1473 GENTILI DA FOLIGNO, Gentile (Gentilis Fulginas; Gentilis de Flugineo) ( – 1348); CASTELLI, Bonaventura (Bonaventura de Castello) (1300 – 1353); PATRIZI, Francesco (1413 – 1494)
De balneis. Add: Francesco da Siena: Dicta de balneo Petrioli. Bonaventura de Castello: Recepta aquae balnei de Porrecta.
First printed edition of da Foligno's treatise on bathing together with the first printing with a definite date of Castelli's work. ISTC No. ig00133000. Remarkably the ISTC cites two different separate undated printin…
GMN 13028 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15278
1485 SAVONAROLA, Giovanni Michele (1385 – 1468)
De balneis et thermis naturalibus omnibus Italiae.
The second printed book on balneology. Savonarola took a skeptical approach to the subject, relying on his own observations and rejecting the notion that baths owed their virtues to occult or supernatural properties. …
GMN 14113 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16424
1498 GUY DE CHAULIAC, (Guido de Cauliaco) (1298 – 1368); ROGER OF SALERNO, (Rogerius Salernitanus, Frugard, Frugardi, Roggerio Frugardo, Rüdiger Frutgard, Roger of Parma) (1140 – 1195); LANFRANC OF MILAN, Guido [Lanfranchi, Lanfranco, Lanfrancus Mediolanensis] (1250 – 1306); BERTAPAGLIA, Leonardo (1380 – 1463); BRUNO DA LONGOBURGO (1200 – 1286); CASTELLI, Bonaventura (Bonaventura de Castello) (1300 – 1353); ROLANDO DA PARMA, (Rolandus Parmensis) (1220 – )
Chirurgia. Add: Brunus Longoburgensis: Chirurgia magna et minor; Bonaventura de Castello: Recepta aquae balnei de Porrecta; Theodoricus Cerviensis: Chirurgia; Rolandus: Libellus de chirurgia; Lanfrancus Mediolanensis: Chirurgia; Rogerius: Practica; Leonardus Bertapalia: Recollectae super quarto libro Avicennae.
This late 15th century edition of the surgery of Guy de Chauliac also contained the first printed editions of various lesser-known medieval surgeries such as those by Bruno da Longoburgo and Leonardo Bertapaglia. It a…
GMN 12925 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15172
1553
De balneis omnia quae extant apud Graecos, Latinos, et Arabas.
DE BALNEIS
This is a collective work, incorporating the writings of more than 70 authorities, among whom may be mentioned Avicenna, Averroës, Avenzohar, Guainerio, Gesner, Savonarola, Petrus de Abano, and Maimonides. It gives an…
GMN 1986 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8823
1560 PICTORIUS, Georg (1500 – 1569)
Baderbüchlin: Gantz kurtzer Bericht von allerhand Einfachten, und 38. Componierten mineralischen Teütsches Lands wild Bädern ... ; Mit angehenckter Beschreybung, was nutz Schrepffen Bringe.
In this short treatise on balneotherapy physician, humanist , and prolific writer Georg Pictorius described 38 different bathing facilities. Digital facsimile from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link
GMN 10728 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12922
1571 BACCI, Andrea (1524 – 1600)
De thermis …libri septem. Opus ... in quo agitur de universa aquarum natura, deque differentiis omnibus, ac mistionibus cum terris, cum ignibus, cum metallis, de lacubus, fontibus, fluminibus, de balneis totius orbis, & de methodo medendi per balneas, deque lavationum simul atque exercitationum institutis in admirandis thermis Romanorum....
A comprehensive study of mineral waters, dealing with all the spas of the then-known world. Besides exhaustive coverage of the baths of antiquity and of Bacci’s own time, the work gives considerable attention to wines…
GMN 1986.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3784
1671 BLONDEL, François (1613 – 1703)
Thermarum Aquisgranensium et porcetanarum descriptio. Congruorum quoque ac salubrium usuum balneationis et potationis elucidatio, opera.
An extenisvely illustrated work promoting the medicinal value of the sulphur springs of Aachen and Burscheid. Blondel devoted his life to the promotion of the medicinal value of these springs, becoming inspector of th…
GMN 12881 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15128
1702 FLOYER, Sir John (1649 – 1734)
The ancient ψυχρολουσια revived; or, an essay to prove cold bathing both safe and useful.
A history of cold bathing.
GMN 2029 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2131
1726 HENRIQUES, Francisco da Fonseca (1655 – 1731)
Aquilegio medicinal em que se dá noticia das agoas de caldas, de fontes, rios, poços, lagoas, e cisternas, do Reyno de Portugal, e dos Algarves, que ou pelas virtudes medicinaes, que tem, ou por outra alguma singularidade, são dignas de particular memoria.
The first inventory of Portuguese hot springs, fountains, rivers, wells, lakes and reservoirs reputed to have medicinal properties, including some with allegedly supernatural powers of healing. For the 337 entries, Fo…
GMN 9073 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11252
1737 HAHN, Johann Sigmund (1696 – 1773)
Unterricht von der wunderbare Heilkraft des frischen Wassers bei dessen innerlichem und äusserlichem Gebrauche durch die Erfahrung bestätigt.
The treatment of fevers by means of the cold pack was revived by S. Hahn and by his son J. S. Hahn; in his treatise, the latter advised the use of water in all diseases. A seventh edition of the book appeared as recen…
GMN 1987 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3793
1785 CARRÈRE, Joseph Barthélemy François
Catalogue raisonné des ouvrages qui ont été publiés sur les eaux minérales en général et sur celles de la France en particulier, avec un notice doutes des eaux minérales de ce royaume, et un tableau des différens degrés de température de celles qui son thermales.
The earliest bibliography of mineral springs. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. (Thanks to Webb Dordick for this reference.)
GMN 14118 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16429
1788 ARTHAUD, Charles (1748 – 1791); CERCLE DES PHILADELPHES
Les eaux minérales et thermales de Saint-Dominique. Tome 1 (All Published).
One of the earliest medical publications printed in Haiti. Duvivier, Bibliographie générale et méthodique d'Haiti, 2, p. 206.
GMN 13366 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15637
1794 ASCLEPIADES OF BITHYNIA (ἈΣΚΛΗΠΙΆΔΗΣ) (-124 – -40); GUMPERT, Christian Gottlieb (1772 – 1832)
Aesclapiadis Bithyni fragmenta. Digessit et curavit Christianus Gottlieb Gumpert. Praefatus est Christian. Gothfridus Gruner.
After the fall of Corinth (146 BCE), Greek physicians migrated to Rome. There, before the advent of Asclepiades, Greek physicians were despised and distrusted. Asclepiades may be said to have established Greek medicin…
GMN 19 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4656
1797 CURRIE, James (1756 – 1805)
Medical reports, on the effects of water, cold and warm, as a remedy in fever and febrile diseases.
Currie was among the first in Britain to use cold water packs in the treatment of fever. He made some original observations on the clinical use of the thermometer. It was Currie who first edited Robert Burns’s Collect…
GMN 1988 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3810
1841 ASCLEPIADES OF BITHYNIA (ἈΣΚΛΗΠΙΆΔΗΣ) (-124 – -40); WELZ, Robert Anton Ritter von (1814 – 1878)
Des Asclepiades von Bithynien Gesundheitsvorschriften, nach den vorhandenen Handschriften zum ersten Male vollständig bearbeitet und erläutert. Von Robert Ritter von Welz.
The Greek physician Asclepiades acquired a great reputation in Rome. His remedies included change of diet, friction, bathing, and exercise. The above edition includes Greek, Latin, and German texts. Digital facsimile …
GMN 1984 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8811
1852 JAMES, Constantin (1813 – 1888)
Guide pratique aux eaux minérales de France, de Belgique, d'Allemagne, de Suisse, de Savoie, d'Italie et aux bains de mer. 2nd ed.
Digital facsimile of the third edition (1855) from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 13853 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16143
1853 FRANCIS, D. J. T.
Change of climate considered as a remedy in dyspetic, pulmonary, and other chronic affections; with an account of the most eligible places of residence for invalids in Spain, Portugal, Algeria, etc., at different seasons of the year; and an appendix on the mineral springs of the Pyrenees, Vichy, and Aix les Bains.
The author, a pulmonary specialist at Cavendish Square, London, provides a detailed manual for invalid travellers, seeking cures for tuberculosis, and indigestion and "nervous affections." It may be one of the first t…
GMN 10235 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12425
1861 BRAND, Ernst (1827 – 1897)
Die Hydrotherapie des Typhus.
Brand’s cold bath treatment of typhoid fever consisted of total immersion in water at 65°F. and the pouring of cold water over the neck and shoulders. The cold bath treatment of fevers was instituted by Currie (see No…
GMN 5028 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6758
1861 WILSON, Sir William James Erasmus (1809 – 1884)
The eastern, or Turkish bath: Its history, revival in Britain, and application to the purposes of health.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10049 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12238
1892 ANDERSON, Winslow (1860 – 1917)
Mineral springs and health resorts of California: With a complete chemical analysis of every important mineral water in the world... A Prize Essay; Annual Prize of the Medical Society of the State of California, Awarded April 20, 1889.
The first half of the book concerns mineral springs and health resorts in California and how to use them; the second half mostly concerns mineral springs and other health resorts in North America and Europe. Digital f…
GMN 10438 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12631
1907 WEBER, Sir Hermann David (1823 – 1918); WEBER, Frederick Parkes (1863 – 1962)
Climatology and balneotherapy.
GMN 2006 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1929
1959 KAUFFMANN, Claus Michael (1931 – ); PETER OF EBOLI, (Petrus de Ebulo) ( – 1220)
The baths of Pozzuoli. A study of the medieval illuminations of Peter of Eboli's poem
GMN 12603 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14843
1962 PETER OF EBOLI, (Petrus de Ebulo) ( – 1220); LATTANZI, Angela Daneu (1901 – 1985)
Nomina et virtutes balneorum; seu de balneis Puteolorum et Baiarum. Codex angelico 1474. Facsimile edition, introduction by Angela Daneu Lattanzi.
Written about in the early 13th century by the poet, chronicler and physician Peter of Eboli, the didactic poem, De balneis Putelolanis (The baths of Pozzuoli) was the first widely distributed medieval guidebook to me…
GMN 6984 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9150
2009 KOSSO, Cynthia; SCOTT, Anne
The nature and function of water, baths, bathing and hygiene from antiquity through the Renaissance. Edited by Cynthia Koss and Anne Scott.
GMN 10464 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12657
