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 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 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 FISHER, Jill A.
Medical research for hire: The political economy of pharmaceutical clinical trials.
GMN 8645 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10822
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 UMEMURA, Maki
The Japanese pharmaceutical industry: Its evolution and current challenges.
GMN 11469 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13668
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 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 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 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
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 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 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 NEWSON, Linda A. (1946 – )
Making medicines in early colonial Lima, Peru: Apothecaries, science and society.
GMN 10539 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12732
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 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
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