2013 DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); TOUWAIDE, Alain (1953 – )
De materia medica. Il Discoride di Napoli (Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli - Ms ex-Vindobonense Greco 1, VI-VII sec d. C. 2 vols.
Translation into Italian of the text of the Naples Dioscorides, a 6-7th century illustrated manuscript. With color facsimiles of the original paintings in the manuscript, 243 modern drawings in color. Foreword by Maur…
GMN 10908 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13104
2013 SCHWERIN, Alexander von; STOFF, Heiko; WAHRIG, Bettina
Biologics. A history of agents made from living organisms in the twentieth century. Edited by Alexander von Schwerin, Heiko Stoff and Bettina Wahrig.
GMN 11915 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14120
2013 AGNEW, Jeremy
Alcohol and opium in the Old West: Use, abuse and influence.
GMN 12102 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14311
2013 GAUDILLIÈRE, Jean-Paul; HESS, Volker (1962 – )
Ways of regulating drugs in the 19th and 20th centuries. Edited by Jean-Paul Gaudillière and Volker Hess.
GMN 13674 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15956
2014 AL-GHAFIQI, Muhammad ibn Aslam ( – 1165); WALLIS, Faith; RAGEP, F. Jamil
The herbal of al-Ghāfiqī. A facsimile edition of MS 7508 in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, with critical essays. Edited by F. Jamil Ragep and Faith Wallis with Pamela Miller and Adam Gacek.
GMN 7411 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9583
2014 IWU, Maurice Mmaduakolam (1950 – )
Handbook of African medicinal plants. Second edition.
"With over 50,000 distinct species in sub-Saharan Africa alone, the African continent is endowed with an enormous wealth of plant resources. While more than 25 percent of known species have been used for several centu…
GMN 9912 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12100
2014 EVANS, Jennifer
Aphrodisiacs, fertility and medicine in early modern England.
This work "... in its extensive study of gynecological treatises from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, provides an important intervention into assumptions about the subversive quality of aphrodisiacs and abor…
GMN 10422 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12615
2014 DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); WHIPKEY, Anna; KALBAUGH, Kirby; FRANZ, Audra; JANICK, Jules (1931 – )
A database for three Dioscoridean illustrated herbals.
"Abstract. An image database was developed for three illustrated recensions of the nonillustrated manuscript of Dioscorides entitled ... (De Materia Medica in Latin; On Medical Matters in English) written in approxima…
GMN 10909 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13105
2014 GABRIEL, Joseph M.
Medical monopoly: Intellectual property rights and the origins of the modern pharmaceutical industry.
GMN 11612 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13812
2015 RHAZES [MUHAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYĀ AL-RĀZĪ (PERSIAN: محمد زکریای رازی ] (854 – 925); KAHL, Oliver
The Sanskrit, Syriac and Persian sources in the Comprehensive Book of Rhazes
Razi's Kitab al-Hawi, a vast medical-pharmaceutical encyclopedia, was compiled from multiple sources. For each identified source this study provides Razi's Arabic text with an English translation. When possible, the o…
GMN 8290 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10466
2015 WILLIER, Russell; YOUNG, David Earl; ROGERS, Robert Dale
A Cree healer and his medicine bundle: Revelations of indigenous wisdom: Healing plants, practices, and stories.
"With the rise of urban living and the digital age, many North American healers are recognizing that traditional medicinal knowledge must be recorded before being lost with its elders. A Cree Healer and His Medicine B…
GMN 10275 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12466
2015 VESALIUS, Andreas (1514 – 1564); GARRISON, Daniel H.
Vesalius: The China Root epistle. A new translation and critical edition, edited and translated by Daniel H. Garrison, with added illustrations from the 1543 and 1555 De humani corporis fabrica.
GMN 13024 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15274
2015 TU (TU YOUYOU), Youyou (1930 – )
NOBEL LECTURE: Discovery of Artemisinin - A gift from traditional Chinese medicine to the world.
In 1972 Tu Youyou discovered Artemisinin, the standard treatment worldwide for P. falciparum malaria as well as malaria due to other species of Plasmodium. Artemisinin is extracted from Artemisia annua (sweet wormwood…
GMN 14260 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16581
2016 LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778); NYNÄS, Carina; BERGQUIST, Lars (1930 – )
A Linnean kaleidoscope: Linnaeus and his 186 dissertations. 2 vols.
The first comprehensive introduction to all 186 Linnaean dissertations, in the form of short essays (many illustrated) on each dissertation. Most of these dissertations, which were published in Latin, have remained re…
GMN 7526 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9698
2016 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; WIKIPEDIA
WHO Model list of essential medicines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHO_Model_List_of_Essential_Medicines (accessed 12-2016). The first list, published in 1977, included 204 pharmaceutical drugs.[1] The WHO updates the list every two years. The WHO later …
GMN 8064 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10240
2016 CARTWRIGHT, Anthony C.
The British Pharmacopoeia, 1864 to 2014: Medicines, international standards and the state.
"The British Pharmacopoeia has provided official standards for the quality of substances, medicinal products and articles used in medicine since its first publication in 1864. It is used in over 100 countries and rema…
GMN 8977 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11156
2016 AMAR, Zohar (1960 – ); LEV, Efraim
Arabian drugs in early medieval Mediterranean medicine.
GMN 11049 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13245
2016 MULANGU, Sabue; CORTI, Davide; MISASI, John; ET AL
Protective monotherapy against lethal Ebola virus infection by a potently neutralizing antibody.
The cited paper was immediately followed in the same issue of Science by: John Misasi, Morgan A. Gilman, Masaru Kanekiyo et al, "Structural and molecular basis for Ebola virus neutralization by protective human antibo…
GMN 11375 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13574
2016 CRAWFORD, Matthew James
The Andean wonder drug: Cinchona bark and imperial science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630-1800.
GMN 11614 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13814
2017 BENNETT, David (1940 – 2012)
Medicine and pharmacy in Byzantine hospitals: A study of the extant formularies.
GMN 8279 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10455
2017 DIVISION OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY
Balm of America: Patent medicine collection.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/balm-of-america-patent-medicine-collection "The Smithsonian Institution began to collect objects related to health and medicine in 1881. It first obtained exampl…
GMN 8517 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10694
2017 KYLE, Sarah R.
Medicine and humanism in late medieval Italy: The Carrara herbal in Padua.
GMN 8570 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10747
2017 ROSEN, William (1955 – 2016)
Miracle cure: The creation of antibiotics and the birth of modern medicine.
GMN 9690 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11877
2017 SCHIEBINGER, Londa (1952 – )
Secret cures of slaves: People, plants, and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
"Massive mortality among enslaved Africans and European planters, soldiers, and sailors fueled the search for new healing techniques. Amerindian, African, and European knowledges competed to cure diseases emerging fro…
GMN 9862 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12050
2017 NEWSON, Linda A. (1946 – )
Making medicines in early colonial Lima, Peru: Apothecaries, science and society.
GMN 10539 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12732
2017 SCHOOLEY, Robert Turner (1949 – ); BISWAS, Biswajit; GILL, Jason J.; ET AL
Development and use of personalized bacteriophage-therapeutic cocktails to treat a patient with a disseminated resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Infection.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Schooley, Biswas, Gill .... Successful experimental treatment of a highly antibiotic resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infection by bacteriophage therapy. "In 2016, while ser…
GMN 11194 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13391
2018 LELAMOUR, John (1350 – ); OLALLA, David Moreno
Lelamour herbal (MS Sloane 5, ff. 13r-57r): An annotated critical edition by David Moreno Olalla.
First critical edition of the sole extant copy of the Middle English herbal written in 1373 by John Lelamour, a Herefordian schoolmaster, who is otherwise unknown.
GMN 9604 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11791
2018 MACKINTOSH, Alan
The patent medicines industry in Georgian England: Constructing the market by the potency of print.
GMN 9792 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11980
2018 PIEWNGAM, Pipat; ZHENG, Yue; NGUYEN, Thuan H.; ET AL
Pathogen elimination by probiotic Bacillus via signaling interference.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Piewngam, Zheng, Nguygen....The authors discovered a mechanism by which probiotics help maintain a healthy microbiome. They showed that Bacillus subtilis can produce a …
GMN 11480 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13679
2018 PRANSKUNIENE, Zivile; DAULIUTE, Roberta; PRANSKUNAS, Andrus; BERNATONIENE, Jurga
Ethnopharmaceutical knowledge in Samogita region of Lithuania: where old traditions overlap with modern medicine.
Open source from link.springer.com at this link.
GMN 12565 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14804
2018 SANTESMASES, María Jesús
The circulation of penicillin in Spain: Health, wealth and authority.
GMN 12614 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14854
2018 GIBBS, Frederick W.
Poison, medicine, and disease in late medieval and early modern Europe.
"...Drawing from a wide range of medical and natural philosophical texts—with an emphasis on treatises that focused on poison, pharmacotherapeutics, plague, and the nature of disease—this study brings to light premode…
GMN 12681 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14926
2019 ELTORAI, Ibrahim M.
A spotlight on the history of ancient Egyptian medicine.
A general survey with chapters that focus on the ancient Egyptian understanding and treatments of cardiovascular disease, as well as a description of herbal medicines used by ancient Egypt medical practitioners and ph…
GMN 11056 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13252
2019 MULANGU, Sabue; DODD, Lori E.; DAVEY, Richard T. Jr.; ET AL
A randomized, controlled trial of Ebola virus disease therapeutics.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Mulangu, Dodd, Davey.... One synthetic drug (Remdesivir, an antiviral) and 3 biologicals were used in this trial. The 3 biologicals were: REGN-EB3, a triple monoclonal …
GMN 11374 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13573
2019 ZIMMERMANN, Michael B.; SIMMERMAN-KOGADEEVA, Maria; WEGMANN, Rebekka; ET AL
Mapping human microbiome drug metabolism by gut bacteria and their genes.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Zimmermann, Simmerman-Kogadeeva, Wegmann....The authors looked at 271 drugs and 68 different species from the main taxonomic microbiome groups. Of the 271 drugs, 176 un…
GMN 11482 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13681
2019 CRAWFORD, Matthew James; GABRIEL, Joseph M.
Drugs on the page: Pharmacopoeias and healing knowledge in the early modern Atlantic world.
GMN 11611 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13811
2019 JAUSSAUD, Philippe
Pharmaciens au Muséum: Chimistes et naturalistes.
"When it was created in 1626 le Jardin royal des plantes medicinales had three chairs: those of Demonstateur des plantes, Pharmacy, and Pharmaceutical Operations. Apothecaries at the Jardin challenged the Sorbonne by …
GMN 12464 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14697
2020 O'DOWD, Michael J.
The history of medications for women: Materia medica woman.
"...includes botanical, chemical, pharmacalogical, and therapeutic details where appropriate, as well as extensive quotations from both contemporary and old, rare books. The text is complemented with the history of ob…
GMN 13512 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15787
2020 BAUM, Alina; AJITHDOSS, Dharani K.; KYRATSOUS, Christos A.; ET AL
REGN-COV2 antibodies prevent and treat SARS-CoV-2 infection in rhesus macaques and hamsters.
The authors, working at Regeneron, showed that a cocktail of two potent neutralizing monoclonal antibodes reduced virus load in the airways and diminshed viral induced pathological sequelae when given both as a prophy…
GMN 13523 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15799
2021 WEINREICH, David. M.; SIVAPALASINGAM, Sumathi; NORTON, Thomas; ET AL
REGN-COV-2, a neutralizing antibody cocktail, in outpatients with Covid-19.
The authors showed that the Regeneron antibody cocktail has a low incidence of side effects and a profound and rapid effect on viral load, with most reduction occurring within 48 hours, even in patents with the highes…
GMN 13524 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15800
2021 OWEN, Dafydd R.; ALLERTON, Charlotte M. N.; ANDERSON, Annaliesa S.
An oral SARS-CoV-2 Mpro inhibitor clinical candidate for the treatment of COVID-19.
The authors showed how a coronavirus specific protease inhibitor designed in the lab, that could be administered by mouth to humans, achieved excellent plasma concentrations and antiviral potency. This drug, marketed …
GMN 14023 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16330
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