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
1920 LEWIN, Louis (1850 – 1929)
Die Gifte in der Weltgeschichte.
Lewin was a prolific writer, producing more than 200 books and papers. The above is perhaps his best work, and contains a history of poisonings from the most ancient times to the present century, enhanced by innumerab…
GMN 2116 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2625
1923 LEWIN, Louis (1850 – 1929)
Die Pfeilgifte, nach eigenen toxikologischen und ethnologischen Untersuchungen.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 2117 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2627
1947 MCINTYRE, Archibald Ross (1902 – )
Curare, its history, nature, and clinical use.
GMN 2090 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2571
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
1971 STEINSCHNEIDER, Moritz (1816 – 1907)
Die toxikologischen Schriften der Araber bis Ende des XII. Jahrhunderts: Ein bibliographischer Versuch, grossenteils aus handschriftlichen Quellen.
First published in Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin 52 (1871 and 57 (1873).
GMN 8348 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10524
1974 WHORTON, James C. (1942 – )
Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and public health in pre-DDT America.
GMN 12444 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14676
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
1991 KNOEFEL, Peter Klerner (1906 – 1999); COVI, Madeleine C.
A Hellenistic treatise on poisonous animals (the "Theriaca" of Nicander of Colophon): A contribution to the history of toxicology.
"... the authors review all the ancient treatises, ranged in chronological order, that cite Nicander at greater or lesser length, from Celsus up to Paul of Aegina - not less than thirteen authors. . . . Next follows a…
GMN 8343 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10519
1991 MATOSSIAN, Mary Kilbourne
Poisons of the past: Molds, epidemics, and history.
GMN 10036 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12225
1992 LA BERGE, Anne Elizabeth Fowler (1944 – )
Mission and method: The early-nineteenth-century French public health movement.
GMN 11134 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13330
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
2000 WALKER, J. Samuel (1946 – )
Permissible dose: A history of radiation protection in the twentieth century.
GMN 7784 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9956
2000 WARREN, Christian S.
Brush with death: A social history of lead poisoning.
GMN 8102 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10278
2004 TRACY, Sarah W. (1963 – )
Altering American Consciousness: The history of alcohol and drug use in the United States, 1800-2000.
GMN 8044 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10220
2004 GILMAN, Sander L. (1941 – ); XUN, Zhou
Smoke: A global history of smoking. Edited by Sander L. Gilman and Xun Zhou.
GMN 9634 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11821
2005 TRACY, Sarah W. (1963 – )
Alcoholism in America, from Reconstruction to Prohibition.
GMN 8045 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10221
2005 EMSLEY, John (1938 – )
The elements of murder: A history of poison.
GMN 9672 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11859
2007 BLANC, Paul David (1951 – )
How everyday products make people sick: Toxins at home and in the workplace.
An eloquent historical approach, written for a semi-popular audience, to everyday problems in occupational medicine and toxicology.
GMN 8985 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11164
2008 SWIDERSKI, Richard M.
Quicksilver: A history of the use, lore and effects of mercury.
GMN 9653 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11840
2010 SWIDERSKI, Richard M.
Poison eaters: Snakes, opium, arsenic, and the lethal show.
"This book is the first to explore the tradition of deliberate poison eating, its practitioners, and the substances that might nourish or kill them" (publisher).
GMN 9884 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12072
2012 BURNEY, Ian (1962 – )
Poison, detection and the Victorian imagination.
GMN 9778 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11966
2014 WEXLER, Philip
History of toxicology and environmental health. Toxicology in antiquity. 2 vols. Edited by Philip Wexler.
GMN 8296 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10472
2016 ARNOLD, David (1946 – )
Toxic histories: Poison and pollution in modern India.
GMN 13782 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16069
2018 GRELL, Ole Peter (1950 – ); CUNNINGHAM, Andrew; ARRIZABALAGA, Jon
It all depends on the dose: Poisons and medicines in European history. Edited by Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham, and Jon Arrizabalaga.
"This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same…
GMN 10705 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12898
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
