KOTTEK, Samuel S. (1931 – ); FREUDENTHAL, Gad

Mélanges d'histoire de la médecine hébraïque. Études choisies de la Revue d'histoire de la médecine hébraïque (1948-1985). Edited by Gad Freudenthal and Samuel Kottek.

GMN 13458 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15732

1489 RHAZES [MUHAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYĀ AL-RĀZĪ (PERSIAN: محمد زکریای رازی‎ ] (854 – 925); HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); MAIMONIDES, (Moses ben Maimon; מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־מַימוֹן‎; Mōšeh bēn-Maymōn; موسى بن ميمون‎‎ Mūsā bin Maymūn) (1135 – 1204); MESUE, Yuhanna ibn Masawaih (يوحنا بن ماسويه) (777 – 857); GERARD OF CREMONA, (Gerardus Cremonensis) (1114 – 1187); AEGIDIUS DE SCALABIS, [Aegidius Lusitanus] (1185 – 1265)

Maimonides: Aphorismi secundum doctrinam Galeni. Add: Mesue: Aphorismi. Rhasis: De secretis in medicina. Hippocrates: Capsula eburnea.

The most popular and influential medical work by Maimonides, the most famous of early Jewish physician/philosophers. This is a collection of about 1500 aphorisms derived from Galen, and divided into 24 treatises. In t…

GMN 6495.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8020

1500 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); MAIMONIDES, (Moses ben Maimon; מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־מַימוֹן‎; Mōšeh bēn-Maymōn; موسى بن ميمون‎‎ Mūsā bin Maymūn) (1135 – 1204); AVENZOAR [IBN ZUHR (ARABIC: ابن زهر‎ ] (1092 – 1162); MESUE, Yuhanna ibn Masawaih (يوحنا بن ماسويه) (777 – 857)

Aphorismi secundum doctrinam Galeni. Add: Johannes Damascenus [Mesue?]: Aphorismi. Hippocrates: Secreta; Prognosticatio secundum lunam; Capsula eburnea; De humana natura; De aere et aqua et regionibus; De pharmaciis; De insomniis. Avenzohar: De curatione lapidis.

An edition of the Latin translation of Maimonides’ Aphorismi (first published, Venice, 1489), together with a compilation of the works of Mesue, Avenzoar, Galen, etc. Page for page reprint, Venice, 1508. See No. 6495.…

GMN 53 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8772

1536 CONSTANTINE THE AFRICAN (CONSTANTINUS AFRICANUS) (1015 – 1087); PETRUS HISPANUS, Pope John XXI (Pedro Hispano; Peter of Spain) (1226 – 1277); ISAAC JUDAEUS [ABU YA'QUB ISHAQ IBN SULAIMAN AL ISRA’ILI’], (Isaac Israeli ben Solomon) (832 – 932); TURINI, Andrea (Andreas Turinus) (1473 – 1543)

Omnia opera Ysaac in hoc volumini contenta: cum quibusdam alijs opusculis: Liber de definitionibus. Liber de elementis. Liber dietaru[m] vniversalium: cum co[m]me[n]to Petri Hispani. Liber dietarum particularium ... Liber de vrinis cum commento eiusdem. Liber de febribus. Pantechni decem libri theorices: et decem practices: cum tractatu de gradibus medicinarum Constantini. Viaticum Ysaac quod constantinus sibi attribuit. Liber de oculis Constantini. Liber des stomacho Constantini. Liber virtutum de simplici medicina Constantini. Compendium megatechni Galeni a Constantino compositum ; Cum tabula [et] repertorio omnium operum et questionum in co[m]mentis contentarum. Edited by Andreas Turinus.

Constantine was a Muslim from North Africa who converted to Christianity. His writings were first published with those of Isaac Judaeus in the above edition which includes many separate texts. Many of the writings of …

GMN 46 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8767

1708 COHN, Tobias ben Moses [COHEN] (1652 – 1729)

Ma’aseh Tuviyyah [Works of Tobias]…Hebrew text.

The only significantly illustrated early book on medicine in Hebrew. This is an encyclopedia, of which approximately half concerns medicine. One of the first Jews from the Eastern ghetto to obtain a medical education …

GMN 6496.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8027

1777 WOLF, Elcan Isaac

Von den Krankheiten der Juden: seinen Brüdern in Deutschland gewidmet.

The earliest book devoted entirely to the health and illness of Jews, written by a Jewish physician. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 10750 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12946

1802 LION, Heyman

An entire, new, and original work; being a complete treatise upon spinae pedum; containing several important discoveries. Illustrated with copperplates exhibiting the different species of spinae.

The first original British work on podiatry, with several illustrations, one hand-colored. Disappointed at being refused a medical degree, Lion, a German Jewish émigré, wrote this book, taking the unusual step of havi…

GMN 9581 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11768

1844 CARMOLY, Eliakim (1802 – 1875)

Histoire des médecins juifs anciens et modernes. Tome premier (All Published.)

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 8534 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10711

1879 HYRTL, Josef (1810 – 1894)

Das Arabische un Hebräische in der Anatomie.

Hyrtl, professor of anatomy at Prague and Vienna, retired in 1874 and devoted his leisure to the writing of this and his Onomatologia anatomica. Garrison considered Hyrtl, along with Littré, among the greatest medical…

GMN 443 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1104

1880 RABBINOWICZ, Israël Michel (1818 – 1893)

La médecine du Thalmud ou tous le passages concernant la médecine extraits des 21 traités du Thalmud de Babylone.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 7984 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10160

1893 STEINSCHNEIDER, Moritz (1816 – 1907)

Die hebräischen Uebersetzungen des Mittelalters. 2 vols.

Reprinted, 1956.

GMN 6765 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8239

1895 LANDAU, Richard (1864 – 1903)

Geschichte der jüdischen Ärzte. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Medicin.

GMN 6496.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8029

1901 EBSTEIN, Wilhelm (1836 – 1912)

Die Medizin im Alten Testament.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 6497 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8030

1911 PREUSS, Julius (1861 – 1913)

Biblisch-talmudische Medizin.

3rd edition, 1923. Translated as Biblical and Talmudic medicine. Translated by Fred Rosner. New York, Sanhedrin Press, 1978, with enlarged index and expanded references.

GMN 6498 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8031

1934 KAGAN, Solomon Robert (1881 – 1955)

Jewish contributions to medicine in America from colonial times to the present.

GMN 8677 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10854

1936 BRIM, Charles Jacob (1891 – )

Medicine in the Bible. The Pentateuch, Torah.

References to medicine in the Old Testament, with notes and definitions, and references to the Talmud.

GMN 6499 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8034

1941 SILBERBERG, Szprynca (Stephania) (1898 – 1942)

Jak zapobiegać chorobom zakaźnym i jak je zwalczać? Biblioteczka Zydowskiej Samopomocy Spolecznej. Nr. 1.

A 14-page pamphlet on epidemiology published by the Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna, Prezydium (Jewish Social Self-Help Organization) in the Kraków Ghetto to educate Jewish activists and physicians. The author perished a…

GMN 10769 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12965

1946 APFELBAUM, Emil (1895 – 1946)

Choroba glodowa: Badania kliniczne nad glodem wykonane w getcie warszawskim z roku 1942.

A series of articles by Jewish physicians working in the Bersohn and Bauman Jewish Children's Hospital and "Czyste" Hospital in the Warsaw ghetto, who conducted independent research between November 1941 and August 19…

GMN 7236 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9405

1952 KAGAN, Solomon Robert (1881 – 1955)

Jewish medicine.

GMN 6500 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8035

1952 ZIMMELS, Hirsch Jakob (1900 – 1974)

Magicians, theologians and doctors: Studies in folk-medicine and folk-lore as reflected in the rabbinical Responsa (12th-19th centuries).

GMN 13306 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15572

1957 MUNTNER, Suessman Alexander (1897 – 1973); ASAPH THE PHYSICIAN (-400 – 300)

Introduction to the book of Asaph the Physician: The oldest existing text of a medical book written in Hebrew.

See also, Muntner, "The antiquity of Asaph the Physician and his editorshoip of the earliest Hebrew book of medicine," Bull. Hist. Med., 25 (1951) 101-131.

GMN 11944 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14149

1959 JAKOBOVITS, Immanuel (1921 – 1999)

Jewish medical ethics: A comparative and historical study of the Jewish religious attitude to medicine and its practice.

GMN 8135 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10311

1963 MAIMONIDES, (Moses ben Maimon; מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־מַימוֹן‎; Mōšeh bēn-Maymōn; موسى بن ميمون‎‎ Mūsā bin Maymūn) (1135 – 1204); MUNTNER, Suessman Alexander (1897 – 1973)

The medical writings of Moses Maimonides. Treatise on asthma.

GMN 6495.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8023

1963 FALSTEIN, Louis (1909 – 1995); WULMAN, Lejb (Leon) (1887 – 1971); TENENBAUM, Joseph; LAZAROWITZ, Leopold (1895 – 1965); MALOWIST, Simon

The martyrdom of Jewish physicians in Poland: Studies by Dr. Leon Wulman and Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum. Research and Documentation by Dr. Leopold Lazarowitz and Dr. Simon Malowist. Edited by Louis Falstein.

"Of the more than 3 million Jewish Poles that perished during the Holocaust, approximately 3,000 were physicians. It was the goal of the Alliance members to memorialize those physicians who perished during the Holocau…

GMN 8642 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10819

1967 FRIEDENWALD, Harry (1864 – 1950)

The Jews and medicine. Jewish luminaries in medical history. 3 vols.

First published 1944-46. Vol. 1 includes a classified bibliography of ancient Hebrew medicine.

GMN 6501.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8039

1971 EBIED, Rifaat Y.

Bibliography of medieval Arabic and Jewish medicine and allied sciences.

GMN 6510.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8072

1973 KOREN, Nathan

Jewish physicians: A biographical index.

Over 9000 entries.

GMN 8687 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10864

1984 ROSNER, Fred (1931 – )

Medicine in the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides.

GMN 6501.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8043

1987 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); MAIMONIDES, (Moses ben Maimon; מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־מַימוֹן‎; Mōšeh bēn-Maymōn; موسى بن ميمون‎‎ Mūsā bin Maymūn) (1135 – 1204); ROSNER, Fred (1931 – )

Maimonides' commentary on the aphorisms of Hippocrates. Translated with a commentary by Fred Rosner

GMN 8270 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10446

1988 MAIMONIDES, (Moses ben Maimon; מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־מַימוֹן‎; Mōšeh bēn-Maymōn; موسى بن ميمون‎‎ Mūsā bin Maymūn) (1135 – 1204); ROSNER, Fred (1931 – )

Moses Maimonides medical writings: Poisons, Hemorrhoids, and cohabitation, translated and annotated by Fred Rosner.

GMN 8268 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10444

1989 MAIMONIDES, (Moses ben Maimon; מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־מַימוֹן‎; Mōšeh bēn-Maymōn; موسى بن ميمون‎‎ Mūsā bin Maymūn) (1135 – 1204); ROSNER, Fred (1931 – ); DIENSTAG, Jacob Israel ( – 2008)

The medical aphorisms of Moses Maimonides translated and annotated by Fred Rosner, with a bibliography by Jacob I. Dienstag.

GMN 8269 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10445

1994 SHATZMILLER, Joseph (1936 – )

Jews, medicine and medieval society.

GMN 7239 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9408

1994 ISAACS, Haskell D. (1918 – 1998); BAKER, Colin F.

Medical and para-medical manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah collections by Haskell D. Issacs with the assistance of Colin F. Baker.

GMN 8261 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10437

1994 KOTTEK, Samuel S. (1931 – ); JOSEPHUS, Titus Flavius (37 – 100)

Medicine and hygiene in the works of Flavius Josephus.

GMN 8267 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10443

1995 BERGER, Natalia

Jews and medicine: Religion, culture, science, edited by Natalia Berger. Based on the exhibit at Beth Hatefutsoth, the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, [Tel Aviv, Israel].

Essays, extensively illustrated, sometimes with rarely seen images, tracing the most significant points of encounter between the history of the Jewish people and the history of medicine, beginning with the Bible and e…

GMN 7742 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9914

1995 ROSNER, Fred (1931 – )

Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud: Selections from classical Jewish sources.

GMN 8271 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10447

1997 MAIMONIDES, (Moses ben Maimon; מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־מַימוֹן‎; Mōšeh bēn-Maymōn; موسى بن ميمون‎‎ Mūsā bin Maymūn) (1135 – 1204); ROSNER, Fred (1931 – )

The medical legacy of Moses Maimonides by Fred Rosner.

GMN 8264 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10440

1997 KOTTEK, Samuel S. (1931 – ); WASERMAN, Manfred Joachim (1932 – 2001)

Health and disease in the Holy Land: Studies in the history and sociology of medicine from ancient times to the present, edited by Manfred Waserman and Samuel S. Kotteck.

GMN 8273 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10449

1998 MAIMONIDES, (Moses ben Maimon; מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־מַימוֹן‎; Mōšeh bēn-Maymōn; موسى بن ميمون‎‎ Mūsā bin Maymūn) (1135 – 1204); ROSNER, Fred (1931 – )

Medical encyclopedia of Moses Maimonides by Fred Rosner.

GMN 8265 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10441

1998 BARQÂY, Rôn

A history of Jewish gynaecological texts in the Middle Ages.

GMN 8350 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10526

1998 BARKAI, Ron (1943 – )

A history of Jewish gynaecological texts in the Middle Ages.

"A general introduction to the history of medieval Jewish medicine, its origins in Muslim countries, the main Arabic and Judeo-Arabic texts, and the renaissance of Hebrew as a language of science in the 12th-15th cent…

GMN 11895 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14100

2000 ROSNER, Fred (1931 – ); BLEICH, Judah David (1936 – )

Jewish bioethics, edited by J. David Bleich and Fred Rosner.

GMN 8272 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10448

2000 ROSNER, Fred (1931 – )

Encyclopedia of medicine in the Bible and the Talmud.

An extension and expansion of Preuss, Biblisch-talmudische Medizin (1911, 1923). See No. 6498.

GMN 12528 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14763

2001 EFRON, John M. (1957 – )

Medicine and the German Jews: A history.

GMN 8276 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10452

2002 HEYNICK, Frank

Jews and medicine: An epic saga.

GMN 7755 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9927

2002 –2007 MAIMONIDES, (Moses ben Maimon; מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־מַימוֹן‎; Mōšeh bēn-Maymōn; موسى بن ميمون‎‎ Mūsā bin Maymūn) (1135 – 1204); MCVAUGH, Michael Rogers (1938 – ); BOS, Gerrit

Maimonides on asthma: a parallel Arabic-English text, edited, translated and annotated by Gerrit Bos. Maimonides on asthma, Vol. 2: Critical editions of medieval Hebrew and Latin translations by Gerrit Bos and Michael R. McVaugh.

GMN 8245 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10421

2003 LEV, Efraim

Medicinal substances in Jerusalem from early times to the present day. (BAR International Series 1112).

GMN 11047 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13243

2004 –2015 MAIMONIDES, (Moses ben Maimon; מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־מַימוֹן‎; Mōšeh bēn-Maymōn; موسى بن ميمون‎‎ Mūsā bin Maymūn) (1135 – 1204); BOS, Gerrit

Maimonides: Medical aphorisms. A parallel Arabic-English edition edited, translated, and annotated by Gerrit Bos. Vol. 1: Treatises 1-5.; Vol. 2: Treatises 6-9; Vol. 3: Treatises 10-15; Vol. 4: Treatises 16-21. Vol. 5: Treatises 22-25.

GMN 8310 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10486

2005 BOS, Gerrit; YOM TOV, David ben (David Bonjorn del Barri) (1300 – 1360); BURNETT, Charles S. F. (1951 – ); LANGERMANN, Tzvi

Hebrew Medical Astrology: David Ben Yom Tov, Kelal Qaṭan: Original Hebrew text, medieval Latin translation, modern English translation by Gerrit Bos, Charles Burnett, and Tzvi Langermann.

GMN 8254 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10430

2008 IBN BIKLARISH, 'AL-ISRA'ILI', Yunus b. Ishaq (Biklarush / Buklarush / Buklarish) ( – 1095); BURNETT, Charles S. F. (1951 – )

Ibn Baklarish's book of simples: Medical remedies between three faiths in twelfth-century Spain. Edited by Charles Burnett.

The Kitāb al-Musta'īnī by Ibn Biklarish, written in the Moorish Spain province of al-Andalus at the end of the 11th century, includes the first tables of simple medicines written in the region, "concentrating on facin…

GMN 7412 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9584