1588 DE' POMIS, David (1525 – 1593)
De medico hebraeo: Enarratio apologica ... Apposita sunt praeterea, non paucorum amplissimorum principum, quam multa decreta, in hebraeorum fauorem constituta. Annectuntur, quinetiam, in tractatus calce, nonnulla aurea dicta; ex priscorum hebraeorum monumentis excerpta; nunc primum, latinitate donata, & ad studiosorum vtilitatem, in lucem edita. Dauid de Pomis, medico physico hebraeo, auctore.
De Pomis was a rabbi and physician. "... on account of the edict of Pius IV forbidding Jewish physicians to attend Christians (1555), he moved from town to town in Italy before he settled in 1569 in Venice, where he p…
GMN 13546 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15823
1642 BROWNE, Sir Thomas (1605 – 1682)
Religio medici.
The most famous work of English literature written by a physician. Browne did not intend to have it published, but manuscripts of the work circulated privately. Two unauthorized and inaccurate editions were issued sur…
GMN 6612.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7664
1655 LA PEYRÈRE, Isaac (1596 – 1576)
Prae-Adamitae, sive exercitatio super versibus duodecimo, decimotertio, & decimoquarto, capitis quinti Epistolae D. Pauli ad Romanos: Quibus inducuntur primi homines ante Adamum conditi.
"In his Prae-Adamitae, published in Latin in 1655 and in English as Men Before Adam in 1656, La Peyrère argued that Paul's words in Chapter 5, verses 12-14 of his Epistle to the Romans should be interpreted such that …
GMN 10146 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12335
1666 BOUDEWEYNS, Michiel
Ventilabrum medico-theologicum: Quo omnes casus, tum medicos, cum aegros, aliosque concernentes euentilantur, et quod SS.PP. conformius, scholasticis probabilius, & in conscientia tutius est, secernitur ...
An early work on Catholic medical morality. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10343 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12535
1672 BARTHOLIN, Thomas (1616 – 1680)
De morbis biblicis miscellanea medica.
A study of the diseases mentioned in the Bible.
GMN 6496 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8024
1691 RAY, John (1628 – 1705)
The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the creation.
Digital facsimile of the much-enlarged 1692 second edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11185 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13382
1696 MANDOSIO, Prospero (1648 – 1709)
Theatron in quo maximorum Christiani orbis pontifcum archiatros…spectandos exhibet.
The first book on the lives of papal physicians.
GMN 6703 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7798
1702 WARLITZ, Christian (1648 – 1717)
Disquisitio medico-sacra, de modestia scripturae In rebus verecundis.
A study of the most remarkabl diseases mentioned in the Holy Scriptures. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12785 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15031
1708 STAHL, Georg Ernst (1660 – 1734)
Theoria medica vera.
Stahl tried to explain vital phenomena by mystical means. He was the head of the so-called Animistic School which explained disease as caused by misdirected activities on the part of the soul. A three-volume German tr…
GMN 582 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/370
1724 SERVETUS, Michael [Miguel Serveto Conesa; also known as Miguel Servet, Miguel Serveto, Revés, or Michel de Villeneuve] (1511 – 1553); ANONYMOUS
An impartial history of Michael Servetus, burnt alive at Geneva for heresie.
Authorship of this early English account of Servetus and his martyrdom for heresy has never been determined, according to Geoffrey Sill, "The authorship of An impartial history of Michael Servetus," Papers of the Bibl…
GMN 12698 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14943
1727 SERVETUS, Michael [Miguel Serveto Conesa; also known as Miguel Servet, Miguel Serveto, Revés, or Michel de Villeneuve] (1511 – 1553); MOSHEIM, Johann Lorenz von (1693 – 1755); ALLWOERDEN, Heinrich von (1703 – )
Historia Michaelis Serveti Quam praeside Io. Laur. Mosheimio...auctor Henricus ab Allwoerden.
An early biographical account of Servetus and his martyrdom for heresy, prepared under the direction of Johann Lorenz von Mosheim whose Kaisergeschichte (2 vols, 1746-48) initiated the modern, objective historiography…
GMN 12697 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14942
1741 –1751 RODRÍGUEZ, Antonio José (1709 – 1781)
Nuevo aspecto de theologia medico-moral y ambos derechos, ó paradoxas phisico-theologico-legales. 3 vols.
Rodríguez, a self-taught Cistercian monk, dealt with issues in medical ethics in this manual for confessors.
GMN 10344 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12536
1742 MALDONAGO DE PUGA, Juan Manuel
Religiosa hospitalidad por los hijos del piadoso coripheo patriarcha y padre de pobres S. Iuan Ð Dios en su provincia de S. Raphael de las Islas Philipinas: Compendio substancial de su fundacion progressos y estado presente que en sucinto informatibo estilo...
Maldonado de Puga, a member of the Order of San Juan Hospitalier founded in 1572, reported on the introduction and practice of Western medicine in the Philippines, the foundation of hospitals and the relationship betw…
GMN 13321 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15588
1747 WESLEY, John (1703 – 1791)
Primitive physick; or, an easy and natural method of curing most diseases.
Wesley, an English cleric, theologian, and evangelist, was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. Digital facsimile of the 14th American edition, Philadelphia, 1770, from the I…
GMN 9149 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11328
1755 MEAD, Richard (1673 – 1754)
Medica sacra; or a commentary on the most remarkable diseases, mentioned in the Holy Scriptures. Translated from the Latin under the author's inspection by Thomas Stack. To which are prefixed memoirs of the life and writings of the learned author.
First published by Brindley in Latin in 1749. This is the best edition. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 9507 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11692
1760 RAY, John (1628 – 1705); DERHAM, William (1657 – 1735); SCOTT, George Lewis (1708 – 1780)
Select remains of the learned John Ray, M.A. and F.R.S. with his life by the late William Derham, D. D. Canon of Windsor, and F.R.S. Published by George Scott, M.A. and F.R.S.
Because Derham died in 1735 this biography would have been written in the early part of the 18th century after the death of Ray in 1705. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12703 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14948
1777 WOLF, Elcan Isaac
Von den Krankheiten der Juden: seinen Brüdern in Deutschland gewidmet.
The earliest book devoted entirely to the health and illness of Jews, written by a Jewish physician. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10750 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12946
1784 MARINI, Gaitano Luigi (1742 – 1815)
Degli archiatri pontifici. 2 vols.
Biographies of papal physicians. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 6706 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7805
1793 WESLEY, John (1703 – 1791); WILKINS, Henry (1767 – 1847)
The family adviser, or, a plain and modern practice of physic; calculated for the use of private families, and accommodated to the diseases of America
Wilkins' book intended for Methodists was issued with the 23rd edition of Wesley's work. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 13897 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16189
1794 FRANCO, Francisco de Mello (1757 – 1822)
Medicina theologica, ou supplica humilde, feita a todos os senhores confessores e directores, sobre o modo de proceder com seus penitentes na emenda dos peccados, principalmente da lascivia, colera, e bebedice.
The first Portuguese work on psychosomatic medicine. The author was a Brazilian who worked in Portugal. Digital facsimile from Wellcomelibrary.org at this link.
GMN 11782 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13983
1802 PALEY, William (1743 – 1805)
Natural theology: Or, evidences of the existence and attributes of the Deity, collected from the appearances of nature.
GMN 11186 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13383
1818 HEINROTH, Johann Christian August (1773 – 1843)
Lehrbuch der Störungen des Seelenlebens.
Heinroth drew his psychology from the Bible and maintained that mental health was maintained only by piety and that sin engendered madness; for him treatment was by repentance and a return to the fold. English transla…
GMN 4926 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6139
1830 NEWHAM, William (1790 – 1865)
Essay on superstition; being an inquiry into the effects of physical influence on the mind, in the production of dreams, visions, ghosts, and other supernatural appearances.
In this conceptual anticipation of later ideas in psychopharmacology Newnham argued that dreams, visions, apparitions and other apparently spiritual manifestations, whether good or bad, arose from physiological rather…
GMN 12104 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14313
1830 NEWNHAM, William (1790 – 1865)
Essay on superstition; being an inquiry into the effects of physical influence on the mind, in the production of dreams, visions, ghosts, and other supernatural appearances.
Newnham argued that argued that apparitional experiences, dreams and spiritual visions had a physiological rather than a supernatural basis. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13201 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15462
1833 BELL, Sir Charles (1774 – 1842)
The hand: Its mechanism and vital endowments as evincing design.
Classic work on the anatomy, physiology, bio-mechanics, comparative anatomy, and adaptive importance of the hand. Issued as a volume in a series entitled the "Bridgewater Treatises." The first edition has 288pp. An en…
GMN 411.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/917
1835 BRIGHAM, Amariah (1798 – 1849)
Observations on the influence of religion upon the health and physical welfare of mankind.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 13744 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16028
1839 GRAHAM, Sylvester (1794 – 1851)
Lectures on the science of human life. 2 vols.
The Reverend Sylvester Graham was an American Presbyterian minister and dietary reformer known for his emphasis on vegetarianism, the temperance movement, and eating whole-grain bread. "Around 1829, Graham invented th…
GMN 9305 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11487
1842 GRAHAM, Maria (later Maria, Lady Callcott) (1785 – 1842)
A scripture herbal.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 13747 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16031
1857 HAESER, Heinrich (1811 – 1884)
Geschichte christlicher Krankenpflege und Pflegerschaften.
Reprinted, Bad Reichenhall, Kleinert, 1966.
GMN 6634 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7729
1857 GOSSE, Philip Henry (1810 – 1888)
Omphalos: An attempt to untie the geological knot.
In Omphalos, published in 1857, two years before the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, Gosse attempted to reconcile the paleontological record with creationist religious beliefs by arguing that the fos…
GMN 11806 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14008
1860 DJELAL ED-DIN, Abou Soleiman Daoud (1350 – ); PERRON, Nicolas (1798 – 1876)
La médecine du Prophète, traduit de l'arabe par M. le docteur Perron.
First appeared in Gaz. méd. d’Algerie, 1859, 4.
GMN 6504 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8633
1867 WISE, Thomas Alexander (1801 – 1889)
Review of the history of medicine. 2 vols.
Vol. 1, Part 1: "Primitive period among the Asiatic nations," i.e. Hindus. Vol. 2, Part 1: "Ancient state of medicine among the Hindus (continued)". Part 1: "Review of the Buddhist systems of medicine." Part 3: "Revie…
GMN 8210 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10386
1875 EDDY, Mary Baker (1821 – 1910)
Science and health.
Includes an exposition of the system of faith healing that holds a significant place in Christian Science.
GMN 6643.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7763
1880 RABBINOWICZ, Israël Michel (1818 – 1893)
La médecine du Thalmud ou tous le passages concernant la médecine extraits des 21 traités du Thalmud de Babylone.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7984 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10160
1891 REMONDINO, Peter Charles
History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present. Moral and physical reasons for its performance with a history of eunuchism, hermaphrodism, etc., and of the different operations practiced upon the prepuce.
Digital edition from Gutenberg.org at this link.
GMN 11124 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13320
1897 CHARCOT, Jean Martin (1825 – 1893)
La foi qui guérit.
As one of his last works Charcot published this 38-page pamphlet on faith healing.
GMN 11127 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13323
1901 EBSTEIN, Wilhelm (1836 – 1912)
Die Medizin im Alten Testament.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6497 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8030
1902 JAMES, William (1842 – 1910)
The varieties of religious experience: A study in human nature. Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902.
Digital facsimile of the 33rd impression (1922) from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 12755 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15001
1906 OPITZ, Adolf Hermann Karl (1877 – )
Die Medizin im Koran.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6506 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8062
1910 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
The faith that heals.
Perhaps Osler's most significant discussion of "faith" and faith healing. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. The same journal issue also contains Clifford Albutt's "Reflections on faith healing," pp. 1…
GMN 12188 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14398
1911 PREUSS, Julius (1861 – 1913)
Biblisch-talmudische Medizin.
3rd edition, 1923. Translated as Biblical and Talmudic medicine. Translated by Fred Rosner. New York, Sanhedrin Press, 1978, with enlarged index and expanded references.
GMN 6498 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8031
1915 BRUCK, Walther
Das Martyrium der heiligen Apollonia und seine Darstellung in der bildenden Kunst.
Illustrates with 100 plates various early depictions of the martyrdom of St. Apollonia, patron saint of dentistry. Saint Apollonia was one of a group of virgin martyrs who suffered in Alexandria, Egypt during a local …
GMN 13031 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15281
1920 WALSH, James Joseph (1865 – 1942)
Religion and health.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12558 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14797
1922 DIEPGEN, Paul (1878 – 1966)
Die Theologie und der ärztliche Stand.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 13884 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16174
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
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
1925 ALLEN, Leslie H.
Bryan and Darrow at Dayton. The Record and documents of the "Bible-Evolution Trial." Edited and compiled by Leslie H. Allen.
Key documents from the Scopes Trial. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10615 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12808
1925 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943)
The scientific man and the bible: A personal testimony.
GMN 11264 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13461
1927 FREUD, Sigmund (1856 – 1939)
Die Zukunft einer Illusion.
GMN 7529 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9701
1928 MACHT, David Israel (1882 – 1961)
The holy incense: A botanical, pharmacological, psychological and archaeological appreciation of the Bible.
GMN 9943 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12131
