1582 RAUWOLF, Leonhard (1535 – 1596)
Aigentlich Beschreibung der Raiss, so er vor diser Zeit gegen Auffgang inn die Morgenländer, fürnemlich Syriam, Iudaeam, Arabiam, Mesopotamiam, Babyloniam, Assyriam, Armeniam etc....
Rauwolf provided the first modern descriptions of the flora of the area east of the Levantine coast. He was also the first to describe the riparian flora of the Euphrates, and the first European to publish an account …
GMN 7327 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9498
1671 DUFOUR, Philippe Sylvestre (1622 – 1687)
De l'usage du caphe, du the, et du chocolate.
The Library of Congress attributes this anonymous work to Philippe Sylvestre Dufour, but characterizes Jacob Spon as the "supposed author." They also state as follows: "Attributed also to Jacob Spon. cf. Paris. Bibl. …
GMN 13629 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15909
1687 BLÉGNY, Nicolas de (1652 – 1722)
Le bon usage du the, du caffe, et du chocolat pour la preservation & pour la guerison des maladies.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 13624 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15904
1721 BRADLEY, Richard (1688 – 1732)
The virtue and use of coffee, with regard to the plague, and other infectious distempers: containing the most remarkable observations of the greatest men in Europe concerning it ... To which is prefix'd an exact figure of the tree, flower, and fruit taken from the life.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 13879 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16169
1752 KNOLL, Johann Christian Friedrich (1726 – 1757)
Sendschreiben von den Wirkungen des Kafeetranks.
Discussing the consumption and reception of coffee from Britain to Turkey, Knoll dismissed criticisms of coffee, including that it reduced beauty and virility, or that it was contrary to Islam, instead promoting the m…
GMN 11719 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13920
1806 CADET DE VAUX, Antoine-Alexis (1743 – 1828); CADET, Charles-Louis (1769 – 1821)
Dissertation sur le café; son historique, ses propriétés, et le procédé pour en obtenir la boisson la plus agréable, la plus salutaire et la plus économique; Par Ant.-Alexis Cadet-de-Vaux...Suivie de son analyse; par Charles-Louis Cadet.
Cadet de Vaux discussed the history of coffee, including the origins of the coffee bean and plant, the proper climate for growing coffee, coffee drinking culture and its introduction to Europe. He also described the b…
GMN 11630 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13830
1922 UKERS, William Harrison (1873 – 1945)
All about coffee.
Covers the historical, technical, scientific, commercial, social and artistic dimensions of coffee. Second edition, 1935. Digital facsimile of the 1922 edition from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11722 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13923
1960 MUELLER, Wolf
Bibliographie des Kaffe, des Kakao der Schokolade, des Tee und deren Surrogate bis zum Jahre 1900.
GMN 13632 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15912
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
