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678 entries match Medieval [K01.400.500]

1995 CE

#9102

The meanings of sex difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, science, and culture.

"...explores the ways in which scientific ideas about sex differences in the later Middle Ages participated in the broader cultural assumptions about gender. Professor Cadden discusses how medieval natural philosophic…

2000 CE

#9094

The measure of multitude: Population in medieval thought.

Chapters 6-8 cover "Avoidance of offspring" or aspects of contraception.

1909 CE

#6519.1

The mediaeval hospitals of England.

Reprinted London 1966.

1989 CE

#8269

The medical aphorisms of Moses Maimonides translated and annotated by Fred Rosner, with a bibliography by Jacob I. Dienstag.

1963 CE

#6549

The medical background of Anglo-Saxon England: A study in history, psychology, and folklore.

1967 CE

#7414

The medical formulary of Al-Samarqandi and the relation of early Arabic simples to those found in the indigenous medicine of the Near East and India.

1966 CE

#8531

The medical formulary or Aqrābādhin of al Kindi. Edited and translated by Martin Levey.

1997 CE

#8264

The medical legacy of Moses Maimonides by Fred Rosner.

1965 CE

#6742.3

The medical practitioners in medieval England. A biographical register.

Precedes Munk’s Roll (No. 6715) as a biographical record.

1963 CE

#6495.8

The medical writings of Moses Maimonides. Treatise on asthma.

2006 CE

#12523

The medicinal use of opium in ninth-century Baghdad. (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, vol. 5).

1937 CE

#12675

The medico-philosophical controversy between Ibn Butlan of Baghdad and Ibn Ridwan of Cairo: A contribution to the history of Greek learning among the Arabs. (The Egyptian University, the Faculty of Arts: Publication 13.)

1992 CE

#7410

The medieval book of birds: Hugh of Fouilloy's Aviarium. Edition, translation and commentary by Willene B. Clark.

2007 CE

#13634

The medieval hospital and medical practice. Edited by Barbara S. Bowers.

2015 CE

#9476

The medieval Islamic hospital: Medicine, religion, charity.

Focuses on Egyptian and Levantine institutions of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries.

1992 CE

#7131

The medieval surgery by Tony Hunt.

Reproduction of 51 drawings from Trinity College, Cambridge, MS 0.1.20 of the surgery of Roger of Parma, best known as Roger of Salerno, with detailed explanation of each drawing by Tony Hunt.

2011 CE

#9607

The Middle English version of "De Viribus Herbarum (GUL MS Hunter 497, ff. 1r-92r): Edition and philological study by Javier Calle Martín and Antonio Miranda Garcia.

"Odo de Meung’s De Viribus Herbarum was one of the most widely known pieces of Fachliteratur in the latter part of Middle English, corroborated on account of the number of translations hitherto preserved in the …

c. 900 CE

#6817

The Nicetas codex.

The earliest surviving illustrated surgical codex was written and illuminated in Constantinople for the Byzantine physician Niketas (Nicetas) about 900 CE. It contains 30 full-page images illustrating the commentary o…

1998 CE

#8889

The Old English illustrated pharmacopoeia. British Library Cotton Vitellius C III. Edited by M. A. D'Aronco and M. L. Cameron. Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, 27.

Macer glosses, Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium, Macrobius, etc. 12th century. "A composite manuscript which comprises four parts, Parts 1 and 2 contain items in English, Part 3 contains Macrobius, "Saturnalia" and Part 4 i…

2004 CE

#12524

The oriental tradition of Paul of Aegina's Pragmateia.

"The volume investigates how Paul of Aegina's medical handbook or pragmateia was transmitted and transformed through Syriac and Arabic translations, becoming one of the cornerstones of the Islamic medical tradition. I…

2013 CE

#8838

The Oxford handbook of women and gender in Medieval Europe. Edited by Judith M. Bennett and Ruth Mazo Karras.

Part V "Bodies, pleasures, desires" includes much of medical and biological interest, including a remarkable chapter by Kathryn M. Ringrose on "The Byzantine body."

2015 CE

#12629

The paradigmatic translator and his method: Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq’s translation of the Hippocratic aphorisms from Greek via Syriac into Arabic. IN: New Horizons in Graeco-Arabica Studies, ed

This analysis of the work of the leading medieval Arab translator of Greek texts into Arabic emphasizes that Hunayn ibn Ishāq, a Nestorian Christian, typically prepared an intermediary translation into Syriac, from wh…

1995 CE

#12517

The Prophet's medicine: A creation of the Muslim traditionalist scholars (Studia Orientalia 74)

1979 CE

#8353

The prose Salernitan questions, edited from a Bodleian manuscript (Auct. F.3.10). An anonymous collection dealing with science and medicine written by an Englishman c. 1200, with an Appendix of ten related collections. (Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, 5).

2019 CE

#12778

The Regimen Sanitatis of Avenzoar: Stages in the production of a medieval translation.

"The authors publish a previously unedited Regimen of Health attributed to Avenzoar (Ibn Zuhr), translated at Montpellier in 1299 in a collaboration between a Jewish philosopher and a Christian surgeon, the former tra…

1967 CE

#12677

The role of the Nestorians and Muslims in the history of medicine.

1963 CE

#8352

The Salernitan questions: An introduction to the history of Medieval and Renaissance problem literature.

2015 CE

#8290

The Sanskrit, Syriac and Persian sources in the Comprehensive Book of Rhazes

Razi's Kitab al-Hawi, a vast medical-pharmaceutical encyclopedia, was compiled from multiple sources. For each identified source this study provides Razi's Arabic text with an English translation. When possible, the o…

1920 CE

#51

The school of Salernum. Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, the English version by Sir John Harrington. History of the School of Salernum by Francis R. Packard and a note on the prehistory of the Regimen Sanitatis by Fielding H. Garrison.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1844 CE–1847 CE

#8306

The seven books of Paulus Aegineta: Translated from the Greek, with a commentary embracing a complete view of the knowledge possessed by the Greeks, Romans, and Arabians on all subjects connected with medicine and surgery by Francis Adams. 3 vols.

Book VI is entirely devoted to operative surgery. Adams himself says that it “contains the most complete system of operative surgery which has come down to us from ancient times”. Book IV contains much inf…

1935 CE

#6523

The story of medicine in the Middle Ages

2002 CE

#8450

The surgery of Roger Frugard. Translated into Italian from the Latin Venetian edition by Dario Spallone and Luigi Stroppiana, and into English by Leonard D. Rosenman.

1955 CE–1960 CE

#5551.1

The surgery of Theodoric ca. 1267. Translated from the Latin by Eldridge Campbell and James Colton. 2 vols.

Theodoric, a Dominican friar, was a pupil of Hugh of Lucca (circa 1160-1257), whose teachings are reflected in his writings. Allbutt considered Theodoric to be one of the most original surgeons of all time. Borgognoni…

c. 850 CE

#6900

The Syriac Galen palimpsest.

This ninth century palimpsest codex contains as its undertext a text of Galen's On Simple Drugs in the Syriac translation by Sergius of Reshaina. It has not yet been formally published. For further information see the…

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.

2002 CE

#8577

The Trotula: A medieval compendium of women's medicine, edited and translated by Monica H. Green.

A new translation of a new edition of the texts based on collation of 9 MSS from the second half of the 13th or early 14th century. "The Trotula was the most influential compendium on women's medicine in medieval Euro…

1996 CE

#9605

The wonderful art of the eye: A critical edition of the Middle English translation of his De probatissima arte oculorum, edited by L. M. Eldredge.

2009 CE

#8293

The world of pharmacy and pharmacists in Mamlūk Cairo.

"...the first detailed analysis of an immensely popular 13th c. Arabic guide for pharmacists, from a time in which Jewish physicians and pharmacists worked alongside Muslim and Christian practioners. Minhāj al-dukkān …

2000 CE

#12515

The year 1000: Medical practice at the end of the first millennium. Edited by Peregrine Horden and Emile Savage-Smith.

Special issue of: Social history of medicine. Content: The millennium bug : health and medicine around the year 1000 / Peregrine Horden -- The practice of medicine in England about the year 1000 / Audrey Meaney -- Dr.…

1928 CE

#8532

The zoological section of the Nuzhatu-l-Qulūb of Hamdullāh Al-Mustaufī Al-Qazwīnī. Edited and translated by John Stephenson.

1794 CE

#11830

Theophanis Nonni Epitome de cvratione morborvm graece ac latine: Ope codicvm manvscriptorvm recensvit notasqve adiecit I. O. Steph. Bernard. 2 vols.

Reprints text and translation from Martius's 1568 edition with extensive annotations by Bernard, and divergent manuscript readings based on the study of several codices. For an analysis of this Byzantine medical handb…

1842 CE

#11109

Theophili Protospatharii De corporis humani fabrica libri v. Edidit Gulielmus Alexander Greenhill.

Extensively annotated Greek & Latin edition of this Byzantine treatise on anatomy and physiology, edited by William Alexander Greenhill. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1997 CE

#7102

Theriaka y Alexipharmaka de Nicandro.

Essays by Alain Touwaide, Jean Pierre Angremy, Christian Förstel and Grégoire Aslanoff concerning the 10th century Byzantine illuminated manuscript designated as "BnF Supplement grec 247." This spectacular…

1972 CE

#8442

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: A digital library of Greek literature.

http://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu/tlg.php "The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG®) is a Special Research Program at the University of California, Irvine. Founded in 1972 the TLG® represents the first effort in the Hum…

1492 CE

#1960

Thesaurus pauperum. [Italian:] Tesoro de poveri. Tr: Zucchero Bencivenni.

One of the most popular medical books of the Middle Ages; first written about 1260. After its first printing about 1492 it was reprinted many times in the next 100 years. "Petrus Hispanus was the only practicing physi…

1998 CE

#8299

Thirteenth- and fourteenth-century copies of the Ars Medicine: A checklist and contents descriptions of the manuscripts.

2001 CE

#8875

Three receptaria from Medieval England: The languages of medicine in the fourteenth century. Edited by Tony Hunt with the collaboration of Michael Benskin.

An edition of just over 1500 medical receipts transmitted in three fourteenth-century compendia. The particular interest of these multilingual compilations lies in their date – earlier than most published receip…

1962 CE

#9254

Tibb-ul-Nabbi or medicine of the Prophet.

Digital facsimile from itsites.harvard.edu at this link.

2010 CE

#12955

Tipologia de la literatura médica latina. Antigüedad, edad media, renacimiento.

1533 CE

#7793

Tou sophōtatou Philē, Stichoi iambikoi peri zōōn idiotētos.

The Greek text edited by Aristoboulos Apostolis (1465-1536), who became Arsenios, Archbishop of Monemvasia in 1514. Philes' Greek text was reedited by Joachim Camerarius with Latin translation by G. Bermann and first …