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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

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1471De proprietatibus rerum.
BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS (1203 – 1272)
c. 1496De proprietatibus rerum. English translation by John of Trevisa.
BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS (1203 – 1272) TREVISA, John (John of Trevisa) (1342 – 1402)
1525Here begynnyth a new mater, the whiche sheweth and treateth of ye vertues & proprytes of herbes, the whiche is called an Herball.
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1532De indiciis et praecognitionibus, opus apprime utile medicis. Eiusdem in anatomicen introductio luculenta et brevis.
EDWARDES, David (1502 – 1542)
1544The regiment of life, whereunto is added a treatise of the pestilence, with the boke of children.
PHAER, Thomas [PHAYER; PHAYR] (1510 – 1560) GOEUROT, Jean (1500 – 1551)
1547The breviary of helthe, for all manner of syckenesses and diseases the whiche may be in man, or woman doth folowe.
BOORDE, Andrew [BORDE] (1490 – 1549)
1562Bullein's bulwarke of defẽce againste all sicknes, sornes, and woundes that dooe daily assaulte mankinde, which bulwarke is kepte with Hillarius the Gardiner, Health the Phisician, with their chyrurgian to helpe the wounded soldiors. Gathered and practised frō the moste worthie learned, both old and newe: to the greate comforte of mankinde. Doen by Williyam Bulleyn, and ended this Marche, Anno Salutis 1562.
BULLEIN, William (1515 – 1576)
BULLEIN, William (1515 – 1576)
1566A detection and querimonie of the daily enormities and abuses committed in physick.
SECURIS, John (1530 – 1580)
1570De canibus Britannicis liber unus. De rariorum animalium et stirpium historia, liber unus. De libris propriis, liber unus.
CAIUS, John [Johannes Caius; born John Kays] (1510 – 1573)
1577A profitable treatise of the anatomie of mans body.
VICARY, Thomas (1490 – 1561)
VICARY, Thomas (1490 – 1561)
1603True bill of the vvhole number that hath died at London.
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1629Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. Or a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp: with a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes, & fruites, for meate or sause vsed with vs, and an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land together with the right orderinge planting & preseruing of them and their vses & vertues.
PARKINSON, John (1567 – 1650)
PARKINSON, John (1567 – 1650)
1640Theatrum botanicum: The theater of plants: Or, An herball of large extent: containing therein a more ample and exact history and declaration of the physicall herbs and plants ... distributed into sundry classes or tribes, for the more easie knowledge of the many herbes of one nature and property ... / collected by the many yeares travaile, industry and experience in this subject.
PARKINSON, John (1567 – 1650)
PARKINSON, John (1567 – 1650)
1652The English physitian: Or, an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation. Being a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health; or cure himself, being sick, for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England, as they being most fit for English bodies. Herein is also shewed, 1. The way of making plaisters, oyntments, oyls, pultisses, syrups, julips, or waters, of all sorts of physical herbs, that you may have them readie for your use at all times of the yeer. 2. What planet governeth every herb or tree (used in physick) that groweth in England. 3. The time of gathering all herbs, both vulgarly, and astrologically. 4. The way of drying and keeping the herbs all the yeer. 5. The way of keeping their juyces ready for use at all times. 6. The way of making and keeping all kind of useful compounds made of herbs. 7. The way of mixing medicines, according to cause and mixture of the disease, and part of the body afflicted.
CULPEPER, Nicholas (1616 – 1654)
CULPEPER, Nicholas (1616 – 1654)
1665London’s dreadful visitation, or, a collection of all the Bills of Mortality for the present year: beginning the 27th of December 1664, and ending the 19th of December following…By the Company of Parish Clerks of London.
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1670Catalogus plantarum Angliae, et insularum adjacentium: tum indigenas, tum in agris passim cultas complectens.
RAY, John (1628 – 1705)
RAY, John (1628 – 1705)
1672De aere, locis, et aquis terrae Angliae; deque morbis Anglorum vernaculis. Cum observationibus ratiocinatione & curandi method illustratis.
CLERMONT, Charles [CLAROMONTIUS]
1682Wounds of the brain proved curable, not only by the opinion and experience of many (the best) authors, but the remarkable history of a child four years old cured of two very large depressions, with the loss of a great part of the skull, a portion of the brain also issuing thorough a penetrating wound of the dura and pia mater…
YONGE, James (1646 – 1721)
1683The way to health, long life and happiness, or, a discourse of temperance and the particular nature of all things requisit for the life of man as all sorts of meats, drinks, air, exercise, &c. with special directions how to use each of them to be the best advantage of the body and mind. Shewing from the true ground of nature whence most diseases proceed, and how to prevent them. To which is added, a treatise of most sorts of English herbs ... the like never before published / communicated to the world for a general good, by Philotheos Physiologus.
TRYON, Thomas (1634 – 1703)
TRYON, Thomas (1634 – 1703)
c. 1695Order of the hospitalls: The order of the hospitalls of K. Henry the viiith and K. Edward the vith, viz; St. Batholomew's. Christ's. Bridewell. St. Thomas's
PEPYS, Samuel (1633 – 1703)
PEPYS, Samuel (1633 – 1703)
1717Syphilis: A practical dissertation on the venereal disease. In which, after a short account of its nature and original; the diagnostick and prognostick signs, with the best ways of curing the several degrees of that distemper, together with some historical observations relating to the same, are candidly and without reserve, communicated. In two parts.
TURNER, Daniel (1667 – 1742)
1722A journal of the plague year: Being observatrions or memorials, of the most remarkable occurrences, as well publick as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a citizen who continued all the while in London. Never made publick before.
DEFOE, Daniel (1660 – 1731)
DEFOE, Daniel (1660 – 1731)
1776Thoughts on general and partial inoculations: Containing a translation of two treatises written when the author was at Petersburg, and published there in the Russian language; also outlines of two plans: One, for the general inoculation of the poor in small towns and villages. The other, for the general inoculation of the poor in London and other large and populous places.
DIMSDALE, Thomas (1712 – 1800)
DIMSDALE, Thomas (1712 – 1800)
1777The state of the prisons in England and Wales.
HOWARD, John (1726 – 1790)
HOWARD, John (1726 – 1790)
1780Observations on fevers, especially those of the continued type, and on the scarlet fever attended with ulcerated sore-throat, as it appeared at Newcastle upon Tyne in the year 1778: Together with a comparative view of that epidemic with the scarlet fever as described by authors, and the angina maligna.
CLARK, John (1744 – 1805)
1783Observations on the weather and diseases of London. In his Works, 1, 145-240
FOTHERGILL, John (1712 – 1780)
FOTHERGILL, John (1712 – 1780)
1790Essays on fashionable diseases. The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms. The cloathing of invalids. Lady and gentlemen doctors. And on quacks and quackery. With the genuine patent prescriptions of Dr. James's fever power, Tickell's aetherial spirit, & Godbold's balsam, taken from the Rolls in Chancery, and under the seal of the proper officers; and also the ingredients and compostion of many of the most celebrated quack nostrums, as analized by several of the best chemists in Europe. By James M. Adair, Formerly M.D.... With a dedication to Philip Thicknesse ... To which is added a dramatic dialogue. Published for the benefit of the tin-miners in Cornwal
ADAIR, James Makittrick (1728 – 1802)
1790​–1814English botany; or, coloured figures of British plants, with their essential characters, synonyms, and places of growth. To which will be added, occasional remarks. 36 vols.
SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759 – 1828)
SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759 – 1828)
SOWERBY, James (1757 – 1822)
SOWERBY, James (1757 – 1822)
1792​–1813The natural history of British insects; explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &c. Together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope. The whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens. 16 vols.
DONOVAN, Edward (1768 – 1837)
1794Article on Indian rhinoplasty.
LONGMATE, Barak (1768 – 1836)
1794​–1819The natural history of British birds; or, a selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country: The descriptions from the Systema naturae of Linnaeus; with general observations, either original or collected from the latest and most esteemed English ornithologists; and embellished with figures, drawn, engraved, and coloured from the original specimens. 10 vols.
DONOVAN, Edward (1768 – 1837)
1800Account of flint weapons discovered at Hoxne in Suffolk.
FRERE, John (1740 – 1807)
FRERE, John (1740 – 1807)
1800​–1804The natural history of British shells, including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discovered in Great Britain, systematically arranged in the Linnean manner, with scientific and general observations on each. 5 vols.
DONOVAN, Edward (1768 – 1837)
1801​–1802Abstract of the answers and returns made pursuant to an act, passed in the forty-first year of His Majesty King George III. Intituled, “An act for taking an account of the population of Great Britain, and the increase or diminution thereof.” 2 vols. in 3.
RICKMAN, John (1771 – 1840)
RICKMAN, John (1771 – 1840)
1802​–1808The natural history of British fishes, including scientific and general descriptions of the most interesting species, and an extensive selection of accurately finished coloured plates. Taken entirely from original drawings, purposely made from the specimens in a recent state, and for the most part whilst living. 5 vols.
DONOVAN, Edward (1768 – 1837)
1813Description of The Retreat, an institution near York, for insane persons…
TUKE, Samuel (1784 – 1857)
TUKE, Samuel (1784 – 1857)
1819Reports on the diseases of London, and the state of the weather, from 1804-1816; including practical remarks on the causes and treatment of the former; and preceded by a historical view of the state of health and disease in the metropolis in past times.
BATEMAN, Thomas (1778 – 1821)
1823Reliquiae diluvianae; or, observations on the organic remains contained in caves, fissures, and diluvial gravel, and on other geological phenomena, attesting the action of an universal deluge.
BUCKLAND, William (1784 – 1856)
BUCKLAND, William (1784 – 1856)
1828Report from the select committee on anatomy. House of Commons, 22 July 1828.
GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT
1831Anatomy. Copy of a letter from the council of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, to Viscount Melbourne.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND
1832Anatomy. Proceedings at the National Political Union, respecting legislative interference in the study of anatomy, and the supply of bodies for anatomical research.
NATIONAL POLITICAL UNION
1833The manufacturing population of England, its moral, social, and physical conditions, and the changes which have arisen from the use of steam machinery; with an examination of infant labour.
GASKELL, Peter (1806 – 1841)
1842Report…from the Poor Law Commissioners on an inquiry into the sanitary conditions of the labouring population of Great Britain.
CHADWICK, Sir Edwin (1800 – 1890)
CHADWICK, Sir Edwin (1800 – 1890)
1843Diseases of the lungs from mechanical causes; and inquiries into the condition of the artisans exposed to the inhalation of dust.
HOLLAND, George Calvert (1801 – 11865)
HOLLAND, George Calvert (1801 – 11865)
1844​–1845First [Second] report of the commissioners for inquiring into the state of large towns and populous districts [Appendix- Part II].
CHADWICK, Sir Edwin (1800 – 1890)
CHADWICK, Sir Edwin (1800 – 1890)
1856​–1865Crania Britannica. Delineations and descriptions of the skulls of the aboriginal and early inhabitants of the British Islands: With notices of their other remains. 6 "Decades" in 2 vols.
DAVIS, Joseph Barnard (1801 – 1881)
DAVIS, Joseph Barnard (1801 – 1881) THURNHAM, John (1810 – 1873)
1860On the occurrence of flint-implements, associated with the remains of animals of extinct species in beds of a late geological period, in France at Amiens and Abbeville, and in England at Hoxne.
PRESTWICH, Joseph (1812 – 1896)
PRESTWICH, Joseph (1812 – 1896)
1861The eastern, or Turkish bath: Its history, revival in Britain, and application to the purposes of health.
WILSON, Sir William James Erasmus (1809 – 1884)
1862A treatise on the continued fevers of Great Britain.
MURCHISON, Charles (1830 – 1879)
MURCHISON, Charles (1830 – 1879)
1862Catalogue of the osteological portion of specimens contained in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Cambridge.
CLARK, William (1788 – 1869)
CLARK, John Willis (1833 – 1910)
CLARK, John Willis (1833 – 1910)