1491 LOUFFENBURG, Heinrich von (Laufenberg) (1391 – 1460)
Versehung des Leibs.
Written in 1429, this didactic poem is the first known text to be devoted to the normal physiology and common illnesses of children. It was written in old Swabian, and its author was a monk. The poem was probably inte…
GMN 6314 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8066
1669 BARTHOLIN, Thomas (1616 – 1680)
De medicis poetis dissertatio.
GMN 6613 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7665
1699 GARTH, Samuel (1661 – 1719)
The dispensary: A poem. In six cantos.
An aggressive criticism of quack medicines, apothecaries who produced them, and physicians who prescribed them.
GMN 7965 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10141
1744 ARMSTRONG, John (1709 – 1779)
The art of preserving health: A poem.
John Armstrong was the brother of George Armstrong. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. The edition consisted of 1250 of which 50 were on "fine paper."
GMN 10814 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13010
1803 FESSENDEN, Thomas Green (1771 – 1837)
A poetical petition against tractorising trumpery and the Perkinistic institution: In four cantos. Most respectfully addressed to the Royal College of Physicians.
This medical satire in doggerel verse, which was ostensibly an attack on Perkins' metallic tractors, or "Perkinism" was actually written in support of them. The work was best known for its second and greatly expanded …
GMN 13026 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15276
1804 DARWIN, Erasmus (1731 – 1802); SEWARD, Anna
Memoirs of the life of Dr. Darwin, chiefly during his residence in Lichfield: With anecdotes of his friends, and criticisms on his writing.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 12687 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14932
1833 BROWN, Solyman (1790 – 1876); PARMLY, Eleazer (1797 – 1874)
Dentologia, a poem on the diseases of the teeth and their proper remedies. With notes, practical, historical, illustrative, and explanatory, by Eleazar Parmly.
Brown founded the first US dental school, the first US national dental society, called The American Association of Dental Surgeons, and the first US dental journal, entitled the American Journal and Library of Dental …
GMN 12866 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15113
1858 MENIÈRE, Prosper (1799 – 1862)
Etudes médicales sur les poètes latins.
GMN 6614 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7667
1874 CHÉREAU, Achille (1817 – 1885)
Le Parnasse médicale français, ou dictionnaire des médecins-poètes de la France, anciens ou modernes, morts ou vivants.
Dictionary of French medical poets. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 6616 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7672
1885 DUPOUY, Edmond (1838 – )
Médecine et moeurs de l'ancienne Rome d'après les poètes latins.
Translated into English as Medicine and morals of ancient Rome according to the Latin poets (Cincinnati: Cincinnati Lancet-clinic, 1901). Digital facsimile of the 1885 edition from Google Books at this link. Facsimile…
GMN 13835 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16125
1888 LA HAYE, Olivier de
Poëme sur la grande peste de 1348. Publié d'après le manuscrit de la Bibliothèque du Palais Saint-Pierre par Georges Geigue.
The book indicates that 175 copies were printed "sur papier de Hollande." The editor describes himself as the archivist of the city of Lyon. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13059 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15311
1895 FLETCHER, Robert (1823 – 1912)
Medical lore in the older English dramatists and poets exclusive of Shakespeare.
Fletcher, who was born in Bristol, England, assisted J.S. Billings in the creation of the Index-Catalogue (No. 6763).
GMN 6617 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7674
1916 DANA, Charles Loomis (1852 – 1935)
Poetry and the doctors: A catalogue of poetical works written by physicians with biographical notes & An essay on the poetry of certain ancient practitioners of medicine, illustrated with translations from the Latin and by reproductions of the title pages of the rarer works.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10817 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13013
1917 KÖRNER, Otto (1858 – 1935)
Das homerische Tiersystem und seine Bedeutung für die zoologische Systematik des Aristoteles.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 9988 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12177
1918 SCHMIEDEBERG, Johann Ernst Oswald (1838 – 1921)
Ueber die Pharmaka in der Ilias und Odyssee.
Medicines and poisons in the Iliad and Odyssey.
GMN 9986 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12175
1919 MACPHAIL, Ian (1923 – 2014); MCCRAE, John (1872 – 1918)
In Flanders fields and other poems by John McCrae. With an essay in character by Sir Andrew MacPhail.
McCrae's poem, In Flanders Fields, was among the most popular poems of World War I. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, w…
GMN 11739 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13835
1920 GARRISON, Fielding Hudson (1870 – 1935); WOOD, Casey Albert (1856 – 1942)
A physician's anthology of English and American poetry. Selected and arranged by Casey A. Wood and Fielding H. Garrison.
Prepared for William Osler's seventieth birthday but not completed in time. Selections were approved by Osler, and the anthology was in publication when Osler died. Osler looked forward to the volume. Less than a mont…
GMN 11295 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13492
1922 COGLIEGINA, Benevenuto
Die homerische Medizin. Eine medizin-kulturhistorische Skizze.
Medicine in Homer.
GMN 9985 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12174
1928 OPPENHEIMER, Heinrich (1870 – 1933)
Medical and allied topics in Latin poetry.
GMN 10820 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13016
1929 KÖRNER, Otto (1858 – 1935)
Die Ärƶtlichen Kenntnisse in Ilias und Odyssee.
Medical knowledge in the Iliad and Odyssey. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 9987 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12176
1933 PIA, Pascal (1903 – 1979)
Bouquet poëtique des médecins, chirurgiens, dentistes et apothicaires.
GMN 6621 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7678
1934 KEATS, John (1795 – 1821); FORMAN, Maurice Buxton (1872 – 1957)
John Keats’s anatomical and physiological note book …edited by Maurice Buxton Forman.
Keats was a pupil and dresser at Guy’s Hospital from 1815-16, and was licensed to practice upon completion of his studies. While struggling to launch his poetic career he was often tempted to practice medicine, but ne…
GMN 6622.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7682
1945 MCDONOUGH, Mary Lou McCarthy
Poet physicians: An anthology of medical poetry written by physicians.
GMN 6623 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7684
1947 COPE, Sir Vincent Zachary (1881 – 1974)
The diagnosis of the acute abdomen in rhyme by Zeta.
Cope published this humorous version of his Early diagnosis of the acute abdomen under the pseudonym Zeta.
GMN 10822 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13018
2009 SCHWARTZ, Louis
Milton and maternal mortality.
"All too often, childbirth in early modern England was associated with fear, suffering and death, and this melancholy preoccupation weighed heavily on the seventeenth-century mind. This landmark study examines John Mi…
GMN 14357 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16687
