1907 –1909 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); HELMREICH, Georg (1849 – 1921)

De usu partium libri XVII ad codicum fidem recensuit Georgius Helmreich. 2 vols.

First separate edition, edited from the prior printed editions and the surviving early manuscripts, of Galen's treatise on the function, use and purpose of the individual parts of the body. In this treatise Galen expl…

GMN 570 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/336

1907 –1916 SUŚRUTA, (Sushruta); BHISHAGRATNA, Kaviraj Kunjalal (1865 – )

An English translation of the Sushruta Samhita, based on original Sankskrit text: Edited and published by Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna. With a full and comprehensive introduction, translation of different readings, notes, comparative views, index, glossary and plates. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 12 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/899

1907 MILNE, John Stewart ( – 1913)

Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times.

Reprinted, N.Y., 1970.

GMN 5806 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6910

1907 HOERNLÉ, Augustus Friedrich Rudolf (1841 – 1918)

Studies in the medicine of ancient India. Part 1. Osteology or the bones of the human body.

All published.

GMN 6487 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7983

1908

Corpus Medicorum Graecorum. Ediderunt Academiae Berolinensis Hauniensis Lipsiensis

CORPUS MEDICORUM GRAECORUM

This series sets as its goal the scholarly edition of all extant ancient Greek medical texts, including those lost in the original language but preserved in medieval translations. These are numbered as follows: I. Hip…

GMN 86.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8780

1908 WELLMANN, Max (1863 – 1933); PHILUMENOS, [Philumenus; Φιλούμενος] ( – 200)

Philumeni de venenatis animalibus eorumque remediis capita XXXVIII ed. M. Wellmann. Corpus medicorum graecorum X 1, 1.

This work on venoms and their antidotes is the only surviving work of the Byzantine physician Philomenos. Within this context Philomenos also discusses the bites of rabid dogs. Digital facsimile from Corpus medicorum …

GMN 9018 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11197

1909 WRESZINSKI, Walter (1880 – 1935)

Der grosse medizinische Papyrus des Berliner Museums (Pap. Berl. 3038) in Facsimile und Umschrift mit Uebersetzung, Kommentar und Glossar. Herausg. von Walter Wreszinski.

BRUGSCH PAPYRUS

The Greater German Papyrus (Brugsch Papyrus) dates from about 1300 BCE. The above facsimile reproduction and translation forms vol. 1 of the Medizin der alten Aegypter series. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National …

GMN 4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/28

1909 SUDHOFF, Karl Friedrich Jakob (1853 – 1938)

Aerztliches aus griechischen Papyrus-Urkunden.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 6478 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7941

1909 JONES, William Henry Samuel (1876 – 1963); WITHINGTON, Edward Theodore (1860 – 1947)

Malaria and Greek history. To which is added the history of Greek therapeutics and the malaria theory by E.T. Withington.

The view is put forward by the writer that malarial infection was the cause of the decadence of the Greeks. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 5263 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8555

1912 WRESZINSKI, Walter (1880 – 1935)

Der Londoner medizinische Papyrus (Brit. Museum 10 059) und der Papyrus Hearst in Transkription, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Herausgegeben von Walther Wreszinski. Mit Facsimile der Londoner Pap. auf 17 Lichtdrucktafeln.

The London Medical Papyrus contains "61 recipes, of which 25 are classified as medical while the remainder are of magic.[1] The medical foci of the writing are skin complaints, eye complaints, bleeding[2] (predominant…

GMN 11097 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13293

1913 –1914 MUKHOPADHYAYA, Girindranath (1872 – 1935)

The surgical instruments of the Hindus, with a comparative study of the surgical instruments of the Greek, Roman, Arab and the modern Eouropean [sic] surgeons. 2 vols.

Vol. 2 consists of plates.

GMN 6488 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7985

1913 ORTA, Garcia de [Garcia d'Orta] (1501 – 1568); BREYNER, Francesco Manuel de Melo, Conde de Ficalho (1837 – 1903); MARKHAM, Sir Robert Clements (1830 – 1916)

Garci da Orta: Colloquies on the simples & drugs of India. New edition (Lisbon, 1895) edited and annotated by the Conde de Ficalho. Translated with an introduction and index by Sir Clements Markham.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 8974 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11153

1913 –1922 SENA, Gananātha (1877 – 1945)

Pratyaksa-śārira: pratyaksha-shariram: A textbook of human anatomy in Sanskrit with English & Sanskrit introductions, containing a short history of Ayurvedic literature. 3 vols.

GMN 12960 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15207

1914 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)

[Opera omnia]. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum V ...

As of 1990 about twenty volumes containing perhaps a fifth of the Corpus were published. Although the principles of the edition varied somewhat over the 75 year course of the project, all volumes represent a decisive …

GMN 29 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/42

1914 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)

De sanitate tuenda ed. K. Koch. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum V, 4, 2, 1-198

English translation by R. M. Green, Springfield, Ill., 1951.

GMN 1985 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8824

1914 HUNAYN IBN ISHAQ [أبو زيد حنين بن إسحاق العبادي‎; ’ABŪ ZAYD ḤUNAYN IBN ’ISḤĀQ AL-‘IBĀDĪ], (Latin: Iohannitius) (809 – 873); BERGSTRÄSSER, Gotthelf (1886 – 1933)

Pseudogaleni in Hippocratis de septimanis commentarium ab Hunaino q. f. Arabice versum, ex codice monacensi primum edidit et Germanice vertit.

GMN 12670 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14914

1915

Corpus Medicorum Latinorum. Editum consilio et auctoritate Instituti Puschmanniani Lipsiensis.

CORPUS MEDICORUM LATINORUM

As of 1990 eight volumes were published (*). The completed series would include: I. Celsus*; II. Scribonius Largus, Quintus Serenus* etc.: III. Plinius Secundus Iunior*; IV. Antonius Musa, Pseudo-Apuleius, Sextus Plac…

GMN 86.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8781

1916 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); BROCK, Arthur John (1878 – 1947)

On the natural faculties. With an English translation by Arthur John Brock.

Greek-English edition in the Loeb Classical Library. This was one of the first, if not the actual first, modern English translations of Galen. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 569 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/340

1916 SERENUS SAMMONICUS, Quintus (Quintus Serenus) ( – 212); VOLLMER, Friedrich Karl (1867 – 1923)

Quinti Sereni Liber medicinalis. Edited by Friedrich Vollmer.

GMN 9009 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11188

1916 THEOPHRASTUS OF ERESOS (ΘΕΌΦΡΑΣΤΟΣ) (371 – 287); HORT, Sir Arthur (1864 – 1935)

Theophrastus: Enquiry into plants and minor works on odours and weather signs. With an English translation by Sir Arthur Hort. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 9615 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11802

1917 ELLIOT, Robert Henry (1864 – 1936)

The Indian operation of couching for cataract. Incorporating The Hunterian Lectures....

Prefaced by an extensive historical introduction; the remainder of the text being of historical significance in the 21st century. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

GMN 12959 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15206

1921 ALLBUTT, Sir Thomas Clifford (1836 – 1925)

Greek medicine in Rome.

FitzPatrick Lectures, 1909-10. Allbutt was Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge and a great literary stylist. Underwood described him as the most learned and distinguished physician of the last hundred years.

GMN 6479 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7942

1921 –1924 PAUL OF AEGINA (ΠΑΥ͂ΛΟΣ ΑἸΓΙΝΉΤΗΣ; PAULUS AEGINETA) (625 – 690); HEIBERG, Johan Ludvig (1854 – 1928)

Paulus Aegeneta [Opera] ed. J.L. Heiberg. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum IX. 2 vols.

Standard Greek text.

GMN 37 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8761

1922 COGLIEGINA, Benevenuto

Die homerische Medizin. Eine medizin-kulturhistorische Skizze.

Medicine in Homer.

GMN 9985 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12174

1923 –2012 JONES, William Henry Samuel (1876 – 1963); HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); WITHINGTON, Edward Theodore (1860 – 1947); POTTER, Paul M. J. (1944 – )

Hippocrates [Works] with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones, E.T. Withington, and Paul Potter. 12 vols.

Greek–English edition in the Loeb Classical Library.

GMN 16 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/37

1923 JONES, William Henry Samuel (1876 – 1963); HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)

On airs, waters, and places. IN: his [Works] with an English translation by W. H. S. Jones, 1, pp. 65-137

“The first book ever written on medical geography, climatology, and anthropology” (Garrison). The Latin translation of this text was first published in Rhazes’ Liber ad Almansorem, Milan, 1481. See No. 39.1. The stand…

GMN 1767 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3302

1923 THOMPSON, Reginald Campbell (1876 – 1941)

Assyrian medical texts. From the originals in the British Museum.

Facsimiles of the texts of 660 cuneiform medical tablets, many of which were hitherto unpublished, from the library of Ashurbanipal. The tablets date back to the seventh century B.C. No translations are included, but …

GMN 6471.92 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7931

1923 JONES, William Henry Samuel (1876 – 1963); HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)

Epidemics 1, case 4. In: [Works] with an English translation by W.H. Jones.

The earliest known description of puerperal fever.

GMN 6267 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7975

1923 –1929 MUKHOPADHYAYA, Girindranath (1872 – 1935)

History of Indian medicine. Containing notices, biographical, of the Ayurvedic physicians and their works on medicine, from the earliest ages to the present time. 3 vols.

Reprinted New Delhi, 1974.

GMN 6488.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7987

1923 JONES, William Henry Samuel (1876 – 1963); HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)

Epidemics I and III. In: [Works] with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones.

Hippocrates introduced the inductive method of studying epidemics.

GMN 1672 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8603

1924 THOMPSON, Reginald Campbell (1876 – 1941)

The Assyrian herbal: A monograph on the Assyrian vegetable drugs, the subject matter of which was communicated in a paper to the Royal Society, March 20, 1924.

A study of Assyrian material medical reproduced by cyclostyle, in the author's handwriting.

GMN 1787 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1841

1924 JONES, William Henry Samuel (1876 – 1963)

The doctor’s oath, an essay in the history of medicine.

The Hippocratic Oath forms the basis of medical ethics. It was probably an ancient temple oath of the Asclepiadae, and not a genuine Hippocratic document. In the above work the various manuscripts of the Oath are enum…

GMN 1758 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3171

1925 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); HUNAYN IBN ISHAQ [أبو زيد حنين بن إسحاق العبادي‎; ’ABŪ ZAYD ḤUNAYN IBN ’ISḤĀQ AL-‘IBĀDĪ], (Latin: Iohannitius) (809 – 873); BERGSTRÄSSER, Gotthelf (1886 – 1933)

Hunain ibn Ishaq über die syrischen und arabischen Galen-Übersetzungen zum ersten mal Herausgegeben und Überzetzt von G. Bergsträsser.

Various writings of Galen survived through Arabic and Syriac translations rather than the original Greek. In the ninth century the Assyrian Christian physician and translator into Arabic and Syriac Hunain ibn Ishaq (A…

GMN 6831 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8995

1926 HURRY, Jameson Boyd (1857 – 1930)

Imhotep: the vizier and physician of Kind Zoser, and afterwards the Egyptian god of medicine.

GMN 6470 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7673

1926 –1933 ORIBASIUS (ὈΡΕΙΒΆΣΙΟΣ), [Oreibasius] (320 – 403); RAEDER, Johannes (1869 – 1959)

Collectionum medicarum reliquae, libri 1-VIII, libri IX-XVI, libri XXIV-XXV, XLIII-XLVIII, libri XLIX-L, libri incerti ecologae medicamentorum. Synopsis ad Eustathium, Libri ad Eunapium. Edited by Johannes Raeder. 5 vols.

Contains selections from the writings of physicians, the originals of some of whose works no longer exist, and who would have been forgotten, but for the compilations of Oribasius. Writers included are Agathinus, Anty…

GMN 32 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8756

1926 WOOD, Casey Albert (1856 – 1942)

Ayurvedic medicine in ancient and medieval Ceylon.

GMN 9513 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11698

1927 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); WITHINGTON, Edward Theodore (1860 – 1947)

Fractures, joints, instruments of reduction. In [Works] with an English translation by E.T. Withington, 3, 83-449.

GMN 4406 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6162

1927 JONES, William Henry Samuel (1876 – 1963); HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); WITHINGTON, Edward Theodore (1860 – 1947)

Aphorisms, Section VII, number 34. In his Works. Ed. W. H. S. JONES and E. T. WITHINGTON

The first description of the association of proteinuria and chronic renal disease.

GMN 4203.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6208

1927 SORANUS OF EPHESUS (ΣΩΡΑΝΌΣ) (100 – 150); ILBERG, Johannes (1860 – 1930)

Sorani Gynaeciorum libri 4. De signis fracturarum. De fasciis. Vita Hippocratis secundum Soranum. Ed. Johannes Ilberg. Corpus medicorum Graecorum, 4.

Standard Greek edition of the works of Soranus. Digital facsimile from the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum at this link.

GMN 6009 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7182

1927 SUDHOFF, Karl Friedrich Jakob (1853 – 1938)

Kos und Knidos.

GMN 6482 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7945

1927 –1948 SARTON, George Alfred Léon (1884 – 1956)

Introduction to the history of science. 3 vols. in 5.

An extensively annotated bibliographical survey to the end of the 14th century.

GMN 6419 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8412

1927 SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960)

The herbal in antiquity and its transmission to later ages.

GMN 11383 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13582

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

1930 HERACLIDES (ἩΡΑΚΛΕΊΔΗΣ) (-225 – -150); DEICHGRÄBER, Karl Marienus (1903 – 1984)

Die griechische Empirikerschule: Sammlung der Fragmente und Darstellung der Lehre von Karl Deichgräber.

The writings of Heraclides are frequently quoted by Galen, who regarded Heraclides as a reliable authority. Unfortunately, only a few fragments of Heraclides's works survived; his work is mainly known through quotatio…

GMN 18.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4653

1930 BREASTED, James Henry (1865 – 1935)

The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus. Published in facsimile and hieroglyphic transliteration with translation and commentary by James Henry Breasted. 2 vols.

At Luxor, Egypt, in 1862 the American collector and dealer in papyri Edwin Smith purchased the papyrus which bears his name. It is preserved at the New York Academy of Medicine. The original text was written about 300…

GMN 4850 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6807

1930 –1932 RACHMATI, Gabdul Rasid

Zur Heilkinde der Uiguren. Edited by G. R. Rachmati. 2 vols.

Old Uygur medical fragments, some of which are now lost, in the Berlin Turfan collection. Rachmati was the pioneer historian of Islamic Central Asian medicine.

GMN 9240 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11422

1930 PIANKOFF, Alexandre (1897 – 1966)

Le cœur dans les textes égyptiens depuis l'ancien jusqu'à la fin du nouvel Empire.

GMN 12366 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14590

1933 –1937 ALEXANDER OF TRALLES [ἈΛΈΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ Ὁ ΤΡΑΛΛΙΑΝΌΣ; ALEXANDER TRALLIANUS] (525 – 605); BRUNET, Félix Louis Emile (1872 – 1958)

Médecine et thérapeutique byzantines: Oeuvres médicales d’Alexander de Tralles, le dernier auteur classique des grands médecins grecs de l’antiquité. Ed. F. Brunet. 4 vols.

GMN 35.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8759

1934 –1935 MARIADASSOU, Paramananda; BOURRET, Georges M.

Médecine traditionelle de l’Inde. Conférences faites à l’École de Médecine de Pondichéry … 3 vols.

GMN 6490 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8158

1934 DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); GOODYER, John (1592 – 1664); GUNTHER, Robert William Theodore (1869 – 1940)

The Greek herbal of Dioscorides, illustrated by a Byzantine, A.D. 512; Englished by John Goodyer, A.D. 1655; edited and first printed, A.D. 1933, by Robert T. Gunther ... with three hundred and ninety-six illustrations.

Goodyer's translation is considered more of a paraphrase than a translation.

GMN 8564 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10741