Facets

1877 CE

#10787

Filiaria sanguinis hominis - mature form.

Lewis made the critical connection/association of the worm, Filaria sanguinis,(Wuchereria bancrofti ) to Elephantiasis. This brief account appears to be a third person account summarizing Lewis's work written by an ed…

1863 CE–1878 CE

#9172

Flora Australiensis: A description of the plants of the Australian territory by George Bentham, assisted by Ferdinand Mueller. 7 vols.

The first comprehensive flora of any large continental area. It included descriptions of 8125 species. "Bentham prepared the flora from Kew; with Mueller, the first plant taxonomist residing permanently in Australia, …

1837 CE

#11879

Flora de Filipinas. Según el sistema sexual de Linneo.

The first manual of Philippine botany published in the Philippines. The first two editions (1837 and 1845) were unillustrated. From 1877 to 1883 Celestine Fernandez Villar (1838-1907), together with others including A…

1861 CE

#9171

Flora hongkonensis: A description of the flowering plants and ferns of the island of Hongkong.

The first comprehensive work on any part of the flora of China and Hong Kong. It included the first published description of Hong Kong Croton, or Croton hancei.

1820 CE–1824 CE

#10762

Flora Indica; or descriptions of Indian plants by the late William Roxburgh. Edited by William Carey, to which are added descriptions of plants recently discovered by Nathaniel Wallich. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1855 CE

#13733

Flora indica: Being a systematic account of the plants of British India, together with observations on the structure and affinities of their natural orders and genera. Vol. 1. Ranunculaceae to Fumariaceae, with an Introductory Essay. All published.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. The Introductory Essay was also published separately by W. Pamphlin in 1855 with the following title: Introductory essay to the Flora Indica: includin…

1656 CE

#8591

Flora sinensis, fructus floresque humillime porrigens serenissimo et potentissimo Leopoldo Ignatio, Hungariae regi florentissimo, &c. Fructus saecul promittenti Augustissimos.

The first description published in Europe of an ecosystem of the Far East, including animals as well as plants, with particular attention to Chinese fruit bearing plants, and medicinal properties of Chinese plants. Di…

1991 CE

#7514

Four Dutch pharmacists in Japan 1869-1885.

1851 CE

#9515

Früchte aus dem Morgenlande oder Reise-Erlebnisse. Nebst naturhistorisch-medicinischen Erfahrungen, einigen hundert erprobten Arzneimitteln und einer neuen Heilart dem Medial-Systeme. Mit vierzig lithographirten Tafeln: Porträte, Pflanzenabbildungen, sonstige Natur- und Kunstprodukte, Facsimile, Landkarte und Ansicht der Citadelle von Lahor; endlich als Anhang ein medizinisches Wörterbuch in mehreren europäischen und orientalischen Sprachen.

Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. Translated into English (1852) as Thirty-five years in the East. Adventures, discoveries, experiments, and historical sketches, relating to the Pu…

1913 CE

#8974

Garci da Orta: Colloquies on the simples & drugs of India. New edition (Lisbon, 1895) edited and annotated by the Conde de Ficalho. Translated with an introduction and index by Sir Clements Markham.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1911 CE

#6604.1

Geschichte der Medizin in Japan.

History of Japanese medicine from the earliest times to 1911. Expanded English translation, translated from the German by John Ruhrah, with a chapter on the recent history of medicine in Japan, by Kageyas W. Amano. Ne…

2015 CE

#10919

Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks as reservoir and vector of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus in China.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Luo, Zhao, Wen. Discovery that the tick H longicornis can transmit the SFTSV transstadially and transovarially, and could potentially be both the reservoir and vector of the …

1985 CE–1998 CE

#7080

Handlist of Sanskrit and Prakrit manuscripts in the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. 2 vols.

1985 CE

#12550

Healing practices in the South Pacific. Edited by Claire D. F. Parsons

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…

1996 CE

#8214

Health care in Java: past and present. Edited by Peter Boomgaard, Rosalia Sciortino and Ines Smyth.

1873 CE

#11749

Heart studies in Australia, with observations on aneurism of the aorta.

The first book on heart disease written by an Australian physician and published in Australia.

1937 CE

#6465

Heilkunde und Volkstum auf Bali.

1975 CE

#9345

Herbal pharmacology in the People's Republic of China: A trip report of the American Herbal Pharmacology Delegation. Submitted to the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China.

Digital facsimile from swsbm.com at this link.

1781 CE

#13004

Herbier ou collection des plantes médicinales de la Chine: D'après un manuscrit peint et unique qui se trouve dans la Bibliothèque de l'Empereur de la Chine, pour servir suitte [sic] à la collection des fleurs qui se cultivent dans les Jardins de la Chine et de l'Europe.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1741 CE–1750 CE

#6837

Het Amboinsche Kruidboek . . . Herbarium Amboinense . . . nunc primum in lucem edidit & in Latinum semonem vertit Joannes Burmannus. 6 vols.

Het Amboinsche kruidboek or Herbarium Amboinense, a catalogue of the plants of Ambon in the Maluku Islands of Indonesia, by Georg Eberhard Rumphius, a German-born soldier and botanist employed by the Dutch East India …

2016 CE

#11437

Hidden lives, concealed narratives: A history of leprosy in the Philippines. Edited by Maria Serena I. Diokno.

1854 CE

#7447

Himalayan journals; or, notes of a naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, &c. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1948 CE

#6491

Hindu medicine.

1989 CE

#10258

Histoire de la médecine tibetaine. Vie de Yutok Yonten Gonpo l'Ancien, traduit de l'anglais par Jean-Paul R. Claudon et Sylvaine Jean avec la collaboration de Martine Pageon-Tarin.

1932 CE

#6493

History of Chinese medicine.

The writers spent 15 years in the compilation of this work, the first important contribution to the history of Chinese medicine for Western readers. Beginning with demonology, plant lore and folk medicine, the writers…

1923 CE–1929 CE

#6488.1

History of Indian medicine. Containing notices, biographical, of the Ayurvedic physicians and their works on medicine, from the earliest ages to the present time. 3 vols.

Reprinted New Delhi, 1974.

1964 CE

#3047.18

Homograft aortic valve replacement in aortic incompetence and stenosis.

Subcoronary homograft valve; report on 44 patients, of whom 41 survived. Barratt-Boyes was a pioneering cardiac surgeon in New Zealand.

1678 CE–1703 CE

#9543

Hortus Indicus Malabaricus: Continens regni Malabarici apud Indos cereberrimi onmis generis plantas rariores, Latinas, Malabaricis, Arabicis, Brachmanum charactareibus hominibusque expressas ....12 vols.

The earliest comprehensive printed work on the flora of Asia and the tropics in 12 folio volumes written and published under the supervision of van Rheede tot Drakenstein, a colonial administrator of the Dutch East In…

1845 CE

#10760

Hortus suburbanus Calcuttensis. A catalog of the plants which were cultivated in the Hon. East India Company's Botanical Garden, Calcutta and in the Serampore Botanical Garden, known as Dr. Carey's Garden, from the beginning of both establishments (1786 and 1800) to the end of August 1841; drawn up according to the Jussieuan arrangement, and mostly in conformity with the second edition (1836) of Lindsay 's Natural System of Botany.

Catalogue of the thousands of plants which were cultivated in the East India Company’s Royal Botanical Garden in Shibpur (near Calcutta, founded in 1786) and ‘Dr. William Carey’s’ botanical gar…

2012 CE

#8292

Hospitals in Iran and India, 1500-1950s. Edited by Fabrizio Speziale.

1928 CE

#5351

Hydatid disease. Its pathology, diagnosis and treatment.

Dew’s book remains the authoritative source. His many contributions to the knowledge of hydatid disease are summarized in it.

2004 CE

#9709

Hygienic modernity: Meanings of health and disease in treaty-port China.

1791 CE

#12825

Icones selectæ plantarum, quas in Japonia collegit et delineavit; Engelbertus Kaempfer; ex archetypis in Museo Britannico asservatis. Edited by Sir Joseph Banks.

Sir Joseph Banks was responsible for publishing most of Kaempfer's studies of Japanese plants, which had remained unpublished for more than 70 years. This work introduced many Japanese plants to Western botanists. Dig…

2012 CE

#10584

Illustrated Suśruta Samhitā. Translated by K. R. Srikantha Murthy. 3 vols.

1967 CE

#12716

In Japanese: [Acute febrile mucocutaneous syndrome with lymphoid involvement with specific desquamation of the fingers and toes in children.]

Kawasaki first reported this disease in 1961 in a four-year-old child with a rash and fever at the Red Cross Hospital in Tokyo; by the time he wrote this paper he had seen 50 cases. The mysterious novel illness was ev…

1952 CE

#7764

Incidence of leukemia in survivors of the atom bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

Leukemia was the first cancer to be linked with radiation exposure in atomic bomb survivors.

1937 CE

#4671

Infantile paralysis and cerebral diplegia: Methods used for the restoration of function.

1908 CE

#8246

Insanity in India: Its symptoms and diagnosis; with reference to the relation of crime and insanity.

Includes considerable discussion of the psychoactive effects of cannabis. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

2002 CE

#13567

Invisible invaders: Smallpox and other diseases in Aboriginal Australia 1780-1880.

"An epidemic of smallpox among Aboriginal people around the infant colony of Sydney in 1789 puzzled the British, for there had been no cases on the ships of the First Fleet. Where, then, did the epidemic come from? "A…

2001 CE

#9451

Jamu: The ancient Indonesian art of herbal healing.

1790 CE

#7366

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales with sixty five plates of non descript. animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions

This work described many Australian species for the first time. It includes natural history illustrations after watercolor paintings by Sarah Stone. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link

1896 CE

#12949

Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks...during Captain Cook's first voyage in H.M.S. Edeavour in 1766-71 to Terra de Fuego, Otahite, New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies. Etc. Edited by Sir Joseph D. Hooker.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1841 CE

#13014

Journals of two expeditions of discovery in North-West and Western Australia, during the years 1837, 38, and 39...describing many new discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical conditions of the aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c. 2 vols.

"In 1837, at the age of 25, Grey led an ill-prepared expedition that explored North-West Australia. British settlers in Australia at the time knew little of the region and only one member of Grey's party had been ther…

1880 CE–1884 CE

#3739

Kakke (Beriberi).

In his important account of beriberi, Baelz dealt with the Tokyo outbreak of 1881.

1870 CE

#5292

Kala azar.

Kala azar is mentioned briefly in the Proceedings in 1869 (No. 34, p. 19) but the above is the first full description, given by Briscoe in a report dated 1 Dec 1869.

2018 CE

#10645

Knowledge, power, and women's reproductive health in Japan, 1690–1945.

1780 CE

#5469

Korte aantekening wegens eene algemeene ziekte, doorgaans genaamd knokkel-koorts.

Bylon described an epidemic of dengue which appeared in the Dutch East Indies in 1779, the first definite description of the disease. O. H. P. Pepper published a photographic reproduction of the article in Ann. med. H…

1968 CE

#10841

Kuru and cannibalism.

Medical anthropologists Lindenbaum and Glass demonstrated that Kuru was transmitted in New Guinea by cannibalism--particularly by eating the brains of infected victims, which were the reservoir of prions. Order of aut…

1949 CE

#8127

La Doctrine classique de la médecine indienne. Ses origines et ses parallèles grecs.

Second edition, Paris: Ecole Française d'Extêm-Orient, 1975. English translation: The classical doctrine of Indian medicine: Its origins and its Greek parallels. Translated from the original in French by …