1979 STAGE, Sarah
Female complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the business of women's medicine.
"The original 1875 recipe called for unicorn root, life root, blach cohosh, pleurisy root, and fenugreek seed, but alcohol (18-20 percent) gave it a longer shelf life, and shrewd advertising assured its staying power.…
GMN 9158 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11337
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 BURNBY, Juanita "Nita" Gordon Lloyd (1923 – 2010)
A study of the English apothecary from 1660 to 1760, with special reference to the provinces.
Medical History Supplement No. 3. Digital facsimile from discovery.ucl.ac.uk at this link.
GMN 9997 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12186
1984 MANN, Ronald David (1928 – 2013)
Modern drug use: An enquiry on historical principles.
GMN 7008 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9174
1985 GOODMAN, Louis Sanford (1906 – 2000); GILMAN, Alfred Zack (1908 – 1984)
The pharmacological basis of therapeutics. 7th ed.
Includes useful historical information.
GMN 1931.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2764
1985 TABERNER, Peter V.
Aphrodisiacs: The science and the myth.
GMN 8203 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10379
1985 RIDDLE, John M. (1937 – )
Dioscorides on pharmacy and medicine.
GMN 8567 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10744
1985 WITHERING, William (1741 – 1799); ARONSON, Jeffrey Kenneth (1947 – )
An account of the foxglove and its medical uses 1785-1985.
This work consists of a reproduction of Withering's classic text published in 1785, extensively annotated by Aronson, followed by Aronson's history of "the use of the digitalis glycosides and related compounds over th…
GMN 9233 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11415
1985 WITHERING, William (1741 – 1799); MANN, Ronald David (1928 – 2013)
William Withering and the Foxglove: A bicentennial selection of letters from the Osler bequest to the Royal Society of Medicine, together with a transcription of 'An Account of the Foxglove' and an introductory essay. Edited by Ronald D. Mann.
Details William Osler's acquisition of the letters and his donation of them to the Royal Society of Medicine.
GMN 11509 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13708
1986 UNSCHULD, Paul Ulrich (1943 – )
Medicine in China: A history of pharmaceutics.
GMN 9419 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11602
1986 FELLMANN, Irene
Das Aqrābādīn al-Qalānisī. Quellenkritische und begriffsanalytische Untersuchungen zur Arabisch-Pharmazeutischen Literatur.
GMN 13359 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15630
1989 ESCOHOTADO, Antonio (1941 – )
Historia general de las drogas.
The following works were issued separately and added as appendices to later editions: El libro de los venenos (1990), Para una fenomenología de las drogas (1992) and Aprendiendo de las drogas (1995). English translati…
GMN 10757 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12953
1989 YOUNG, James Harvey (1915 – 2006)
Pure food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906.
GMN 12414 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14644
1990 ESTES, J. Worth (1934 – 2000)
Dictionary of protopharmacology: Therapeutic practices, 1700-850.
GMN 9802 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11990
1990 ESTES, J. Worth (1934 – 2000)
Dictionary of protopharmacology: Therapeutic practices, 1700-1850.
GMN 12453 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14685
1991 VERBURGT, J. W.
Four Dutch pharmacists in Japan 1869-1885.
GMN 7514 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9686
1992 PARASCANDOLA, John (1941 – )
The development of American pharmacology. John J. Abel and the shaping of a discipline.
GMN 7017 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9183
1992 RIDDLE, John M. (1937 – )
Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance.
Riddle argued that the ancient world possessed effective and safe contraceptives and abortifacients; however this knowledge about fertility control, widely held in the ancient world, was gradually lost over the course…
GMN 7043 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9210
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
1993 DAEMS, Willem Frans (1911 – 1994)
Nomina simplicium medicinarum ex synonymariis Medii Aevi collecta (Semantische Untersuchungen zum Fachwortschatz hoch- und spätmittelalterlicher Drogenkunde). Studies in ancient medicine 6.
GMN 8526 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10703
1993 GHOZLAND, Freddy; DABERNAT, H.
Pub & pilules: Histoires et communication du médicament.
GMN 10313 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12505
1995 SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001); REIS, Siri Sylvia Patricia von (1931 – ); ET AL
Ethnobotany: Evolution of a discipline. Edited by Richard Schultes and Siri Sylvia von Reis.
GMN 7018 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9185
1995 ANDERSON, Lee; HIGBY, Gregory J.
The spirit of voluntarism: A legacy of commitment and contribution: The United States pharmacopeia 1820-1995.
GMN 9767 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11955
1995 IBN AL-WAFID, Ali Ibn al-Husain (Abenguefit) (997 – 1074); AGUIRRE DE CÁRCER, Luisa Fernanda
Libro de los medicamentos simples. [Kitab al-adwiya al-mufrada]. Edición, traducción, notas y glosarios de Luisa Fernanda Aguirre de Cárcer. 2 vols.
GMN 13457 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15731
1996 HOLLAND, Bart K.
Prospecting for drugs in ancient and medieval European texts. A scientific approach, edited by Bart K. Holland.
GMN 6983 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9149
1997 NICANDER OF COLOPHON (ΝΊΚΑΝΔΡΟΣ Ὁ ΚΟΛΟΦΏΝΙΟΣ; NIKANDER) (-125 – ); TOUWAIDE, Alain (1953 – ); FÖRSTEL, Christian; ASLANOFF, Grégoire
Theriaka y Alexipharmaka de Nicandro.
Essays by Alain Touwaide, Jean Pierre Angremy, Christian Förstel and Grégoire Aslanoff concerning the 10th century Byzantine illuminated manuscript designated as "BnF Supplement grec 247." This spectacularly illustrat…
GMN 7102 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9269
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 –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 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 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
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 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 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
2002 MUSTO, David Franklin (1936 – 2010)
Drugs in America: A historical reader. [Compiled by] David F. Musto.
GMN 8903 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11081
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 TOUWAIDE, Alain (1953 – ); ALIOTTA, Giovanni; PIOMELLI, Daniele; POLLIO, Antonino
Le piante medicinali dal Corpus Hippocraticum.
GMN 9601 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11788
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
2005 SNEADER, Walter
Drug discovery: A history.
GMN 9768 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11956
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
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
