1472 ABANO, Pietro d' [Petrus de Abano] (1257 – 1316)
Conciliator differentiarum philosophorum et medicorum. Add: De venenis.
Includes the first printed book on toxicology; one of the more elegantly printed of medical incunabula, printed in folio format. For an English translation, see Ann. med. Hist., 1924, 6, 26-53. ISTC No. ip00431000. Di…
GMN 2070 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2492
1492 ARDOINI, Sante (Arduino, Arduini, Ardoynis) (1390 – ); CANALI, Dominicus de
De venenis. Ed: Dominicus de Canali.
Compiled in the years, 1424-1426, from Greek, Arabic and Latin works on medicine and nature. "Although Ardoini quotes previous authors at great length, his work is no mere compilation, since he does not hesitate to di…
GMN 7791 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9963
1499 DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); NICANDER OF COLOPHON (ΝΊΚΑΝΔΡΟΣ Ὁ ΚΟΛΟΦΏΝΙΟΣ; NIKANDER) (-125 – )
Dioscorides, De materia medica [Greek]. Add: Pseudo- Dioscorides, De venenis, De venenatis animalibus [Greek]; Add: Nicander, Theriaca; Add: Alexipharmaca; Scholia [Greek].
Nicander was a Greek poet and physician. His Theriaca, in 958 hexameters, dealt with the symptoms and treatment of poisoning by the bites of poisonous animals; the Alexipharmaca considered intoxications through animal…
GMN 2069 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2486
1568 GRÉVIN, Jacques (1538 – 1570)
Deux livres des venins, ausquels il est amplement discouru des bestes venimeuses, thériaques, poisons & contre-poisons, par Jacques Grévin,... Ensemble les oeuvres de Nicandre,... traduictes en vers françois.
Grévin's work "marks the beginning of a new era in biotoxinological studies. With Grévin we see a crude attempt being made to compile systematically and evaluate the total knowledge of toxic organisms which had accrue…
GMN 9664 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11851
1767 FONTANA, Felice (1730 – 1805)
Ricerche fisiche sopra il veleno della vipera.
The starting point of modern investigations of serpent venoms and their antidotes. This work also includes Fontana’s description of the ciliary canal in the eye of an ox. This structure does not appear in the human ey…
GMN 2103 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2601
1832 STEPHENSON, John (1790 – 1864)
Medical zoology, and mineralogy; or, illustrations and descriptions of the animals and minerals employed in medicine and of the preparations derived from them: Including also an account of animal and mineral poisons: With figures coloured from nature.
Includes 42 hand-colored plates. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 9680 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11867
1833 AUTENREITH, Hermann Friedrich (1799 – 1874)
Ueber das Gift der Fische: mit vergleichender Berücksichtigung des Giftes von Muscheln, Käse, Gehirn, Fleisch, Fett und Würsten, so wie der sogenannten mechanischen Gifte.
Discusses all then known posionsous and venomous fishes, including freshwater and marine species, and includes a "thorough review of practically all the early literature on poisonous and venomous fishes, a list of all…
GMN 9668 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11855
1837 HERING, Constantine (1800 – 1880)
Wirkungen des Schlangengiftes, zum aerztichen Gebrauche vergleichend zusammengestellt. Mit einer Einleigung über das Studium der homöopathischen Arzneimittellehr.
An early American homeopathic title on The Effects of Snake Poison Comparatively Arranged for Therapeutic Use. Hering assumed an analogy between snake venom and bacterial toxins. He drew his work from provings and tes…
GMN 6865 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9029
1856 NICANDER OF COLOPHON (ΝΊΚΑΝΔΡΟΣ Ὁ ΚΟΛΟΦΏΝΙΟΣ; NIKANDER) (-125 – ); SCHNEIDER, Otto; KEIL, Henry
Nicandrea. Theriaca et Alexipharmaca recensuit et emendavit fragmenta collegit, commentationes addidit Otto Schneider. Accedunt scholia in Theriaca excensione Henrici Keil.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9603 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11790
1856 FONSSAGRIVES, Jean-Baptiste (1823 – 1884)
Traité d'hygiène navale, ou de l'influence des conditions physiques et morales dans lesquelles l'homme de mer est appelé à vivre et des moyens de conserver sa santé.
One of the first naval manuals to include discussions of zootoxicology. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link. Much expanded second edition (1877); digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 9667 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11854
1859 BENEDEN, Pierre-Joseph van (1809 – 1894); GERVAIS, François Louis Paul (1816 – 1879)
Zoologie médicale exposé méthodique du régne animal basé sur l'anatomie, l'embryologie et la paléontologie comprenant la description des espèces employées en médicine de celles qui sont venimuses et de celles qui sont parasites de l'homme et des animaux. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 13815 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16104
1872 FAYRER, Sir Joseph (1824 – 1907)
The thanatophidia of India. Being a Description of the venomous snakes of the Indian Peninsula, with an account of the influence of their poison on life and a series of experiments
Considered the first systematic work on venomous snakes. Describes all the venomous snakes of India. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 2105 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2604
1886 SAVTSCHENKO, Peter Nikolaevich (SAVCHENKO) (1846 – 1885)
Atlas des poissons vénéneux et descriptions des ravages produits par eux sur l'organisme humain, et des contre-poisons à employer. Atlas iadovitykh ryb s opisaniem vida ikh, deistviia iada na organizm cheloveka i ukazaniem protivuiadii.
The first well-illustrated medical military manual on toxic marine organisms. Text in French and Russian.
GMN 9665 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11852
1889 BOTTARD, Louis Alphonse (1854 – )
Les poissons venimeux. Contribution à l'hygiène navale.
The first systematic work on the venom organs of fishes.
GMN 9666 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11853
1965 –1970 HALSTEAD, Bruce W. (1920 – 2002); COURVILLE, Donovan Amos (1901 – 1996)
Poisonous and venomous marine animals of the world
Volume 1: Invertebrates; Vols. 2 & 3: Vertebrates. An unusually elaborate and finely printed, illustrated and bound set funded by the Department of Defense. Over 2000 pages. The first 155pp of Vol. 1 are a "History of…
GMN 9663 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11850
1989 SAUNERON, Serge (1927 – 1976)
Un traité égyptien d’ophiologie - Papyrus du Brooklyn Museum nos 47.218.48 et 85. Cairo: Institut français d'archéologie orientale.
Dating from about 450 BCE, this papyrus concerns snakes and the treatments for snake bites, and also the treatment of scorpion bites and spider bites.
GMN 8392 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10569
1997 NICANDER OF COLOPHON (ΝΊΚΑΝΔΡΟΣ Ὁ ΚΟΛΟΦΏΝΙΟΣ; NIKANDER) (-125 – ); TOUWAIDE, Alain (1953 – ); FÖRSTEL, Christian; ASLANOFF, Grégoire
Theriaka y Alexipharmaka de Nicandro.
Essays by Alain Touwaide, Jean Pierre Angremy, Christian Förstel and Grégoire Aslanoff concerning the 10th century Byzantine illuminated manuscript designated as "BnF Supplement grec 247." This spectacularly illustrat…
GMN 7102 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9269
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