1874 FLÜCKIGER, Friedrich August (1828 – 1894); HANBURY, Daniel (1825 – 1875)
Pharmacographia. A history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin met with in Great Britain and British India.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 2032 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2157
1874 CARTER, Henry Vandyke (1831 – 1897)
On mycetoma, or the fungus disease of India.
See No. 4047.
GMN 4066 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5459
1875 BALFOUR, Edward Green (1813 – 1889)
Medical hints to the people of India. Eminent medical men of Asia, Africa, Europe and America, who had advanced medical science; Compiled for the use of students and for the Vydians and Hakims of India.
A compilation of biographical sketches of selected figures in medical history written by Balfour as Surgeon-General, Madras Medical Department, "for the hindu Vydian, for the muhammadan Hakim, and for the students of …
GMN 11758 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13958
1877 CUNNINGHAM, David Douglas (1843 – 1914); LEWIS, Timothy Richards (1841 – 1886)
Leprosy in India. A report.
The first quantitative study of leprosy in India. Leprosy first appeared in India at least 2,000 years ago and continued to exist throughout the subcontinent over the succeeding centuries. Upon the establishment of th…
GMN 10722 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12916
1877 LEWIS, Timothy Richards (1841 – 1886)
Filiaria sanguinis hominis - mature form.
Lewis made the critical connection/association of the worm, Filaria sanguinis,(Wuchereria bancrofti ) to Elephantiasis. This brief account appears to be a third person account summarizing Lewis's work written by an ed…
GMN 10787 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12983
1877 DUTT, Uday Chand (1834 – 1884)
Materia medica of the Hindus compiled from Sanskrit medical works. With a glossary of Indian plants.
GMN 13781 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16068
1878 LEWIS, Timothy Richards (1841 – 1886)
The microscopic organisms found in the blood of man and animals, and their relation to disease.
First description of a trypanosome (T. lewisi) in a mammal. Seoarate edition in book form with the same title: Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1879.
GMN 5270.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8574
1878 EWART, Joseph (1831 – 1906)
The poisonous snakes of India: For the use of the officials and others residing in the Indian Empire.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 9497 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11682
1881 EVANS, Griffith (1835 – 1935)
On a horse disease in India known as “surra”, probably due to a haematozoon.
While serving in India as a veterinary surgeon, Evans discovered parasites in the blood of horses suffering from surra; this was the first pathogenic trypanosome to be described.
GMN 5271 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8576
1881 MCCONNELL, James Frederick Parry (1848 – 1896)
Catalogue of the Pathological Museum, Medical College, Calcutta.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10374 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12566
1882 MACLEOD, Kenneth (1840 – 1922)
Precis of operations performed in the wards of the first surgeon, Medical College Hospital, during the year 1881.
MacLeod was first to draw attention to granuloma inguinale.
GMN 5204.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7795
1883 MANSON, Sir Patrick (1844 – 1922)
The Filaria sanguinis hominis and certain new form of parasitic disease in India, China and warm countries.
A collection of several papers written by Manson.
GMN 2455 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2980
1885 CUNNINGHAM, David Douglas (1843 – 1914)
On the presence of peculiar parasitic organisms in the tissue of a specimen of Delhi boil.
Cunningham saw and described bodies in Delhi boil; these were almost certainly Leishman–Donovan bodies.
GMN 5293 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6419
1886 MURRAY, James A.
The reptiles of Sind: A systematic account, with descriptions of all the species inhabiting the province, and a table of their geographical distribution in Persia, Bloochistan, Afghanistan, Punjab, Northwest Provinces, and the Peninsula of India generally, with woodcuts, lithographs, and colored illustrations.
A re-issue with additions to date, of "Reptilian fauna" in the author's Vertebrate zoology of Sind. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 13052 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15303
1887 BALFOUR, Edward Green (1813 – 1889)
The agricultural pests of India, and of eastern and southern Asia, vegetable and animal, injurious to man and his products.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11756 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13956
1887 –1890 MURRAY, James A.
The avifauna of British India and its dependencies. A systematic account, with descriptions of all the known species of birds inhabiting British India, observations on their habits, nidification, &c., tables of their geographical distribution in Persia, Beloochistan, Afghanistan, Sind, Punjab, N.W. Provinces, and the peninsula of India generally, with woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 13053 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15304
1888 CARTER, Henry Vandyke (1831 – 1897)
Note on the occurrence of a minute blood-spirillum in an Indian rat.
Demonstration of Spirillum minus, later shown to be a cause of rat-bite fever. (See also No. 5327).
GMN 5323 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6621
1896 BHAGVAT SINH JEE, Maharajah of Gondal (Bhagavat Simhaji; Bhagvatsingh Sahib) (1865 – 1944)
A short history of Aryan medical science.
From the Wikipedia: "Bhagvatsingh Sahib GCSI GCIE was the ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Gondal from 1869 till his death in 1944, in whose reign the state was raised to 11-gun salute state.[1] He was the onl…
GMN 6486 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7979
1896 HANKIN, Ernest Hanbury (1865 – 1939)
L'action bactericide des eaux de la Jumna et du Gange sur le vibrion du cholera.
Hankin described the antibacterial activity of a then-unknown source in the Ganges and Jumna Rivers in India. He noted that "It is seen that the unboiled water of the Ganges kills the cholera germ in less than 3 hours…
GMN 11380 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13579
1898 KOCH, Robert Heinrich Hermann (1843 – 1910)
Reise-Bericht über Rinderpest, Bubonenpest in Indien und Afrika, Tsetse-oder Surrakrankheit, Texasfieber, tropische Malaria, Schwarzwasserfieber.
GMN 2457 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2986
1898 –1900 GHON, Anton (1866 – 1936); ALBRECHT, Heinrich; MÜLLER, Hermann Franz (1866 – 1898)
Über die Beulenpest in Bombay im Jahre 1897. Gesamtbericht von der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien zur Studium der Beulenpest nach Indien entsendeten Commission. 2 vols. in 3.
Müller died at the age of 32 as a result of exposure to this plague.
GMN 11394 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13593
1901 JOLLY, Julius (1849 – 1932)
Medicin. Grundriss der Indo-Arischen Philologie und Altertumskunde.(Encyclopedia of Indo-Aryan Research). III. Band, 10. Heft.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6486.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7981
1902 BENTLEY, Charles Albert (1873 – 1949)
On the causal relationship between “ground itch”, or “pani-ghao”, and the presence of the larvae of the Ankylostoma duodenale in the soil.
While a medical officer in the tea plantations in Assam, India, Bentley demonstrated the mode of entry of Ankylostoma into the body.
GMN 5362.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6980
1902 –1909 RAY, Prafulla Chandra (1861 – 1944)
A history of Hindu chemistry from the earliest times to the middle of the sixteenth century, A.D. With Sanskrit texts, variants, translation and illustrations. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile of the 1903 revised 2nd ed. plus the 1st ed. of vol. 2 from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10875 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13071
1903 WRIGHT, James Homer (1871 – 1928)
Protozoa in a case of tropical ulcer (Delhi sore).
Wright found Leishmania tropica in Delhi sore. He was unaware of Borovskii’s paper (No. 5294).
GMN 5297 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8607
1903 DONOVAN, Charles (1863 – 1951)
On the possibility of the occurrence of typanosomiasis in India.
Leishimania donovani, independently discovered by two British medical officers William Boog Leishman in Netley, England, and Donovan in Madras, India, in 1903. However, the correct taxonomy was provided by Ronald Ross…
GMN 5296 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8972
1904 ROST, Ernest Reinhold (1872 – )
The cultivation of the Bacillus leprae.
Rost cultivated the leprosy bacillus, and he prepared leprolin, formerly used in treating leprosy.
GMN 2438 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2909
1906 MARIADASSOU, Paramananda
Moeurs médicales de l'Inde et leurs rapports avec la médecine européenne.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 13502 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15777
1907 HOERNLÉ, Augustus Friedrich Rudolf (1841 – 1918)
Studies in the medicine of ancient India. Part 1. Osteology or the bones of the human body.
All published.
GMN 6487 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7983
1909 JAMES, Sydney Price (1870 – 1946)
Smallpox and vaccination in British India.
Includes the history of the introduction of vaccination in India from 1799 onward. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 13795 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16082
1913 PATTON, Walter Scott (1876 – 1960); CRAGG, Francis William (1882 – 1924)
A textbook of medical entomology.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 349 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/265
1913 –1914 MUKHOPADHYAYA, Girindranath (1872 – 1935)
The surgical instruments of the Hindus, with a comparative study of the surgical instruments of the Greek, Roman, Arab and the modern Eouropean [sic] surgeons. 2 vols.
Vol. 2 consists of plates.
GMN 6488 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7985
1914 TURKHUD, Dnyaneshwar Atmaran (1863 – 1926)
Report of the Bombay Bacteriological laboratory for the year 1913.
Experimental demonstration, on pp. 14-16, of the complete life cycle of Dracunculus medinensis, the parasite causing Dracunculiasis, popularly known as Guinea-worm disease.
GMN 5350.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8614
1914 CRAWFORD, Dirom Grey (1857 – 1942)
A history of the Indian Medical Service 1600-1913. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8241 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10417
1923 –1929 MUKHOPADHYAYA, Girindranath (1872 – 1935)
History of Indian medicine. Containing notices, biographical, of the Ayurvedic physicians and their works on medicine, from the earliest ages to the present time. 3 vols.
Reprinted New Delhi, 1974.
GMN 6488.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7987
1923 SEN, Rajendra Kumar
A treatise on influenza, with special reference to the pandemic of 1918.
Sen, company doctor on the Hurmutty Tea Estate in Assam, estimated that the pandemic killed about 15,000,000 people in India.
GMN 12109 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14318
1928 SINTON, Brigadier John Alexander (1884 – 1956); BIRD, William
Studies in malaria, with special references to treatment. Part IX. Plasmoquine in the treatment of malaria.
Clinical trials of pamaquin.
GMN 5256.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7918
1929 BALFOUR, Margaret Ida (1866 – 1945); YOUNG, Ruth (1884 – 1993)
The work of medical women in India.
GMN 8812 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10990
1930 CRAWFORD, Dirom Grey (1857 – 1942)
Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930.
Appendix and Errata, 1933. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 6729 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7848
1930 MEYER, Johann Jakob (1870 – 1939)
Sexual life in ancient India: A study in the comparative history of Indian Culture.
Extensively revised by the author, with additional notes by the translator (unidentified), from Das Weib im altindischen Epos. Ein Beitrag zur indischen und zur vergleichenden Kulturgeschichte. Von Johann Jacob Meyer.…
GMN 8322 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10498
1931 SEN, Ganneth; BOSE, Katrick Chandra
Rauwolfia serpentina, a new Indian drug for insanity and high blood pressure.
Introduction of reserpine in the treatment of psychoses.
GMN 4959 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6306
1933 CHOPRA, Ram Nath (1882 – 1973); ET AL
The pharmacological action of an alkaloid obtained from Rauwolfia serpentina Benth. A preliminary note.
R. N. Chopra, J. C. Gupta, and B. Mukherjee demonstrated the sedative and hypotensive effect of an alkaloid isolated from Rauwolfia serpentina (reserpine).
GMN 1923 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2706
1934 –1935 MARIADASSOU, Paramananda; BOURRET, Georges M.
Médecine traditionelle de l’Inde. Conférences faites à l’École de Médecine de Pondichéry … 3 vols.
GMN 6490 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8158
1936 SHORTT, Henry Edward (1887 – 1987); ET AL
Cultivation of the viruses of sandfly fever and dengue fever on the chorioallantoic membrane of the chick-embryo.
Cultivation of the virus of phlebotomus fever. With R. S. Rao and C. S. Swaminath.
GMN 5480 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6369
1937 MARIADASSOU, Paramananda
Médecine traditionnelle de l'Inde: La magie noire.
GMN 13501 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15776
1948 EDELSTEIN, Ludwig (1902 – 1965); ZIMMER, Heinrich Robert (1890 – 1943)
Hindu medicine.
GMN 6491 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8162
1951 –1961 SIGERIST, Henry Ernest (1891 – 1957)
A history of medicine. Vol. l - 2
1. Primitive and archaic medicine. 2. Early Greek, Hindu and Persian medicine.
GMN 6448 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8443
1962 KUTUMBIAH, P
Ancient Indian Medicine.
Revised edition, Bombay, 1969.
GMN 6491.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7991
1962 RAMACHANDRA RAO, Saligrama Krishna (1925 – 2006)
Development of psychological thought in India.
GMN 11836 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14040
1965 SANYAL, Promode Kumar (1913 – 1994)
A story of medicine and pharmacy in India. Pharmacy 2000 years ago and after.
A short history of the four systems of medicine practiced in India.
GMN 6491.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7993
