1591 ALPINI, Prospero [ALPINUS] (1553 – 1617)
De medicina Aegyptiorum, libri quatuor.
The first significant work on the history of Egyptian medicine, and one of the first European studies of non-European medicine. Alpini became professor of botany at Padua after having spent three years in Egypt. Frenc…
GMN 6468 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7666
1647 AL-SUYŪTI, Abū al-Faḍl ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr ibn Muḥammad Jalāl al-Dīn al-Khuḍayrī (1445 – 1505); AL-HAQUILANI, Ibrahim (Abraham Ecchellensis) (1605 – 1664)
De proprietatibus ac virtutibus medicis animalium, plantarum, ac gemmarum tractatus triplex. Auctore Habdarrahmano Asiutensi Aegyptio. Nunc primum ex Arabico idiomate Latinate donatus ab Abraham Ecchellensi Maronita, Syracae, & Arabicae linguae Christianissimi Regis intreprete, & earundem in Academia Parisensi professore. Ex MS. Codice biblothecae eminentissimi Cardinal Mazarini.
First Latin translation of a three-part pharmaceutical treatise on the properties and effects of medicines derived from animals, plants, and minerals, attributed to the medieval Egyptian polymath Abd Al-Rahman Al-Suyu…
GMN 12808 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15054
1735 ALPINI, Prospero [ALPINUS] (1553 – 1617); VESLING, Johann (1598 – 1649)
Historiae Aegypti naturalis qua continentur rerum Aegyptiarum libri quatuor. Opus posthumum nunc primum ex auctoris autographo, diligentissime recognito, editum; atque ex eodem tabellis aeneis XXV illustratum et uberimmo indice auctem. (2 vols.) Vol. 2: Pars secunda, sive, de Plantis Aegypti liber auctus & emendatus. Accedunt tabella aenae LXXVII plantis summo artificio incisis; ut & dissertatio eiusdem de laserpitio, & lotoaegyptia. Cum observationibus & notis Joannis Veslingii, equitis, In Patavino Gymnasio Anatomiae & Pharmaciae professoris primarii. Accedunt Eiusdem Joannis Veslingii paraeneses ad rem herbariam & vindiciae opobalsami cum indicibus necessariis.
Posthumously published works of Alpini on the natural history and botany of Egypt, and Vesling on the botany of Egypt. The second volume, on botany by Alpini was edited by Johannes Vesling, with the addition of his ow…
GMN 9416 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11599
1798 –1801 DESGENETTES, René-Nicolas Dufriche (1762 – 1837)
Opuscules du C[itoy]en Desgenettes, Médecin en chef de l'Armée d'Orient.
A collection of nine separately printed pamphlets issued by Napoleon's press in Cairo during his Egyptian campaign. See J.-F. Hutin, "La littérature médicale de la campagne d'Égypte", Histoire des sciences medicales, …
GMN 10577 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12770
1800 ABDALLATIF AL-BAGHDADI (عبداللطيف البغدادي), [Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi] (1162 – 1231); WHITE, Joseph (1745 – 1814); POCOCKE, Edward (1648 – 1727)
Historiae Aegypti compendium, Arabice et Latine. Partim ipse vertit, partim a Pocockio versum edendum curavit, notisque illustravit J. White.
Arabic-Latin bilingual text, edited by White, incorporating a translation begun by Edward Pococke the Younger (1648-1727). Abd al-Latif gave a good description of the fauna and flora of Egypt, its inhabitants and some…
GMN 1768 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3306
1800 –1801 LARREY, Dominique Jean (1766 – 1842)
Mémoire sur l’ophtalmie régnante en Egypte.
The great military surgeon Larrey served during the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt, where he was the first to observe the contagiousness of trachoma shortly after the successful invasion in 1798. The disease spread to E…
GMN 5837 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7120
1801 ASSALINI, Paolo (1759 – 1846)
Observations sur la maladies appelée peste, le flux dissentérique, l'ophtalmie d'Égypte, et les moyens de s'en préserver. Avec des notions sur la fièvre jaune de Cadix, et les projet et plan d'un hôpital, pour le traitement maladies épidémiques et contagieuses.
At the time of publication Assalini, a military surgeon with Napoleon, characterized himself on the title page as "Docteur en Médecine et Chirugien de 1re classe de la Garde des Consuls..." Digital facsimile from well…
GMN 12053 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14261
1802 DESGENETTES, René-Nicolas Dufriche (1762 – 1837)
Histoire médicale de l'Armée d'Orient.
Napoleon appointed Desgenettes physician-in-chief for his expedition into Egypt. Desgenette's Histoire contained 19 separate chapters written by expedition personel. Digital facsimile of the 1802 from the Internet Arc…
GMN 8188 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10364
1802 FRANK, Louis (1761 – 1825)
Mémoire sur le commerce des nègres au Kaire et sur les maladies auxquelles ils sont sujets en y arrivant.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link. Also published in Mémoires sur l'Egypte: ... Publiés dans les années VII, VIII et IX, Volume 4, (An X) pp. 125-156.
GMN 8204 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10380
1803 LARREY, Dominique Jean (1766 – 1842)
Rélation historique et chirurgicale de I’expedition de l'Armée d’Orient, en Egypte et en Syrie.
Larrey's history of his experiences with Napoleon and Napoleon's armies during the Egypt campaign. Includes a reprint of Larrey's treatise on trachoma, which was first published at Napoleon's press in Cairo. Digital f…
GMN 12942 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15189
1803 BALME, Claude (1766 – 1850)
Observations et réflexions sur le scorbut, d'après celui qui a régné parmi les troupes françaises formant la garnison d'Alexandrie (en Egypte), pendant le Blocus et le Siége de cette ville, en l'an IX (1801), par les Armées combinées des Turcs et des Anglais.
The author was a military surgeon on Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link. (32pp.)
GMN 13611 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15891
1812 FRANK, Louis (1761 – 1825)
Collection d'opuscules de médecine pratique, avec un mémoire sur le commerce des nègres au Kaire.
Frank was with Napoleon in Egypt; this volume contains numerous reports on aspects of medicine during that campaign. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12196 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14406
1833 CLOT, Antoine Barthélemy (Clot-Bey) (1793 – 1868)
Compte rendu des travaux de l'École de Médecine d'Abou-Zabel (Égypte), et de l'examen général des élèves pour les 1re, 2e, 3e, 4e, et 5e années da sa fondation 1242-1243 (1827-1828)....Suivi de l'exposé de la conduite et des travaux de l'auteur lui-même en Égypte, depuis 1240 à 1248 (Hégyre) 1825 à 1832, et de diverses pièces relatives à son voyage en France.
"During the French occupation of Egypt, Napoleon designated Kasr al-Aini a hospital for his troops in 1799, and then afterwards proposed the opening of a school to teach local Egyptian students the medicine required t…
GMN 13664 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15946
1840 CLOT, Antoine Barthélemy (Clot-Bey) (1793 – 1868)
De la peste observée en Égypte. Recherches et considérations sur cette maladie.
Includes two hand-colored lithographs depicting costumes of "plague doctors" -- one from the Middle Ages in Marseille, the other from Marseille in 1819; the similarities are striking! Digital facsimile from wellcomeco…
GMN 13663 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15945
1844 MORTON, Samuel George (1799 – 1851)
Crania Aegyptiaca: or, observations on Egyptian ethnography, derived from anatomy, history and the monuments. From the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. IX.
Morton argued that blacks and whites had been racially distinct since the Egyptian First Dynasty and drew the following conclusions, long since debunked: "Conclusions. "1. The valley of the Nile, both in Egypt and in …
GMN 8832 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11010
1849 CLOT, Antoine Barthélemy (Clot-Bey) (1793 – 1868)
Compte-rendu de l'état del'enseignement médical et du service de santé civil et militaire de l'Égypte au commencement de mars 1849.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13666 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15948
1852 BILHARZ, Theodor Maximilian (1825 – 1862)
Ein Beitrag zur Helminthographia humana aus brieflichen Mittheilungen des Dr. Bilharz in Cairo, nebst Bemerkungen von C. T. v. Siebold.
Discovery, in 1851, of Schistosoma haematobium, the parasite of bilharziasis. Bilharz was Professor of Zoology at Cairo. English translation in Rev. infect. Dis., 1984, 4, 727-32, and in Kean (No. 2268.1).
GMN 5339 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8612
1854 GRIESINGER, Wilhelm (1817 – 1868)
Klinische und anatomische Beobachtungen über die Krankheiten von Aegypten.
Griesinger connected the worm of ankylostomiasis with Egyptian chlorosis, a condition in which the worm had previously been noted without its being considered the causal agent (pp. 555-61). Apparently Bilharz in 1853 …
GMN 5355 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6943
1858 CLOT, Antoine Barthélemy (Clot-Bey) (1793 – 1868)
Compte rendu de l'examen des élèves de l'École de Médecine et de l'École d'Accouchement du Caire, pour la première année de sa réorganisation ... 6 avril 1858.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13665 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15947
1876 SCHWIMMER, Ernst (1837 – 1898)
Die ersten Anfänge der Heilkunde und die Medizin im alten Aegypten. Eine kulturgeschichteliche Skizze.
Sammlung gemeinverständlicher wissenscbaftlicher Vorträge, No. 255.
GMN 6469 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7670
1883 KOCH, Robert Heinrich Hermann (1843 – 1910)
Bericht über die Thätigkeit der deutschen Cholerakommission in Aegypten und Ostindien.
Koch–Weeks bacillus, Hemophilus conjunctivitidis, or Hemophilus aegyptius. Koch discovered the bacilli of two varieties of Egyptian conjunctivitis. See also No. 5930.
GMN 5923 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6839
1886 KARTULIS, Stephanos (1852 – 1920)
Zur Aetiologie der Dysenterie in Aegypten.
Kartulis discovered amoebae in liver abscess. It was principally through the work of Kartulis that amoebae came to be considered the cause of dysentery in man.
GMN 5186 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6327
1896 LOOSS, Arthur (1861 – 1923)
Notizen zur Helminthologie Aegyptens. Die Lebensgeschichte des Anchylostomum duodenale (Dub.).
Looss elucidated the life cycle and mode of transmission of the hookworm. See also No. 5365. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).
GMN 5361 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6968
1901 GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE, Étienne (1772 – 1844); HAMY, Ernest Théodore Jules (1842 – 1908)
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Lettres écrites d'Égypte à Cuvier, Jussieu, Lacépède, Monge, Desgenettes, Redouté le Jeune, Norry, etc., aux professeurs du muséum et à sa famille. Receuillies et publiées avec un préface et des notes par le Dr. E.-T. Hamy.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 12210 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14420
1905 –1911 LOOSS, Arthur (1861 – 1923)
The anatomy and life history of Agchylostoma duodenale Dub. A. monograph. 2 pts.
Vols. 3 and 4 of Records of the School of Medicine, Cairo. In 1898 Looss discovered that hookworm larvae can penetrate the skin. His monograph epitomized all knowledge of the condition to 1911.
GMN 5365 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6987
1906 GOTSCHLICH, Felix (1874 – 1914)
Über Cholera- und choleraähnliche Vibrionen unter den aus Mekka zurückkehrenden Pilgern.
Isolation of El Tor vibrio, a particular strain of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Gotschlich first identified this strain in 1905 at a quarantine camp on the Sinai Peninsula in El Tor, Egypt . The vibrios were found i…
GMN 5111.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6061
1906 GEORGIADÈS, Nicolas (1875 – )
La pharmacie en Egypte.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 13137 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15395
1915 –1916 LEIPER, Robert Thomson (1881 – 1969)
Reports of the results of the bilharzia mission in Egypt, 1915.
Leiper identified the snail responsible for the transmission of Schistosoma mansoni and S. haematobium.
GMN 5350.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6861
1918 BARRETT, James William Sir (1862 – 1945); DEANE, Percival Edgar (Percy) (1890 – 1946)
The Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt. An illustrated and detailed account of the early organisation and work of the Australian medical units in Egypt in 1914-1915.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10998 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13194
1930 DAWSON, Warren Royal (1888 – 1968)
The beginnings. Egypt and Assyria.
Clio Medica series.
GMN 6471 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7923
1934 SALAH, M.
Sternal puncture; preliminary note.
Needle for sternal puncture.
GMN 3094 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3779
1935 GARDINER, Sir Alan Henderson (1879 – 1963)
Hieratic papyri in the British Museum: Third series: Chester Beatty gift. Edited by Alan H. Gardiner. 2 vols.
Reproduces, with transcription, the Chester Beatty medical papyrus. See No. 5.
GMN 8318 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10494
1951 TILL, Walter Curt Franz Theodor Alois Karl (1896 – 1963)
Der Arzneikunde der Kopten.
GMN 7164 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9331
1952 LEAKE, Chauncey Depew (1896 – 1978)
The old Egyptian medical papyri.
A guide to the chief medical papyri, with particular attention to therapeutics.
GMN 6471.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7925
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
1977 DARBY, William Jefferson (1913 – 2001); GHALIOUNGUI, Paul (Ghalioungi) (1908 – 1987); GRIVETTI, Louis Evan (1938 – )
Food: The gift of Osiris. 2 vols.
Extensively illustrated history of nutrition in ancient Egypt.
GMN 1092.54 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/909
1984 IBN RIDWAN AL-MISRI, Abu'l Hassan Ali (988 – 1061); DOLS, Michael Walters (1942 – )
Medieval Islamic Medicine: Ibn Ridwan's Treatise "On the Prevention of Bodily Ills in Egypt". Translated and introduced by Michael W. Dols, with Arabic text by Adil S. Gamal.
GMN 8460 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10637
1987 GHALIOUNGUI, Paul (Ghalioungi) (1908 – 1987)
The Ebers papyrus: A new English translation, commentaries and glossary by Paul Ghalioungui.
GMN 8315 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10491
1993 MEULENAERE, Philippe de
Bibliographie raisonnée des témoignages oculaires imprimes de l'Expédition d'Égypte (1798-1801).
A bibliography of publications, including those on medical subjects, issued from the Imprimerie national in Cairo established by Napoleon during the campaign, and also publications issued from Paris documenting inform…
GMN 10578 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12771
1999 WESTENDORF, Wolfhart (1924 – )
Handbuch der altägyptischen Medizin. 2 vols.
GMN 7083 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9250
2011 HUTIN, Jean-François
La Campagne d’Egypte: Une affaire de santé.
GMN 12056 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14264
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 HUTIN, Jean-François
La littérature médicale de la compagne d'Égypte.
Digital facsimile from biusante.parisdescartes.fr at this link.
GMN 12054 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14262
