to medicine. While much of Beddoes' work proved ineffective it did result in Humphrey Davy's …
GMN 9526 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11712
1826 BALARD, Antoine Jérôme (1802 – 1876)
Sur une substance particulière contenue dans l’eau de la mer.
Isolation of bromine.
GMN 1848.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2323
1832 LIEBIG, Justus von (1803 – 1873)
Ueber die Verbindungen, welche durch die Einwirkung des Chlors auf Alkohol, Aether, ölbildenes Gas und Essiggeist entstehen.
Discovery, in 1831, of chloroform and chloral. Independently chloroform was discovered by Souberian and by Guthrie.
GMN 1852 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2351
1844 PETTIGREW, Thomas Joseph (1791 – 1865)
On superstitions connected with the history and practice of medicine and surgery.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12695 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14940
1854 GRAHAM, Thomas (1805 – 1869)
On osmotic force.
Investigation of osmotic force; provided important information for the physiologists.
GMN 686 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/825
1861 GRAHAM, Thomas (1805 – 1869)
Liquid diffusion applied to analysis.
Graham’s method of separating animal and other fluids by dialysis introduced the distinction between colloidal and crystalloid substances.
GMN 688 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/839
1867 TRAUBE, Moritz (1826 – 1894)
Experimente zur Theorie der Zellenbildung und Endosmose.
Employing, for the first time, copper ferrocyanide as a semi-permeable membrane, Traube investigated osmosis and the permeability of membranes.
GMN 692 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/859
1877 PFEFFER, Wilhelm Friedrich Phillip (1845 – 1920)
Osmotische Untersuchungen.
The osmotic pressures of solutions were found by Pfeffer to be directly in proportion to the concentration of the solute and to the absolute temperature. English translation, 1895.
GMN 698 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/910
1884 ARRHENIUS, Svante August (1859 – 1927)
Recherches sur la conductibilité galvanique des electrolytes. 1 & 2.
Arrhenius first published the theory of electrolytic dissociation in his doctoral thesis of 1884. In 1903 he received the Nobel Prize in chemistry "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered to the a…
GMN 14278 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16600
1887 VAN’T HOFF, Jacobus Hendricus (1852 – 1911)
Die Rolle des osmotischen Druckes in der Analogic zwischen Lösungen und Gasen.
GMN 711 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/969
1889 MERCK & CO.
Merck's index of fine chemicals and drugs for the materia medica and the arts: Comprising a summary of whatever chemical products are to-day adjudged as being useful in either medicine or technology, with average values and synonyms affixed; a guide for the physician, apothecary, chemist, and dealer.
First edition of the Merck Manual. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9525 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11711
1893 BOLTON, Henry Carrington (1843 – 1903)
A select bibliography of chemistry 1492-1892.
Bolton, a chemist, was the earliest American bibliographer of chemistry. His first edition, which atempted to list "the principal books on chemistry published in Europe and America from the rise of the literature to t…
GMN 11425 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13624
1894 SUDHOFF, Karl Friedrich Jakob (1853 – 1938); PARACELSUS, [Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim] (1493 – 1541)
Bibliographia Paracelsica: Besprechung der unter Theophrast v. Hohenheim's Namen 1527-1893 erschienenen Druckschriften
GMN 11210 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13407
1902 –1909 RAY, Prafulla Chandra (1861 – 1944)
A history of Hindu chemistry from the earliest times to the middle of the sixteenth century, A.D. With Sanskrit texts, variants, translation and illustrations. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile of the 1903 revised 2nd ed. plus the 1st ed. of vol. 2 from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10875 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13071
1906 YOUNG, James (1811 – 1883); FERGUSON, John (1837 – 1916)
Bibliotheca chemica: A catalogue of the alchemical, chemical and pharmaceutical books in the collection of the late James Young of Kelly and Durris....by John Ferguson. 2 vols.
One of the great landmarks of descriptive scientific bibliography. With bibliographical details of each work, biographical notices of each writer, and exhaustive lists of references in chronological order, its scope a…
GMN 8473 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10650
1907 ARRHENIUS, Svante August (1859 – 1927)
Immunochemistry. The application of the principles of physical chemistry to the study of the biological antibodies.
Arrhenius defined immunochemistry, and laid out its frontiers.
GMN 2564.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3681
1912 LAUE, Max Theodor Felix von (1879 – 1960); KNIPPING, Paul (1883 – 1935)
Interferenz-Erscheinungen bei Röntgenstrahlen. . . . Eine quantitative Prüfung der Theorie für die Interferenz-Erscheinungen bei Röntgenstrahlen
Discovery of the diffraction of X-rays in crystals. Laue’s discovery was of dual importance: it allowed the subsequent investigation of X-radiation by means of wavelength determination, and it provided the means for t…
GMN 6917 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9082
1919 SPÄTH, Ernst (1886 – 1946)
Über die Anhalonium-Alkaloide I. Anhalin und Mezcalin
Synthesis of mescaline.
GMN 8795 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10973
1938 FERCHL, Fritz (1892 – 1953)
Chemisch-Pharmazeutisches Bio-und Bibliographikon. Herausgegeben von der Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Pharmazie durch Fritz Ferchl. 2 vols.
GMN 7016 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9182
1939 PAULING, Linus Carl (1901 – 1994)
The nature of the chemical bond and the structure of molecules and crystals: An introduction to modern structural chemistry.
This book set forth in detail Pauling's valence-bond theory based on the quantum-mechanical concept of resonance between two energy states, which led to his highly innovative idea that the hybridization of orbitals (e…
GMN 6914 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9079
1943 –1955 FERGUSON, John (1837 – 1916)
Catalogue of the Ferguson collection of books mainly relating to alchemy, chemistry, witchcraft and gypsies in the Library of the University of Glasgow. 2 vols. including Supplement (1955).
Due to wartime paper rationing only 40 copies of the first printing of the catalogue were published when it was issued in 1943; it was reprinted in the 21st century. Ferguson is best known as the author of the extensi…
GMN 11332 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13530
1949 DUVEEN, Denis Ian (1910 – 1992); KLICKSTEIN, Herbert S.
Bibliotheca chemica et alchemica. An annotated catalogue of printed books on alchemy, chemistry and cognate subjects.
Though he was not credited on the title page, most of this catalogue was written by Herbert S. Klickstein, working for the collector, Denis Duveen.
GMN 11228 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13425
1954 –1965 LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent de (1743 – 1794); DUVEEN, Denis Ian (1910 – 1992); KLICKSTEIN, Herbert S.
A bibliography of the works of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, 1743-1794
Mostly written by Herbert S. Klickstein for the collector Denis Duveen.
GMN 11218 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13415
1960 SMITH, Edgar Fahs (1854 – 1928)
Catalog of the Edgar Fahs Smith memorial collection in the history of chemistry.
Catalogue of the collection formed by Smith, provost of the University of Pennsylvania. The collection was augmented by the university after its donation by Smith.
GMN 11433 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13632
1961 –1970 PARTINGTON, James Riddick (1886 – 1965)
A history of chemistry. Vol. 1, pt 1, Vols. 2-4.
The most comprehensive history of chemistry, with many bibliographical references. Vol. 1, pt. 2 never published.
GMN 8472 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10649
1968 –1977 MACPHAIL, Ian (1923 – 2014); MULTHAUF, Robert P. (1919 – 2004); JAFFÉ, Aniela (1903 – 1991); MCGUIRE, William (1917 – 2009)
Alchemy and the occult; a catalogue of books and manuscripts from the collection of Paul and Mary Mellon given to Yale University Library. Compiled by Ian MacPhail, with essays by R. P. Multhauf and Aniela Jaffé and additional notes by William McGuire. 4 vols.
GMN 11331 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13529
1972 SCHNEIDER, Wolfgang (1912 – 2007)
Geschichte der Pharmazeutischen Chemie.
GMN 12443 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14675
1972 ULLMANN, Manfred (1931 – )
Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam.(Handbuch der Orientalistik, 1. Abteilung, Ergänzungsband VI, 2).
Concerns zoology, botany, mineralogy, alchemy, astrology, magic, agriculture, the largest section being devoted to alchemy.
GMN 12526 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14761
1995 LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent de (1743 – 1794); BERETTA, Marco (1962 – )
Bibliotheca Lavoisieriana: The catalogue of the library of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier.
GMN 9572 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11759
1997 RAYNER-CANHAM, Geoffrey W.; RAYNER-CANHAM, Marelene F.
A devotion to their science: Pioneer women of radioactivity.
GMN 12326 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14550
1999 ROSENFELD, Louis (1925 – )
Four centuries of clinical chemistry.
The first in-depth study of the development of this field that had such a profound impact on patient care beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century.
GMN 8752 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10930
1999 –2000 BOYLE, Robert (1627 – 1691); HUNTER, Michael Cyril William (1949 – ); DAVIS, Edward B.
The works of Robert Boyle. Edited by Michael Hunter and Edward B. Davis. 14 vols.
GMN 9573 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11760
2001 PAULING, Linus Carl (1901 – 1994); KAMB, Walter Barclay (1931 – 2011); KAMB, Linda Pauling; PAULING, Peter Jeffress (1931 – 2003); KAMB, Alexander; PAULING, Linus Jr. (1925 – )
Linus Pauling: Selected scientific papers. Vol. 1: Physical sciences. Vol. 2: Biomolecular sciences. Edited by Barclay Kamb, Linda Pauling Kamb, Peter Jeffress Pauling, Alexander Kamb, Linus Pauling, Jr.
GMN 12890 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15137
