Facets

1767 CE

#12397

An account of the manner of inoculating for the small pox in the East Indies: With some observations on the practice and mode of treating that disease in those parts.

Holwell's account of smallpox variolation in India prior to Jenner has been disputed by historians. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1955 CE

#6604.6

An annotated bibliography of the history of medicine in Australia.

Revised and enlarged as An annotated bibliography of the history of medicine and health in Australia. Sydney, Royal Australian College of Physicians, 1984. With A. Holster and S. Simpson.

1849 CE

#13868

An atlas of anatomical plates of the human body, with descriptive letter-press in English and Hindustani.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1907 CE–1916 CE

#12

An English translation of the Sushruta Samhita, based on original Sankskrit text: Edited and published by Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna. With a full and comprehensive introduction, translation of different readings, notes, comparative views, index, glossary and plates. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1963 CE

#6485.94

An English translation of the Suśruta Samhita…2nd ed.

1798 CE

#9082

An epitome of the natural history of the insects of China: Comprising figures and descriptions of upwards of one hundred new, singular, and beautiful species: together with some that are of importance in medicine, domestic economy, &c. The figures are accurately, drawn, engraved, and coloured, from speciemsn of the insects; the descriptions are arranged accordig to the system of Linnaeus, with references to the writings of Fabricius, and other systematic authors.

The first work in a Western language on the insects of China, including pharmaceutical aspects. For this work Donovan obtained specimens and information from George Macartney a British envoy to China. Includes 50 colo…

1800 CE

#9084

An epitome of the natural history of the insects of India, and the islands in the Indian seas: Comprising upwards of two hundred and fifty figures and descriptions of the most singular and beautiful species, selected chiefly from those recently discovered, and which have not appeared in the works of any preceding author. The figures are accurately drawn, engraved, and coloured, from specimens of the insects; the descriptions are arranged according to the system of Linnaeus; with references to the writings of Fabricius, and other systematic authors.

"For Insects of India Donovan described and figured specimens in his own cabinet, that were originally collected by the late Duchess of Portland, Marmaduke Tunstall, a Governor Holford (many years resident in India), …

1805 CE

#9085

An epitome of the natural history of the insects of New Holland, New Zealand, New Guinea, Otaheite, and other islands in the Indian, Southern, and Pacific oceans: Including the figures and descriptions of one hundred and fifty-three species of the more splendid, beautiful, and interesting insects, hitherto discovered in those countries, and which for the most part have not appeared in the works of any preceding author. The figures are correctly delineated from specimens of the insects; and with the descriptions are arranged according to the Linnæan system, with reference to the writings of Fabricius and other entomologists.

"Apart from occasional excursions in England and Wales Donovan never left London. His Insects of New Holland is based on specimens collected by Joseph Banks and William Bayly an astronomer on the second and third voya…

1884 CE

#9422

An epitome of the reports of the medical officers to the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Office from 1871 to 1882. With chapters on the history of medicine in China: Materia medica: Epidemics: Famine: Ethnology: And chronology in relation to medicine and public health.

Apart from studies of common diseases, public health issues, and epizootics, this work contains a chapter on opium smoking and a chapter on the castration of Chinese eunuchs, of which there were around a thousand work…

1837 CE

#8209

An essay on the antiquity of Hindoo medicine, including an introductory lecture to the course of materia medica and therapeutics, delivered at King's College.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1909 CE

#3743

An inquiry concerning the etiology of beri-beri.

Studies from the Institute for Medical Research, F. M. S., No. 10. Careful and long-continued experiments on the aetiology of beriberi were carried out by Fraser and Stanton in Malaya.

1962 CE

#6491.1

Ancient Indian Medicine.

Revised edition, Bombay, 1969.

1954 CE–1960 CE

#5352.3

Annotated bibliography of filariasis and elephantiasis. 5 parts.

South Pacific Commission Technical Papers, Nos. 65, 88, 109 (and Supplement), 124, and 160.

1794 CE

#5735.1

Article on Indian rhinoplasty.

The first report published in Europe on the so-called Indian or Hindu method of rhinoplasty using a forehead flap, accompanied by an engraving of the patient, Cowasjee, with a restored nose and showing the stages of t…

1991 CE

#7765

Asceticism and healing in ancient India: Medicine in the Buddhist monastery.

1976 CE

#8497

Asian medical systems: A comparative study, edited by Charles Leslie.

1983 CE

#6604.81

Australia’s quest for colonial health. Some influences on early health and medicine in Australia.

A collective work edited by Pearn and O’Carrigan.

1926 CE

#9513

Ayurvedic medicine in ancient and medieval Ceylon.

1923 CE

#2426

Beiträge zur Geschichte der Syphilis: insbesondere über ihren Ursprung und ihre Pathologie in Ostasien.

Gives, in an appendix, a list of writers on syphilis from 1495 to 1829. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1913 CE

#12743

Beiträge zur kenntnis der chinesischen sowie der tibetisch-mongolischen pharmakologie.

Contributions to the history of pharmacology in China, Tibet and Mongolia. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2013 CE

#8097

Between flesh and steel: A history of military medicine from the Middle Ages to the war in Afghanistan.

1999 CE

#10571

Bibliografía médica americana y filipina: Periodo formativo. 2 vols.

1915 CE

#13858

Bibliografía médico-farmacéutica de Filipinas. Con biografías de los profesionales extranjeros de nota que han estado en el país, y con especialidad las de los filipinos.

1976 CE

#6604.7

Bibliography of Australian medicine 1790-1900.

2567 annotated entries, including topics such as nursing, dentistry, etc.

1988 CE

#10997

Bibliography of Australian medicine and health services to 1950. 4 vols.

"A joint project of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the Department of Community Services and Health."

1982 CE

#5475.2

Bibliography of dengue fever and dengue-like illnesses, 1780-1981.

1986 CE

#14070

Bibliography of publications in legal medicine & forensic sciences relating to Sri Lanka 1811 - 1984.

1904 CE–1924 CE

#12952

Bibliotheca Sinica: Dictionnaire bibliographique des ouvrages relatifs à l'empire Chinois. Deuxième édition, revue, corrigée et considérablement augmentée. 4 vols. (1904-1908), plus Supplement (1923-1945).

The "standard enumerative bibliography" of 70,000 works on China up to 1921, including the full titles, tables of contents, and annotations regarding many books. Cordier was able to achieve this despite having only mi…

2014 CE

#10097

Bodies in balance: The art of Tibetan medicine. Edited by Theresia Hofer.

The first comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the triangular relationship among the Tibetan art and science of healing (Sowa Rigpa), Buddhism, and arts and crafts. Sowa Rigpa was influenced by Chinese, Ind…

1882 CE–1895 CE

#13006

Botanicon sinicum: Notes on Chinese botany from native and western sources. 3 parts.

Part 1 was first published in the Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, XVI (1881). Part 2 was published in the Journal of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for 1890-91, XXV (1893…

1938 CE

#13328

Bound feet.

The author was assistant superintendent of Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals in Boston and Assistant Professor of Tropical Diseases at Boston University School of Medicine. His book is part travelogue and part memoir o…

2004 CE

#7312

British naturalists in Qing China: science, empire and cultural encounter.

1996 CE

#11852

Bubonic plague in nineteenth-century China.

The first work in English on the history of disease in China traces an epidemic of bubonic plague that began in Yunnan province in the late eighteenth century, spread throughout much of southern China in the nineteent…

2010 CE

#13650

Cambodians and their doctors: A medical anthropology of colonial and postcolonial Cambodia.

Digital facsimile from diva-portal.org at this link.

1980 CE

#12961

Caraka Samhita: A scientific synopsis.

1968 CE

#7789

Carcinogenesis in atomic bomb survivors. Technical report 24-68. Atomic Bomb Casuality Commission.

Published 23 years after the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, allowing for carcinogenesis after the latency period. Digital facsimile available from the Radiation Effects Research Foundation at this link.

1998 CE

#12812

Catalogue of the Burmese-Pāli and Burmese Manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicince.

Digital facsimile from wellcomelibrary.org at this link.

1979 CE

#6786.22

Catalogue of the historical books in the library of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.

1881 CE

#10374

Catalogue of the Pathological Museum, Medical College, Calcutta.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1879 CE

#11954

Catalogue of the plants under cultivation in the botanical gardens, Singapore, Straits Settlements.

The first published catalogue of plants in the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1989 CE

#7081

Catalogue of Tibetan manuscripts and xylographs and catalogue of Thankas, banners and other paintings and drawings in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

1776 CE

#12477

Characteres generum plantarum, quas in itinere ad insulas maris Australis, collegerunt, descripserunt, delinearunt, annis 1772-1775.

This account of botanical discoveries made by the Forsters in Australia and New Zealand on Cook's second voyage was one of the earliest scientific publications resulting from that voyage. Specimens were illustrated on…

2011 CE

#8615

Childbirth in republican China: Delivering modernity.

2016 CE

#9479

Childbirth, maternity, and medical pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880-1945.

1863 CE

#13844

China from a medical point of view in 1860 and 1861: To which is added a chapter on Nagasaki as a sanitarium.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1934 CE

#6494

Chinese medicine

2005 CE

#7150

Chinese medicine in early communist China, 1945-63.

Describes the transformation of Chinese medicine from a marginal, sidelined medical practice of the early 20th century to an essential and high profile part of the national health care system under the Chinese Communi…

1945 CE

#2061

Cinchona in Java: The story of quinine.

1832 CE

#8806

Clinical illustrations of the more important diseases of Bengal, with the result of an inquiry into their pathology and treatment.

Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive at this link.

1856 CE

#10112

Clinical researches on disease in India. 2 vols.

One of the most comprehensive studies of disease in India during the mid-19th century; includes 556 case reports. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link