Facets

2001 CE

#12092

Medicine ways: Disease, health and survival among native Americans. Edited by Clifford E. Trafzer and Diane E. Weiner.

1958 CE

#8603

Medicine-men of the North Pacific Coast. Bulletin (National Museum of Canada), no. 152.; Bulletin (National Museum of Canada)., Anthropological series, no. 42.

1958 CE

#10853

Medicine-men on the North Pacific Coast.

2018 CE

#12563

Medicine, magic and art in early modern Norway.

"This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway. It examines a large corpus of Norwegian manuscripts from 1650-1850 commonly called Black Books which contained a mixture of recipes on medicine,…

1924 CE

#13374

Medicine, magic and religion. [Edited] with a preface by G. Elliot Smith.

Fitzpatrick Lectures 1915-16. Originally published in Lancet , 94, 59–65, 117–23.

2005 CE

#7146

Medieval Chinese medicine. The Dunhuang medical manuscripts, edited by Vivienne Lo and Christopher Cullen.

1975 CE

#9250

Medizin und Magie. Heilkunde und Geheimlehre des islamischen Zeitalters. [Medizingeschichtliche Miniaturen 1].

1825 CE

#14163

Mémoire sur l'acupuncture, suivi d'une série d'observations recueillies sous les yeux de M. Jules Cloquet by M. Morand.

Little is known about Morand. He refers to his teacher, Jules Cloquet throughout. Cloquet's book on acupuncture was published the following year in 1826. (No. 6829). Digital facsimile of Morand's book from BnF Gallica…

1779 CE

#4992.1

Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal.

Mesmer promoted his system of treatment, based on his confused doctrine of a universal magnetic fluid influencing tides and men alike, with books and great personal showmanship. His treatment became such a popular hea…

1831 CE

#2977

Mémoire sur la piqûre ou l’acupuncture des artères dans le traitement des anévrismes.

First attempt at operative treatment of aneurysm.

1825 CE

#6374.16

Mémoires sur l’électro-puncture, considerée comme moyen nouveau de traiter efficacement la goutte, les rheumatisme et les affections nerveuses…

The first treatise on electro-puncture – the only significant Western contribution to acupuncture, and one of the most widely used methods of acupuncture today.

1816 CE

#6374.13

Mémoires sur les maladies chroniques, les évacuations sanguines et l’acupuncture.

Berlioz, father of the composer, published the first French monograph on acupuncture. He had his best success with muscle and joint stiffness after falls, and rheumatic and arthritic states. Digital facsimile from Goo…

1999 CE

#9277

Memory, wisdom and healing: The history of domestic plant medicine.

1986 CE

#7381

Mesmerism and the end of the Enlightenment in France.

1980 CE

#9147

Mesmerism: A translation of the original medical and scientific writings of F. A. Mesmer. Compiled and translated by George J. Bloch.

Includes [1.] an English translation, made from the 1971 edition in French, of Mesmer's disseration: Disseratio physico-medica de planetarum influxu (Vienna, 1766). [2.] English translation of Lettre de M. Mesmer...&a…

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 …

1907 CE–1910 CE

#11290

Modern medicine, its theory and practice. In original contributions by American and foreign authors. Edited by William Osler, assisted by Thomas McCrae. 7 vols.

Osler contributed six chapters to this massive system of medicine: "The Evolution of Internal Medicine", "Diseases of the Arteries," "Aneurism," "Raynaud's Disease," "Diffuse Scleroderma," "Angioneurotic Oedema." Osle…

1961 CE

#10855

Mohave ethnopsychiatry and suicide: The psychiatric knowledge and the psychic disturbances of an Indian tribe.

1981 CE

#13554

Mystical Bedlam: Madness, anxiety, and healing in seventeenth-century England.

"Mystical Bedlam explores the social history of insanity of early seventeenth-century England by means of a detailed analysis of the records of Richard Napier, a clergyman and astrological physician, who treated over …

2016 CE

#8339

Nan Jing: The classic of difficult issues. Second edition, revised and updated.

1941 CE

#6466

Native African medicine: With special reference to Its practice in the Mano tribe of Liberia.

1998 CE

#7869

Native American ethnobotany.

Considered the definitive book on the subject documenting over 4,000 plants and roughly 44,000 uses, including medicinal usage.

2003 CE

#9669

Native American ethnobotany. A database of plants used as drugs, foods, dyes, fibers, and more, by native peoples of North America.

http://naeb.brit.org/ "As noted, In the spring of 2003, substantial revisions of the database were made, revising its looks, and adding links to the US Department of Agriculture PLANTS database. This means that comple…

2002 CE

#10410

Native American healing: A Lacota ritual.

Medical rituals of the Lacota people.

1941 CE

#9281

Navajo Indian medical ethnobotany. University of New Mexico Bulletin, Anthropological Series, Vol. 3, No. 5.

Digital facsimile from herbaltherapeutics.net at this link.

1939 CE

#6465.1

Navajo medicine man. Sandpaintings and legends of Miguelito from the John Frederick Huckel Collection

Navajo sandpaintings are traditionally made only for the healing ceremony in which they are used, and then destroyed. This book contains superb reproductions on sand-colored paper of watercolor versions of the sandpai…

1881 CE

#11416

Nederlands Tijdschrift tegen de Kwakzalverij. Vol. 1- .

Founded in 1881, this Dutch organization is the oldest skeptical organization in the world investigating alternative medicine and quackery. It has published its periodical since 1881. The archive of the periodical may…

2005 CE

#9478

Needles, herbs, gods and ghosts: China, healing and the west to 1848.

1822 CE

#6988

New guide to health; or botanic family physician, containing a complete system of practice, upon a plan entirely new; with a description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for preparing and adminstering them to cure disease. To which is prefixed a narrative of the life and medical discoveries of the author.

The "Bible" of Thomsonism or "Thomsonian medicine", which employed botanical remedies, often based on native American medicines. Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.

1672 CE

#1826.1

New-Englands rarities discovered: in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country. Together with the physical and chyrurgical remedies wherewith the natives constantly use to cure their distempers, wounds, and sores…

The first detailed account of the natural history and botany of North America, including the first extensive study of native North American medicine.

1911 CE–1936 CE

#12412

Nostrums and quackery: Articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association. 3 vols.

Cramp was director of the AMA's Propaganda for Reform Department. "In 1911, Cramp published the first of three volumes called Nostrums and Quackery,[3] which would become "a veritable encyclopedia on the nostrum evil …

1866 CE

#7378

Notes bibliographiques pour servir à l'histoire du magnétisme animal: Analyse de tous les livres, brochures, articles de journaux publiés sur le magnétisme animal, en France et à l'étranger, à partir de 1766 jusqu'en 1866.

Later issue: Paris: chez l'auteur, Joubert, 1869.

1862 CE

#2166.1

Notes on arrow wounds.

The definitive work on American Indian arrow wounds suffered by U. S. troops and settlers in frontier warfare during the Western expansion of the United States. Bill eventually developed a "Forceps for the Extraction …

1862 CE

#9678

Notes on Chinese materia medica. Reprinted, with some corrections, from the Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions.

Reprinted, with continuous pagination, and index from the Pharmaceutical Journal for July and August, 1860, for November and December, 1861, and for February 1862. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this l…

1885 CE

#10192

Notes on diseases among the Indians frequenting York Factory, Hudson's Bay. Read before the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Montreal, February, 1885.

Mathews was a surgeon employed by the Hudson's Bay Company. "York Factory was a settlement and Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) factory (trading post) located on the southwestern shore of Hudson Bay in northeastern Manitoba…

1886 CE

#7708

Notes on the anomalies, injuries and diseases of the bones of the native races of North America.

The first American contribution to paleopathology. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1885 CE

#6604

Notes on the history of medical progress in Japan.

From Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan, 1885, 12, 245-469. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1673 CE

#12972

Nova medicina spirituum: Curiosa scientia & doctrina, unanimiter hucusque neglecta, & à nemine meritò exculta, medicis tamen & physicis utilissima. In quâ Primo Spirituum naturalis constitutio, vita, sanitas temperamenta, ingenia, calidum innatum, phantasiae vires, ideae, astrorum influentiae, μετεμψύχωσις, rerum magnetissimi, sympatiae & antipatiae, qualitates hactenus occultae, aliaq; caeteroquin abstrusa & paradoxa; Dehinc spirituum praeternaturalis seu morbosa Dispositio, causae, curationes per naturam, per diaetam, per arcana majora, palingenesiam, magnetissimum seu sympatheismum, transplantationes, amuleta, ingenuè & dilucidè demonstrantur.

”A very curious work, attributing the causes of many diseases to spirits and basing their cure on this theory. There is a great deal on insanity. The methods of treatment are partly chemical, partly magnetical, …

1700 CE

#11894

Observations sur la maniere de tailler dans les deux sexes pour l'extraction de la pierre, pratiqué par Frere Jacques. Nouveau system de la circulation du sang pour le trou ovale dans le foetus humain, avec les réponses aux objections qui ont été faites contre cette hypothese.

"Méry became closely associated with the comparative-anatomical work led by Claude Perrault and J.-G. Duverney. As a member of this group, Méry made contributions to their joint publications, in which ea…

1800 CE

#7749

Of the imagination, as a cause and as a cure of disorders of the body; exemplified by fictitious tractors, and epidemical convulsions. Read to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Bath.

The first clinical demonstration of the placebo effect, specifically in the context of Perkins' metallic tractors. Haybarth demonstrated the placebo effect caused by the tractors by obtaining the same results with woo…

1534 CE

#9864

Om UrteVand.

Petersen issued a second book, "On herbal extracts" in 1534. According to Stokker, Remedies and rituals: Folk medicine in Norway and the new land (2007) p. 111, Pedersen's two works together contained "250 medical her…

1929 CE

#9247

On Chinese medicine: Drugs of Chinese pharmacies in Malaya.

1844 CE

#12695

On superstitions connected with the history and practice of medicine and surgery.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1979 CE

#7190

Only one man died. The medical aspects of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Appendix 1 contains a listing of the many medical books in the library of Thomas Jefferson.

1988 CE

#8791

Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.

1971 CE

#10857

Peyote: an account of the origins and growth of the Peyote religion.

"The Peyote religion is a medico-religious cult. In considering native American medicines, one must always bear in mind the difference between the aboriginal concept of a medicinal agent and that of our modern Western…

1908 CE

#6455.1

Physiological and medical observations among the Indians of Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2012 CE

#7891

Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown.

1992 CE

#10856

Plants of the gods: Their sacred, healing and hallucinogenic powers.

1940 CE

#9278

Plants used as curatives by certain Southeastern tribes.

Digital facsimile from herablstudies.net at this link.