Facets

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…

1951 CE–1961 CE

#6448

A history of medicine. Vol. l - 2

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

1990 CE

#7513

Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.

2007 CE

#9737

Das Handbuch Muššuɔu "Einreibung". Eine Serie sumerische und akkadischer Beschwörungen aus dem 1. Jt. vor Chr.

Reproduction, transcription, translation into German, and edition of the Muššuɔu unction handbook— a collection of Sumerian and Akkadian incantations of the 1st century BCE.

1528 CE

#1785

De compositionibus medicamentorum liber unus

Written in 47 CE, this is an important compilation of drugs and prescriptions. Among the 271 remedies are the first use of electrotherapy (for headaches) using the shock of the torpedo fish. and it records the drinkin…

1536 CE

#10961

De medicamentis empiricis physicis ac rationalibus liber.... Edited by Janus Cornarius. Item Claudii Galeni libri novem nunc primum Latini facti.... Jani Cornarii.

The Gallo-Roman physician Marcellus was born in Bordeaux. He may have served as magister officiorum under Theodosius I, or may have been royal physician. Sarton (Introduction to the history of science I, 391) consider…

2016 CE

#12312

Dreams, healing, and medicine in Greece: From antiquity to the present. Edited by Steven M. Obewrhelman.

2011 CE

#9314

Galen, De diebus decretoriis, from Greek into Arabic. A critical edition, with translation and commentary of Hunayn ibn Ishāq, Kitāb ayyām al-buhrān, by Glen M. Cooper.

First printed edition of Hunayn ibn Ishaq's Arabic translation of Galen's Critical Days (De diebus decretoriis), a founding text of astrological medicine, together with the first translation of the text into a modern …

2015 CE

#8516

Healing magic and evil demons: Canonical Udug-Hul incantations. (Die Babylonisch-assyrische Texten und Untersuchungen, Vol. 8.)

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.

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…

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…

1937 CE

#6464

Medicina aborigen americana.

2018 CE

#12538

Mesopotamian medicine and magic. Studies in honor of Markham J. Geller. Edited by Strahil V. Panayotov and Ludek Vacin.

"The [34] contributions concentrate mainly on Mesopotamian scholarly descriptions and practices of diagnosing and healing diverse physical ailments and mental distress. The festschrift contains both critical editions …

1959 CE

#10753

Studies in magical amulets, chiefly Graeco-Egyptian.

A study of Graeco-Roman popular medicine and superstition based upon the examination of hundreds of engraved gemsntones that were thought to contain magical and medicinal properties. Digital facsimile from the Hathi T…