1473 AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037); GERARD OF CREMONA, (Gerardus Cremonensis) (1114 – 1187)
Canon medicinae [Latin] (Lib I-V) (Tr: Gerardus Cremonensis) (5 vols.)
Avicenna is said to have written more than 100 books, most of which have perished. He wrote on the etiology of epilepsy and described diabetes, noticing the sweetish taste of the urine. His Canon is one of the most fa…
GMN 43 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8764
1527 AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037); ALPAGO, Andrea [Andreas Alpagus Bellunensis] (1450 – 1521)
Avicenne liber canonis medicinae. Cum castigationibus Andree Bellunensis.
Revised and improved text of the Canon and other works of Avicenna by Andrea Alpago of Belluno, who had acquired a deep understanding of both the language and the subject during his thirty years of service as physicia…
GMN 7202 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9369
1593 AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037); RAIMONDI, Giovanni Battista (Giovan) (1536 – 1614)
Kitāb al-Qānūn fial-ţibb. [Libri V Canonis medicinae.]
Title transliterated. Text and title page (except imprint) are in Arabic. This is the first printing of the text in Arabic of Book V of al-Qānūn. See also S. M. Afnan, Avicenna, his life and works. London, 1958.
GMN 44 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8765
1721 GAUDEREAU, Martin (1663 – 1743)
Relation des différentes espèces de peste qui reconnaissent les orientaux, des précautions & des remèdes qu'ils prennent pour empêcher la communication & le progrès; et ce que nous devons faire à leur exemple pour nous en préserver, & nous en guérir.
Gaudereau worked as a missionary in Turkey, Armenia, Persia, and India, facing plague outbreaks several times. In Turkey he almost succumbed to the plague, himself, but was cured using local remedies. These remedies a…
GMN 10651 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12844
1854 MIRZA MOHAMMAD-VALI HAKIMBASHI
[In Persian script] Cheragh haa rewshenaaa der asewl pezeshekea [Illumination of the fundamentals of medicine].
Issued in 1271 A. H. (1854 CE), this entirely lithographed book introduced Western anatomical illustration to Persian culture. As part of an effort to modernize medical education in Persia, medical textbooks such as M…
GMN 6833 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8997
1854 POLAK, Jakob Eduard (1818 – 1891)
Kitab fi tashrih beden al-insan [in Persian; English translation: Anatomy of the human body]. Lithographed text.
The first original Persian-language anatomy textbook based on western medical science, printed in a very small number of copies for the use of Polak’s Persian students. Polak, an Austrian physician, was responsible fo…
GMN 14061 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16371
1856 POLAK, Jakob Eduard (1818 – 1891)
Kitab-i jarrahi wa yak risalah dar kahhali [in Persian; English translation: Book on surgery with a treatise on ophthalmology]. Lithographed text.
The first Persian-language surgery and ophthalmology textbook based on Western medical science. Polak based his textbook on Joseph Maximilien Chelius’s Handbuch der Chirurgie (1830) and Handbuch der Augenheilkunde (18…
GMN 14062 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16372
1865 POLAK, Jakob Eduard (1818 – 1891)
Persien. Das Land und seine Bewohner. Ethnographische Schilderungen. 2 vols.
In this wide-ranging ethnographic study Polak provided the most authoritative account of his introduction of western medicine into Iran as well as the state of medicine in Iran generally. "Polak (1865, II, pp. 192-348…
GMN 14037 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16345
1868 WÜSTENFELD, Heinrich Ferdinand (1808 – 1899); AL-QAZWINI, Abu Yahya Zakariya ibn Muhammad (Zakarya Qazini) (1203 – 1283); ETHÉ, Carl Hermann (1844 – 1917)
Zakarīyā b. Muḥammad al-Qazwīnī's Kosmographie. Nach der Wüstenfeldschen Textausgabe, mit Benutzung und Beifügung der reichhaltigen Anmerkungen und Verbesserungen des Herrn Prof. Dr. Fleischer in Leipzig, aus dem Arabischen zum ersten Male vollständig übersetzt von Dr. Hermann Ethé. Die Wunder der Schöpfung. 1. Halbband
Digital facsimile from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.
GMN 10180 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12369
1884 MURRAY, James A.
The vertebrate zoology of Sind. A systematic account, with descriptions of all the known species of mammals, birds, and reptiles inhabiting the province; observations on their habits, &c; tables of their geographical distribution in Persia, Belochistan, and Afghanistan; Punjab, North-west provinces, and the peninsula of India generally, with woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations.
GMN 13051 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15302
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 –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
1910 FONAHN, Adolf Mauritz (1873 – 1940)
Zur Quellenkunde der persischen Medizin.
Comprehensive analysis, with thorough bibliographical citations, of classic writings and scholarship in this field, to 1910. Besides medicine and pathology, Includes pharmacy, veterinary medicine, and "medical works i…
GMN 6511 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8078
1924 FICHTNER, Horst (1893 – )
Die Medizin im Avesta.
The Avesta (Persian: اوستا) is the primary collection of religious texts of Zoroastrianism, composed in the otherwise unrecorded Avestan language.
GMN 6512 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8079
1930 AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037); GRÜNER, Oskar Cameron (1877 – 1972)
A treatise on the Canon of Medicine incorporating a translation of the First Book
This translation of Book I of the Canon accompanied by a large number of valuable notes and comments on the text, which bring out the close connection between Arabic and Chinese medicine, and the influence which Avice…
GMN 45 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8766
1933 NAFICY, Abbas (1905 – )
La médecine en Perse des origines à nos jours. Ses fondements theoriques d’après l’Encyclopédie médicale de Gorgani.
GMN 6513 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8080
1934 ELGOOD, Cyril Lloyd (1892 – 1970)
Medicine in Persia.
GMN 6514 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8082
1937 HOOPER, David (1858 – 1947); FIELD, Henry (1902 – 1986)
Useful plants and drugs of Iran and Iraq. By David Hooper with notes by Henry Field.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 9242 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11424
1951 ELGOOD, Cyril Lloyd (1892 – 1970)
A medical history of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate from the earliest times until the year A.D. 1932.
A continous history of the art and practice of medicine in Persia and bordering countries from the earliest times. Reprinted, with additions and corrections from the author’s copy: edited by G. van Heusden. Amsterdam,…
GMN 6515 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8083
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
1965 AL-AKHAWYNI BOKHARI, Abu Bakr Rabee Ibn Ahmad (910 – 983); MATINI, Jalal (1928 – )
Hedayat al-Motaallemin fi Tebb. Edited by Jalal Matini.
First printed edition of the earliest medical work written in the Persian language. Matini based his edition on the 11th century codex Bodleian Library Ms. 37, checking that against the other two known copies of the t…
GMN 12569 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14808
1970 ELGOOD, Cyril Lloyd (1892 – 1970)
Safavid medical practice; or, the practice of medicine, surgery and gynaecology in Persia between 1500 A. D. and 1750 A. D.
GMN 7161 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9328
1986 KESHAVARZ, Fatemeh (1952 – )
A descriptive and analytical catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
GMN 6786.30 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8405
2004 EBRAHIMNEJAD, Hormoz
Medicine, public health and the Qājār state. Patterns of medical modernization in nineteenth-century Iran.
GMN 7042 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9209
2004 ENCYCLOPAEDIA IRANICA
The history of medicine in Iran. Entries extracted from the Encyclopaedia Iranica Vols. I-XII.
GMN 13536 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15813
2004 FLOOR, Willem Marius (1942 – )
Public health in Qajar Iran.
"Until Now, there have been no books and only a few articles available in English that deal with the actual practice of medicine in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Iran. Willem Floor’s Public Health in Qajar Ir…
GMN 14033 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16340
2007 SEZGIN, Fuat (1924 – ); EHRIG-EGGERT, Carl; NEUBAUER, Eckhard
Avicenna Latinus: The reception and assimilation of Ibn Sīnā in the West: texts and studies.
GMN 7391 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9563
2007 KAHL, Oliver; IBN AL-TILMĪDH, Amīn al-Dawla Abu'l-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣaʿīd (هبة الله بن صاعد ابن التلميذ) (1074 – 1165)
The dispensatory of Ibn at-Tilmīd: Arabic text, English translation, study and glossaries by Oliver Kahl.
Critical Arabic edition, annotated English translation, introductory study, and two-way glossaries of the dispensatory composed around the middle of the 12th century CE by the Nestorian physician Ibn at-Tilmīḏ. The di…
GMN 8278 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10454
2009 IBN SAHL, Sābūr (شاپور بن سهل گندیشاپوری) ( – 869); KAHL, Oliver
Sābūr ibn Sahl's dispensatory in the recension of the 'Adudī hospital.
Arabic edition and English translation of Sābūr ibn Sahl's famous dispensatory as preserved in a recension made by the physicians of the ʿAḍudī hospital in Baghdad around the middle of the 11th century CE.
GMN 8277 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10453
2012 SPEZIALE, Fabrizio
Hospitals in Iran and India, 1500-1950s. Edited by Fabrizio Speziale.
GMN 8292 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10468
2014 EBRAHIMNEJAD, Hormoz
Medicine in Iran: Profession, practice, and politics, 1800-1925.
GMN 10911 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13107
2018 FLOOR, Willem Marius (1942 – )
Studies in the history of medicine in Iran.
GMN 14032 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16339
2020 FLOOR, Willem Marius (1942 – )
The beginnings of modern medicine in Iran.
GMN 14031 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16338
2021 FLOOR, Willem Marius (1942 – )
History of hospitals in Iran, 550-1950.
GMN 14030 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16337
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