1931 GRIEVE, Sophia Emma Magdalene [Maud Grieve] (1858 – 1941)

A modern herbal. The medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and economic properties, cultivation and folk-lore of herbs, grasses, fungi, shrubs & trees with their modern scientific uses. With an introduction by the editor, Mrs. C. F. Leyel. 2 vols.

Online version at Botanical.com at this link.

GMN 7062 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9229

1932 –1937 MEYERHOF, Max (1874 – 1945); AL-GHAFIQI, Muhammad ibn Aslam ( – 1165); BAR HEBRAEUS, Gregory (1226 – 1286)

The abridged version of "The book of simple drugs" of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghāfiqī by Gregorius abu l-Faraj (Bar Hebraeus). Edited from the only two known manuscripts with an English translation, commentary and indices by M. Meyerhof and G. P. Sobhy Bey. 2 pts.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 7163 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9330

1933 SMITH, Huron Herbert (1883 – 1933)

Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians.

Digital facsimile from swsbm.com at this link.

GMN 9348 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11530

1933 MARTÍNEZ MARTÍNEZ, Maximino (1888 – 1964)

Las plantas medicinales de México.

Contains information on 833 species.

GMN 12802 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15048

1934 RENAUD, Henri-Paul-Joseph (1881 – 1945); COLIN, Georges Séraphin (1893 – 1977)

Tuhfat al-ahbāb: Glossaire de la matière médicale Marocaine.

GMN 8533 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10710

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

1938 ARBER, Agnes Robertson (1879 – 1960)

Herbals: their origin and evolution. A chapter in the history of botany, 1470-1670. 2nd edition.

Includes an invaluable bibliography. Reprinted, with new introduction and additional references, 1987.

GMN 2059 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2316

1939 PLATEARIUS, Matthaeus (1130 – 1180); WÖLFEL, Hans

Das Arzneidrogenbuch Circa Instans in einer Fassung des XIII. Jahrhunderts aus der Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen. Text und Kommentar als Beitrag zur Pflanzen- und Drogenkunde des Mittelalters by Hans Wölfel.

GMN 8449 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10626

1940 CRUZ, Martin De La; EMMART, Emily Walcott (1898 – ); BADIANO, Juan (1484 – 1552)

The Badianus manuscript. (Codex Barberini, Latin, 241) Vatican Library. An Aztec herbal of 1552. Edited and translated by Emily W. Emmart.

The earliest complete Mexican medical text and the only medical text known to be the work of native Aztecs. Written by an Aztec physician named by the Spanish Martin de la Cruz, and translated into Latin by another na…

GMN 1811.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2009

1941 WYMAN, Leland Clifton (1897 – 1988); HARRIS, Stuart K.

Navajo Indian medical ethnobotany. University of New Mexico Bulletin, Anthropological Series, Vol. 3, No. 5.

Digital facsimile from herbaltherapeutics.net at this link.

GMN 9281 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11463

1945 THORNDIKE, Lynn (1882 – 1965); RUFINUS (1250 – )

The herbal of Rufinus. Edited from the unique manuscript by Lynn Thorndike, assisted by Francis S. Benjamin, Jr.

First printed edition of an herbal written circa 1287 by Rufinus, a medieval monk / physician unknown before this edition. Rufinus was titular abbot in absentia of the monastery of Tyre, and plenipotentiary to the arc…

GMN 12618 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14858

1945 ROÍG Y MESA, Juan Tomás (1877 – 1971)

Plantas medicinale aromaticas o venenosas de Cuba. 2 vols.

GMN 13061 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15313

1947 SCHULLIAN, Dorothy May (1906 – 1989); POL, Nicolaus (1467 – 1532); FISCH, Max Harold (1900 – 1995)

Nicolaus Pol Doctor 1494 by Max H. Fisch. With a critical text of his guaiac tract, edited with a translation by Dorothy M. Schullian.

The 1494 in the title comes from the year in which Pol became a physician, and his habit of writing his name and that date in his books. The volume includes a study of books from Nicolaus Pol's library in Cleveland an…

GMN 6940 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9105

1947 CURTIN, Leonora Scott Muse (1879 – 1972); MOORE, Michael Roland Shaw (1941 – 2009)

Healing herbs of the upper Rio Grande.

Revised and edited by Michael Moore as Healing herbs of the upper Rio Grande: Traditional medicine of the Southwest (Sante Fe: Western Edge Press, 1997).

GMN 9343 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11525

1953 –1959 LAGUNA DE SEGOVIA, Andrés [LACUNA] (1499 – 1559); DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); DUBLER, César E. (1915 – 1966)

La "Materia médica" de Dioscórides: Transmisión medieval y renacentista by César E. Dubler. Vol. I: La transmisión medieval y renacentista y la supervivencia en la medicina popular moderna de la "Materia médica" de Dioscórides, estudiada particularmente en España y África del Norte. Vol. 2: La versión árabe de la 'Materia Médica' de Dioscórides (texto, variantes e indices): estudio de la transcripción de los nombres griegos al árabe y comparación de las versiones griega, árabe y castellana. Vol. 3: La "Materia médica" de Dioscórides traducida y comentada por D. Andrés de Laguna (Texto crítico). Vol. 4: D. Andrés de Laguna y su época. Vol. 5: Glosario médico castellano del siglo XVI. Prólogo de Gregorio Marañón. Vol. 6: Indices generales y léxico especial de Andrés de Laguna.

GMN 9245 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11427

1957 TRAIN, Percy; ARCHER, William Andrew (1894 – 1973); HEINRICHS, James R.

Medicinal uses of plants by Indian tribes of Nevada. Contributions toward a flora of Nevada. No. 45. Revised edition, with summary of pharmacological research by W. Andrew Archer, Nov. 26, 1957.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. (First published in 1941.)

GMN 9272 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11454

1958 –1961 FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960); QUINBY, Jane (1901 – 1965); STEVENSON, Allan Henry (1903 – 1970); HUNT, Rachel McMasters Miller (1884 – 1963)

Catalogue of botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Hunt. 2 vols. in 3.

Ostensibly the catalogue of Rachel McMasters Hunt's private collection, which she donated to the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University, this is much more than a finely printed, luxur…

GMN 8744 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10922

1958 NISSEN, Claus (1901 – 1975)

Herbals of five centuries. A contribution to medical history and bibliography.

GMN 9740 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11927

1966 HEILMANN, Karl Eugen

Kräuterbücher in Bild und Geschichte.

GMN 2068.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2407

1967 HAMARNEH, Sami Khalaf (1925 – 2010)

Index of Arabic manuscripts on medicine and pharmacy at the National Library of Cairo.

GMN 8490 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10667

1969 KROCHMAL, Arnold (1919 – ); WALTERS, Russell S.; DOUGHTY, Richard M.

A guide to medicinal plants of Appalachia. (U.S.D.A. Forest Service Research Paper NE-138).;

Digital facsimile from www.fs.fed.us at this link.

GMN 8415 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10592

1972 MEAD, George R.

The ethnobotany of the California Indians: A compendium of the plants, their users, and their uses.

Revised, expanded, and updated edition, La Grande, OR: E-Cat Worlds, 2014.

GMN 9918 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12106

1973 AL-BĪRUNĪ, Abū Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad (973 – 1048); SAID, Hakim Mohammed (1920 – 1998)

Al-Biruni's book on pharmacy and materia medica (Kitāb al-saydan fī al-tibb). Edited and translated by Hakim Mohammed Said. 2 vols.

GMN 8524 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10701

1975 AMERICAN HERBAL PHARMACOLOGY DELEGATION

Herbal pharmacology in the People's Republic of China: A trip report of the American Herbal Pharmacology Delegation. Submitted to the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China.

Digital facsimile from swsbm.com at this link.

GMN 9345 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11527

1976 NICOLAUS SALERNITANUS, (Nicolaus Praepostius) (1120 – ); GOLTZ, Dietlinde

Mittelalterliche Pharmazie und Medizin. Dargestellt an Geschichte und Inhalt des ANTIDOTARIUM NICOLAI

GMN 8962 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11141

1979 RAPHAEL, Sandra; BLUNT, Wilfrid Jasper Walter (1901 – 1987)

The illustrated herbal.

GMN 7464 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9636

1979 VOIGTS, Linda Ehrsam

Anglo-Saxon plant remedies and the Anglo-Saxons.

GMN 8559 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10736

1979 ERICHSEN-BROWN, Charlotte

Uses of plants for the past 500 years.

Reissued as Medicinal and other uses of North American plants: A historical survey with special reference to the Eastern Indian tribes (1989).

GMN 8595 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10772

1980 HARJULA, R

Mirau and his practice: A study of the ethnomedicinal repertoire of a Tanzanian herbalist.

GMN 8503 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10680

1981 MORTON, Julia Francis McHugh (1912 – 1996)

Atlas of medicinal plants of Middle America: Bahamas to Yucatan.

GMN 8841 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11019

1981 DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); MAZAL, Otto (1932 – 2008)

Pflanzen, Wurzeln, Säfte, Samen. Antike Heilkunst in Miniaturen des Wiener Dioskurides.

GMN 12177 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14387

1982 –1986 BÜCHI, Jakob

Die Entwicklung der Rezept- und Arzneibuchliteratur. Vol. 1: Altertum und Mittelalter. 1982. Vol. 2: Die Autoren, ihre Werke und die Fortschritte im 16. Jahrhundert. 1984 Vol. 3: Die Arzneibücher und schweizerischen Pharmakopöen vom 17.-20. Jahrhundert. 1986.

GMN 11940 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14145

1983 DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); SADEK, Mahmoud M.

The Arabic materia medica of Dioscorides.

GMN 9244 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11426

1989 STOLL, Ulrich; KEIL, Gundolf (1932 – )

Das Lorscher Arzneibuch. Band 1: Faksimile der Handschrift Msc. Med. 1 der Staatsbibliothek Bamberg. Band 2: Übersetzung [...] von Ulrich Stoll und Gundolf Keil unter Mitwirkung von Albert Ohlmeyer. 2 vols.

The Lorschner Arzneibuch (Codex Bambergensis medicinalis 1; Lorsch Leechbook), a Carolingian codex from the time of Charlemagne, was written in Latin around 800 in Lorsch Abbey. It is the oldest surviving book of mona…

GMN 8446 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10623

1989 MANNICHE, Lisa

An ancient Egyptian herbal.

GMN 8471 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10648

1989 CRELLIN, John K.; PHILPOTT, Jane

Herbal medicine past and present. Vol. 1: Trying to give ease: Tommie Bass and the story of herbal medicine. Vol. 2: A reference guide to medicinal plants: Herbal medicine past and present.

GMN 8863 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11041

1989 ESTRELLA AGUIRRE, Eduardo (1941 – 1996); TAFALLA NAVASCUÉS, Juan José (1755 – 1811)

Flora Huayaquilensis sive descriptiones et icones plantarum Huayaquilensium secundum systema linneanum digestae, auctore Johanne Tafalla. Tomus 1: Introductio historica et adnotationes ab Eduardo Estrella confectae et descriptiones. Tomus II: Icones.

Juan José Tafalla Navascués, a Spanish pharmacist, explored botany in Peru, Chile and Ecuador from 1780 to 1788 as part of the Expedición Botánica al Virreinato del Perú under the direction of Hipólito Ruiz López y Jo…

GMN 9050 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11229

1989 MOORE, Michael Roland Shaw (1941 – 2009)

Medicinal plants of the desert and canyon West.

GMN 9342 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11524

1990 HUNT, Anthony "Tony" B. (1944 – )

Popular medicine in thirteenth-century England: Introduction and texts.

GMN 8877 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11055

1992 STOLL, Ulrich

Das ‚Lorscher Arzneibuch‘. Ein medizinisches Kompendium des 8. Jahrhunderts (Codex Bambergensis medicinalis 1). Text, Übersetzung und Fachglossar. (Philosophische Dissertation Würzburg 1989) (Sudhoffs Archiv, Beiheft 28).

Digital facsimile of the original manuscript with the transcription and translation by Ulrich Stoll from Staatsbibliothek Bamberg at this link.

GMN 8447 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10624

1992 JOHNSTON, Stanley H. Jr. (1932 – 2013)

The Cleveland herbal, botanical, and horticultural collections: A descriptive bibliography of pre-1830 works from the libraries of the Holden Arboretum, the Cleveland Medical Library Association, and the Garden Center of Cleveland.

GMN 9568 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11754

1992 RIDDLE, John M. (1937 – )

Quid pro quo: Studies in the history of drugs.

"All too often ancient herbal and other remedies have been dismissed as ’simply’ folklore, of no relevance to medical science. John Riddle’s approach, however, has been to explore the history of drugs with the hypothe…

GMN 11942 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14147

1992 –1993 DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); TOUWAIDE, Alain (1953 – )

Farmacopea araba medievale. Codice Ayasofia 3703. Edited by Alain Touwaide. 4 vols.

Iconographic reconstruction and original size facsimile in color of 127 sheets, including 97 preserved in Istanbul and 30 sheets dispersed in different institutional collections in Europe and the U.S., of this illumin…

GMN 11943 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14148

1993 DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); DIETRICH, Albert (1912 – 2015); IBN JULJUL AL-ANDALUSĪ, (Sulaymān ibn Ḥasan, Abū Dāwūd) (943 – 994)

Die Erganzung Ibn Gulgul's zur Materia Medica des Dioskurides: Arabischer Text nebst kommentierter deutscher Ubersetzung herausgegeben von Albert Dietrich.

GMN 12522 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14757

1994 GOODMAN, Jordan

Tobacco in history: The cultures of dependence.

GMN 9684 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11871

1995 WHISTLER, Wayne Arthur (1944 – 2020)

Samoan herbal medicine. O Lā'au ma Vai Fofō o Samoa.

GMN 12549 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14786

1997 HERRICK, James W.

Iroquois medical botany.

"The first book to provide a guide to understanding the use of herbal medicines in traditional Iroquois culture. The world view of the Iroquois League or Confederacy - the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and…

GMN 8544 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10721

1997 HILDEGARD OF BINGEN, (Hildegard von Bingen; Hildegardis Bingensis) (1098 – 1179); MÜLLER, Irmgard

Die pflanzlichen Heilmittel bei Hildegard von Bingen: Heilwissen aus der Klostermedizin.

GMN 9060 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11239

1997 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); DEBRU, Armelle

Galen on pharmacology: Philosophy, history and medicine. Proceedings of the Vth International Galen Colloquium, Lille, 16-18 March 1995. Edited by Armelle Debru.

GMN 9609 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11796

1998 MOERMAN, Daniel Ellis (1941 – )

Native American ethnobotany.

Considered the definitive book on the subject documenting over 4,000 plants and roughly 44,000 uses, including medicinal usage.

GMN 7869 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10041