Facets

1686 CE

#6492.1

Clavis medica ad Chinarum doctrinam de pulsibus. Autore R.P. Michaele Boymo, e Soc. Jesu, & in China missionario. Huius operis ultra viginti annos iam sepulti fragmenta, hinc inde dispersa, collegit & in gratiam medicae facultatis in lucem Europaeam produxit Cl. Dn. Andreas Cleyerus, M.D. & Societatis Batavo-Orientalis Proto-Medicus. A quo nunc demum mittitur totius operis exemplar, e China recens allatum, & a mendis purgatum, Procuratore R.P. Philippo Copletio, Belga, e Soc. Jesu, Chinensis missionis Romam misso.

Translations of Chinese treatises on pulse medicine with illustrations of hands and wrists to illustrate pulse-taking. The texts published here are different from those published by Cleyer in No. 6492. Previously publ…

1814 CE

#10761

Hortus Bengalensis, or, a catalogue of the plants growing in the East India Company's Botanic Garden at Calcutta.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1774 CE

#6835

Kaitai Shinsho (解体新書 Kyūjitai: 解體新書,(Anatomical Tables). A translation of Johan Adam Kulmus's Ontleedkundige Tafelen by Sugita Genpaku.

The first translation of any Western medical text into Japanese. "Kaitai Shinsho represented the beginning of two epoch-making developments. First and most directly Gempaku's work set in motion the modern transformati…

1896 CE

#11380

L'action bactericide des eaux de la Jumna et du Gange sur le vibrion du cholera.

Hankin described the antibacterial activity of a then-unknown source in the Ganges and Jumna Rivers in India. He noted that "It is seen that the unboiled water of the Ganges kills the cholera germ in less than 3 hours…

1990 CE

#12585

"Heal the sick" was their motto: The Protestant medical missionaries in China.

1877 CE

#6485.91

[Charaka Samhita. Edited by Jibananda Vidyasagara.]

Sanskrit text. Authorities vary as to the date of Charaka. He is said to have lived at times varying between 800 BCE and 78 CE. The Samhita, or Sanhita, is one of the most ancient and complete systems of Hindu medicin…

2001 CE

#10892

A doctor in the garden: Nomen medici in botanicis. Australian flora and the world of medicine.

1999 CE

#10092

A flourishing Yin: Gender in China's medical history: 960-1665.

1758 CE

#12396

A genuine narrative of the deplorable deaths of the English gentlemen and others who were suffocated in the Black Hole in Fort-William, at Calcutta, in the Kingdom of Bengal, in the night succeeding the 20th day of June, 1756, in a letter to a friend.

Holwell was a survivor of the Black Hole of Calcutta in Fort William, Calcutta , a poorly ventilated dungeon measuring 4.30 × 5.50 ⁠metres (14 × 18 ⁠⁠feet), in which troops of S…

2017 CE

#10971

A heavy reckoning: War, medicine and survival in Afghanistan and beyond.

2003 CE

#11744

A history of cocaine: The mystery of coca Java and the Kew plant.

This work is not actually a "history", rather it contains translations, with commentary, of three late nineteenth and early twentieth century treatises on coca and cocaine, plus other documents. "An exploration of the…

1977 CE

#12915

A history of dentistry in New South Wales, 1788-1945. Original manuscript by R. W. Halliday, arranged and edited by A. O. Watson. Foreword by Robert Harris.

1980 CE

#12916

A history of dentistry in New Zealand.

1968 CE

#12913

A history of dentistry in the Philippines.

1987 CE

#12139

A history of health & medicine in Queensland 1824-1960.

1902 CE–1909 CE

#10875

A history of Hindu chemistry from the earliest times to the middle of the sixteenth century, A.D. With Sanskrit texts, variants, translation and illustrations. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile of the 1903 revised 2nd ed. plus the 1st ed. of vol. 2 from the Internet Archive at this link.

1999 CE–2002 CE

#7216

A history of Indian medical literature. 5 vols.

Comprises the entire corpus of Sanskrit medical texts, from the earliest times to the present, thus covering about two millennia.

1990 CE

#9736

A history of medicine in Papua New Guinea.

1987 CE

#9734

A history of medicine in Sri Lanka--from the earliest times to 1948.

1951 CE–1961 CE

#6448

A history of medicine. Vol. l - 2

1. Primitive and archaic medicine. 2. Early Greek, Hindu and Persian medicine.

1914 CE

#8241

A history of the Indian Medical Service 1600-1913. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2015 CE

#12545

A history of the Medical Council of New Zealand. Compiled by Richard Sainsbury.

Available only as a PDF from ncnz.org at this link.

1987 CE

#12542

A history of the New Zealand Medical Association: The first 100 years.

1870 CE

#11623

A manual of medical jurisprudence for India, including the outline of a history of crime against the person in India.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2020 CE

#12119

A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Wu, Zhao...Holmes, Zang. This was the first paper written in China, and published in a Western language, on the first COVID-19 patient admitted to any Wuhan hospital on…

1974 CE

#12717

A new infantile acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (MLNS) prevailing in Japan.

The first report on Kawasaki Disease in English. By 1973, 6,000 cases of Kawasaki disease were reported in Japan. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

2019 CE

#10916

A new segmented virus associated with human febrile illness in China.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Wang, Ze-Dong; Wang, Bo; Wei, Feng. Discovery of a new tick-borne virus that the authors name the "Alongshan virus" (ALSV) in the family Flaviridae. Digital facsimile from ne…

2004 CE

#7286

A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia.

In 2003 a joint Indonesian-Australian research team led by Michael Morwood found LB-1—a nearly complete female skeleton of a tiny human that lived about 80,000 years ago—in Liang Bua cave on the island of …

1793 CE

#13619

A paper on the prevention and treatment of the disorders of the seamen and soldiers in Bengal. Presented to the Honourable Court of East-India Directors, in the year 1791.

Murray was in the Bengal Medical Service from 1782 to 1802. This was his report to the Directors of the East-India Company. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1924 CE

#2440.1

A plea for the early recognition of leprosy, with notes on diagnosis and methods.

The scraped-incision slit-skin method for bacterial examination in leprosy.

2020 CE

#12074

A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin.

This article was published in Nature on 3 February 2020. Prior to that a version with a different title and numerous other co-authors was published in bioRxiv on 23 January 2020, as "Discovery of a novel coronavirus a…

1840 CE

#8465

A practical essay on some of the principal surgical diseases of India.

Includes a discussion of the Hindu method of rhinoplasty and other plastic operations. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1835 CE

#3738

A practical essay on the history and treatment of beriberi.

A classic account, in which the author brought together all that was known about the disease in his day.

1851 CE

#11754

A practical treatise on the treatment of the diseases of the elephant, camel, and horned cattle, with instructions for preserving their efficiency.

1896 CE

#6486

A short history of Aryan medical science.

From the Wikipedia: "Bhagvatsingh Sahib GCSI GCIE was the ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Gondal from 1869 till his death in 1944, in whose reign the state was raised to 11-gun salute state.[1] He was the onl…

1953 CE

#6604.39

A short history of medicine in the Philippines during the Spanish regime.1565-1898.

1793 CE–1795 CE

#12951

A specimen of the botany of New Holland

The first published book on the flora of Australia, issued by Sowerby in four parts between 1793 and 1795. It included 16 hand-colored plates reproducing paintings by Sowerby, mostly based on sketches by John White, a…

1965 CE

#6491.2

A story of medicine and pharmacy in India. Pharmacy 2000 years ago and after.

A short history of the four systems of medicine practiced in India.

1913 CE

#349

A textbook of medical entomology.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1923 CE

#12109

A treatise on influenza, with special reference to the pandemic of 1918.

Sen, company doctor on the Hurmutty Tea Estate in Assam, estimated that the pandemic killed about 15,000,000 people in India.

1832 CE

#10463

A treatise on the epidemic cholera, as it has prevailed in India; together with the reports of the medical officers, made to the medical boards of the presidencies of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay, for the purpose of ascertaining a successful mode of treating that destructive disease; And a critical examination of all the works that have hitherto appeared on the subject.

Corbyn mapped the history of cholera in India within British regimental stations. He included the date of each reported outbreak in a table of British regimental locations to describe the temporal progression of the d…

2015 CE

#8583

A Turkic medical treatise from Islamic Central Asia: A critical edition of a seventeenth-century Chagatay work by Subḥān Qulï Khan. Edited, translated and annotated by Lásló Károly.

"...the first serious study on seventeenth-century Central Asian medicine that provides a major resource for the linguistic and cultural history of Central Asia.... The author offers a critical edition of a seventeent…

1936 CE

#4659

A virus isolated in 1935 epidemic of summer encephalitis in Japan.

T. Taniguchi, M. Hosokawa, and S. Kuga established a virus etiology for Japanese B encephalitis.

1783 CE

#13867

A voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a correspondence between the Admiral and the Nabob Serajah Dowlah. Interspersed with some interesting passages relating to the manners, customs, &c. of several nations in Indostan. Also, a journey from Persia to England, by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, a description of most of the trees, shrubs, and plants of India, with their real, or supposed, medicinal virtues. Also a copy of a letter written by a late ingenious physician, on the disorders incidental to Europeans at Gombroon in the Gulf of Persia. Illustrated with a chart, maps, and other copper-plates.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1824 CE

#13875

A voyage to India: Containing reflections on a voyage to Madras and Bengal, in 1821, in the ship Lonach; instructions for the preservation of health in Indian climates; and hints to surgeons and owners of private trading-ships.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1879 CE

#11248

Additional notes on filaria sanguinis hominis and filiaria disease.

On p. 36 of this paper Manson first described nocturnal periodicity in Filaria Bancrofti, an adaptation to the nocturnal biting habits of their mosquito vector. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpr…

1712 CE

#6374.11

Amoentitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasciculi V.

Kaempfer’s illustrated accounts of Japanese acupuncture and moxibustion are among the best of the 17th century. They appeared for the first time in the above work and were translated into English in his The Hist…

1796 CE

#310

An account of Indian serpents collected on the coast of Coromandel: containing descriptions and drawings of each species, together with experiments and remarks on their several poisons.

First attempt at a description of Indian serpents and serpent venoms. Includes the original description of Russell’s viper, Daboia russellii. Digital facsimile from the Linda Hall LIbrary at this link.

1912 CE

#5159

An account of the discovery of a hitherto undescribed infective disease occurring among the population of Rangoon.

First description of melioidosis. Together with C.S. Krishnaswami, Whitmore identified Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis (also known as "Whitmore's disease") in opium addicts in Rangoon in …

1807 CE

#8814

An account of the diseases of India, as they appeared in the English fleet, and in the naval hospital at Madras, in 1782 and 1783; with observations on ulcers, and the hospital sores of that country, &c. & c. To which is prefixed a view of the diseases of an expedition and passage of a fleet and armament to India, in 1781.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.