2005 SNEADER, Walter
Drug discovery: A history.
GMN 9768 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11956
2005 GOODMAN, Jordan
Tobacco in history and culture: An encyclopedia. Edited by Jordan Goodman. 2 vols.
GMN 9784 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11972
2005 TAYLOR, Mark J.; MAKUNDE, Williams Holmes; MCGARRY, Helen F.; ET AL
Macrofilaricidal activity after doxycycline treatment of Wuchereria bancrofti: A double blind randomized placebo-controlled trial.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Taylor, Makunde, McGarry.... The authors treated infection by the parasitic worm Wuchereria bancrofti, cause of elephantiasis (lymphatic filariasis), by killing the Wolbachia…
GMN 11193 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13390
2005 SONNENBURG, Justin L.; XU, Jian; LEIP, Douglas D.; ET AL
Glycan foraging in vivo by an intestine adapted bacterial symbiont.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Sonnenberg, Xu, Leip....The authors showed that complex plant carbohydrates (glycans), which the human body cannot digest, provide food for benign bacteria in the micro…
GMN 11481 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13680
2006 EDLER, Flavio Coelho
Boticas & pharmacias: Uma historia ilustrada da farmacia no Brasil.
GMN 8935 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11113
2006 DICKINSON, Emily (1830 – 1886)
Emily Dickinson's herbarium: A facsimile edition. Foreward by Leslie A. Morris. Essays, botanical catalogue and index by Richard B. Sewall, Judith Farr, and Ray Angelo.
A facsimile edition of MS Am 1118.11 in Houghton Library, Harvard University. Digital facsimile of the actual herbarium from Harvard at this link.
GMN 10910 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13106
2006 TIBI, Selma
The medicinal use of opium in ninth-century Baghdad. (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, vol. 5).
GMN 12523 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14758
2007 KAHL, Oliver; IBN AL-TILMĪDH, Amīn al-Dawla Abu'l-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣaʿīd (هبة الله بن صاعد ابن التلميذ) (1074 – 1165)
The dispensatory of Ibn at-Tilmīd: Arabic text, English translation, study and glossaries by Oliver Kahl.
Critical Arabic edition, annotated English translation, introductory study, and two-way glossaries of the dispensatory composed around the middle of the 12th century CE by the Nestorian physician Ibn at-Tilmīḏ. The di…
GMN 8278 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10454
2007 LESCH, John E. (1945 – )
The first miracle drugs: How the sulfa drugs transformed medicine.
"In the decade from 1935-1945, while the Second World War raged in Europe, a new class of medicines capable of controlling bacterial infections launched a therapeutic revolution that continues today. The new medicines…
GMN 9230 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11412
2007 CORR, Sinéad Cristin; LI, Yin; REIDEL, Christian U.; HILL, Colin; ET AL
Bacteriocin production as a mechanism for the antiinfective activity of Lactobacillus salivarius UCC118.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Corr, Li, Reidel...Hill. The authors discovered that Lactobacilli produce a bacteriocin, a peptidic toxin that inhibits the growth of similar or closely related bacteri…
GMN 11478 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13677
2007 SIKRI, Nikhil; BARDIA, Amit
A history of streptokinase use in acute myocardial infarction.
A history of thrombolytic therapy. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 12280 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14500
2008 IBN BIKLARISH, 'AL-ISRA'ILI', Yunus b. Ishaq (Biklarush / Buklarush / Buklarish) ( – 1095); BURNETT, Charles S. F. (1951 – )
Ibn Baklarish's book of simples: Medical remedies between three faiths in twelfth-century Spain. Edited by Charles Burnett.
The Kitāb al-Musta'īnī by Ibn Biklarish, written in the Moorish Spain province of al-Andalus at the end of the 11th century, includes the first tables of simple medicines written in the region, "concentrating on facin…
GMN 7412 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9584
2008 RASMUSSEN, Nicolas (1962 – )
On speed: The many lives of amphetamine.
GMN 7426 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9598
2008 GOOTENBERG, Paul Eliot (1954 – )
Cocaine: Global drug.
Traces cocaine's history from its origins as a medical commodity in the nineteenth century to its repression during the early twentieth century and its dramatic reemergence as an illicit good after World War II. Conne…
GMN 9035 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11214
2008 TOTELIN, Laurence M. V.
Hippocratic recipes: Oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth-and fourth-century Greece.
"... the first extended study of the pharmacological recipes included in the Hippocratic Corpus. The recipes, found mostly in the gynaecological and nosological treatises, are here examined both from a philological an…
GMN 9600 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11787
2008 SWIDERSKI, Richard M.
Quicksilver: A history of the use, lore and effects of mercury.
GMN 9653 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11840
2008 GREENWOOD, David (1935 – 2015)
Antimicrobial drugs: Chronicle of a twentieth century medical triumph.
Concerns the history of all anti-infectives, including antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, antiprotozoal and anthelminthic agents.
GMN 9683 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11870
2008 IPPOLITOVA, Aleksandra Borisovna
Russkie rukopisnye travniki XVII–XVIII vekov: Issledovanie fol′klora i etnobotaniki. (Russian Manuscript Herbals of the 17th and 18th Centuries: An Investigation of Folklore and Ethnobotany).
GMN 10085 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12274
2008 GREENE, Jeremy A.
Prescribing by numbers: Drugs and the definition of disease.
"The second half of the twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a new model of chronic disease―diagnosed on the basis of numerical deviations rather than symptoms and treated on a preventive basis before any over…
GMN 10974 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13170
2009 MAIMONIDES, (Moses ben Maimon; מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־מַימוֹן; Mōšeh bēn-Maymōn; موسى بن ميمون Mūsā bin Maymūn) (1135 – 1204); MCVAUGH, Michael Rogers (1938 – ); BOS, Gerrit
Maimonides On poisons and the protection against lethal drugs. A parallel Arabic-English edition, edited, translated, and annotated by Gerrit Bos, along with critical editions of Hebrew and Latin; medieval translations by Gerrit Bos and Michael R. McVaugh.
GMN 8256 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10432
2009 IBN SAHL, Sābūr (شاپور بن سهل گندیشاپوری) ( – 869); KAHL, Oliver
Sābūr ibn Sahl's dispensatory in the recension of the 'Adudī hospital.
Arabic edition and English translation of Sābūr ibn Sahl's famous dispensatory as preserved in a recension made by the physicians of the ʿAḍudī hospital in Baghdad around the middle of the 11th century CE.
GMN 8277 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10453
2009 CHIPMAN, Leigh
The world of pharmacy and pharmacists in Mamlūk Cairo.
"...the first detailed analysis of an immensely popular 13th c. Arabic guide for pharmacists, from a time in which Jewish physicians and pharmacists worked alongside Muslim and Christian practioners. Minhāj al-dukkān …
GMN 8293 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10469
2009 GRIVETTI, Louis Evan (1938 – ); SHAPIRO, Howard-Yana
Chocolate: History, culture and heritage. Edited by Louis Evan Grivetti and Howard-Yana Shapiro.
GMN 8317 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10493
2009 MINI DE SENIS, Bartholomaeus (1325 – ); VENTURA, Iolanda
Ps. Bartholomaeus Mini de Senis: Tractatus de herbis (Ms London, British Library, Egerton 747). A cura di Iolanda Ventura. Edizione Nazionale La Scuola Medica Salernitana, 05.
Bartholomaeus Mini de Senis, probably active in the 14th century, was the copyist of British Library Ms Egerton 747, Tractatus de herbis. The identity of the author of the original work, probably written a century ear…
GMN 8555 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10732
2009 ABU MANSUR MUVAFFAK HARAWI (PERSIAN: ابو منصور موفق هروی) (970 – )
Kitab al-Abniya to Haqayiq al-adwiya ["The principles of the real character of medicinal plants"]. (Rawdat al-wa Us Manfaat al-nafs)[ By] Abu Mansur Muwaffaq bin Ali al-Hirawi. 5th AH Century. Facsimile Copy of the original manuscript AF 340. Austrian National Library, Vienna. Transcribed by Alī bin Ahmad Asadī Tūsī. Copied 447 Hijri. Persian Introduction: Iraj Afshar and Ali Ashraf Sadeghi. English Introduction: Bert G. Fragner / Nosratollah Rastegar, Karl Holubar, Eva Irblich and Mahmoud Omidsalar.
GMN 8582 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10759
2009 FISHER, Jill A.
Medical research for hire: The political economy of pharmaceutical clinical trials.
GMN 8645 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10822
2009 HUNT, Anthony "Tony" B. (1944 – )
An Old French herbal (Ms Princeton U.L. Garrett 131). Edited by Tony Hunt.
First edition of the earliest Old French herbal in verse— "a surprisingly comprehensive work (3188 octosyllables), based on an eleventh-century Latin treatise 'De viribus herbarum' attributed to a certain 'Macer'. It …
GMN 9809 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11997
2009 LAROCHE, Rebecca
Medical authority and Englishwomen’s herbal texts, 1550–1650.
"Through an analysis of twenty-four examples of female-owned herbals supplemented by case studies of the herbal references in the writings of Margaret Hoby, Grace Mildmay, Elizabeth Isham, and Isabella Whitney, Rebecc…
GMN 10613 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12806
2009 TOMASI, Lucia Tongiorgi (1939 – ); WILLIS, Tony
An Oak Spring herbaria: Herbs and herbals from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries. A selection of the rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi & Tony Willis. Edited with a description of the American herbals by Mark Argetsinger.
A spectacularly beautiful volume as are the other 3 vols in the Oak Spring series.
GMN 10957 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13153
2009 CRUZ, Martin De La; BADIANO, Juan (1484 – 1552); POZZO, Cassiano dal (1588 – 1657); CLAYTON, Martin (1967 – ); GUERRINI, Luigi; ÁVILA BLOMBERG, Alejandro de
Flora: The Aztec herbal. Edited by Martin Clayton, Luigi Guerrini, and Alejandro de Ávila. (The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Series B: Natural History (HMPMB 8))
"This volume catalogues Cassiano dal Pozzo’s copy of the Codex Cruz-Badianus, an Aztec herbal prepared for the son of the Viceroy of Mexico in 1552 and the earliest medical text to have survived from the New World. Th…
GMN 12824 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15070
2010 GILBERTUS ANGLICUS, (Gilbert of England) (1180 – 1250); GETZ, Faye Marie (1952 – )
Healing and society in medieval England. A Middle English translation of the pharmaceutical writings of Gilbertus Anglicus. Edited by Faye Marie Getz.
GMN 8365 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10541
2010 SWIDERSKI, Richard M.
Poison eaters: Snakes, opium, arsenic, and the lethal show.
"This book is the first to explore the tradition of deliberate poison eating, its practitioners, and the substances that might nourish or kill them" (publisher).
GMN 9884 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12072
2010 GRADMANN, Christoph; SIMON, J.
Evaluating and standardizing therapeutic agents, 1890-1950. Edited by C. Gradmann and J. Simon.
GMN 11418 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13617
2010 TOUWAIDE, Alain (1953 – ); CLASSEN, Albrecht (1956 – )
"Botany" and "Pharmacy" by Alain Touwaide, in: Handbook of medieval studies. Terms - methods - trends. Edited by Albrecht Classen. 3 vols.
This otherwise comprehensive handbook excludes medicine, per se. Sections most directly pertinent to the life sciences are: Touwaide, Alain. "Botany". Vol. 1, pp. 145-180. This a very detailed bibliographical essay co…
GMN 11928 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14133
2010 KÄS, Fabian
Die Mineralien in Der Arabischen Pharmakognosie: Eine Konkordanz Zur Mineralischen Materia Medica Der Klassischen Arabischen Heilmittelkunde Nebst ... Kommission (Vok) der A).
GMN 13456 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15730
2011 MARKEL, Howard (1960 – )
An anatomy of addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and the miracle drug, cocaine.
GMN 8709 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10887
2011 ODO OF MEUNG, Odo Magdunensis [Macer Floridus] (1050 – ); MARTIN, Javier Calle; MIRANDA-GARCIA, Antonio
The Middle English version of "De Viribus Herbarum (GUL MS Hunter 497, ff. 1r-92r): Edition and philological study by Javier Calle Martín and Antonio Miranda Garcia.
"Odo de Meung’s De Viribus Herbarum was one of the most widely known pieces of Fachliteratur in the latter part of Middle English, corroborated on account of the number of translations hitherto preserved in the differ…
GMN 9607 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11794
2011 SAAD, Bashar; SAAD, Omar
Greco-Arab and Islamic herbal medicine: Traditional system, ethics, safety, efficacy, and regulatory issues.
GMN 10461 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12654
2011 UMEMURA, Maki
The Japanese pharmaceutical industry: Its evolution and current challenges.
GMN 11469 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13668
2011 GIGNOUX, Philippe (1931 – )
Lexique des terms de la pharmacopée syriaque. (Studia Iranica, Cahier 47; Chrétiens en terre d'Iran, 5)
A dictionary of Syriac names for plants used to make botanic drugs.
GMN 12730 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14976
2011 NEGULESCU, Paul A.; VAN GOOR, Frederick; HADIDA, Sabine; GROOTENHUIS, Peter D. J. (1960 – 2019); ET AL
Correction of the 508del-CFTR protein processing defect in vitro by the investigational drug VX-809.
Negulescu and colleagues published a "proof of concept" experiment showing that the novel molecule called VX-809 could correct in vitro the very common and critical 508del-CFTR mutation identified by Collins. (See GM …
GMN 13571 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15849
2012 HENRY OF HUNTINGDON (1088 – 1157)
Anglicus ortus. A verse herbal of the twelfth century. Edited and translated by Winston Black.
Written in Latin verse, the Anglicus ortus describes in considerable detail the medicinal uses of 160 plants. Edition based on collation of the five extant manuscripts of the text, plus parallel Latin text and English…
GMN 7140 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9307
2012
The alphabet of Galen. Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. A critical edition of the Latin text with English translation and commentary by Nicholas Everett
ALPHABET OF GALEN
An edition and translation of Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 187, a late seventh or early eighth century codex, which represents the earliest surviving manuscript of the text. Not written by Galen of Perga…
GMN 7409 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9581
2012 KUSUKAWA, Sachiko
Picturing the book of nature: Image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany.
GMN 8389 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10566
2012 WILSON, Philip K.; HURST, W. Jeffrey
Chocolate as medicine: A quest over the centuries.
GMN 8799 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10977
2012 DIAS, Daniel A.; URBAN, Sylvia; ROESSNER, Ute
An historical overview of natural products in drug discovery.
Available from PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 9886 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12074
2012 CHIPMAN, Leigh; LEV, Efraim
Medical prescriptions in the Cambridge Genizah Collections: Practical medicine and pharmacology in medieval Egypt. Cambridge Genizah Studies Series, Volume 4.
GMN 11048 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13244
2012 BACHOUR, Natalia; IBN SALLŪM, Salih ibn Nasrallah al-Halabi ( – 1671)
Oswaldus Crollius und Daniel Sennert im frühneuzeitlichen Istanbul: Studien zur Rezeption des Paracelsismus im Werk des osmanischen Arztes Salih b. Nasrullāh Ibn Sallūm al-Halabī
Study of the "Al-Ṭibb al-jadīd al-kīmiyāʼī alladhī ikhtaraʻahu Barākalsūs (The new chemical medicine invented by Paracelsus), an Arabic compendium of alchemical works from early modern Europe by Salih ibn Nasrallah al…
GMN 12804 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15050
2013 GERALD, Michael C.
The drug book: From Arsenic to Xanax, 250 milestones in the history of drugs.
GMN 7544 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9716
2013 WORTHEN, Dennis B. (1943 – )
Pharmacy in World War II.
GMN 10372 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12564