Facets

1980 CE

#6374.9

Celestial lancets: A history and rationale of acupuncture and moxa.

A section of Needham’s Science and civilisation in China series, separately published. Includes the best bibliography of early Western treatises on acupuncture.

2011 CE

#7667

Chevalier John Taylor, England's early oculist: Pretender or pioneer?

The unusually colorful career of the pioneer oculist, notorious for his flamboyant behavior, self-promotion, proflific writings, and for blinding both Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel. The authors disc…

1977 CE

#9288

Childbirth in the ghetto: Folk beliefs of negro women in a North Philadelphia hospital ward.

1992 CE

#7043

Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance.

Riddle argued that the ancient world possessed effective and safe contraceptives and abortifacients; however this knowledge about fertility control, widely held in the ancient world, was gradually lost over the course…

1997 CE

#9936

Coyote medicine: Lessons from native American healing.

By a Stanford-trained MD of Cherokee descent.

1790 CE

#13699

Culpeper's English physician; and complete herbal. To which are now first added upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind. To which are annexed rules for compounding medicine according to the true system of nature, forming a complete family dispensatory and natural system of physic. Beautified and enriched with engravings of upwards of four hundred and fifty different plants, and a set of anatomical figures....

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

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.

1903 CE

#6640

Das Kurpfuschertum. Eine medizin-geschichtliche Studie.

History of quackery in medicine.

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…

c. 1839 CE

#10003

Deadly adulteration and slow poisoning unmasked; or, Disease and death in the pot and the bottle; in which the blood-empoisoning and life-destroying adulterations of wines, spirits, beer, bread, flour, tea, sugar, spices, cheese-mongery, pastry, confectionary medicines, &c. &c. &c. are laid open to the public, with tests or methods for the ascertaining and detecting the fraudulent and deleterious adulterations and the good and bad qualities of those articles: with an exposé of medical empiricism and imposture, quacks and quackery, regular and irregular, legitimate and illegitimate: and the frauds and mal-practices of the pawn-brokers and madhouse keepers. New edition

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1794 CE

#8004

Demostracion de las eficaces virtudes nuevamente descubiertas en las raices de dos plantas de Nueva-España, especies de ágave y de begónia, para la curacion del vicio venéreo y escrofuloso ...

Balmis conducted experimental trials on the effectiveness of two Mexican plants, agave and begonia, which were believed, according to folk medicine practices in Mexico, to cure syphilis and scrofula. The trials confir…

1903 CE

#6624

Der Aberglauben in der Medicin.

English translation, 1905.

1845 CE

#10459

Des hallucinations, ou histoire raisonnée des apparitions, des visions, des songes, de l'extase, du magnétisme et du somnambulisme.

This study underwent at least three editions in French and also appeared in several English translations, the first of which appears to have been translated anonymously and publlished in Philadelphia in 1853 from the …

1898 CE

#2039

Die Heilpflanzen der verschiedenen Volker und Zeiten.

1905 CE

#6641

Die Kurierfreiheit und das Recht auf den eigenen Körper. Ein geschichtlicher Beitrag zum Kampf gegen das Kurpfuschertum.

1927 CE

#6626

Die magischen Heil- und Schutzmittel aus der unbelebten Natur.

1893 CE

#6453

Die Medicin der Naturvölker. Ethnologische Beiträge zur Urgeschichte der Medicin.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1908 CE

#2044

Die volkmedizinische Organotherapie und ihr Verhältnis zum Kultopfer.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1922 CE

#9249

Die Zauberkraft des Auges und das Berufen. Ein Kapitel der Geschichte der Aberglaubens.

1683 CE

#6374.1

Dissertatio de arthritide: mantissa schematica: de acupunctura: et orationes tres…

This work by the resident physician at Deshima, the Dutch East India Company’s trading station in Nagasaki Bay, Japan, contains the first detailed description of acupuncture, and the first illustration of acu-po…

2016 CE

#12312

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

2000 CE

#9743

Early English charms, plant lore, and healing.

1920 CE

#6539

Early English magic and medicine.

Reprinted from Proc. Brit. Acad., 1919-20, 9, 341-74.

1533 CE

#9863

En nyttelig laegebog for fattige og rige, unge og gamle.

Pedersen, a Danish canon, humanist scholar, writer, printer and publisher, wrote and published the earliest medical book issued in Scandanavia by a Scandanavian writer. Translated as "A useful doctor book for poor and…

2004 CE

#9268

Encyclopedia of folk medicine: Old world and new world traditions.

1991 CE

#9673

Enter the physician: The transformation of domestic medicine, 1760-1860.

1790 CE

#10002

Essays on fashionable diseases. The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms. The cloathing of invalids. Lady and gentlemen doctors. And on quacks and quackery. With the genuine patent prescriptions of Dr. James's fever power, Tickell's aetherial spirit, & Godbold's balsam, taken from the Rolls in Chancery, and under the seal of the proper officers; and also the ingredients and compostion of many of the most celebrated quack nostrums, as analized by several of the best chemists in Europe. By James M. Adair, Formerly M.D.... With a dedication to Philip Thicknesse ... To which is added a dramatic dialogue. Published for the benefit of the tin-miners in Cornwal

An attack on quack medicines, etc. with one of the most verbose title pages of the 18th century. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1979 CE

#9158

Female complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the business of women's medicine.

"The original 1875 recipe called for unicorn root, life root, blach cohosh, pleurisy root, and fenugreek seed, but alcohol (18-20 percent) gave it a longer shelf life, and shrewd advertising assured its staying power.…

2010 CE

#11169

Folk healing and health care practices in Ireland: Stethoscopes, wands and crystals.

2003 CE

#9631

Folk medicine in southern Appalachia.

1935 CE

#8616

Folk medicine of the Pennsylvania Germans: The non-occult cases.

1994 CE

#9744

Folk tradition and folk medicine in Scotland: The writings of David Rorie. Edited by David Buchan.

1883 CE

#6452

Folk-medicine; a chapter in the history of culture.

Folk-Lore Society Publication No. 12. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1928 CE

#10639

Folklore of the teeth.

1970 CE

#5019.10

Foundations of hypnosis, from Mesmer to Freud.

Readings, including translations, from classic texts, with commentary.

1999 CE

#7379

From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic sleep and the roots of psychological healing.

2003 CE

#8008

From popular medicine to medical populism: Doctors, healers, and public power in Costa Rica, 1800–1940.

1923 CE

#3797

Greffes testiculaires

Voronoff first reported his controversial experimental rejuvenation by means of testicular transplants in 1919.

1973 CE

#10735

Hallucinogens and Shamanism edited by Michael Harner.

Includes Harner's "The Role of Hallucinogenic Plants in European Witchcraft".

2014 CE

#9912

Handbook of African medicinal plants. Second edition.

"With over 50,000 distinct species in sub-Saharan Africa alone, the African continent is endowed with an enormous wealth of plant resources. While more than 25 percent of known species have been used for several centu…

1988 CE

#10674

Hausa medicine: Illness and well-being in a West African culture.

1998 CE

#12779

Healers and healing in early modern Europe.

"...explores the wide range of healers and forms of healing in the southern half of the Italian peninsula that was the kingdom of Naples between 1600 and 1800. By adopting the point of view of the sick people themselv…

2015 CE

#8516

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

1935 CE

#6462

Healing ritual: studies of the technique and tradition of the southern Slavs.

1995 CE

#9269

Healing threads: Traditional medicines of the Highlands and Islands.

"Much of the rich store of material comes from the great legacy of medieval Gaelic manuscripts. In more recent times, papers of medical societies have shown how traditional methods and cures are still of value to mode…

2014 CE

#12722

Healing traditions of the Northwestern Himalayas.

"This book discusses the perception of disease, healing concepts and the evolution of traditional systems of healing in the Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh, India. The chapters cover a diverse range issues: people and k…

2008 CE

#7925

Healing traditions: African medicine, cultural exchange, and competition in South Africa, 1820-1948.

1994 CE

#11168

Healing traditions: Alternative medicine and the health professions.

"The popularity and practice of alternative medicine continues to expand at astonishing rates. In Healing Traditions, Bonnie Blair O'Connor considers the conflicts that arise between the values and assumptions of West…

1996 CE

#9290

Healing with plants in the American and Mexican West.

1989 CE

#7668

Health for sale: Quackery in England 1660-1850.