1935 –1938 CELSUS, Aulus Aurelius Cornelius (-25 – 50); SPENCER, Walter George (1858 – 1940)
De medicina. With an English translation by W.G. Spencer. 3 vols.
Loeb Classical Library. Text in Latin and English. This edition is based on the scholarly text of F. Marx published as Corpus Medicorum Latinorum I, Leipzig, 1915.
GMN 21 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4662
1935 GARDINER, Sir Alan Henderson (1879 – 1963)
Hieratic papyri in the British Museum: Third series: Chester Beatty gift. Edited by Alan H. Gardiner. 2 vols.
Reproduces, with transcription, the Chester Beatty medical papyrus. See No. 5.
GMN 8318 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10494
1935 GRAPOW, Hermann (1885 – 1967)
Ueber die anatomischen kenntnisse der altägyptischen ärzte. Morgenland; Darstellungen aus Geschichte und Kultur des Ostens., Hft. 26.
GMN 8403 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10580
1937 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); DE BOER, Wilko
Galen: De propriorum animi cuiuslibet affectuum dignotione et curatione. De animi cuius libet peccatorum dignotione et curatione ed. W. De Boer. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum V, 4, 1, 1, pp. 1-68.
English translation by P.W. Harkins, Galen on the passions and errors of the soul. Columbus, Ohio, 1963.
GMN 4963.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6358
1941 HEIDEL, William Arthur (1868 – 1941)
Hippocratic medicine. Its spirit and method.
GMN 6483 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7947
1941 KIRFEL, Willibald (1885 – 1964); VAGBHATA; HILGENBERG, Luise
Vāgbhaṭa's Aṣṭāngahṛdayasaṃhitā: Ein altindisches Lehrbuch der Heilkunde. Aus dem Sanskrit ins Deutsche Übertragen mit Einleitung, Anmerkungen, und Indices von Luise Hilgenberg und Willibald Kirfel.
"The Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā (Ah, "Heart of Medicine") is written in poetic language. The Aṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha (As, "Compendium of Medicine") is a longer and less concise work, containing many parallel passages and extensive …
GMN 10581 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12774
1944 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); WALZER, Richard R.
Galen on medical experience. First edition of the Arabic version with English translation and notes, by R. Walzer.
GMN 2189 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1379
1944 JONCKHEERE, Frans (1903 – 1956)
Une maladie Égyptienne: l'hématurie parasitaire.
GMN 8470 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10647
1945 EDELSTEIN, Emma J.; EDELSTEIN, Ludwig (1902 – 1965)
Asclepius: A collection and interpretation of the testimonies. 2 vols.
GMN 6476 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7939
1947 JONCKHEERE, Frans (1903 – 1956)
Le papyrus médical Chester Beatty, par le Dr. Frans Jonckheere.
A hieratic papyrus of the 13th-12th century BCE. It is a fragment of a monograph on diseases of the anus. The papyrus was reproduced with transcription by A. H. Gardiner in 1935. See No. 8318.
GMN 5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/29
1947 JONES, William Henry Samuel (1876 – 1963); ANONYMUS LONDINENSIS (75 – )
The medical writings of Anonymus Londinensis.
The text edited by Diels, with an English translation, introduction and notes by Jones, together with essays on the nature of Greek thought and medicine.
GMN 9080 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11259
1948 EDELSTEIN, Ludwig (1902 – 1965); ZIMMER, Heinrich Robert (1890 – 1943)
Hindu medicine.
GMN 6491 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8162
1949 CHARAKA (-600 – -200)
The Charaka Samhita. 6 vols.
Edited and published with translations in Hindi, Gujerati and English. The Charaka Samhita is the oldest known Hindu text on Ayurveda (life sciences). It was followed by the Sushruta Samhita. Except for some topics an…
GMN 10 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/34
1949 CHARAKA (-600 – -200)
The Charaka Samhita. Edited and published with translations in Hindi, Gujerati and English 6 vols.
GMN 6485.92 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8170
1949 FILLIOZAT, Jean (1906 – 1982)
La Doctrine classique de la médecine indienne. Ses origines et ses parallèles grecs.
Second edition, Paris: Ecole Française d'Extêm-Orient, 1975. English translation: The classical doctrine of Indian medicine: Its origins and its Greek parallels. Translated from the original in French by Dev Raj Chana…
GMN 8127 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10303
1949 THOMPSON, Reginald Campbell (1876 – 1941)
A dictionary of Assyrian botany.
GMN 8514 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10691
1950 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); CHADWICK, John (1920 – 1988); MANN, William Neville (1911 – 2001)
The medical works of Hippocrates. A new translation by J. Chadwick and W.N. Mann.
This collection of translations was partly reprinted with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd, and the addition of three new translations by I.M. Lonie as Hippocratic Writings, Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1978.
GMN 16.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/926
1950 CAELIUS AURELIANUS (500 – ); DRABKIN, Israel Edward (1905 – 1965)
On acute diseases. On chronic diseases. Edited and translated by I.E. Drabkin.
The standard Latin texts and English translations. Regretably the medieval manuscripts on which the 16th century editions of Caelius Aurelianus were based did not survive. Nor have any other medieval codices of these …
GMN 12199 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14409
1950 SERENUS SAMMONICUS, Quintus (Quintus Serenus) ( – 212)
Liber medicinalis. Texte établi, traduit et commenté par R. Pépin.
Latin text with French translation.
GMN 12616 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14856
1950 ALIVIZATOS, G. P.
The early smallpox epidemics in Europe and the plague of Athens after Thucydides.
GMN 13804 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16091
1951 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); SIGERIST, Henry Ernest (1891 – 1957); GREEN, Robert Montraville (1880 – 1955)
A translation of Galen's Hygiene (De santiate tuenda) by Robert Montraville Green, with an introduction by Henry E. Sigerist.
First translation into a modern language.
GMN 9093 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11272
1951 BEDFORD, Brigadier Davis Evan (1898 – 1978)
The ancient art of feeling the pulse.
Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 12402 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14632
1952 LEAKE, Chauncey Depew (1896 – 1978)
The old Egyptian medical papyri.
A guide to the chief medical papyri, with particular attention to therapeutics.
GMN 6471.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7925
1953 BOURGEY, Louis (1901 – 1979)
Observation et expérience chez les médecins de la Collection Hippocratique.
GMN 6484 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7949
1953 –1959 SARTON, George Alfred Léon (1884 – 1956)
A history of science. Vols. 1-2. (All published.)
1. Ancient science through the golden age of Greece. 2. Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C.
GMN 6450 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8447
1953 CHOKSEY, K. M.
Dentistry in ancient India.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10682 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12875
1954 –1973 DIENES, Hildegard von; WESTENDORF, Wolfhart (1924 – ); GRAPOW, Hermann (1885 – 1967)
Grundriss der Medizin der alten Ägypter. 9 vols in 11.
Vol. 1. H. Grapow, Anatomie und Physiologie (1954) Vol. 2. H. Grapow, Von den medizinischen Texten (1955) Vol. 3. H. Grapow, Kraner, Krankheiten und Arzt (1956) Vol. 4.1. H. von Dienes, H. Grapow, W. Westendorf, Ubers…
GMN 6471.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10581
1954 JONCKHEERE, Frans (1903 – 1956)
Prescriptions médicales sur ostraca hiératiques.
GMN 8469 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10646
1954 JONCKHEERE, Frans (1903 – 1956)
"L'Eunuque dans l'Égypte pharaonique.
Full annotated text available at https://people.well.com/user/aquarius/pharaonique.htm.
GMN 9879 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12067
1954 KRAMER, Samuel Noah (1897 – 1990)
First pharmacopeia in man's recorded history.
The most ancient testimony concerning the opium poppy found to date was inscribed in cuneiform script on a small white clay tablet at the end of the third millennium BC. This tablet was discovered in 1954 during excav…
GMN 11916 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14121
1955 ASCLEPIADES OF BITHYNIA (ἈΣΚΛΗΠΙΆΔΗΣ) (-124 – -40); GUMPERT, Christian Gottlieb (1772 – 1832); GREEN, Robert Montraville (1880 – 1955); COCCHI, Antonio (1695 – 1757)
Asclepiades, his life and writings: A translation of Cocchi's life of Asclepiades and Gumpert's fragments of Asclepiades, by Robert Montraville Green.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 8329 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10505
1955 GARDINER, Sir Alan Henderson (1879 – 1963)
The Ramesseum papyri. Edited by Sir Alan Gardiner. 2 vols.
A collection of ancient Egyptian medical documents from the early 18th century BCE, found in the temple of the Ramesseum. As with most ancient Egyptian medical papyri, these documents mainly concern ailments, diseases…
GMN 8391 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10568
1955 THOMSON, Margaret H.
Textes Grecs inédits relatifs aux plantes.
Previously unpublished ancient Greek textes on botany, with French translations.
GMN 8873 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11051
1956 COHN-HAFT, Louis (1920 – 2012)
The public physicians of ancient Greece. (Smith College Studies in History, Vol. XLII.)
Re-examination of the question of whether the public physicians employed by the Greek city-states derived their entire income from their salaried positions and thus provided free medical care or whether they received …
GMN 6485 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7952
1956 TEMKIN, Oswei (1902 – 2002); EDELSTEIN, Ludwig (1902 – 1965); SORANUS OF EPHESUS (ΣΩΡΑΝΌΣ) (100 – 150); GUTTMACHER, Allan Frank (1898 – 1974); EASTMAN, Nicholson Joseph (1895 – 1973)
Soranus' Gynecology. Translated by Owsei Temkin with the assistance of Nicolson J. Eastman, Ludwig Edelstein, and Alan F. Guttmacher.
GMN 9367 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11550
1958 PRAXAGORAS OF COS (ΠΡΑΞΑΓΌΡΑΣ Ὁ ΚΩ͂ΙΟΣ) (-340 – ); STECKERL, Fritz
The fragments of Praxagoras of Cos and his school. Collected, edited, and translated by Fritz Steckerl.
GMN 16.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4485
1958 RUSSELL, J. C.
Late ancient and medieval population.
Digital facsimile from JSTOR at this link.
GMN 9110 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11289
1958 JONCKHEERE, Frans (1903 – 1956)
Les médecins de l'Égypte pharaonique, essai de prosopographie.
GMN 10257 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12448
1959 BONNER, Campbell (1876 – 1974)
Studies in magical amulets, chiefly Graeco-Egyptian.
A study of Graeco-Roman popular medicine and superstition based upon the examination of hundreds of engraved gemsntones that were thought to contain magical and medicinal properties. Digital facsimile from the Hathi T…
GMN 10753 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12949
1961 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); DURLING, Richard Jasper (1932 – 1999)
A chronological census of Renaissance editions and translations of Galen.
Digital facsimile from Jstor at this link.
GMN 8421 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10598
1962 KUTUMBIAH, P
Ancient Indian Medicine.
Revised edition, Bombay, 1969.
GMN 6491.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7991
1962 RAMACHANDRA RAO, Saligrama Krishna (1925 – 2006)
Development of psychological thought in India.
GMN 11836 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14040
1963 –1980 KÖCHER, Franz (1916 – 2002)
Die Babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen. 6 vols.
The texts of cuneiform medical tablets with extensive indices listing all known parallel passages.
GMN 6473.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7936
1963 SCHUMACHER, Joseph (1902 – 1966)
Antike Medizin. Die naturphilosophischen Grundlagen der Medizin in der griechischen Antike. 2nd ed.
GMN 6485.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7954
1963 BHISHAGRATNA, K. K.
An English translation of the Suśruta Samhita…2nd ed.
GMN 6485.94 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7977
1963 GHALIOUNGUI, Paul (Ghalioungi) (1908 – 1987)
Magic and medical science in ancient Egypt.
GMN 8320 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10496
1964 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); KIEFFER, John Spangler (1904 – 1975)
Galen's Institutio logica. English translation, introduction and commentary by John Spangler Kieffer.
GMN 9437 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11620
1965 VAGBHATA; VOGEL, Claus (1933 – 2012)
Vāgbhaṭa Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā. The first five chapters of Its Tibetan version, edited and rendered Into English along with the original Sanskrit by Claus Vogel. Accompanied by a literary introduction and a running commentary on the Tibetan translating-technique.
GMN 10582 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12775
1967 KUDLIEN, Fridolf (1928 – 2008)
Der Beginn des medizinischen Denkens bei den Griechen von Homer bis Hippokrates.
GMN 6485.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7955
1967 TEMKIN, Oswei (1902 – 2002); EDELSTEIN, Ludwig (1902 – 1965); TEMKIN, C. Lilian
Ancient medicine: Selected Papers of Ludwig Edelstein. Edited by Owsei Temkin and C. Lilian Temkin. Translations from the German by C. Lilian Temkin.
GMN 6485.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7957