Facets

1998 CE

#12806

The roots of Ayurveda.

Readings in English translation, with commentaries, from classical medical texts.

1909 CE

#9444

The Russo-Japanese war: Medical and sanitary reports from officers attached to the Japanese and Russian forces in the field, General staff, War office, April 1908.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2015 CE

#8290

The Sanskrit, Syriac and Persian sources in the Comprehensive Book of Rhazes

Razi's Kitab al-Hawi, a vast medical-pharmaceutical encyclopedia, was compiled from multiple sources. For each identified source this study provides Razi's Arabic text with an English translation. When possible, the o…

1943 CE

#214

The skull of Sinanthropus pekinensis: A comparative study on a primitive hominid skull.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2011 CE

#8247

The social history of health and medicine in colonial India. Edited by Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison.

1900 CE

#9421

The surgical history of the naval war between Japan & China during 1894-95. Translated from the original Japanese report under the supervision of Baron Y. Saneyoshi by S. Suzuki.

Surgical history of the naval aspects of the First Sino-Japanese War. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1913 CE–1914 CE

#6488

The surgical instruments of the Hindus, with a comparative study of the surgical instruments of the Greek, Roman, Arab and the modern Eouropean [sic] surgeons. 2 vols.

Vol. 2 consists of plates.

1833 CE

#8208

The Taleef shereef, or Indian materia medica translated from the original by George Playfair, Superintending Surgeon, Bengal Service. Published by The Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1872 CE

#2105

The thanatophidia of India. Being a Description of the venomous snakes of the Indian Peninsula, with an account of the influence of their poison on life and a series of experiments

Considered the first systematic work on venomous snakes. Describes all the venomous snakes of India. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1974 CE

#6495.2

The theoretical foundations of Chinese medicine. Systems of correspondence.

1941 CE

#5301.2

The transmission of Leishmania tropica by the bite of Phlebotomus papatasii.

Proof of the transmission of L. tropica by P. papatasii.

1889 CE

#13509

The useful native plants of Australia. (Including Tasmania).

Maiden, a botanist, was Curator and Secretary of The Technological, Industrial, and Sanitary Museum of New South Wales. Chapters include. 1. Human Food and Food adjuncts; 2. Forage Plants; 3. Drugs; 4. Gums, Resins, a…

1884 CE

#13051

The vertebrate zoology of Sind. A systematic account, with descriptions of all the known species of mammals, birds, and reptiles inhabiting the province; observations on their habits, &c; tables of their geographical distribution in Persia, Belochistan, and Afghanistan; Punjab, North-west provinces, and the peninsula of India generally, with woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations.

1929 CE

#8812

The work of medical women in India.

1737 CE

#13263

Thesaurus Zeylanicus exhibens plantas in Insula Zeylana nascentes; Inter quas plurimae novae species, & genera inveniuntur. Omnia Iconibus illustrata, ac descripta.

The first illustrated flora of Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon). Burman, a Dutch physician, was a friend and correspondent of Linnaeus and professor of botany. "Indeed, Linnaeus, as a guest at the Burman house, had a ha…

1988 CE

#14054

Tibetan medical thangka of the four medical tantras. Translator and compiler of the original edition: Byams-pa 'Phrin-Las, Wang lei. English translator and annotator Cai Jingfeng.

1973 CE

#6495.6

Tibetan medicine, illustrated in original texts.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2011 CE

#9710

Toxic archipelago: A history of industrial disease in Japan.

2016 CE

#13782

Toxic histories: Poison and pollution in modern India.

1578 CE

#1819

Tractado de las drogas, y medicinas de las Indias Orientales, con sus plantas debuxadas al bivo.

This is mainly a translation of Garcia d’Orta’s Coloquios (No. 1815) with the addition of some illustrations. Acosta, a Portuguese Jesuit physician and surgeon, travelled to India where he met Garcia d&rsq…

1988 CE

#7221

Traditional bush medicines: An aboriginal pharmacopoeia.

Aboriginal Communities of the Northern Territory of Australia. Collated and researched by Andy Barr, project manager; Joan Chapman, pharmacist; Nick Smith, botanist, Maree Beveridge, computer operator; Terry Knight, p…

2017 CE

#11435

Traditional medicine in the colonial Philippines: 16th to the 19th century.

1685 CE

#11128

Traité des maladies particulières aux pays orientaux, et dans la route, et de leurs Remèdes. Par M.C.D.D.E.M.

At the age of 17, Dellon, who is sometimes referred to as Gabriel Dellon, embarked as second surgeon aboard the ship La Force. He arrived at Darman, in the Portuguese Indies, in 1673, where he was doctor to Luis de Me…

1942 CE

#5302

Transmission of Indian kala-azar to man by the bites of Phlebotomus argentipes, Ann. and Brun.

Successful transmission of kala-azar to man by the bite of Phlebotomus argentipes reported, showing it to be the vector of Leishmania. With H. E. Shortt and L. A. P. Anderson.

1925 CE

#5394

Tropical typhus in the Federated Malay States, with a compilation on epidemic typhus.

Bull. Inst. med. Res., F. M. S., No. 2. Drew attention to scrub typhus in Malaya.

1936 CE

#9241

Türkische Turfan-Texte 7 [APAW 12] edited by G. R. Rachmati.

Medieval medical texts from Turfan (Turpan), Central Asia.

2015 CE

#8012

U. S. Army psychiatry in the Vietnam War: New challenges in extended counterinsurgency warfare.

1898 CE–1900 CE

#11394

Über die Beulenpest in Bombay im Jahre 1897. Gesamtbericht von der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien zur Studium der Beulenpest nach Indien entsendeten Commission. 2 vols. in 3.

Müller died at the age of 32 as a result of exposure to this plague.

1934 CE

#4657

Übertragung des Virus von Encephalitis epidemica auf Affen.

Experimental transmission of Japanese B encephalitis.

1907 CE

#5350.1

Ueber den Wohnort von Schistosomum japonicum. [Japanese text.]

Fujinami and Nakamura identified the intermediate host of S. japonicum. Abstract in Arch. Schiffs-u. Tropenhyg., 1908, 12,471. Later (1909, 6, 224-52) they demonstrated that infection occurred by skin penetration. Eng…

1928 CE

#4654

Ueber die Encephalitis epidemica in Japan.

Japanese encephalitis distinguished from encephalitis lethargica.

1897 CE

#5128

Ueber die Pestepidemie in Formosa.

Ogata considered the flea (principally Xenopsylla cheopis) to be the principal, if not the sole, vector of bubonic plague infection.

1930 CE

#5177

Ueber Identität von “Yato-Byo” (Ohara’s disease) und “Tularämie”, sowie ihren Erreger.

In Japan tularemia is known as “Ohara’s disease”.

2009 CE

#9267

Uneasy encounters: The politics of medicine and health in China 1900-1937. Edited by Iris Borowy.

1987 CE

#9212

United States Army in the Korean War. The medics' war.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

2014 CE

#12839

Unseen enemy: The English, disease, and medicine in colonial Bengal, 1617–1847.

1965 CE

#10582

Vāgbhaṭa Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā. The first five chapters of Its Tibetan version, edited and rendered Into English along with the original Sanskrit by Claus Vogel. Accompanied by a literary introduction and a running commentary on the Tibetan translating-technique.

1941 CE

#10581

Vāgbhaṭa's Aṣṭāngahṛdayasaṃhitā: Ein altindisches Lehrbuch der Heilkunde. Aus dem Sanskrit ins Deutsche Übertragen mit Einleitung, Anmerkungen, und Indices von Luise Hilgenberg und Willibald Kirfel.

"The Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā (Ah, "Heart of Medicine") is written in poetic language. The Aṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha (As, "Compendium of Medicine") is a longer and less concise work, containing many parallel passages and extensive …

2015 CE

#8042

Vietnamese traditional medicine: A social history.

Reception of foreign medical ideas and techniques through the case study of smallpox.

1776 CE

#11996

Voyage à la Nouvelle Guinée, dans lequel on trouve la description des lieux, des observations physiques & morales, & des détails relatifs à l'histoire naturelle dans le regne animal & le regne végétal. Enrichi de cent vingt figures en taille douce.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1782 CE

#5104.1

Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine, fait par ordre du Roi depuis 1774 jusqu’en 1781. 2 vols.

Vol. 1, pp. 113-16, “No author before the time of Sonnerat gives us so distinct an account of the epidemic prevalence of cholera, so full a description of its varieties or has attributed it so positively to the …

2012 CE

#8707

Wallace online, directed by John van Wyhe.

http://wallace-online.org/ "Wallace Online is the first complete edition of the writings of naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, including the first compilation of his specimens. The project is directed by John van Wyhe,…

2008 CE

#9231

War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A series of cases, 2003-2007. Edited by Shawn Christian Nessen, Dave Edmond Lounsbury, and Stephen P. Hetz.

Exceptionally well illustrated with color photographs.

2012 CE

#12805

Well-Mannered medicine: Medical ethics and etiquette in classical Ayurveda.

1970 CE

#6604.2

Western medical pioneers in feudal Japan.

Covers the influence of Western medicine on Japan from the seventeenth century through 1870.

1972 CE

#8614

Western medicine in a Chinese palace: Peking Union Medical College, 1917-1951.

Traces the development of Western medicine in China from 1805 to the creation of the Peking Union Medical College.

1980 CE

#6604.31

When the twain meet. The rise of western medicine in Japan.

Suppl. to Bull. Hist. Med., new ser., 5.

2015 CE

#9957

Wounds and wound repair in medieval culture. Edited by Larissa Tracy and Kelly DeVries.

Essays on a wide range of aspects of wounds during the Middle Ages, particularly resulting from war and violence, but also those of Christ, from ca. 1000 CE to the 15th century in the West (England, Ireland, Scotland,…

1930 CE–1932 CE

#9240

Zur Heilkinde der Uiguren. Edited by G. R. Rachmati. 2 vols.

Old Uygur medical fragments, some of which are now lost, in the Berlin Turfan collection. Rachmati was the pioneer historian of Islamic Central Asian medicine.