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678 entries match Medieval [K01.400.500]
2008 CE
#8561
Health and healing from the medieval garden. Edited by Peter Dendle and Alain Touwaide.
1983 CE–1984 CE
#13716
Health sciences in early Islam. Collected papers by Sami K. Hamarneh. Edited by Munawar A. Anees. 2 vols.
2005 CE
#8254
Hebrew Medical Astrology: David Ben Yom Tov, Kelal Qaṭan: Original Hebrew text, medieval Latin translation, modern English translation by Gerrit Bos, Charles Burnett, and Tzvi Langermann.
1504 CE
#8345
Hec sunt opera Arnaldi de Villa noua que in hoc volumine continentur.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1965 CE
#12569
Hedayat al-Motaallemin fi Tebb. Edited by Jalal Matini.
First printed edition of the earliest medical work written in the Persian language. Matini based his edition on the 11th century codex Bodleian Library Ms. 37, checking that against the other two known copies of the t…
c. 1481 CE–c. 1482 CE
#6811
Herbarium Apulei.
The first printed herbal with illustrations was an illustrated edition of the Herbarium Apulei by Apuleius Platonicus or Pseudo-Apuleius, originally compiled circa 400 CE or earlier, and issued in Rome by the printer …
1999 CE
#7153
Herbs and herbalism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
1570 CE
#35
Hieronymi Mercurialis Variarum lectionum libri quatuor. In quibus complurium, maximeq́ue medicinae scriptorum infinita paenè loca vel corrupta restituuntur, vel obscura declarantur. Alexandri Tralliani De lumbricis epistola, ejusdem Mercurialis opera, & diligentia Graecè, & Latinè nunc primùm edita ...
Includes the first printed edition of the Greek text and Latin translation by Mercuriale of Alexander's De vermis epistola. Alexander's original description of worms and vermifuges make him the first parasitologist. D…
1998 CE
#8458
Hildegard von Bingen's Physica: The complete English translation of her classic work on health and healing. Translated from the Latin by Priscilla Throop. Illustrations by Mary Elder Jacobsen.
2017 CE
#9821
Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome XVI: Problèmes hippocratiques. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna et Alessia Guardasole. (Collection des universités de France).
Greek text with facing French translation of 130 problems (some in the way of Hippocratic medicine and others not) compiled by an anonymous Christian author from the Byzantine period, 7th to 10th/11th century.
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.
2012 CE
#13342
Histoire de la médecine arabe en Tunisie durant dix siècles.
Includes a biography and bibliography of Ben Miled as well as a reprint of his thesis, L'école médicale de Kairouan aux xe et xie siècles (1933). The 2012 work was originally published in Arabic a…
1908 CE
#8238
Histoire de la médecine Arabe en Tunisie.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1876 CE
#6505
Histoire de la médecine arabe. Exposé complet des traductions du grec. Les sciences en Orient, leur transmission à l’Occident par les traductions latines. 2 vols.
An exhaustive history, for its time, of Arabian medical translations from East to West and vice versa. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive, at this link.
1988 CE
#12314
Histoire de lépreux au Moyen Âge, une société d'exclus.
1981 CE–1987 CE
#6579.3
Historia general de la medicina española. Vol. 1-4.
Vol. 1: Ancient and medieval; Vol. 2: Renaissance; Vol. 3: 17th century; Vol.. 4: 18th century.
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…
1975 CE
#6510.3
History of Arab medicine.
2014 CE
#8296
History of toxicology and environmental health. Toxicology in antiquity. 2 vols. Edited by Philip Wexler.
1519 CE
#2666
HOC.IN.VOLVMINE.ACTVARI.GRÆCI auctoris medici praestantissimi digesti sunt de urinis libri septem de græco sermone in latinum conversi: in quibus omnia: que de urinis dici possunt: sive practicam sive Theoricam: sive cognitionem: sive prognostica quæsiveris: doctissime tractata continentur, Unde lector optime: si diligenter his libris infadaveris glumam paucă ex aliorsi lectionet: ex hac ipsa grans multum te colle gisse cognoveris.
The most complete medieval treatise on urinoscopy, translated from the Greek by Ambrogio Leone (1458/9- 1525) professor of medicine in Naples). Johannes Actuarius, the last of the great Byzantine physicians, was first…
2010 CE
#11926
Holistic healing in Byzantium. Edited by John T. Chirban.
1491 CE
#1797
Hortus sanitatis.
HORTUS SANITATIS
First edition of an herbal and general treatise on natural history which became very popular; based on the unusually large number of surviving copies in institutions it must have also been a bestseller. The plant illu…
2012 CE
#8292
Hospitals in Iran and India, 1500-1950s. Edited by Fabrizio Speziale.
1913 CE
#12624
Ḥunain ibn Isḥāḳ und seine Schule: Sprach- und literargeschichtliche Untersuchungen zu den arabischen Hippokrates- und Galen-Übersetzungen.
2016 CE
#8233
Hunayn ibn Ishāq on his Galen translations: A parallel English-Arabic text edited and translated by John C. Lamoreaux, with an appendix by Grigory Kessel.
2010 CE
#8232
Hunayn ibn Ishaq's "Questions on medicine for students": Transcription and translation of the oldest extant Syriac version (Vat. Syr. 192). Studi e testi, 459
For a critical review of this edition see Grigory Kessel, "Review Essay of Wilson, E.J. and Dinkha, S., Hunayn Ibn Ishaq’s 'Questions on Medicine for Students'. Transcription and Translation of the Oldest Extant…
1978 CE
#8422
I codice greci di medicina nelle tre Venezie. (Università di Padova, Studi bizantini e neogreci, 10).
1956 CE
#8346
I codici di medicina del periodo presalernitano (secoli IX, X e XI).
2020 CE
#12512
Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah, Anecdotes and antidotes: A medieval Arabic history of physicians. A new translation. Translated by Emilie Savage-Smith, Simon Swain et al. Selected and edited by Henrietta Sharp Cockrell, with introduction by Geert Jan van Gelder. [Oxford World’s Classics].
1884 CE
#13341
Ibn Abi Useibia. Herausgegeben von August Müller.
Self-published. Arabic text with relatively brief commentary. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1995 CE
#8244
Ibn al-Jazzār on forgetfulness and its treatment. Critical edition of the Arabic text and the Hebrew translations with commentary and translation into English by Gerrit Bos.
1997 CE
#8237
Ibn Al-Jazzār on sexual diseases and their treatment: A critical edition of Zād al-musāfir wa-qūt al-hādir. Translated and edited by Gerrit Bos.
1935 CE
#753
Ibn an Nafis und seine Theorie des Lungenkreislaufs.
Ibn-al-Nafis, a Syrian physician, described the lesser circulation in his commentary on the anatomy of the Canon of Avicenna, 1268. This was discovered in three Arabic MSS by Mohyi el Din el Tatawi, who included a Ger…
2008 CE
#7412
Ibn Baklarish's book of simples: Medical remedies between three faiths in twelfth-century Spain. Edited by Charles Burnett.
The Kitāb al-Musta'īnī by Ibn Biklarish, written in the Moorish Spain province of al-Andalus at the end of the 11th century, includes the first tables of simple medicines written in the region, "concentrating on facin…
1842 CE–1871 CE
#12683
Ibn Khallikan's biographical dictionary. Translated from the Arabic by Bn. Mac Guckin de Slane. 4 vols.
Begun in 1256, this eight-volume biographical dictionary of Islamic scholarship and literature entitled Wafayāt al-aʿyān wa-anbāʾ abnāʾ az-zamān (وفيات الأعيان وأنباء أبناء الزمان) ('Deaths of Eminent Men and the Sons…
1936 CE
#8551
Il "Tractatus de pulsibus," di Alfano Io arcivescovo di Salerno, sec. xi: Trascrizione del codice 1024 della biblioteca dell'Arsenale di Parigi (da carta 16 v. a carta 18 r). Annotazioni e commento con tavoli di riproduzione del testo [di] Pietro Capparoni.
Alfanus I or Alfano I, a physician before he became archbishop, was one of the earliest doctors of the Schola Medica Salernitana. He was Archbishop of Salerno from 1058 to his death. He was famed as a translator, writ…
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.
![HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)](/media/portraits/50)
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.
2015 CE
#8790
Indigenous medicine among the Bedouin in the Middle East.
2020 CE
#12309
Innovation in Byzantine medicine: The writings of John Zacharias Aktourarios (c. 1275- c. 1330)
1957 CE
#11944
Introduction to the book of Asaph the Physician: The oldest existing text of a medical book written in Hebrew.
See also, Muntner, "The antiquity of Asaph the Physician and his editorshoip of the earliest Hebrew book of medicine," Bull. Hist. Med., 25 (1951) 101-131.
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.
1997 CE
#12759
Inventarium sive Chirurgia Magna. Vol. 1: Text, Edited by Michael R. McVaugh. Vol. 2: Commentary, Edited by Michael R. McVaugh and Margaret Ogden. 2 vols.
Definitive edition of the medieval Latin text of Guy's Surgery from MS Vat. Palat. Lat. 1317, completed in Montpellier in 1373, only a decade after the text is thought to have been completed. The editors traced the mo…
1982 CE
#8436
Iohannis Alexandrini Commentaria in librum De sectis Galeni. Edited by C. D. Pritchet.
![GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)](/media/portraits/21)
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.
1964 CE
#8361
Isidore of Seville: The medical writings. An English translation with an introduction and commentary by William D. Sharpe.
Translation of the medical and anatomical portions of the Etymologiae. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1993 CE
#13303
Islamic medical ethics in the twentieth century.
Treats the most prominent issues in medical ethics in the twentieth century, such as abortion, artificial insemination, organ transplantation, euthanasia, as discussed by Muslim religious scholars, physicians and juri…
2014 CE
#12540
Islamic medical manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine.
Online only. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/arabic/catalog_tb.html