1795 GOOD, John Mason (1764 – 1827)
The history of medicine, so far as it relates to the profession of the apothecary, ... the origin of druggists, their gradual encroachments on compound pharmacy, and the evils to which the public are from thence exposed.
The first history of pharmacy in Britain. Good’s History was commissioned by the General Pharmaceutical Association, formed in 1794, of which the author was a prominent member. It was intended to protect the trade of …
GMN 10016 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12205
1820 GUIBOURT, Nicholas Jean Baptiste Gaston (1790 – 1867)
Histoire abrégée des drogues simples. 2 vols.
GMN 2030 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2135
1846 HOEVEN, Cornelis Pruys van der (1792 – 1871)
De historia medicamentorum.
GMN 2031 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2153
1896 HOLMES, Edward Morrell (1843 – 1930)
Catalogue of the medicinal plants in the Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10382 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12574
1898 DRAGENDORFF, Georg Johann Noel (1836 – 1898)
Die Heilpflanzen der verschiedenen Volker und Zeiten.
GMN 2039 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2202
1901 MORTIMER, William Golden (1854 – 1933)
Peru: The history of coca, “the divine plant of the Incas”.
The most comprehensive work on the coca plant and the history of its use by the Incas and their descendants. Reprinted, San Francisco, And/Or Press, 1974.
GMN 2040.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2212
1902 BERENDES, Julius (1837 – 1914)
Des Pedanios Dioskurides aus Anazarbos Arzneimittellehre in fünf Büchern. Übersetzt und mit Erklärungen Versehen.
Analysis of Dioscordes from the pharmacological standpoint, including determination of his units of measurements, critical in dosage. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 8569 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10746
1906 YOUNG, James (1811 – 1883); FERGUSON, John (1837 – 1916)
Bibliotheca chemica: A catalogue of the alchemical, chemical and pharmaceutical books in the collection of the late James Young of Kelly and Durris....by John Ferguson. 2 vols.
One of the great landmarks of descriptive scientific bibliography. With bibliographical details of each work, biographical notices of each writer, and exhaustive lists of references in chronological order, its scope a…
GMN 8473 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10650
1906 GEORGIADÈS, Nicolas (1875 – )
La pharmacie en Egypte.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 13137 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15395
1910 FONAHN, Adolf Mauritz (1873 – 1940)
Zur Quellenkunde der persischen Medizin.
Comprehensive analysis, with thorough bibliographical citations, of classic writings and scholarship in this field, to 1910. Besides medicine and pathology, Includes pharmacy, veterinary medicine, and "medical works i…
GMN 6511 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8078
1913 HÜBOTTER, Franz (1881 – 1967)
Beiträge zur kenntnis der chinesischen sowie der tibetisch-mongolischen pharmakologie.
Contributions to the history of pharmacology in China, Tibet and Mongolia. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 12743 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14989
1917 –1927 TSCHIRCH, Alexander (1856 – 1939)
Handbuch der Pharmakognosie. 3 vols, and Register.
Includes detailed accounts of the history of each drug.
GMN 1906 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2658
1918 SCHMIEDEBERG, Johann Ernst Oswald (1838 – 1921)
Ueber die Pharmaka in der Ilias und Odyssee.
Medicines and poisons in the Iliad and Odyssey.
GMN 9986 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12175
1921 LLOYD, John Uri (1849 – 1936)
Origin and history of all the pharmacopeial vegetable drugs, chemicals and preparations with bibliography... Prepared under the auspices of and published by the American Drug Manufacturers' Association, Washington, D.C. Vol. 1 Vegetable drugs
Lloyd comprehensively collected and studied the historical literature, citing it throughout the text and in the numerous bibliographies of specific drugs in this work. The book includes a bibliography of historical so…
GMN 12446 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14678
1924 –1925 BENEDICENTI, Alberico (1866 – 1961)
Malati medici e farmacisti: Storia dei rimedi traverso i secoli e delle teorie che ne spiegano l’azione sull’organismo. 2 vols.
Second edition, 1947-51.
GMN 2049 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2260
1927 OLIVIER, Eugène (1881 – 1864); VIALET, Gonzague (1872 – 1939)
Essai de repertoire des ex-libris et fers de reliure des medecins et des pharmaciens français. Préface de ... Laignel-Lavastine.
GMN 9622 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11809
1928 MACHT, David Israel (1882 – 1961)
The holy incense: A botanical, pharmacological, psychological and archaeological appreciation of the Bible.
GMN 9943 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12131
1933 PIA, Pascal (1903 – 1979)
Bouquet poëtique des médecins, chirurgiens, dentistes et apothicaires.
GMN 6621 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7678
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 FERCHL, Fritz (1892 – 1953)
Chemisch-Pharmazeutisches Bio-und Bibliographikon. Herausgegeben von der Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Pharmazie durch Fritz Ferchl. 2 vols.
GMN 7016 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9182
1941 HAGGIS, Alec William (1889 – 1946)
Fundamental errors in the early history of cinchona.
GMN 2060 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2326
1945 TAYLOR, Norman (1883 – 1967)
Cinchona in Java: The story of quinine.
GMN 2061 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2330
1949 JARAMILLO-ARANGO, Jaime (1897 – 1962)
A critical review of the basic facts in the history of cinchona.
GMN 2065 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2349
1951 URDANG, George (1882 – 1960)
The development of pharmacopoeias.
Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 2067 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2354
1955 –1970 GRMEK, Mirko Dražen (1924 – 2000)
Bibliographia medica Croatica. Hrvatska medicinska bibliografija. 2 vols.
Croatian medical, pharmaceutical and veterinary bibliography; Dio 1, Sr. I, 1470-1875; Sr. II, 1875-1918.
GMN 6581.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8489
1955 DAEMS, Willem Frans (1911 – 1994); VANDEWIELE, Leo J.
Noord- en Zuidnederlandse Stedelijke Pharmacopeeën.
GMN 9593 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11780
1959 LINK, Karl Paul Gerhard (1901 – 1978)
The discovery of Dicumarol and its sequels.
An historical account of the discovery of the anticoagulant Warfarin by the primary investigator. The first use for this substance was rat poison. Digital facsimile from ahajournals.org at this link.
GMN 11405 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13604
1961 COWEN, David L. (1909 – 2006)
America's pre-pharmacopeial literature.
GMN 11420 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13619
1961 YOUNG, James Harvey (1915 – 2006)
The toadstool millionaires.
Chronicles the rise of the patent medicine trade from its beginnings in colonial America until passage of the first federal food and drug law. Digital text available from quackwatch.org at this link.
GMN 12413 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14643
1962 SMITH, George Winston
Medicines for the Union Army: the United States Army Laboratories during the Civil War.
GMN 7417 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9589
1963 BÖTTCHER, Helmuth Maximillian (1895 – 1979)
Miracle drugs: A history of antibiotics.
First published in German, 1959.
GMN 2068.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2373
1963 HOLMSTEDT, Bo (1919 – 2002); LILJESTRAND, Göran (1886 – 1868)
Readings in pharmacology, selected and edited by B. Holmsted and G. Lijestrand.
An anthology of outstanding achievement in the growth of pharmacology.
GMN 2068.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2384
1963 WALL, Cecil (1869 – 1947); UNDERWOOD, Edgar Ashworth (1899 – 1980); CAMERON, Hector Charles (1878 – 1958)
A history of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London. Abstracted and arranged from the MS notes of Cecil Wall by H. Charles Cameron, revised annotated and edited by E. Ashworth Underwood. Vol.1: 1617-1815.
GMN 6550 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8634
1963 ABULCASIS (ABU AL-QASIM KHALAF IBN AL-ABBAS AL-ZAHRAWI; أبو القاسم خلف بن العباس الزهراوي), [Albucasis] (936 – 1013); HAMARNEH, Sami Khalaf (1925 – 2010); SONNEDECKER, Glenn A.
A pharmaceutical view of Abulcasis al-Zahrawi in moorish Spain.
GMN 7413 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9585
1964 THOMAS, Kenneth Bryn (1916 – 1978)
Curare, its history and usage.
GMN 2068.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2396
1965 VELLARD, Jehan Albert (1901 – 1996)
Histoire du curare. Les poisons de chasse en Amérique du Sud.
GMN 2068.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2403
1967 LEVEY, Martin (1913 – 1970); AL-KHALEDY, Noury; AL-SAMARQANDĪ, Najīb al-Dīn Abū Hāmid Muhammad b. Alī b. 'Umar ( – 1222)
The medical formulary of Al-Samarqandi and the relation of early Arabic simples to those found in the indigenous medicine of the Near East and India.
GMN 7414 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9586
1968 –1975 SCHNEIDER, Wolfgang (1912 – 2007)
Lexikon zur Arzneimittelgeschichte. Sachwörterbuch zur Geschichte der pharmazeutische Botanik, Chemie, Mineralogie, Pharmakologie, Zoologie. Band 1: Tierische Drogen, Band 2: Pharmakologische Arzneimittelgruppen, Band 3: Pharmazeutische Chemikalien und Mineralien, Band 4: Geheimmittel und Spezialitäten, Band 5: Pflanzliche Drogen, Band 6: Ergänzungen zu Band 3, Band 7: Register. (7 vols. in 9)
GMN 12442 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14674
1970 BOVÉ, Frank James (1917 – )
The story of ergot.
Exhaustive and well-documented, but no index.
GMN 2068.12 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2432
1970 HARE, Ronald (1899 – 1986)
The birth of penicillin.
“Disposes of many myths deeply embedded in the literature” (Macfarlane, see No. 1934).
GMN 2068.15 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2452
1971 SEZGIN, Fuat (1924 – )
Geschichte des arabischen Schriftums. Band 3. Medizin-Pharmazie, Zoologie-Tierheilkunde bis ca. 430 H.
GMN 6510.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8073
1971 ISSEKUTZ, Béla (1886 – 1979)
Die Geschichte der Arzneimittelforschung.
GMN 7142 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9309
1972 SCHNEIDER, Wolfgang (1912 – 2007)
Geschichte der Pharmazeutischen Chemie.
GMN 12443 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14675
1972 HAMARNEH, Sami Khalaf (1925 – 2010)
Temples of the muses and a history of pharmacy museums.
Prepared for the opening in June 1971 of the Naito Museum of Pharmaceutical Science and Industry in Japan, and emphasizing that museum and museums in the Middle East.
GMN 13714 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15998
1973 LEVEY, Martin (1913 – 1970)
Early Arabic pharmacology. An introduction based on ancient and medieval sources.
GMN 7095 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9262
1974 NIELSEN, Harald
Ancient ophthalmological agents: A pharmaco-historical study of the collyria and seals used during Roman antiquity, as well as of the most frequent components of the collyria.
GMN 8280 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10456
1974 COWEN, David L. (1909 – 2006); HICKEL, Erika (1934 – )
The spread and influence of British pharmacopeial and related literature. An historical and bibliographic study by David L. Cowen. Mit einer Einführung Britische Pharmakopöe-Literatur des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts von Erika Hickel.
GMN 11424 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13623
1974 KRANTZ, John Christian Jr. (1899 – 1983)
Historical medical classics involving new drugs. Foreward by Charles H. Best.
GMN 13825 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16114
1975 LEAKE, Chauncey Depew (1896 – 1978)
An historical account of pharmacology to the 20th century.
GMN 2068.14 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2449
1975 HENREY, Blanche Elizabeth Edith (1906 – 1983)
British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800. 3 vols.
A comprehensive history and bibliography of the subject, including a revised history of the English herbal literature, and accounts of other books of medical and pharmaceutical interest.
GMN 2068.18 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2466