1509 PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius [Pliny the Elder] (23 – 79); PSEUDO-PLINY ( – 350)
Medicinae Pliniae libri quinque finiunt foeliciter.
The Medicina Plinii was an anonymous compilation of remedies dating to the early 4th century CE ."The excerptor, saying that he speaks from experience, offers the work as a compact resource for travelers in dealing wi…
GMN 8445 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10622
1511 MARBODIUS OF RENNES, [Marbodus, Marbode] (1035 – 1123)
Libellus de lapidibus preciosis nuper editus.
The earliest medieval lapidary, and also the one which was quoted most widely. By the fourteenth century it was translated into French, Provençal, Italian, Irish, and Danish, and it was the first of Marbodius's works …
GMN 9183 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11362
1536 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); MARCELLUS EMPIRICUS, (Marcellus Burdigalensis) (375 – 425); CORNARIUS, Janus (1500 – 1558)
De medicamentis empiricis physicis ac rationalibus liber.... Edited by Janus Cornarius. Item Claudii Galeni libri novem nunc primum Latini facti.... Jani Cornarii.
The Gallo-Roman physician Marcellus was born in Bordeaux. He may have served as magister officiorum under Theodosius I, or may have been royal physician. Sarton (Introduction to the history of science I, 391) consider…
GMN 10961 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13157
1673 WIRDIG, Sebastian (1613 – 1687)
Nova medicina spirituum: Curiosa scientia & doctrina, unanimiter hucusque neglecta, & à nemine meritò exculta, medicis tamen & physicis utilissima. In quâ Primo Spirituum naturalis constitutio, vita, sanitas temperamenta, ingenia, calidum innatum, phantasiae vires, ideae, astrorum influentiae, μετεμψύχωσις, rerum magnetissimi, sympatiae & antipatiae, qualitates hactenus occultae, aliaq; caeteroquin abstrusa & paradoxa; Dehinc spirituum praeternaturalis seu morbosa Dispositio, causae, curationes per naturam, per diaetam, per arcana majora, palingenesiam, magnetissimum seu sympatheismum, transplantationes, amuleta, ingenuè & dilucidè demonstrantur.
”A very curious work, attributing the causes of many diseases to spirits and basing their cure on this theory. There is a great deal on insanity. The methods of treatment are partly chemical, partly magnetical, even s…
GMN 12972 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15220
1790 CULPEPER, Nicholas (1616 – 1654); SIBLY, Ebenezer (1751 – 1799)
Culpeper's English physician; and complete herbal. To which are now first added upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind. To which are annexed rules for compounding medicine according to the true system of nature, forming a complete family dispensatory and natural system of physic. Beautified and enriched with engravings of upwards of four hundred and fifty different plants, and a set of anatomical figures....
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 13699 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15981
1844 PETTIGREW, Thomas Joseph (1791 – 1865)
On superstitions connected with the history and practice of medicine and surgery.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12695 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14940
1864 –1866 COCKAYNE, Thomas Oswald (1807 – 1873)
Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman Conquest. Collected and edited by Oswald Cockayne. 3 vols.
This set contains many texts relating to medieval English medicine and the Anglo-Saxon language. It contains the Herbal of Apuleius in Anglo-Saxon and modern English, the Leechbook of Bald, the text of Sextus Placitus…
GMN 6534 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8141
1871 TYLOR, Sir Edward Burnett (1832 – 1917)
Primitive culture: Researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, art, and custom. 2 vols.
The standard work on primitive religion for many years. Tylor approached his subject from the point of view of psychology, exploring the nature of belief in spirits, omens, magic, etc. His work has important ties with…
GMN 172 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3280
1889 THISELTON-DYER, Thomas Firminger (1848 – 1923)
The folk-lore of plants.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9276 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11458
1903 MAGNUS, Hugo Friedrich (1842 – 1907)
Der Aberglauben in der Medicin.
English translation, 1905.
GMN 6624 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7699
1908 –1909 HOVORKA, Oscar von (1866 – 1930); KRONFELD, Adolf (1861 – 1909)
Vergleichende Volksmedizin. Eine Darstellung volksmedizinischer Sitten und Gebräuche, Anschauungen und Heilfaktoren, des Aberglaubens und der Zaubermedizin. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6455 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8627
1911 CRAWFURD, Sir Raymond Henry Payne (1865 – 1938)
The king’s evil.
A classic account of the history of touching for the “king’s evil” or scrofula— a practice of kings from ancient times until the 18th century.
GMN 6646 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7769
1914 MERCIER, Charles Arthur (1852 – 1919)
Astrology in medicine.
GMN 6625 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7701
1920 SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960)
Early English magic and medicine.
Reprinted from Proc. Brit. Acad., 1919-20, 9, 341-74.
GMN 6539 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8174
1922 SELIGMANN, Siegfried (1870 – 1926)
Die Zauberkraft des Auges und das Berufen. Ein Kapitel der Geschichte der Aberglaubens.
GMN 9249 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11431
1923 –1958 THORNDIKE, Lynn (1882 – 1965)
A history of magic and experimental science. 8 vols.
Vols. 1-2 deal with the first 13 centuries of the Christian era; vols. 3-4 with the 14th and 15th centuries, vols. 5-6 with the 16th century, and vols. 7-8 with the 17th century.
GMN 6422 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8415
1924 SMITH, Sir Grafton Elliot (1871 – 1937); RIVERS, William Halse Rivers (1864 – 1922)
Medicine, magic and religion. [Edited] with a preface by G. Elliot Smith.
Fitzpatrick Lectures 1915-16. Originally published in Lancet , 94, 59–65, 117–23.
GMN 13374 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15645
1927 SELIGMANN, Siegfried (1870 – 1926)
Die magischen Heil- und Schutzmittel aus der unbelebten Natur.
GMN 6626 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7702
1927 VILLIERS, Elizabeth
Amulette und Talismane und andere geheime Dingen.
GMN 6627 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7703
1930 BUDGE, Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis (1857 – 1934)
Amulets and superstitions: the original texts with translations and descriptions.
Reprinted, 1961.
GMN 6627.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7705
1934 MOON, Robert Oswald (1865 – 1953)
Medicine and mysticism.
GMN 6628 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7707
1937 MARIADASSOU, Paramananda
Médecine traditionnelle de l'Inde: La magie noire.
GMN 13501 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15776
1947 THOMPSON, Charles John Samuel (1862 – 1943)
Magic and healing.
GMN 6629 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7709
1959 BONNER, Campbell (1876 – 1974)
Studies in magical amulets, chiefly Graeco-Egyptian.
A study of Graeco-Roman popular medicine and superstition based upon the examination of hundreds of engraved gemsntones that were thought to contain magical and medicinal properties. Digital facsimile from the Hathi T…
GMN 10753 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12949
1971 MACLEAN, Una
Magical medicine: A Nigerian case study.
GMN 10673 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12866
1971 MARRIOTT, Alice Lee (1910 – 1992); RACHLIN, Carol King (1919 – 2013)
Peyote: an account of the origins and growth of the Peyote religion.
"The Peyote religion is a medico-religious cult. In considering native American medicines, one must always bear in mind the difference between the aboriginal concept of a medicinal agent and that of our modern Western…
GMN 10857 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13053
1971 CÓRDOVA-RIOS, Manuel (1887 – 1978); LAMB, Frank Bruce (1913 – 1993)
Wizard of the Upper Amazon. The story of Manuel Córdova-Rios
GMN 10871 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13067
1975 BRANDENBURG, Dietrich
Medizin und Magie. Heilkunde und Geheimlehre des islamischen Zeitalters. [Medizingeschichtliche Miniaturen 1].
GMN 9250 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11432
1980 HAND, Wayland Debs (1907 – 1986)
Magical medicine: The folkloric component of medicine in the folk belief, custom, and ritual of the peoples of Europe and America. Seleced essays of Wayland D. Hand.
GMN 9747 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11935
1981 MACDONALD, Michael P.
Mystical Bedlam: Madness, anxiety, and healing in seventeenth-century England.
"Mystical Bedlam explores the social history of insanity of early seventeenth-century England by means of a detailed analysis of the records of Richard Napier, a clergyman and astrological physician, who treated over …
GMN 13554 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15831
1988 MCGUIRE, Meredith B. (1944 – )
Ritual healing in suburban America. By Meredith B. McGuire with the assistance of Debra Kantor.
GMN 8788 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10966
1988 DAVIS, Wade (1953 – )
Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.
GMN 8791 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10969
1993 WILBERT, Johannes
Tobacco and shamanism in South America.
A comprehensive ethnography of magico-religious, medicinal, and recreational tobacco use among native South American societies, based on a survey of nearly three hundred societies.
GMN 9017 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11196
1993 CÓRDOVA-RIOS, Manuel (1887 – 1978); LAMB, Frank Bruce (1913 – 1993)
Rio Tigre and beyond: The Amazon jungle medicine of Manual Cordova-Rios
GMN 10872 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13068
1997 GUYONVARC'H, Christian-Joseph (1926 – 2012)
Magie, médecine et divination chez les Celtes.
GMN 9344 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11526
1997 VOEKS, Robert A. (1950 – )
Sacred leaves of Candomblé: African magic, medicine, and religion in Brazil.
"Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were forcib…
GMN 9910 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12098
1998 GENTILCORE, David (1961 – )
Healers and healing in early modern Europe.
"...explores the wide range of healers and forms of healing in the southern half of the Italian peninsula that was the kingdom of Naples between 1600 and 1800. By adopting the point of view of the sick people themselv…
GMN 12779 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15025
2000 POLLINGTON, Stephen
Early English charms, plant lore, and healing.
GMN 9743 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11931
2003 HAAS, Volkert (1936 – ); BAWANYPECK, Daliah
Materia magica et medica Hethitica: Ein Beitrag zur Heilkunde im Alten Orient. By Volkert Haas in cooperation with Daliah Bawanypeck.
The first comprehensive compendium of all known remedies and treatments used by the Hittites. The source texts are ritual descriptions and formularies from the 15th to 13th centuries BCE preserved from the archives of…
GMN 8506 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10683
2004 HORSTMANSHOFF, Manfred (1944 – ); STOL, Marten (1940 – )
Magic and rationality in ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman medicine. Edited by Manfred Horstmanshoff and Marten Stol.
The first comparison of medical systems of the Ancient Near East and the Greek and Roman world. The authors treat early medicine in Babylonia, Egypt, the Minoan and Mycenean world; later medicine in Hippocrates, Galen…
GMN 8312 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10488
2005 FORMAN, Simon (1552 – 1611); KASSELL, Lauren
Medicine and magic in Elizabethan London. Simon Forman: Astrologer, alchemist, and physician
GMN 10548 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12741
2007 BÖCK, Barbara Alexandra
Das Handbuch Muššuɔu "Einreibung". Eine Serie sumerische und akkadischer Beschwörungen aus dem 1. Jt. vor Chr.
Reproduction, transcription, translation into German, and edition of the Muššuɔu unction handbook— a collection of Sumerian and Akkadian incantations of the 1st century BCE.
GMN 9737 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11924
2015 GELLER, Markham J.
Healing magic and evil demons: Canonical Udug-Hul incantations. (Die Babylonisch-assyrische Texten und Untersuchungen, Vol. 8.)
GMN 8516 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10693
2016 OBERHELMAN, Steven M.
Dreams, healing, and medicine in Greece: From antiquity to the present. Edited by Steven M. Obewrhelman.
GMN 12312 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14534
2018 BARDINET, Thierry
Médecins et magiciens á la cour du pharaon. Une étude du papyrus médical Louvre E 32847.
Transcription, French translation, and study of this papyrus dating from the reign of Amenophis II (1424-1398 BCE). The papyrus, written for teaching purposes, concerns diagnosis of pathology in the elderly, tumors (i…
GMN 9711 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11898
2018 GELLER, Markham J.; PANAYOTOV, Strahil V.; VACIN, Ludek
Mesopotamian medicine and magic. Studies in honor of Markham J. Geller. Edited by Strahil V. Panayotov and Ludek Vacin.
"The [34] contributions concentrate mainly on Mesopotamian scholarly descriptions and practices of diagnosing and healing diverse physical ailments and mental distress. The festschrift contains both critical editions …
GMN 12538 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14775
2018 OHRVIK, Ane
Medicine, magic and art in early modern Norway.
"This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway. It examines a large corpus of Norwegian manuscripts from 1650-1850 commonly called Black Books which contained a mixture of recipes on medicine,…
GMN 12563 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14802
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