1998 SHOU-ZHONG, Yang
The divine farmer's materia medica: A translation of the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing by Yang Shou-zhong.
GMN 8336 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10512
1998 IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYAH, (Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr) (1292 – 1350); JOHNSTONE, Penelope
Medicine of the Prophet. Translated by Penelope Johnstone.
" . . . a combination of religious and medical information, providing advice and guidance on the two aims of medicine - the preservation and restoration of health - in careful conformity with the teachings of Islam as…
GMN 8571 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10748
1998 SEXTUS PLACITUS, of Papyra ( – 380); SEGOLINI, Maria Paola
Libri medicinae Sexti Placiti Papyriensis ex animalibus pecoribus et bestiis vel avibus Concordantiae. Edited by Maria Paola Segolini.
Placitus wrote fanciful descriptions of medicines derived from animals, and other sources. For example, he recommended such remedies as consuming cooked puppy to relieve colic, and breaking a fever by cutting a splint…
GMN 8880 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11058
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 HUNTING, Penelope
A history of the Society of Apothecaries.
GMN 10933 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13129
1998 KARCH, Steven B.
A brief history of cocaine.
Second edition, 2006.
GMN 11743 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13943
1998 RÄTSCH, Christian (1957 – )
The encyclopedia of psychoactive plants: Ethnopharmacology and its applications.
Describes the botany, history, distribution, cultivation, preparation, and dosage of more than 400 psychoactive plants and fungi. The encyclopedia also offers information on ritual and medicinal use. Also includes 168…
GMN 11892 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14097
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
1998 –2005 SCHMITZ, Johann Rudolf (1918 – 1992); FRIEDRICH, Christoph (1954 – ); MÜLLER-JAHNCKE, Wolf-Dieter (1944 – )
Geschichte der Pharmazie. Band 1: Von den Anfängen bis zum Ausgang des Mittelalters. Von Rudolf Schmitz. Unter Mitarbeit von F.-J. Kuhlen. Band II: Von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart. Von Christoph Friedrich und Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke.
GMN 13718 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16002
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 DONKIN, Robin Arthur (1928 – 2006)
Dragon's brain perfume: An historical geography of camphor.
"In the Dragon's Brain Perfume (a Chinese description of Camphor) once more the existence and importance of world systems of exchange becomes clear. In the pre-industrial world aromatic substances have always counted …
GMN 8960 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11139
1999 GOOTENBERG, Paul Eliot (1954 – )
Cocaine: Global histories.
GMN 9034 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11213
1999 MAEHLE, Andreas-Holger (1957 – )
Drugs on trial: Experimental pharmacology and therapeutic innovation in the eighteenth century.
"This book demonstrates that the basic methodology of the field, including chemical analysis, in vitro testing, animal experimentation and human research, was already developed in the course of the seventeenth and eig…
GMN 9468 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11651
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
2000 KOLTA, Kamal Sabri (1930 – ); SCHWARZMANN-SCHAFHAUSER, Doris
Die Heilkunde in alten Aegypten (Sudhoffs Archiv Beiheft 42).
Covers both magic and empirical treatment, with a particular focus on the treatment of diseases studied on the basis of texts, including the preparation of medicines.
GMN 10000 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12189
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 DAVENPORT-HINES, Richard (1953 – )
The pursuit of oblivion: A global history of narcotics.
GMN 10895 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13091
2001 COWEN, David L. (1909 – 2006)
Pharmacopoeias and related literature in Britain and America, 1618–1847.
"Collected in this volume are the author’s historical and bibliographical studies of what may be described as the British and American literature of pharmacotherapeutics. The practitioner of medicine in the period cov…
GMN 11423 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13622
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 MUSTO, David Franklin (1936 – 2010)
Drugs in America: A historical reader. [Compiled by] David F. Musto.
GMN 8903 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11081
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 IBN SAHL, Sābūr (شاپور بن سهل گندیشاپوری) ( – 869); KAHL, Oliver
Sabur Ibn Sahl: The Small Dispensatory: Translated from the Arabic together with a study and glossaries by Oliver Kahl.
Edition and translation of the oldest manuscript on Arabic pharmacy.
GMN 8289 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10465
2003 BOWDEN, Mary Ellen; CROW, Amy Beth; SULLIVAN, Tracy
Pharmaceutical achievers: The human face of Pharmaceutical research.
GMN 8485 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10662
2003 HAAS, Volkert (1936 – ); BAWANYPECK, Daliah
Materia magica et medica Hethitica: Ein Beitrag zur Heilkunde im Alten Orient. By Volkert Haas in cooperation with Daliah Bawanypeck.
The first comprehensive compendium of all known remedies and treatments used by the Hittites. The source texts are ritual descriptions and formularies from the 15th to 13th centuries BCE preserved from the archives of…
GMN 8506 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10683
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 TOUWAIDE, Alain (1953 – ); ALIOTTA, Giovanni; PIOMELLI, Daniele; POLLIO, Antonino
Le piante medicinali dal Corpus Hippocraticum.
GMN 9601 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11788
2003 HOFFMANN, David (1951 – )
Medical herbalism: The science and practice of herbal medicine.
GMN 9632 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11819
2003 PRAY, W. Steven
A history of nonprescription production regulation.
History of U.S. regulation of patent medicines,cosmetics, pure food and drugs, homeopathy, dietary supplements, etc.
GMN 9803 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11991
2003 HILTS, Philip J.
Protecting America's health: The FDA, business, and one hundred years of regulation.
GMN 10215 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12404
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 FAN, Fa-Ti
British naturalists in Qing China: science, empire and cultural encounter.
GMN 7312 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9482
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 FLANNERY, Michael A.
Civil War pharmacy: A history of drugs, drug supply and provision, and therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy.
GMN 9766 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11954
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
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