1998 CAMERON, Malcolm Lawrence (1918 – 2011); D'ARONCO, M. A.
The Old English illustrated pharmacopoeia. British Library Cotton Vitellius C III. Edited by M. A. D'Aronco and M. L. Cameron. Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, 27.
Macer glosses, Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium, Macrobius, etc. 12th century. "A composite manuscript which comprises four parts, Parts 1 and 2 contain items in English, Part 3 contains Macrobius, "Saturnalia" and Part 4 i…
GMN 8889 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11067
1998 KARCH, Steven B.
A brief history of cocaine.
Second edition, 2006.
GMN 11743 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13943
1998 FREYER, H. P. Michael
Europäische Heilkräuterkunde: Ein Erfahrungsschatz aus Jahrtausenden.
GMN 11941 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14146
1998 HERNÁNDEZ BERMEJO, J. Esteban; GARCÍA SANCHEZ, Expiración
Economic botany and ethnobotany in Al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula: Tenth-Fifteenth Centuries), an unknown heritage of mankind.
GMN 12527 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14762
1999 STANNARD, Jerry Willmert (1926 – 1988); STANNARD, Katherine E.; KAY, Richard
Herbs and herbalism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
GMN 7153 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9320
1999 STANNARD, Jerry Willmert (1926 – 1988); STANNARD, Katherine E.; KAY, Richard
Pristina medicamenta: Ancient and medieval medical botany
GMN 8874 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11052
1999 MARQUES, Vera Regina Baltrão (1954 – 2013)
Natureza em boiões: Medicinas e boticá-rios no Brasil setecentista.
GMN 8937 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11115
1999 GOOTENBERG, Paul Eliot (1954 – )
Cocaine: Global histories.
GMN 9034 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11213
1999 JONES, Peter Murray; UNTERKIRCHER, Franz
Medicina antiqua. Codex Vindobonensis 93. Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Introduction by Peter Murray Jones, commentary by Franz Unterkircher. Manuscripts in Miniature, No. 4.
Color reproduction, reduced in size by one-third, of "a compendium of popular Late Antique texts brought together in the 6th century. It contains writings on herbs and materia medica by authors heavily reliant on the …
GMN 9810 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11998
1999 HARRISON, Bryan Desmond (1931 – ); WILSON, T. M. A.
Tobacco mosaic virus: Pioneering research for a century. A theme issue edited by B. D. Harrison and T. M. A. Wilson.
GMN 11071 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13267
2000 COLLINS, Minta
Medieval herbals: The illustrative traditions.
A study of illuminated medieval herbals from 512-1450 CE.
GMN 7193 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9360
2000 DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); OSBALDESTON, Tess Anne; WOOD, Robert P. A.
Dioscorides: De Materia Medica, being an herbal with many other medicinal materials, written in Greek in the first century of the common era. A new indexed version in Modern English by Tess Anne Osbaldeston and Robert P. A Wood.
Rather than a new translation from the Greek, this is a updated and usefully indexed version, in modern English, of Goodyer's paraphrase from the 17th century. See No. 8564.
GMN 8565 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10742
2000 POLLINGTON, Stephen
Early English charms, plant lore, and healing.
GMN 9743 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11931
2001 HUNT, Anthony "Tony" B. (1944 – ); BENSKIN, Michael
Three receptaria from Medieval England: The languages of medicine in the fourteenth century. Edited by Tony Hunt with the collaboration of Michael Benskin.
An edition of just over 1500 medical receipts transmitted in three fourteenth-century compendia. The particular interest of these multilingual compilations lies in their date – earlier than most published receipts – a…
GMN 8875 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11053
2001 HALLER, John S. Jr. (1940 – ); THOMSON, Samuel (1769 – 1843)
The people's doctors: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement 1790-1860.
"Samuel Thomson, born in New Hampshire in 1769 to an illiterate farming family, had no formal education, but he learned the elements of botanical medicine from a "root doctor," who he met in his youth. Thomson sought …
GMN 9408 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11591
2001 BEERS, Susan-Jane
Jamu: The ancient Indonesian art of herbal healing.
GMN 9451 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11634
2001 GATELY, Iain (1965 – )
Tobacco: A cultural history of how an exotic plant seduced civilization.
GMN 9686 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11873
2001 FLANNERY, Michael A.; BERMAN, Alex (1914 – 2000)
America's botanico-medical movements: Vox populi.
GMN 10115 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12304
2001 WEINBERG, Bennett Alan; BEALER, Bonnie K.
The world of caffeine: The science and culture of the world's most popular drug.
GMN 13628 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15908
2002 VAN ARSDALL, Anne
Medieval herbal remedies. The old English herbarium and Anglo-Saxon medicine.
Edition and translation of the Old English Herbarium, British Library Cotton MS Vitellius C iii, the only illustrated Anglo-Saxon medical text, dating from about 1000 CE, containing information on 185 medicinal plants…
GMN 8879 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11057
2002 HUGHES, Jason
Learning to smoke: Tobacco use in the West.
GMN 9685 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11872
2002 HÜNERSDORFF, Richard von; HASENKAMP, Holger G.
Coffee: A bibliography. A guide to the literature on coffee. 2 vols.
"...listing over 15,000 imprints relating to every aspect of coffee from the past to the present. The principal writings on coffee have been identified and described in light of available source material. Represented …
GMN 11720 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13921
2002 MUSTO, David Franklin (1936 – 2010); KORSMEYER, Pamela (1945 – ); MAULUCCI, Thomas W. Jr.
One hundred years of heroin. Edited by David F. Musto with the assistance of Pamela Korsmeyer and Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr.
GMN 12416 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14646
2003 LEWIS, Walter Hepworth (1930 – ); ELVIN-LEWIS, Memory P. F.
Medical botany: Plants affecting human health. 2nd ed.
GMN 8546 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10723
2003 HOFFMANN, David (1951 – )
Medical herbalism: The science and practice of herbal medicine.
GMN 9632 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11819
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
2003 KARCH, Steven B.
A history of cocaine: The mystery of coca Java and the Kew plant.
This work is not actually a "history", rather it contains translations, with commentary, of three late nineteenth and early twentieth century treatises on coca and cocaine, plus other documents. "An exploration of the…
GMN 11744 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13944
2004 CHEN, John K.; CHEN, Tina T.
Chinese medical herbology and pharmacology.
This book, which extends to nearly 1200 pages, and represents the work of numerous experts, is the most comprehensive modern treatise on the subject of which I am aware.
GMN 9382 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11565
2004 SUMNER, Judith
American household botany: A history of useful plants 1620-1900.
GMN 9799 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11987
2005 DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); BECK, Lily Y.
Pedanius Dioscorides of Anazarbus, De materia medica. Translated by Lily Y. Beck. (Altertumswissenschaftliche Texte und Studien, vol. 38).
A new English translation, directly from the Greek text edited by Wellmann, and thoroughly indexed.
GMN 8566 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10743
2005 GOODMAN, Jordan
Tobacco in history and culture: An encyclopedia. Edited by Jordan Goodman. 2 vols.
GMN 9784 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11972
2005 TAYLOR, Mark J.; MAKUNDE, Williams Holmes; MCGARRY, Helen F.; ET AL
Macrofilaricidal activity after doxycycline treatment of Wuchereria bancrofti: A double blind randomized placebo-controlled trial.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Taylor, Makunde, McGarry.... The authors treated infection by the parasitic worm Wuchereria bancrofti, cause of elephantiasis (lymphatic filariasis), by killing the Wolbachia…
GMN 11193 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13390
2005 SONNENBURG, Justin L.; XU, Jian; LEIP, Douglas D.; ET AL
Glycan foraging in vivo by an intestine adapted bacterial symbiont.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Sonnenberg, Xu, Leip....The authors showed that complex plant carbohydrates (glycans), which the human body cannot digest, provide food for benign bacteria in the micro…
GMN 11481 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13680
2006 DICKINSON, Emily (1830 – 1886)
Emily Dickinson's herbarium: A facsimile edition. Foreward by Leslie A. Morris. Essays, botanical catalogue and index by Richard B. Sewall, Judith Farr, and Ray Angelo.
A facsimile edition of MS Am 1118.11 in Houghton Library, Harvard University. Digital facsimile of the actual herbarium from Harvard at this link.
GMN 10910 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13106
2006 TIBI, Selma
The medicinal use of opium in ninth-century Baghdad. (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, vol. 5).
GMN 12523 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14758
2007 LESCH, John E. (1945 – )
The first miracle drugs: How the sulfa drugs transformed medicine.
"In the decade from 1935-1945, while the Second World War raged in Europe, a new class of medicines capable of controlling bacterial infections launched a therapeutic revolution that continues today. The new medicines…
GMN 9230 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11412
2007 CORR, Sinéad Cristin; LI, Yin; REIDEL, Christian U.; HILL, Colin; ET AL
Bacteriocin production as a mechanism for the antiinfective activity of Lactobacillus salivarius UCC118.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Corr, Li, Reidel...Hill. The authors discovered that Lactobacilli produce a bacteriocin, a peptidic toxin that inhibits the growth of similar or closely related bacteri…
GMN 11478 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13677
2007 SIKRI, Nikhil; BARDIA, Amit
A history of streptokinase use in acute myocardial infarction.
A history of thrombolytic therapy. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 12280 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14500
2008 GOOTENBERG, Paul Eliot (1954 – )
Cocaine: Global drug.
Traces cocaine's history from its origins as a medical commodity in the nineteenth century to its repression during the early twentieth century and its dramatic reemergence as an illicit good after World War II. Conne…
GMN 9035 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11214
2008 IPPOLITOVA, Aleksandra Borisovna
Russkie rukopisnye travniki XVII–XVIII vekov: Issledovanie fol′klora i etnobotaniki. (Russian Manuscript Herbals of the 17th and 18th Centuries: An Investigation of Folklore and Ethnobotany).
GMN 10085 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12274
2009 MINI DE SENIS, Bartholomaeus (1325 – ); VENTURA, Iolanda
Ps. Bartholomaeus Mini de Senis: Tractatus de herbis (Ms London, British Library, Egerton 747). A cura di Iolanda Ventura. Edizione Nazionale La Scuola Medica Salernitana, 05.
Bartholomaeus Mini de Senis, probably active in the 14th century, was the copyist of British Library Ms Egerton 747, Tractatus de herbis. The identity of the author of the original work, probably written a century ear…
GMN 8555 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10732
2009 HUNT, Anthony "Tony" B. (1944 – )
An Old French herbal (Ms Princeton U.L. Garrett 131). Edited by Tony Hunt.
First edition of the earliest Old French herbal in verse— "a surprisingly comprehensive work (3188 octosyllables), based on an eleventh-century Latin treatise 'De viribus herbarum' attributed to a certain 'Macer'. It …
GMN 9809 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11997
2009 LAROCHE, Rebecca
Medical authority and Englishwomen’s herbal texts, 1550–1650.
"Through an analysis of twenty-four examples of female-owned herbals supplemented by case studies of the herbal references in the writings of Margaret Hoby, Grace Mildmay, Elizabeth Isham, and Isabella Whitney, Rebecc…
GMN 10613 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12806
2009 TOMASI, Lucia Tongiorgi (1939 – ); WILLIS, Tony
An Oak Spring herbaria: Herbs and herbals from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries. A selection of the rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi & Tony Willis. Edited with a description of the American herbals by Mark Argetsinger.
A spectacularly beautiful volume as are the other 3 vols in the Oak Spring series.
GMN 10957 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13153
2009 CRUZ, Martin De La; BADIANO, Juan (1484 – 1552); POZZO, Cassiano dal (1588 – 1657); CLAYTON, Martin (1967 – ); GUERRINI, Luigi; ÁVILA BLOMBERG, Alejandro de
Flora: The Aztec herbal. Edited by Martin Clayton, Luigi Guerrini, and Alejandro de Ávila. (The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Series B: Natural History (HMPMB 8))
"This volume catalogues Cassiano dal Pozzo’s copy of the Codex Cruz-Badianus, an Aztec herbal prepared for the son of the Viceroy of Mexico in 1552 and the earliest medical text to have survived from the New World. Th…
GMN 12824 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15070
2010 GILBERTUS ANGLICUS, (Gilbert of England) (1180 – 1250); GETZ, Faye Marie (1952 – )
Healing and society in medieval England. A Middle English translation of the pharmaceutical writings of Gilbertus Anglicus. Edited by Faye Marie Getz.
GMN 8365 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10541
2010 SWIDERSKI, Richard M.
Poison eaters: Snakes, opium, arsenic, and the lethal show.
"This book is the first to explore the tradition of deliberate poison eating, its practitioners, and the substances that might nourish or kill them" (publisher).
GMN 9884 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12072
2011 MARKEL, Howard (1960 – )
An anatomy of addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and the miracle drug, cocaine.
GMN 8709 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10887
2011 ODO OF MEUNG, Odo Magdunensis [Macer Floridus] (1050 – ); MARTIN, Javier Calle; MIRANDA-GARCIA, Antonio
The Middle English version of "De Viribus Herbarum (GUL MS Hunter 497, ff. 1r-92r): Edition and philological study by Javier Calle Martín and Antonio Miranda Garcia.
"Odo de Meung’s De Viribus Herbarum was one of the most widely known pieces of Fachliteratur in the latter part of Middle English, corroborated on account of the number of translations hitherto preserved in the differ…
GMN 9607 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11794
2011 SAAD, Bashar; SAAD, Omar
Greco-Arab and Islamic herbal medicine: Traditional system, ethics, safety, efficacy, and regulatory issues.
GMN 10461 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12654
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