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602 entries match Ancient [K01.400.470]
1906 CE
#13137
La pharmacie en Egypte.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
2011 CE–2014 CE
#9978
La storia della medicina nel Mezzogiorno d'Italia. Vol. I: I Antichita', Medioevo, Rinascimento. Vol. 2: Il '500 e l'età moderna. 2 vols
Collected articles on aspects of medicine in Mezzorgiorno or Southern Italy. Vol. 1 includes papers on Magna Graecia, the Melfi Constitution by Frederick II regulating the practice of medicine and pharmacy, the Jewish…
1960 CE
#7938
La trepanación del cráneo en el antiguo Perú.
1958 CE
#9110
Late ancient and medieval population.
Digital facsimile from JSTOR at this link.
1930 CE
#12366
Le cœur dans les textes égyptiens depuis l'ancien jusqu'à la fin du nouvel Empire.
2004 CE
#13635
Le livre médical dans le monde gréco-romain.
1947 CE
#5
Le papyrus médical Chester Beatty, par le Dr. Frans Jonckheere.
A hieratic papyrus of the 13th-12th century BCE. It is a fragment of a monograph on diseases of the anus. The papyrus was reproduced with transcription by A. H. Gardiner in 1935. See No. 8318.
2003 CE
#9601
Le piante medicinali dal Corpus Hippocraticum.
1981 CE
#8437
Lectures on Galen's De sectis. (Arethusa Monographs, VIII). Department of Classics, State University of New York at Buffalo.
English translation of this commentary on Galen's De sectis (On sects) given by the iatrosophist and commentator on medical texts, Agnellus, circa 600 CE.
2007 CE
#8342
Leisure, pleasure and healing: Spa culture and medicine in Ancient Eastern Mediterranean.
1983 CE
#12308
Les maladies à l'aube de la civilisation occidentale. Recherches sur la réalité pathologique dans le monde grec préhistorique, archaïque et classique.
1983 CE
#6485.62
Les maladies à l’aube de la civilization occidentale.
English translation entitled, Diseases in the ancient Greek world, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1989.
1998 CE
#8183
Les maladies dans l'art antique.
1958 CE
#10257
Les médecins de l'Égypte pharaonique, essai de prosopographie.
1885 CE
#8416
Les médecins grecs depuis la mort de Galien jusqu'a la chute de l'empire d'orient (210-1453).
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1985 CE
#8958
Les noms de plantes dans la Rome antique.
1553 CE
#8982
Les observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables, trouuées en Grece, Asie, Iudée, Egypte, Arabie, & autres pays estranges, redigées en trois livres.
![BELON, Pierre [Pierre Belon du Mans; Petrus Bellonius Cenomanus] (1517 – 1564)](/media/portraits/9632)
Belon was first trained as an apothecary, and worked in that capacity for the bishop of Clermont, Guillaume Duprat. Around 1542 he studied medicine In Paris, and obtained a licentiate in medicine, though he never took…
1995 CE
#8393
Les papyrus médicaux de l'Egypte pharaonique. Traduction intégrale et commentaire.
French translations, with commentary of the Egyptian medical papyri.
1897 CE–1904 CE
#11935
Les plantes dans l'antiquité et au moyen âge. Histoire, usages et symbolisme. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1598 CE
#6794
Lexicon medicum Graeco-Latinum…ex Hippocrate et Galeno desumptum.
The earlier lexicon of Gorraeus formed the basis of this work, which was reprinted in several editions, the last in 1792.
1481 CE
#6313
Liber ad Almansorem sive Tractatus medicinae I-X. Add: Liber divisionum; De aegritudinibus juncturarum; De aegritudinibus puerorum; De secretis sive aphorismi; De sectionibus et ventosis; Synonyma. Galenus: De medicinis experimentatis. Mesue (the elder): Aphorismi. Hippocrates: secreta; Capsula eburnea; De humana natura; De aere et aqua et regionibus; De pharmaciis. Tabula de herbis medicis.
![GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)](/media/portraits/21)
![HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)](/media/portraits/50)
Rhazes was the first to devote an entire treatise to diseases of children. Although he lived so many years before the advent of printing, he was still regarded as an authority in the 15th century and his works were am…
1950 CE
#12616
Liber medicinalis. Texte établi, traduit et commenté par R. Pépin.
Latin text with French translation.
1998 CE
#8880
Libri medicinae Sexti Placiti Papyriensis ex animalibus pecoribus et bestiis vel avibus Concordantiae. Edited by Maria Paola Segolini.
Placitus wrote fanciful descriptions of medicines derived from animals, and other sources. For example, he recommended such remedies as consuming cooked puppy to relieve colic, and breaking a fever by cutting a splint…
1552 CE
#6976
Libri septem, nunc primum e tenebris eruti a Junio Paulo Crasso Patavino accuratissime in Latinum sermonem versi. Ruffi Ephesii medici clarissimi, De corporis humani partium appelationibus libri tres.
Aretaeus, a Greek physician who lived during the reign of Nero or Vespasian, wrote a general treatise on diseases which displays great accuracy in the detail of symptoms, and is of great value in the diagnosis of dise…
1525 CE
#27
Librorum pars prima [-quinta] … 5 vols.
Greek editio princeps of Galen's complete works in Greek, edited by the Paduan professor G. B. Oppizzoni [Opizo] with the help of John Clement , Edward Wotton, William Rose (ca. 1490-1525), and Thomas Lupset, all Engi…
1907 CE
#13488
Literatura medicală românească; biografii si bibliografie.
Covers the period 1700-1900. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1963 CE
#8320
Magic and medical science in ancient Egypt.
2004 CE
#8312
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…
1997 CE
#9344
Magie, médecine et divination chez les Celtes.
1595 CE
#6930
Magni Hippocratis medicorum omnium facile principis, opera omnia quae extant in viii sectiones....
The French humanist physician Foës produced the first Greek & Latin edition of the complete extant works of Hippocrates. His edition was the most significant before that of Littré.
2020 CE
#13128
Maimonides, commentary on Hippocrates’ aphorisms: a new parallel Arabic-English edition and translation, with critical editions of the medieval Hebrew translations by Gerrit Bos. 2 vols. (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides, Vols. 14.1, 14.2.)
"Hippocrates’ Aphorisms enjoyed great popularity in the ancient and medieval world and, according to Maimonides, it was Hippocrates’ most useful work as it contained aphorisms, which every physician should…
1987 CE
#8270
Maimonides' commentary on the aphorisms of Hippocrates. Translated with a commentary by Fred Rosner
1909 CE
#5263
Malaria and Greek history. To which is added the history of Greek therapeutics and the malaria theory by E.T. Withington.
The view is put forward by the writer that malarial infection was the cause of the decadence of the Greeks. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1889 CE
#8330
Marcelli De medicamentis liber. Edited Georgius Helmreich.
Marcellus's compendium of pharmacological preparations drawing on the work of multiple medical and scientific writers as well as folk remedies and magic. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
2003 CE
#8506
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…
1885 CE
#13835
Médecine et moeurs de l'ancienne Rome d'après les poètes latins.
Translated into English as Medicine and morals of ancient Rome according to the Latin poets (Cincinnati: Cincinnati Lancet-clinic, 1901). Digital facsimile of the 1885 edition from Google Books at this link. Facsimile…
1933 CE–1937 CE
#35.1
Médecine et thérapeutique byzantines: Oeuvres médicales d’Alexander de Tralles, le dernier auteur classique des grands médecins grecs de l’antiquité. Ed. F. Brunet. 4 vols.
1934 CE–1935 CE
#6490
Médecine traditionelle de l’Inde. Conférences faites à l’École de Médecine de Pondichéry … 3 vols.
2018 CE
#9711
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…
2006 CE
#8285
Médecins et malades de l'Egypte romaine: Étude socio-légale de la profession médicale et de ses praticiens du Ier au IVe siècle ap. J.-C.
1567 CE
#55
Medicae artis principes post Hippocratum et Galenum. Graeci Latinitate donati. Aretaeus, Ruffus Ephesius, Oribasius, Paul Aegineta, Aetius, Alex. Trallianus, Actuarius, Nic. Myrepsus. Latini, Corn. Celsus, Scrib. Largus, Marcell. Empiricus. Aliique praterea, quorum unius nomen ignoratur. Index non solum copiosus, sed etiam ordine artificioso omnia digest habens. Hippocra. aliquot loci cum Corn. Celsi interpretatione. Henr. Stephani de hac sua editione tetrastichon. Quaerere quos aegri per compita multa solebant, Hospita nunc per me est omnibus una domus. Prima salutiserae medicorum gratia dextrae: Sistenti medicos nonne secunda mihi? 2 vols.
MEDICAE ARTIS PRINCIPES
This collection of Roman, Late Antique, and Byzantine medical works, written after Hippocrates and Galen, was edited and published by Henri Estienne. The unusually worded title page states that it contains Latin trans…
1985 CE
#8123
Medical ethics in antiquity: Philosophical perspectives on abortion and euthanasia.
2001 CE
#8124
Medical ethics in the ancient world.
2012 CE
#11048
Medical prescriptions in the Cambridge Genizah Collections: Practical medicine and pharmacology in medieval Egypt. Cambridge Genizah Studies Series, Volume 4.
1581 CE
#56
Medici antique Graeci: Aretaeus, Palladius, Ruffus, Theophilus: Physici & chirurgi. Partim nunquam, partim antea, sed nunc auctiores editi. Omnes a Junio Paulo Crasso Patavino Latio donati. Quibus accesserunt Stephanus Athen & ipsius Crassi Quaestiones medicae & naturales.
An anthology of ancient Greek and more recent medical texts edited by Crassi. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1547 CE
#54
Medici antiqui omnes, qui latinis literis diversorum morborum genera et remedia persecuti sunt.
MEDICI ANTIQUI OMNES
Contains selections from the writings of Celsus, Plinius Secundus, Soranus, Apuleius, Barbarus, Musa, Priscianus, Trotula, Macer, Caelius Aurelianus, Marcellus Empiricus, Scribonius Largus, Serenus Samonicus, Strabus …
1901 CE
#6486.1
Medicin. Grundriss der Indo-Arischen Philologie und Altertumskunde.(Encyclopedia of Indo-Aryan Research). III. Band, 10. Heft.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1937 CE
#6464
Medicina aborigen americana.
1977 CE
#9045
Medicina aborigen.
1999 CE
#9810
Medicina antiqua. Codex Vindobonensis 93. Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Introduction by Peter Murray Jones, commentary by Franz Unterkircher. Manuscripts in Miniature, No. 4.
Color reproduction, reduced in size by one-third, of "a compendium of popular Late Antique texts brought together in the 6th century. It contains writings on herbs and materia medica by authors heavily reliant on the …