Entry Nos. 8200–8299

2002 CE

#8200

Origins of cyberspace: A library on the history of computing, networking, and telecommunications.

Includes some significant early annotated references to the applictions of computing to biology and medicine.

2005 CE

#8201

From Gutenberg to the internet: A sourcebook on the history of information technology. Edited by Jeremy M. Norman.

Includes some documentation on the early applications of computing to biology and medicine.

1951 CE

#8202

Genesis and geology: A study in the relations of scientific thought, natural theology, and social opinion in Great Britain, 1790-1850.

New edition, with a foreward by Nicolaas A. Rupke and a new preface by the author (1996).

1985 CE

#8203

Aphrodisiacs: The science and the myth.

1802 CE

#8204

Mémoire sur le commerce des nègres au Kaire et sur les maladies auxquelles ils sont sujets en y arrivant.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link. Also published in Mémoires sur l'Egypte: ... Publiés dans les années VII, VIII et IX, Volume 4, (An X) pp. 125-156.

1998 CE

#8205

Slavery and medicine: Enslavement and medical practices in antebellum Louisiana.

2012 CE

#8206

Sex, sickness, and slavery: Illness in the antebellum South.

1884 CE

#8207

La géographie médicale.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1833 CE

#8208

The Taleef shereef, or Indian materia medica translated from the original by George Playfair, Superintending Surgeon, Bengal Service. Published by The Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1837 CE

#8209

An essay on the antiquity of Hindoo medicine, including an introductory lecture to the course of materia medica and therapeutics, delivered at King's College.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1867 CE

#8210

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…

1813 CE

#8211

The influence of tropical climates, more especially the climate of India, on European constitutions; the principal effects and diseases thereby induced, their prevention or removal, and the means of preserving health in hot climates, rendered obvious to to Europeans in every capacity: An essay .

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Enlarged and retitled second edition: The influence of tropical climates on European constitutions: to which is added tropical hygiene, or the preservation of …

1859 CE

#8212

Sketch of the medical topography, or climate and soils, of Bengal and the N.W. Provinces.

Digital facsimile from the internet Archive at this link.

1986 CE

#8213

Ecological imperialism: The biological expansion of Europe, 900-1900.

Revised edition, 2004.

1996 CE

#8214

Health care in Java: past and present. Edited by Peter Boomgaard, Rosalia Sciortino and Ines Smyth.

1856 CE

#8215

Die geographischen Verhältnisse der Krankheiten oder Grundzüge der Noso-Geographie. Vol. 1: Allgemeine Gesetze und Lehren der Noso-Geographie; Vol. 2: Thesaurus Noso-Geographicus.

Digital facsimile from Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf at this link.

1788 CE

#8216

Observations sur le tétanos; Ses différences, ses causes, ses symptômes, avec le traitement de cette maladie & les moyens de la prévenir. Précédées d'un discours sur les moyens de perfectionner la médecine-pratique sous la zone torride. Suivies d'observations sur la santé des femmes enceintes dans ces régions; leurs maladies aux différentes époques de la grossesse; l'accouchement & les suites; la conservation des nouveau-nés jusqu'à l'adolescence. Terminées par le rapprochement des vices & des abus des hôpitaux d'entre les tropiques, & les moyens d'y remédier. Par M. Dazille. Pour servir de développement & de suite à ce que cet auteur a écrit du tétanos dans ses ouvrages sur les maladies des nègrse [sic], & sur les maladies des climats chauds.

Primarily concerning the diseases of black slaves. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1986 CE

#8217

Brought to bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950.

Focuses on the traditional woman-centered home-birthing practices, their replacement by male doctors, and the movement from the home to the hospital. She explains that childbearing women and their physicians gradually…

2003 CE

#8218

Goldberger's war: The life and work of a public health crusader.

1814 CE

#8219

Coup-d'oeil sur Saint-Domingue; observations sur le caractère des négres et sur la fièvre jaune; moyens de recouvrer cette colonie, et de se préserver des maladies qui y règnent.

Digital facsimile from patrimoines-martinique.org at this link.

2000 CE

#8220

Nobelprize.org. The official web site of the Nobel Prize.

https://www.nobelprize.org/ Includes documentation, including videos, on every Nobel Prize awarded since 1901. Re the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine see https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/ (Withou…

1778 CE–1793 CE

#8222

Geographische Geschichte des Menschen und der allgemein verbreiteten vierfüßigen Thiere: nebst einer hieher gehörigen Zoologischen Weltcharte. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.

1845 CE–1862 CE

#8223

Kosmos. Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung. 5 vols. and atlas.

This work includes founding material in geography, plant geography, orography, climatology and meterology, among other sciences, and citations to 9,000 sources. The atlas was issued without Humboldt's participation, a…

1938 CE

#8224

A critical bibliography of German literature in English translation, 1481-1927: With supplement embracing the Years 1928-1935. Second edition, completely revised and greatly augmented.

Includes translations of many non-fictional works, including those in biology, etc. It was reprinted several times. The 1938 edition is searchable at Google Books at this link. Digital facsimile of the 1922 first edit…

1997 CE

#8225

Corpus Galenicum: Verzeichnis der galenischen und pseudogalenischen Schriften.

Revised edition 12/2012 is available online at this link: http://cmg.bbaw.de/online-publications/Galen-Bibliographie_2012_08_28.pdf

1997 CE

#8226

Corpus Hippocraticum: Verzeichnis der hippokratischen und pseudohippokratischen Schriften.

Revised edition (2013) is available online at this link: http://cmg.bbaw.de/online-publikationen/hippokrates_2013_02.pdf

1998 CE

#8227

La médicine médiévale dans le cadre Parisien XIVe-XVe siècle.

1985 CE

#8228

Sexualité et savoir médical au Moyen Âge.

Translated into English by A. Adamson as Sexuality and medicine in the Middle Ages, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1988.

2000 CE

#8229

A history of madness in sixteenth-century Germany.

2002 CE

#8230

Clavis commentariorum der antiken medizinischen Texte.

A key to literature on commentaries on Greek and Latin medical writers up to the 12th century— primarily Late Antique authors, who were active before 600 CE. It takes account of commentaries on Galen in particul…

2002 CE

#8231

The unknown Galen. Edited by Vivian Nutton.

2010 CE

#8232

Hunayn ibn Ishaq's "Questions on medicine for students": Transcription and translation of the oldest extant Syriac version (Vat. Syr. 192). Studi e testi, 459

For a critical review of this edition see Grigory Kessel, "Review Essay of Wilson, E.J. and Dinkha, S., Hunayn Ibn Ishaq’s 'Questions on Medicine for Students'. Transcription and Translation of the Oldest Extant…

2016 CE

#8233

Hunayn ibn Ishāq on his Galen translations: A parallel English-Arabic text edited and translated by John C. Lamoreaux, with an appendix by Grigory Kessel.

2008 CE

#8234

Biographical index of the Middle Ages. 2 vols.

Contains 130,000 very brief biographical notes compiled from nearly 200 references (which are cited) on roughly 95,000 people from Europe and the Middle East during the 1000 years of the Middle Ages. The text is searc…

1986 CE

#8235

Galen on bloodletting: A study of the origins, development and validity of his opinions, with a translation of the three works

Bloodletting is thought to have been practiced by Greek physicians of the 5th century BCE. This study includes translation of Galeni de venae sectione adversus Erasistratum liber (162-163 CE), Galeni de venae sectione…

1976 CE

#8236

Galen on the affected parts. Translated by Rudolph E. Siegel.

1997 CE

#8237

Ibn Al-Jazzār on sexual diseases and their treatment: A critical edition of Zād al-musāfir wa-qūt al-hādir. Translated and edited by Gerrit Bos.

1908 CE

#8238

Histoire de la médecine Arabe en Tunisie.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2012 CE

#8239

Histoire de la médecine Arabe en Tunisie durant dix siècles. Traduit de l'Arabe par Abdelkader Klibi.

First published in 1980; second edition, 1999. The 2012 edition is further supplemented.

1879 CE

#8240

The practice of medicine among the Burmese, translated from original manuscripts, with an historical sketch of the progress of medicine, from the earliest times.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1914 CE

#8241

A history of the Indian Medical Service 1600-1913. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1853 CE

#8242

Palm trees of the Amazon.

Wallace's first book, printed in an edition of only 250 copies. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1992 CE

#8243

Qustā ibn Lūqā's medical regime for the pilgrims to Mecca. The Risāla fī tabīr safar al-hajj. Edited with translation and commentary by Gerrit Bos.

The only known early health guide for the pilgrim to Mecca, by the Syrian Melkite Christian physician, scientist and translator.

1995 CE

#8244

Ibn al-Jazzār on forgetfulness and its treatment. Critical edition of the Arabic text and the Hebrew translations with commentary and translation into English by Gerrit Bos.

2002 CE–2007 CE

#8245

Maimonides on asthma: a parallel Arabic-English text, edited, translated and annotated by Gerrit Bos. Maimonides on asthma, Vol. 2: Critical editions of medieval Hebrew and Latin translations by Gerrit Bos and Michael R. McVaugh.

1908 CE

#8246

Insanity in India: Its symptoms and diagnosis; with reference to the relation of crime and insanity.

Includes considerable discussion of the psychoactive effects of cannabis. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

2011 CE

#8247

The social history of health and medicine in colonial India. Edited by Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison.

2010 CE

#8248

The medical war: British military medicine in the First World War.

2004 CE

#8249

Medicine and victory: British military medicine in World War II.

2013 CE

#8250

Medicine and the saints: Science, Islam, and the colonial encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956.