Facets

1874 CE

#10127

La matière médicale chez les chinois.

Digital facsimile from BnFGallica at this link.

1863 CE

#6492.2

La médecine chez les Chinois par Le capitaine P. Dabry. Ouvrage corrigé et précédé d’une préface par J. Léon Soubeiran.

The best account of Chinese medicine published in Europe during the 19th century, including translations from original Chinese medical texts. Dabry was French consul at Hang-Keou. Soubeiran, a pharmacist, edited his w…

1959 CE

#6495.1

La médecine chinoise au cours des siècles.

English translation by B. Fielding, London, 1968.

1974 CE

#6604.3

La médecine japonaise des origines à nos jours.

With Z. Ohya.

1894 CE

#5125

La peste bubonique à Hong-Kong.

Yersin discovered the plague bacillus Pasteurella (Yersinia) pestis, isolating it from excised buboes. He published the first account of this organism. Preliminary note in C. R. Acad. Sci. (Paris), 1894, 119, 356.

1677 CE

#10648

Laboratorium chymicum, gehouden op het voortreffelycke Eylandt Ceylon, soo in't Animalische, Vegetabilische, als Mineralische Ryck.

The first book on the animal, vegetable and mineral medicines indigenous to Sri Lanka. Grim was a physician in the service of the VOC (the East India Company). Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1869 CE–1870 CE

#4059

Lafa Tokelau, or Tokelau ringworm.

First description, tinea imbricata. Turner described the disease while serving as a medical missionary in Samoa.

2008 CE

#12724

Lead encephalopathy due to traditional medicines.

Abstract: "Traditional medicine use is common in developing countries and increasingly popular in the western world. Despite the popularity of traditional medicines, scientific research on safety and efficacy is limit…

1877 CE

#10722

Leprosy in India. A report.

The first quantitative study of leprosy in India. Leprosy first appeared in India at least 2,000 years ago and continued to exist throughout the subcontinent over the succeeding centuries. Upon the establishment of th…

1877 CE

#12948

Les oiseaux de la Chine. Avec un atlas de 124 planches, dessinées et lithographiées par M. Arnoul et coloriées au pinceau. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1878 CE–1883 CE

#7515

Les produits de la nature japonaise et chinoise: comprenant la dénomination, l'histoire et les applications aux arts, à l'industrie, à l'économie, à la médecine, etc. des substances qui dérivent des trois règnes de la nature et qui sont employées par les Japonais et les Chinois / Partie inorganique et minéralogique, contenant la description des minéraux et des substances qui dérivent du règne minéral.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1671 CE

#6491.9

Les secrets de la médecine des chinois, consistant en la parfaite connoissance du pouls. Envoyez de la Chine par un françois, homme de grand mérite.

The first Western book on Chinese medicine, with a few brief comments on Japanese methods. This anonymous collection of translations of early Chinese texts on pulse medicine has been variously attributed to different …

1830 CE–1833 CE

#1788

Liber fundamentorum pharmacologiae. Auctore Abu Mansur Mowafik ben Ali al Herui. Epitome codicis manuscripti persici Bibl. caes. reg. Vienn. inediti. Primus Latio donavit Romeo Seligmann. 2 vols.

The most important early Persian pharmacological work, first published in print in Latin translation. Muvaffak flourished in Herat (current Afghanistan), under the Samanid prince Mansur I ibn Nuh, who ruled from 961 t…

1949 CE

#1930.1

Lithium salts in the treatment of psychotic excitement.

The first clinical trial of lithium.

2001 CE

#7840

Long night's journey into day: Prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945.

1988 CE

#10029

Managing madness: Psychiatry and society in Australia 1788-1980.

1980 CE

#3705.2

Manners and customs of dentistry in Ukiyoe

Reproduces all the classic Japanese prints that concern the teeth or dentistry. By Nakahara, Yoshihisa Shindo, and Kuninori Homma.

1999 CE

#12543

Maori health and government policy 1840-1940.

1826 CE

#8523

Materia Indica; or, some account of those articles which are employed by the Hindoos and other eastern nations, in their medicine, arts, and agriculture; comprising also formulae, with practical observations, names of diseases in various eastern languages, and a copious list of oriental books immediately connected with general science. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1813 CE

#6975

Materia medica of Hindoostan, and artisan’s and agriculturist’s nomenclature.

The first book in English on the materia medica of India, and a pioneering work in the field of Indian medical history. Ainslie joined the British East India Company as an assistant surgeon in 1788 and spent the next …

1877 CE

#13781

Materia medica of the Hindus compiled from Sanskrit medical works. With a glossary of Indian plants.

1934 CE–1935 CE

#6490

Médecine traditionelle de l’Inde. Conférences faites à l’École de Médecine de Pondichéry … 3 vols.

1937 CE

#13501

Médecine traditionnelle de l'Inde: La magie noire.

1977 CE

#9211

Medical Department, United States Army Internal medicine in Vietnam. Volume I. Skin diseases in Vietnam, 1965-72. Vol. II. General medicine and infectious diseases, edited by Andre J. Ognibene and O'Neill Barrett, Jr.

Digital facsimile of Vol. 1 from the Hathi Trust at this link. Vol. 2 is availabel from the U.S. Army Medical Department, Office of Medical History at this link.

1994 CE

#9226

Medical Department, United States Army Surgery in Vietnam orthopedic surgery. Orthopedic surgery in Vietnam. Edited by William E. Burkhalter.

Digital text from the U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.

1875 CE

#11758

Medical hints to the people of India. Eminent medical men of Asia, Africa, Europe and America, who had advanced medical science; Compiled for the use of students and for the Vydians and Hakims of India.

A compilation of biographical sketches of selected figures in medical history written by Balfour as Surgeon-General, Madras Medical Department, "for the hindu Vydian, for the muhammadan Hakim, and for the students of …

1846 CE

#13739

Medical notes on China.

Wilson served as Inspector of Hospitals and Fleets from 1841 to 1843 onboard the Minden, a British hospital ship deployed in China at Chusan and Hong Kong at the end of 1841 to treat casualties in the First Opium War …

1991 CE

#8022

Medical support of the U.S. Army in Vietnam, 1965-1970.

Available as a PDF from www.history.army.mil at this link.

1901 CE

#6486.1

Medicin. Grundriss der Indo-Arischen Philologie und Altertumskunde.(Encyclopedia of Indo-Aryan Research). III. Band, 10. Heft.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2003 CE

#9746

Medicine across cultures: History and practice of medicine in non-Western cultures. Edited by Helaine Selin.

A very wide-ranging selection of essays

1940 CE

#12541

Medicine and health in New Zealand: A retrospect and a prospect.

Medical education, the hospital system, the relationship between specialists and general practitioners, and the brain drain of doctors to Britain.

1973 CE

#10223

Medicine and public health in the People's Republic of China. Edited by Joseph R. Quinn.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1985 CE

#6495.4

Medicine in China: A history of ideas.

The first comprehensive and analytical history of therapeutic concepts and practices in China, encompassing all aspects of Chinese medicine over 3500 years. Approximately one third of the work consists of primary text…

1986 CE

#9419

Medicine in China: A history of pharmaceutics.

2010 CE

#12723

Medicine in the {Veda}: Religious healing in the {Veda} with translations and annotations of medical hymns from the {Rgveda and the Atharvaveda} and renderings from the corresponding ritual texts.

2009 CE

#12666

Medicine, race and liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of empire.

"This book focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in India during the age of empire. Using the powerful metaphor of ‘pathology’ - the science of the origin, nature, and…

1846 CE

#5650.3

Mesmerism in India, and its practical application in surgery and medicine.

Esdaile performed a variety of surgical operations on Hindus, upon many of whom he appears successfully to have induced hypnotic anesthesia. However, his similar attempts with Europeans were not so successful.

2018 CE

#12567

Military medicine in Iraq and Afghanistan: A comprehensive review. Edited by Ian Greaves.

A report from the British Defence Medical Services.

2011 CE

#10022

Mixed medicines: Health and culture in French colonial Cambodia.

1984 CE

#8789

Modern Chinese medicine: Vol. 1: Chinese surgery: A comprehensive review of surgery in the People's Republic of China Vol. 2: Chinese medicine: A comprehensive review of medicine in the People's Republic of China. Vol. 3: Chinese health care: A comprehensive review of health services in the People's Republic of China. Edited by He-Guang Wu and Rui-Tu Ran.

1906 CE

#13502

Moeurs médicales de l'Inde et leurs rapports avec la médecine européenne.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1717 CE

#11473

Musaeum Zeylanicum, sive catalogus plantarum, in Zeylan sponte nascentium, observatarum & descriptarum a viaro celeberrimo Paulo Hermanno.

Paul Hermann's study of the plants of Sri Lanka collected during his experience as a Ship's Medical Oficer in the Dutch East India Company after Hermann completed his medical studies at Padua. This work was edited for…

1974 CE

#12718

Myocardial infarction due to coronary thromboarteritis following acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (MLNS) in an infant.

The authors reported the case of a 6 month old baby who died from a myocardiac infarction after "recovering" from Kawasaki disease. Autopsy showed that the baby died from classical coronary artery thrombosis accompani…

2004 CE

#10759

Narcotic culture: A history of drugs in China.

1818 CE

#7369

Narrative of a journey in the interior of China, and of a voyage to and from that country, in the years 1816 and 1817; containing an account of the most interesting transactions of Lord Amherst's embassy to the court of Pekin and observations on the countries which it visited.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1842 CE

#9083

Natural history of the insects of China, containing upwards of two hundred and twenty figures and descriptions by E. Donovan. A new edition, brought down to the present state of the science, with systematic characters of each species, synonyms, indexes, and other additional matter by J. O. Westwood.

Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Archive at this link.

2016 CE

#11956

Nature's colony: Empire, nation and environment in the Singapore Botanic Gardens.

2008 CE

#10246

Navy medicine in Vietnam: Oral histories from Dien Bein Phu to the fall of Saigon.

2010 CE

#8016

Navy medicine in Vietnam: Passage to freedom to the fall of Saigon.

1953 CE

#3215.3

Newborn virus pneumonitis (type Sendai). II. The isolation of a new virus possessing hemagglutinin activity.

M. Kuroya, N. Ishida, and T. Shiratori isolated the first recognized Sendai (para-influenza) virus.