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191 entries match Ancient [K01.400.470] · Europe & United Kingdom [Z01.542]

2016 CE

#9812

L'Anonyme de Londres. P.: Lit.Lond. 165, Brit.Libr. Inv. 137. Un papyrus médical grec du Ier siècle après J.-C. Edited by Antonio Ricciardetto.

Edition of the Greek text with French translation and introduction. Apart from minor changes listed on page vii, the work reproduces the previous publication by the author in the collection Papyrologia Leodensia (Li&e…

1509 CE

#8445

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…

1673 CE

#7328

A Brief Account of Some Travels in Hungaria, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thessaly, Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Friuli.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2016 CE

#7518

A census of Greek medical manuscripts: From Byzantium to the Renaissance.

An amended and updated index of Diels' catalogue (No. 6767), and a list of items missed or overlooked in Diels, or located since.

1991 CE–2007 CE

#7415

A history of medicine. 6 vols.

Vol. 1: Primitive and Ancient Medicine (1991/1995), Vol. 2: Greek Medicine (1996), Vol. 3: Roman Medicine (1998), Vol. 4: Byzantine and Islamic Medicine (2001), Vol. 5: Medieval Medicine (2003), Vol. 6: Renaissance Me…

1951 CE–1961 CE

#6448

A history of medicine. Vol. l - 2

1. Primitive and archaic medicine. 2. Early Greek, Hindu and Persian medicine.

1953 CE–1959 CE

#6450

A history of science. Vols. 1-2. (All published.)

1. Ancient science through the golden age of Greece. 2. Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C.

2017 CE

#11088

A history of the mind and mental health in classical Greek medical thought.

1909 CE

#6478

Aerztliches aus griechischen Papyrus-Urkunden.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1582 CE

#7327

Aigentlich Beschreibung der Raiss, so er vor diser Zeit gegen Auffgang inn die Morgenländer, fürnemlich Syriam, Iudaeam, Arabiam, Mesopotamiam, Babyloniam, Assyriam, Armeniam etc....

Rauwolf provided the first modern descriptions of the flora of the area east of the Levantine coast. He was also the first to describe the riparian flora of the Euphrates, and the first European to publish an account …

1999 CE

#8284

Ancient histories of medicine: Essays in medical doxography and historiography in classical antiquity, edited by Philip J. van der Eijk.

"...focuses on the ways in which Greek and Latin authors viewed and wrote about the history of medicine in the ancient world. Special attention is given to medical doxography, i.e. the description of the characteristi…

1893 CE

#25

Anonymi Londinensis ex Aristotelis iatricis Menoniis et aliis medicis eclogae editit Hermannus Diels.

Written about 100 CE, On Medicine (Ιατρικα) is partially preserved in a papyrus in the British Library (PBrLibr inv. 137 = P.Lit.Lond. 165). It is the most important surviving ancie…

1963 CE

#6485.1

Antike Medizin. Die naturphilosophischen Grundlagen der Medizin in der griechischen Antike. 2nd ed.

1835 CE

#439

Antiquitates anatomicae rariores, quibus origo, incrementa et status anatomes, apud antiquissimae memoriae gentes, historica fide illustrantur.

Anatomical terms used in antiquity, representing to a certain, extent a survey of the literature of ancient medicine available to Hyrtl. Digital facsimile from The Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this l…

1927 CE

#4203.9

Aphorisms, Section VII, number 34. In his Works. Ed. W. H. S. JONES and E. T. WITHINGTON

The first description of the association of proteinuria and chronic renal disease.

1495 CE–1498 CE

#8395

Aristotle. [Opera omnia]. 5 vols.

Between November 1495 and June 1498 scholar printer Aldus Manutius (Teobaldo Mannucci) of Venice issued the first edition in the original Greek of Aristotle's Opera omnia. The set appeared in five thick quarto or smal…

1472 CE

#9400

Aristotle's De anima with the commentary of Averroes.

"Each paragraph of the text of Aristotle is printed in a new and an old translation, and is followed by the commentary of Averroes on the latter (BMC)" (ISTC No. IDia00969000). Because of the supreme position of Arist…

1476 CE

#52

Articella seu opus artis medicinae. Con: Johannitius: Isagoge ad tegni Galeni. Philaretus: De pulsibus; Theophilus Protospatharius: De urinis. Hippocrates: Aphorismi (comm: Galenus; tr: Constantinus Africanus); Prognostica (comm: Galenus); De regimine acutorum morborum (comm: Galenus; tr: Gerardus Cremonensis). Galenus: Liber Tegni, sive Ars medica (comm: Hali; tr: Gerardus Cremonensis).

A collection of Greek, Roman and Byzantine texts on medicine, written in Latin, that was mainly used as medical school textbook or reference manual between the 13th and 16th centuries. The Articella grew around a synt…

1569 CE

#1986.1

Artis gymnasticae apud antiquos celeberrimae, nostris temporibus ignoratae.

A history, based on extensive study of the classical literature, of the attitudes and practices of the Greeks and Romans concerning diet, hygiene, bathing, and exercise. This is one of the earliest books to discuss th…

2000 CE

#11092

Asclepius, the god of medicine.

1945 CE

#6476

Asclepius: A collection and interpretation of the testimonies. 2 vols.

1984 CE

#9822

Bibliografia Hipocrática.

Alphabetical bibliography by author's name of all scholars, physicians, and others who studied the Hippocratic Collection and published about it. Entries include a brief biography of the authors, transcription of the …

1866 CE

#8963

Botanik der spaeteren Griechen vom dritten bis dreizehnten Jahrhuntert.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1533 CE

#9366

Caelii Aureliani methodici Sicensis liber celerum vel acutarum passionum, qua licuit diligentia recognitus, atque nunc primum in lucem aeditus.

Caelius's / Soranus's Treatise on acute diseases, edited by Johannes Guinter von Andernach. From a clinical point of view, the two works of Caelius Aurelianus, which were translated into Latin from Greek originals by …

1529 CE

#1959.1

Caelii Aureliani Siccensis Tardarum passionum libri V. D. Oribasii Sardi Iuliani Caesaris archiatri Euporiston lib: III. Medicinae comperi: lib: 1. Curationum lib: 1. Trochiscoru confect: lib: 1.

From a clinical point of view, the two works of Caelius Aurelianus, which were translated into Latin from Greek originals by Soranus of Ephesus that were later lost, represent the high-point of Graeco-Roman medical ac…

1927 CE

#7842

Certain samaritans.

A first-hand account of the American Women's Hospitals especially in Greece, Turkey and the Balkans helping to relieve the poulations uprooted by World War I and its aftermath. Lovejoy became the second woman to gradu…

1544 CE

#4406.1

Chirurgia e graeco in latinum conversa.

This elegantly printed and illustrated small folio included 210 text woodcuts, most probably after drawings by the school of Francesco Salviati (Francesco de'Rossi). It was issued from the press operated by Pierre Gau…

1877 CE–1878 CE

#4850.1

Chirurgie d’Hippocrate. 2 vols

A Greek-French edition with extensive notes and commentaries by J. E. Pétrequin, surgeon-in-chief of the Hôtel-Dieu of Lyon. Operations attributed to Hippocrates included trephination and paracentesis; hi…

1982 CE

#9752

Cinq cents ans de bibliographie hippocratique, 1473-1982.

Includes 3332 numbered entries of works concerning Hippocrates and the Hippocratic corpus with index of author's names with their Latin form (particularly helpful for Renaissance Latinized names) and index of modern a…

1528 CE

#13148

Claudii Galeni ... Liber de plenitudine. Polybus De salubri victus ratione privatorum. Guinterio Ioanne Andernaco interprete. Apuleius Platonicus De herbarum virtutibus. Antonii Benivenii Libellus de abditis nonnullis ac mirandis morboru & sanitationum causis.

First separate edition of Galen's Liber de plenitudine and Polybus's De salubri victus ratione privatorum, edited by Johan Guinter von Andernach. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

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…

1984 CE

#9753

Concordance des oeuvres hippocratiques. Éditée par Gilles Maloney et Winnie Frohn, avec la collaboration du Dr. Paul Potter. 5 vols.

Iintroductory material in French; text in Greek.

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

2001 CE

#9062

CORPUS MEDICORUM GRAECORUM / CORPUS MEDICORUM LATINORUM: Online Editions.

http://cmg.bbaw.de/epubl/online/editionen.html "Within the framework of the “Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities”, the CMG is eager to make the results of the proj…

1908 CE

#86.5

Corpus Medicorum Graecorum. Ediderunt Academiae Berolinensis Hauniensis Lipsiensis

CORPUS MEDICORUM GRAECORUM

This series sets as its goal the scholarly edition of all extant ancient Greek medical texts, including those lost in the original language but preserved in medieval translations. These are numbered as follows: I. Hip…

1896 CE

#8435

De Alcmaeone Crotoniata scripsit Ioannes Wachtler.

Greek texts of the fragments and testimonia with commentary in Latin. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1838 CE

#6008

De arte obstetricia morbisque mulierum quae supersunt. Ex apographo Friderici Reinholdi Dietz, nuper fato perfuncti primum edita.

Greek editio princeps of Soranus, based on manuscripts Dietz discovered in Paris and Rome, and published after the early death of the editor. Soranus was the leading authority on the gynecology and obstetrics of antiq…

1842 CE

#8424

De auctorum graecorum versionibus et commentariis syriacis, arabicis, armeniacis persicisque commentatio.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1483 CE

#6813

De divisione librorum Galeni IN: Articella seu Opus artis medicinae.

Considering the central importance of Galen's writings in medicine from the time he wrote well through the sixteenth and even the seventeenth century, and the need for physicians to make sense of such a large number o…

1905 CE

#9514

De graecorum medicis publicis.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. See Vivian Nutton, "Archiatri and the medical profession in antiquity," Papers of the British School at Rome, 45 (1977), 191-226.

1483 CE

#1783

De historia et causis plantarum. Edited, with a table, by Georgius Merula. Translated by Theodorus Gaza.

A student of Aristotle, Theophrastus succeeded his teacher as head of the Athens Peripatetic School. This is the earliest work of scientific botany, a subject not addressed in any of the writings of Aristotle. Theophr…

1481 CE

#6929

De natura hominis. Add: De victu; De tuenda valetudine; Medicinae lex; Iusiurandum; Demonstratio quod artes sunt; Invectiva in obtrectatores medicinae. Tr: Andreas Brentius.

The writings of Hippocrates began to appear in print in the 1480s, and only a few of the works attributed to Hippocrates were printed in the 15th century. Though the date of this edition is unstated within the book it…

1877 CE

#7118

De observatione ciborum epistula ad Theudericum Regem Francorum. Iterum edidit Valentinus Rose.

De observatione ciborum ("On the Observance of Foods") by Anthimus, a Byzantine physician at the court of the Ostrogoth king Theodoric, concerns foods and their preparations as well as the use of foods for selected ai…

1554 CE

#23

De vesicae renumque morbis. De purgantibus medicamentis. De partibus corporis humani...

First printed edition in Greek, edited by Jacques Goupyl. Rufus was a Greek physician who lived during the rule of Trajan. He wrote wrote treatises on dietetics, pathology, anatomy, and patient care. His De partibus c…

1564 CE

#6792

Definitionum medicarum libri xxiii.

This dictionary arranges all Greek medical terms in order of the Greek alphabet, and carefully explains them in Latin. It was widely used, and exerted much influence on modern medical terminology.

1967 CE

#6485.2

Der Beginn des medizinischen Denkens bei den Griechen von Homer bis Hippokrates.

1979 CE

#9057

Der griechische Arzt im Zeitlalter des Hellenismus: Seine Stellung in Staat und Gesellschaft.

1564 CE

#6791

Dictionarium medicum.

This valuable Greek-Latin dictionary for the ancient medical writers defined and fixed a large number of anatomical terms, and exercised considerable influence on modern anatomical terminology. It was an important aid…

1968 CE

#8406

Die Alexandrinischen Chururgen. Eine Sammlung und Auswertung ihrer Fragmente.

1929 CE

#9987

Die Ärƶtlichen Kenntnisse in Ilias und Odyssee.

Medical knowledge in the Iliad and Odyssey. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.