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2000 CE

#8229

A history of madness in sixteenth-century Germany.

2017 CE

#11088

A history of the mind and mental health in classical Greek medical thought.

1996 CE

#10844

A new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the UK.

During the 1990s England was plagued with cases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) seen in cows, popularly known as "Mad Cow Disease." Then physicians in England started noticing an uptick in cases of what look…

1582 CE

#7327

Aigentlich Beschreibung der Raiss, so er vor diser Zeit gegen Auffgang inn die Morgenländer, fürnemlich Syriam, Iudaeam, Arabiam, Mesopotamiam, Babyloniam, Assyriam, Armeniam etc....

Rauwolf provided the first modern descriptions of the flora of the area east of the Levantine coast. He was also the first to describe the riparian flora of the Euphrates, and the first European to publish an account …

1529 CE

#1959.1

Caelii Aureliani Siccensis Tardarum passionum libri V. D. Oribasii Sardi Iuliani Caesaris archiatri Euporiston lib: III. Medicinae comperi: lib: 1. Curationum lib: 1. Trochiscoru confect: lib: 1.

From a clinical point of view, the two works of Caelius Aurelianus, which were translated into Latin from Greek originals by Soranus of Ephesus that were later lost, represent the high-point of Graeco-Roman medical ac…

1481 CE

#6929

De natura hominis. Add: De victu; De tuenda valetudine; Medicinae lex; Iusiurandum; Demonstratio quod artes sunt; Invectiva in obtrectatores medicinae. Tr: Andreas Brentius.

The writings of Hippocrates began to appear in print in the 1480s, and only a few of the works attributed to Hippocrates were printed in the 15th century. Though the date of this edition is unstated within the book it…

1813 CE

#4925.1

Description of The Retreat, an institution near York, for insane persons…

The pioneer work by an Englishman advocating humane treatment of the mentally ill. Tuke set out in this work the successful results of his experience with the “mild system of treatment” which had been inst…

1969 CE

#10637

George III and the mad business.

2003 CE

#10018

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome II, 3ème partie: La maladie sacrée. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna. (Collection des universités de France).

Until Hippocrates epilepsy was believed to be religious in origin; Hippocrates provided the first medical description of the disease.

2000 CE

#14079

Historiografía de la psiquiatría española.

"This work contains the bibliographic references of 1,457 published studies (from 1859 to 1997) on the history of Spanish psychiatry in all its aspects: general and local overviews, biographies and pathobiographies, e…

1994 CE

#9482

La bataille de cent ans: Histoire de la psychanalyse en France, 1, 1885-1939. 2, 1925-1985. 2 vols.

1996 CE

#9428

Masters of Bedlam: The transformation of the mad-doctoring trade.

1794 CE

#11782

Medicina theologica, ou supplica humilde, feita a todos os senhores confessores e directores, sobre o modo de proceder com seus penitentes na emenda dos peccados, principalmente da lascivia, colera, e bebedice.

The first Portuguese work on psychosomatic medicine. The author was a Brazilian who worked in Portugal. Digital facsimile from Wellcomelibrary.org at this link.

1805 CE

#4674

Mémoire sur la maladie qui a régné à Genève au printemps de 1805.

First definite description of cerebrospinal meningitis. Partial English translation in No. 2241.

1975 CE

#9430

Mental disorder in earlier Britain: Exploratory studies.

1978 CE

#9434

Mind and madness in ancient Greece: The classical roots of modern psychiatry.

1863 CE

#1362

Physiologische Studien über die Hemmungsmechanischen für die Reflexthätigkeit des Rückenmarks im Gehirn des Frosches.

Sechenov discovered the cerebral inhibition of spinal reflexes. He was Professor of Physiology at St. Petersburg and Moscow, and the “father of Russian physiology”.

1480 CE

#8369

Practica, seu Lilium medicinae.

Includes descriptions of plague, tuberculosis, scabies, epilepsy, anthrax, and leprosy. ISTC No. ib00447000.

1974 CE

#5019.12

Psychiatry for the poor. 1851 Colney Hatch Asylum: Friem Hospital 1973. A medical and social history.

This is in effect a history of institutional psychiatry in Britain to time of writing.

1981 CE–1986 CE

#8324

The complete works, translated into English by Charles Allison Behr. 2 vols.

"The six books of Sacred Tales “ are in a class apart. A record of revelations made to Aristides in dreams by the healing god Asclepius…they are of major importance, both as evidence for the practices ass…

1961 CE

#5019.2

The historical development of British psychiatry. Vol. 1. (All published.)

1972 CE

#8805

The trade in lunacy: A study of private madhouses in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

1963 CE

#5019.3

Three hundred years of psychiatry, 1535-1860: A history presented in selected English texts.

1939 CE

#4660.1

Vesennij (vesenne-letnij) endemiceskij klescevoj encefalit. [Vernal (verno-aestival) endemic tick-borne encephalitis.]

Isolation of the virus of spring–summer (Russian Far East) encephalitis.

1962 CE

#7207

Высшие корковые функции и их нарушение при локальных поражениях мозга.

First English translation: Higher cortical functions in man. New York: Basic Books, 1966.

1856 CE

#22

Тα ∑ωζομενα. The extant works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian. Edited and translated by Francis Adams.

Aretaeus left many fine descriptions of disease; in fact Garrison ranks him second only to Hippocrates in this respect. In the printed editions of this bibliography, before the present online version, the Adams editio…