1553 BELON, Pierre [Pierre Belon du Mans; Petrus Bellonius Cenomanus] (1517 – 1564)

Les observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables, trouuées en Grece, Asie, Iudée, Egypte, Arabie, & autres pays estranges, redigées en trois livres.

Belon was first trained as an apothecary, and worked in that capacity for the bishop of Clermont, Guillaume Duprat. Around 1542 he studied medicine In Paris, and obtained a licentiate in medicine, though he never took…

GMN 8982 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11161

1738 RAY, John (1628 – 1705); WILLUGHBY, Francis (Willoughby) (1635 – 1672); RAUWOLF, Leonhard (1535 – 1596); ET AL

Vol. 1: Travels through the low countries, Germany, Italy and France, with curious observations, natural, topographical, moral, physiological, & c. Also, A catalogue of plants, found spontaneously growing in those parts, and their virtues. Vol. 2: A collection of curious travels and voyages. Containing Dr. Leonhart Rauwolff's journey into the eastern countries, viz. Syria, Palestine, or the Holy Land, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Chaldea, & c. Translated from the original high Dutch, by Nicholas Staphorst. And also, travels into Greece, Asia, Minor, Egypt, Arabia Felix, Petraea, Ethiopia, the Red Sea, & c. Collected from the observations of Mons. Belon, Prosper Alpinus, Dr. Huntingdon, Mr. Vernon, Sir George Wheeler, Dr. Smith, Mr. Greaves, and others. To which are added three catalogues of such trees, shrubs and herbs as grow in the Levant

This is the second and best edition in 2 volumes of works that were first issued separately in 1673 and 1693 respectively. For Rauwolf see No. 7327. Digital facsimile of the 1738 edition from the Medical Heritage Libr…

GMN 8853 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11031

1757 HASSELQUIST, Fredrik (1722 – 1752)

Fredric Hasselquists ... Iter Palæstinum, eller Resa til Heliga Landet, förrättad ifrån år 1749 til 1752, med beskrifningar, rön, anmärkningar, öfver de märkvärdigaste naturalier, på Hennes Kongl. Maj:ts befallning.

A disciple of Linnaeus, who complained about the lack of information regarding the natural history of Palestine, Hasselquist undertook a journey to that region provide further information. Having raised funds sufficie…

GMN 9510 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11695

1803 WITTMAN, William

Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and across the desert into Egypt during the years 1799, 1800, and 1801, in company with the Turkish Army, and the British Military Mission.To which are annexed, observations on the plague, and on the diseases prevalent in Turkey, and a meteorological journal.

Wittman described the plague and other epidemics that afflicted both the Ottoman and British armies. In the Appendix he provided medical suggestions for treatment, together with a history of the plague. Digital facsim…

GMN 7367 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9539

1805 GRIFFITHS, John

Travels in Europe, Asia Minor, and Arabia.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 12483 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14716

1817 MACLEAN, Charles (1760 – 1824)

Results of an investigation, respecting epidemic and pestilential diseases; including researches in the Levant, concerning the plague. 2 vols.

"From 1815 to 1817 Maclean travelled in Spain, Turkey, and the Levant, and he studied the plague at the Greek Pest Hospital at Constantinople, in the service of the Levant Company. His experiences in the Levant and in…

GMN 8816 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10994

1822 RICHARDSON, Robert (1779 – 1847)

Travels along the Mediterranean, and parts adjacent; in the company with the Earl of Belmore, during the years 1816-17-18: Extending as far as the second cataract of the Nile, Jerusalem, Damascus, Balbec &c. &c. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 12497 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14730

1937 –1939 KEITH, Sir Arthur (1866 – 1955); GARROD, Dorothy Annie Elizabeth (1892 – 1968); BATE, Dorothea Minola Alice (1878 – 1951); MCCOWN, Theodore Doney (1908 – 1969)

The stone age of Mount Carmel. Volume I: Excavations at the Wady el-Mughara. Volume II: The fossil remains from the Lavalloiso-Mousterian.

Garrod carried out her landmark excavations of the el-Wad, el-Tabun and es-Skhul caves on the hills of Mount Carmel, close to Wadi el-Mugharah (Valley of the Caves) between 1929 and 1934. Her monograph on the subject …

GMN 7259 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9428

1977 DOLS, Michael Walters (1942 – )

The black death in the Middle East.

GMN 5145.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6174

1995 AVALOS, Hector (1958 – )

Illness and health care in the ancient Near East: The role of the temple in Greece, Mesopotamia, and Israel. Harvard Semitic Monographs, no. 54.

GMN 8505 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10682

2003 HAAS, Volkert (1936 – ); BAWANYPECK, Daliah

Materia magica et medica Hethitica: Ein Beitrag zur Heilkunde im Alten Orient. By Volkert Haas in cooperation with Daliah Bawanypeck.

The first comprehensive compendium of all known remedies and treatments used by the Hittites. The source texts are ritual descriptions and formularies from the 15th to 13th centuries BCE preserved from the archives of…

GMN 8506 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10683

2006 ZE'EVI, Dror (1953 – )

Producing sexual desire: Changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900.

GMN 9376 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11559

2007 DOLEV, Eran (1939 – )

Allenby's military medicine: Life and death in World War I Palestine.

GMN 9620 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11807

2007 BÖCK, Barbara Alexandra

Das Handbuch Muššuɔu "Einreibung". Eine Serie sumerische und akkadischer Beschwörungen aus dem 1. Jt. vor Chr.

Reproduction, transcription, translation into German, and edition of the Muššuɔu unction handbook— a collection of Sumerian and Akkadian incantations of the 1st century BCE.

GMN 9737 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11924

2009 SHEFER-MOSSENSOHN, Miri

Ottoman medicine: Healing and medical institutions, 1500-1700.

GMN 11242 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13439

2014 GILADI, Avner

Muslim midwives: The craft of birthing in the premodern Middle East.

GMN 13528 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15805

2015 ABU-RABIA, Aref

Indigenous medicine among the Bedouin in the Middle East.

GMN 8790 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10968