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602 entries match Ancient [K01.400.470]

1991 CE

#8125

Hippocrates in a world of pagans and Christians.

1985 CE

#8297

Hippocrates Latinus: Repertorium of Hippocratic writings in the Latin Middle Ages. Revised edition with additions and corrections.

A systematic attempt to gather the names and locations of manuscripts on the individual treatises that circulated in the Latin West before 1500 under the name or aegis of Hippocrates of Cos.

2005 CE

#8301

Hippocrates On ancient medicine, translated with an introduction and commentary by Mark J. Schiefsky.

1894 CE–1902 CE

#15

Hippocrates Opera. Recensuit H. Kuehlewein. 2 vols.

This Greek edition, originally planned to include the whole collection in seven volumes, was abandoned in 1907 with the founding of the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum series. Both editions employ manuscripts and methods u…

1998 CE

#8434

Hippocrates' woman: Reading the female body in ancient Greece.

1941 CE

#6483

Hippocratic medicine. Its spirit and method.

2008 CE

#9600

Hippocratic recipes: Oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth-and fourth-century Greece.

"... the first extended study of the pharmacological recipes included in the Hippocratic Corpus. The recipes, found mostly in the gynaecological and nosological treatises, are here examined both from a philological an…

1525 CE

#6820

Hippocratis Coi medicorum omnium longe principis, octoginta volumnia quibus maxima ex parte, annorum circiter duo millia Latina caruit lingua. . . .translated by Marco Fabio Calvo

The first collected edition of the Hippocratic collection in the Latin translation of Marco Fabio Calvo of Ravenna, dedicated to Pope Clement VII. "This volume, which preceded the first, Aldine, edition of the Greek t…

1526 CE

#9079

Hippocratis Coi medicorum omnium longe principis, opera: quibus maxima ex parte annorum circiter duo millia Latina caruit lingua: Graeci vero & Arabes, & prisci nostri Medici, plurimis tamen utilibus prætermissis, scripta sua illustrarunt: nunc tandem per M. Fabiu Rhauennatem, Gulielmum Copum Basiliensem, Nicolaum Leonicenu & Andream Brentium, viros doctissimos Latinate donata, ac iamprimu in lucem aedita: quo revera humano generi nihil fieri potuit salubrius.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1802 CE

#8188

Histoire médicale de l'Armée d'Orient.

Napoleon appointed Desgenettes physician-in-chief for his expedition into Egypt. Desgenette's Histoire contained 19 separate chapters written by expedition personel. Digital facsimile of the 1802 from the Internet Arc…

1989 CE

#10757

Historia general de las drogas.

The following works were issued separately and added as appendices to later editions: El libro de los venenos (1990), Para una fenomenología de las drogas (1992) and Aprendiendo de las drogas (1995). English tr…

1469 CE

#89

Historia naturalis, libri XXXVII.

The most ancient Western encyclopedia extant, Pliny’s Historia contained essentially all that was known in his time concerning geography, mineralogy, anthropology, botany, zoology and meteorology. Books XX-XXXII…

1800 CE

#1768

Historiae Aegypti compendium, Arabice et Latine. Partim ipse vertit, partim a Pocockio versum edendum curavit, notisque illustravit J. White.

Arabic-Latin bilingual text, edited by White, incorporating a translation begun by Edward Pococke the Younger (1648-1727). Abd al-Latif gave a good description of the fauna and flora of Egypt, its inhabitants and some…

1735 CE

#9416

Historiae Aegypti naturalis qua continentur rerum Aegyptiarum libri quatuor. Opus posthumum nunc primum ex auctoris autographo, diligentissime recognito, editum; atque ex eodem tabellis aeneis XXV illustratum et uberimmo indice auctem. (2 vols.) Vol. 2: Pars secunda, sive, de Plantis Aegypti liber auctus & emendatus. Accedunt tabella aenae LXXVII plantis summo artificio incisis; ut & dissertatio eiusdem de laserpitio, & lotoaegyptia. Cum observationibus & notis Joannis Veslingii, equitis, In Patavino Gymnasio Anatomiae & Pharmaciae professoris primarii. Accedunt Eiusdem Joannis Veslingii paraeneses ad rem herbariam & vindiciae opobalsami cum indicibus necessariis.

Posthumously published works of Alpini on the natural history and botany of Egypt, and Vesling on the botany of Egypt. The second volume, on botany by Alpini was edited by Johannes Vesling, with the addition of his ow…

1965 CE–1991 CE

#9075

History of animals. Vol. 1, Books 1-3; Vol. 2, Books 4-6; Vol. 3, Books 7-10. Vols. 1 & 2 edited with an introduction and translated by A. L. Peck; Vol. 3 edited and translated by D. M. Balme.

Loeb Classic Library.

1923 CE–1929 CE

#6488.1

History of Indian medicine. Containing notices, biographical, of the Ayurvedic physicians and their works on medicine, from the earliest ages to the present time. 3 vols.

Reprinted New Delhi, 1974.

1778 CE

#6381

History of the origin of medicine, delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Medical Society of London, January 19, 1778, and printed at their request. To which are since added, various historical illustrations.

The work covers the "origin of medicine" from the time of the Creation to the Trojan War (6000 – 1184 BCE), and describes both Old and New World medical practices of the period. The lectures were necessarily rel…

2014 CE

#8296

History of toxicology and environmental health. Toxicology in antiquity. 2 vols. Edited by Philip Wexler.

1983 CE

#10630

Hittite birth rituals. 2nd revised edition.

"Owing to a paucity of relevant sources, we know rather little about Hittite medical practice, but it is clear that native therapies relied as much on magic as upon what moderns would recognize as medicine. Practition…

1925 CE

#6831

Hunain ibn Ishaq über die syrischen und arabischen Galen-Übersetzungen zum ersten mal Herausgegeben und Überzetzt von G. Bergsträsser.

Various writings of Galen survived through Arabic and Syriac translations rather than the original Greek. In the ninth century the Assyrian Christian physician and translator into Arabic and Syriac Hunain ibn Ishaq (A…

1995 CE

#8505

Illness and health care in the ancient Near East: The role of the temple in Greece, Mesopotamia, and Israel. Harvard Semitic Monographs, no. 54.

2012 CE

#10584

Illustrated Suśruta Samhitā. Translated by K. R. Srikantha Murthy. 3 vols.

1926 CE

#6470

Imhotep: the vizier and physician of Kind Zoser, and afterwards the Egyptian god of medicine.

1528 CE

#36

In principio singulorum librorum omnia indicantur, quae in eo libro continentur. [Title in Greek and Latin].

Paul of Aegiina was the most famous physician and surgeon in the Byzantine Empire during the seventh century, and probably thereafter. According to Eugene F. Rice, "Paulus Aegineta", Catalogus translationum et comment…

1989 CE

#8423

Index Hippocraticus Cui elaborando interfuerunt sodales Thesauri Linguae Graecae Hamburgensis. Edited by Joseph-Hans Kühn and Ulrich Fleischer.

There have been several supplements, etc. "This index contains the entire vocabulary (with the exception of the article and a few particles) of the complete writings constituting the Corpus Hippocraticum. Quotations a…

1967 CE

#8490

Index of Arabic manuscripts on medicine and pharmacy at the National Library of Cairo.

1988 CE

#8949

Instrumental medico-quirurgico en la hispania romana.

1927 CE–1948 CE

#6419

Introduction to the history of science. 3 vols. in 5.

An extensively annotated bibliographical survey to the end of the 14th century.

1981 CE

#8282

Inventaire analytique des papyrus grecs de médecine.

1982 CE

#8436

Iohannis Alexandrini Commentaria in librum De sectis Galeni. Edited by C. D. Pritchet.

Edited from the Latin translation by Burgundio of the Greek text first published in the 1490 edition of Galen's works.

1975 CE

#12171

Iohannis Alexandrini commentaria in sextum librum Hippocratis epidemiarum. Edited and critically annotated by C. D. Pritchet.

1997 CE

#12172

John of Alexandria. Commentary on Hippocrates’ Epidemics VI Fragments. Edition and translation by John M. Duffy. T. A. Bell, et al, editors and translators, John of Alexandria. Commentary on Hippocrates’ on the Nature of the Child. [CMG XI 1,4].

1902 CE

#6472

Keilschriftmedicin. Einleitendes zur Medicin der Kouyunjik-Collection.

Medicine preserved on cuneiform tablets, with a chronological account of discoveries in this field. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1854 CE

#5355

Klinische und anatomische Beobachtungen über die Krankheiten von Aegypten.

Griesinger connected the worm of ankylostomiasis with Egyptian chlorosis, a condition in which the worm had previously been noted without its being considered the causal agent (pp. 555-61). Apparently Bilharz in 1853 …

1927 CE

#6482

Kos und Knidos.

1897 CE

#9015

Krateuas. Von M. Wellmann.

Crateuas was the personal physician of Mithridates VI. Of Pontos. He wrote a three-part herbal book describing the medicinal properties of plants. This work, which was illustrated, is the earliest known herbal book to…

1994 CE

#8281

L'ophtalmologie dans l'Egypte gréco-romaine d'après les papyrus littéraires grecs.

2011 CE

#12056

La Campagne d’Egypte: Une affaire de santé.

1998 CE

#8283

La chirurgie dans l'Égypte gréco-romaine d'après les papyrus littéraire grecs.

2012 CE

#8402

La chirurgie en Égypte ancienne. À propos des instruments médico-chirurgicaux métalliques égyptiens conserves au musée du Louvre.

1949 CE

#8127

La Doctrine classique de la médecine indienne. Ses origines et ses parallèles grecs.

Second edition, Paris: Ecole Française d'Extêm-Orient, 1975. English translation: The classical doctrine of Indian medicine: Its origins and its Greek parallels. Translated from the original in French by …

2012 CE

#12054

La littérature médicale de la compagne d'Égypte.

Digital facsimile from biusante.parisdescartes.fr at this link.

1865 CE

#6474

La médecine dans Homère, our études d'archéologique sur les médecins, l'anatomie, la physiologie, la chirugie et la médecine dans les poèmes Homériques.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2017 CE

#9808

La médecine de guerre en Grèce ancienne.

The most comprehensive study of this subject.

1969 CE

#8840

La médecine de l'Amérique précolombienne.

1988 CE

#13810

La médecine égyptienne au temps des Pharaons.

1938 CE

#6473

La médecine en Assyrie et en Babylonie.

1992 CE

#9046

La medicina en el Ecuador prehispánico.

1970 CE

#6485.4

La medicina Hipocrática.

1971 CE

#7934

La odontología en el México prehispánico.