1677 GRIM, Herman Niklas (1641 – 1711)
Laboratorium chymicum, gehouden op het voortreffelycke Eylandt Ceylon, soo in't Animalische, Vegetabilische, als Mineralische Ryck.
The first book on the animal, vegetable and mineral medicines indigenous to Sri Lanka. Grim was a physician in the service of the VOC (the East India Company). Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10648 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12841
1717 HERMANN, Paul (1646 – 1695); SHERARD, William (1659 – 1728)
Musaeum Zeylanicum, sive catalogus plantarum, in Zeylan sponte nascentium, observatarum & descriptarum a viaro celeberrimo Paulo Hermanno.
Paul Hermann's study of the plants of Sri Lanka collected during his experience as a Ship's Medical Oficer in the Dutch East India Company after Hermann completed his medical studies at Padua. This work was edited for…
GMN 11473 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13672
1737 BURMAN, Johannes (1707 – 1780)
Thesaurus Zeylanicus exhibens plantas in Insula Zeylana nascentes; Inter quas plurimae novae species, & genera inveniuntur. Omnia Iconibus illustrata, ac descripta.
The first illustrated flora of Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon). Burman, a Dutch physician, was a friend and correspondent of Linnaeus and professor of botany. "Indeed, Linnaeus, as a guest at the Burman house, had a ha…
GMN 13263 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15529
1867 RANSONNET-VILLEZ, Eugen, Freiherr von (1838 – 1926)
Sketches of the inhabitants, animal life and vegetation in the lowlands and high mountains of Ceylon: As well as of the submarine scenery near the coast taken from a diving bell.
This work was illustrated with 26 tinted lithographs of natives and scenery in Sri Lanka after drawings from nature by the author, of which four were colored reproductions of underwater scenes made by the author using…
GMN 11705 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13906
1926 WOOD, Casey Albert (1856 – 1942)
Ayurvedic medicine in ancient and medieval Ceylon.
GMN 9513 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11698
1986 FERNANDO, P. Ravindra
Bibliography of publications in legal medicine & forensic sciences relating to Sri Lanka 1811 - 1984.
GMN 14070 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16381
1987 URAGODA, Christopher Gunapala
A history of medicine in Sri Lanka--from the earliest times to 1948.
GMN 9734 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11921
