Facets

1493 CE

#3666.84

Practica. IN: Liber nonus ad Almansorem (cum expositione Joannis Arculani). Ed: Hieronymus Surianus and Elyanorus Sanseverinus.

Arcolani's Practica, published in this edition of Rhazes with Arcolani's commentary, includes the first documentation for the use of gold for filling diseased teeth. There are also several chapters on diseases of the …

2007 CE

#8413

Practising colonial medicine: The Colonial Medical Service in British East Africa.

The Colonial Medical Service was the branch of the Colonial Serice responsible for healthcare provision in the British overseas territories. This book profiles Colonial Medical Officers (MOs) serving in Kenya, Uganda …

1895 CE

#5273

Preliminary report on the tsetse fly disease or nagana, in Zululand.

In 1895 Bruce found that nagana, the tsetse fly disease of Zululand, was due to a trypanosome (T. brucei). He described a hematozoon in the blood of the affected animals that had not been previously described. Digital…

1954 CE

#8469

Prescriptions médicales sur ostraca hiératiques.

1946 CE

#214.1

Pretoria: The South African fossil ape-men. The Australopithecinae. Part I. The occurrence and general structure of the South African ape-men.

With this comprehensive report Broom presented his case to the scientific establishment that Australopithecus probably represented the stock from which mankind had evolved.

2006 CE

#9376

Producing sexual desire: Changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900.

2016 CE

#11375

Protective monotherapy against lethal Ebola virus infection by a potently neutralizing antibody.

The cited paper was immediately followed in the same issue of Science by: John Misasi, Morgan A. Gilman, Masaru Kanekiyo et al, "Structural and molecular basis for Ebola virus neutralization by protective human antibo…

2004 CE

#14033

Public health in Qajar Iran.

"Until Now, there have been no books and only a few articles available in English that deal with the actual practice of medicine in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Iran. Willem Floor’s Public Health in Qa…

2004 CE

#8351

Questions and answers for physicians: A medieval Arabic study manual by 'Abd al- 'Azīz al-Sulamī. Translated, edited and with an introduction by Gary Leiser and Noury Al-Khaledy.

"....a translation and edition of the medieval Arabic medical work entitled Imtiḥān al-alibbā' li-kāffat al-aṭibbā' ("The Experts' Examination for All Physicians"). It is a study guide for students of medicine prepare…

1992 CE

#8243

Qustā ibn Lūqā's medical regime for the pilgrims to Mecca. The Risāla fī tabīr safar al-hajj. Edited with translation and commentary by Gerrit Bos.

The only known early health guide for the pilgrim to Mecca, by the Syrian Melkite Christian physician, scientist and translator.

1898 CE

#2457

Reise-Bericht über Rinderpest, Bubonenpest in Indien und Afrika, Tsetse-oder Surrakrankheit, Texasfieber, tropische Malaria, Schwarzwasserfieber.

1890 CE

#8287

Reisebilder aus Liberia: Resultate geographischer, naturwissenschaftlicher und ethnographischer untersuchungen während der jahre 1879-1882 und 1886-1887. 2 vols.

The first comprehensive monograph on the Republic of Liberia, published 50 years after its colonization by freed American slaves and their descendents. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Transla…

1721 CE

#10651

Relation des différentes espèces de peste qui reconnaissent les orientaux, des précautions & des remèdes qu'ils prennent pour empêcher la communication & le progrès; et ce que nous devons faire à leur exemple pour nous en préserver, & nous en guérir.

Gaudereau worked as a missionary in Turkey, Armenia, Persia, and India, facing plague outbreaks several times. In Turkey he almost succumbed to the plague, himself, but was cured using local remedies. These remedies a…

1937 CE

#10672

Religion and medicine of the Ga people.

1915 CE–1916 CE

#5350.4

Reports of the results of the bilharzia mission in Egypt, 1915.

Leiper identified the snail responsible for the transmission of Schistosoma mansoni and S. haematobium.

1903 CE–1919 CE

#5277

Reports of the Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal Society, 1903-1912. 17 pts.

Bruce and D.N. Nabarro were sent to Africa by the Royal Society to study sleeping sickness, and in their report they showed that the tsetse fly was the vector of trypanosomiasis. They also found that Gambia fever and …

1817 CE

#8816

Results of an investigation, respecting epidemic and pestilential diseases; including researches in the Levant, concerning the plague. 2 vols.

"From 1815 to 1817 Maclean travelled in Spain, Turkey, and the Levant, and he studied the plague at the Greek Pest Hospital at Constantinople, in the service of the Levant Company. His experiences in the Levant and in…

1497 CE

#39.1

Rhazes: Liber ad Almansorem sive Tractatus medicinae I-X. Liber divisionum. De aegritudinibus juncturarum. De aegritudinibus puerorum. De secretis sive aphorismi. Antidotarium. De praeservatione ab aegritudine lapidis; Introductorium medicinae. De sectionibus et ventosis. Synonyma. De animalibus. Add:Tabula de herbis medicis; Maimonides: Aphorismi; Mesue (the elder): Aphorismi; Hippocrates: Secreta; Prognosticatio secundum lunam; Capsula eburnea; De humana natura; De aere et aqua et regionibus; De pharmaciis; De insomniis; Avenzohar: De cura lapidis.

The best edition of the Opuscula of Rhazes, containing the second printing of the celebrated Liber ad Almansorem, not to be confused with Liber nonus ad Almansorem, as well as De aegritudine puerorum (No. 6313), and o…

1989 CE

#7920

Rituals and medicines: Indigenous healing in South Africa.

2003 CE

#8289

Sabur Ibn Sahl: The Small Dispensatory: Translated from the Arabic together with a study and glossaries by Oliver Kahl.

Edition and translation of the oldest manuscript on Arabic pharmacy.

2009 CE

#8277

Sābūr ibn Sahl's dispensatory in the recension of the 'Adudī hospital.

Arabic edition and English translation of Sābūr ibn Sahl's famous dispensatory as preserved in a recension made by the physicians of the ʿAḍudī hospital in Baghdad around the middle of the 11th century CE.

1970 CE

#7161

Safavid medical practice; or, the practice of medicine, surgery and gynaecology in Persia between 1500 A. D. and 1750 A. D.

1991 CE

#8627

Science and empire: East Coast Fever in Rhodesia and the Transvaal.

East Coast fever (theileriosis) is an animal disease in Africa caused by the protozoan parasite Theileria parva.

2011 CE

#7390

Science and technology in Islam: Catalogue of the collection of instruments of the Institute for the History of Arabic and Islamic Sciences. 4, 7. Medicine, 8. Chemistry, 9. Mineralogy.

1985 CE

#10789

Serological evidence for virus related to Simian T-Lymphotropic retrovirus III in residents of West Africa.

First report of the discovery of what became known as HIV-2 by the U.S. research group led by Kanki. This group published before the French group, but the French group had reported their data one day prior to the U.S.…

2012 CE

#10876

Severe respiratory illness associated with a novel coronavirus - Saudi Arabia and Qatar, 2012.

Reports on the first two patients affected by a "new" coronavirus. The first patient, hospitalized in June 2012, died, and the other was in both pulmonary and renal failure. In this paper the CDC referenced a website …

1983 CE

#9095

Sex and society in Islam: Birth control before the nineteenth century.

1843 CE

#12660

Sierra Leone: A Description of the manners and customs of the liberated Africans; with observations upon the natural history of the colony, and a notice of the native tribes.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1781 CE

#10230

Some account of the termites, which are found in Africa and other hot climates. In a letter from Mr. Henry Smeathman...to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart.

Pioneering study of tropical termites, their mounds, and their behavior, well illustrated with engravings. Digital facsimile from the Royal Society at this link.

1902 CE

#5274

Some clinical notes on a European patient in whose blood a trypanosoma was observed.

In 1901 Forde saw (but did not at first recognize as such) trypanosomes in the blood of a patient in Gambia. (See No. 5275.)

1971 CE

#6604.5

South Africa: Its medical history 1652-1898.

1988 CE

#11778

Southern African botanical literature, 1600-1988.

1934 CE

#3094

Sternal puncture; preliminary note.

Needle for sternal puncture.

1959 CE

#10753

Studies in magical amulets, chiefly Graeco-Egyptian.

A study of Graeco-Roman popular medicine and superstition based upon the examination of hundreds of engraved gemsntones that were thought to contain magical and medicinal properties. Digital facsimile from the Hathi T…

2018 CE

#14032

Studies in the history of medicine in Iran.

2016 CE

#9401

Success and suppression: Arabic sciences and philosophy in the Renaissance.

A bibliographically oriented historical analysis of the numerous Renaissance translations of Arabic medical, scientific and philosophical works into Latin from the Arabic, which the author argues reached a peak in the…

1968 CE

#7282

Sur la decouverte dans le Pleistocene inferieur de la valle de l'Omo (Ethiopie) d'une mandibule d'Australopithecien.

In 1967 Arambourg and Coppens discovered Omo 18, the first specimen of Paranthropus aethiopicus, also known as Paraustralopithecus aethiopicus; however it's classification as a new species was initially dismissed. In …

1829 CE

#5291

Sur la pyrophlyctide endémique, ou pustule d’Aleppo.

Important description of “Aleppo boil”, furunculosis orientalis.

1531 CE

#7627

Tacuini sanitatis Elluchasem Elimithar Medici de Baldath, de sex rebus non naturalibus, earum naturis, operationibus, & rectificationibus, publico omnium usui, conseruandae sanitatis, recens exarati. Albengnefit De uirtutibus medicinarum, & ciborum. Iac. Alkindus De rerum gradibus.

A Christian physician of Baghdad, Ibn Butlān traveled widely, eventually settling in Antioch. His treatise on hygiene and dietetics, Taqwām al-sihhah (The Almanac of Health) presented a guide to medical regimen in tab…

1932 CE–1937 CE

#7163

The abridged version of "The book of simple drugs" of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghāfiqī by Gregorius abu l-Faraj (Bar Hebraeus). Edited from the only two known manuscripts with an English translation, commentary and indices by M. Meyerhof and G. P. Sobhy Bey. 2 pts.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2008 CE

#7943

The administration of sickness: Medicine and ethics in nineteenth century Algeria.

1930 CE

#12459

The African Republic of Liberia and the Belgian Congo based on the observations made and material collected during the Harvard African Expedition, 1926-1927. Edited by Richard P. Strong. 2 vols.

"The Harvard Medical African Expedition of 1926-1927 was an eight-man venture sent by Harvard University for the primary purpose of conducting a medical and biological survey of Liberia; the secondary purpose being to…

2019 CE

#12844

The African roots of marijuana.

"After arriving from South Asia approximately a thousand years ago, cannabis quickly spread throughout the African continent. European accounts of cannabis in Africa—often fictionalized and reliant upon racial s…

2015 CE

#8291

The Alexandrian summaries of Galen’s On critical days. Editions and translations of the two versions of the JAWĀMIʿ, with an introduction and notes by Gerrit Bos and Y. Tzvi Langermann.

"Galen's impact on Islamic civilization, mainly on medicine but also on physics and philosophy, was enormous. His most important books were mediated through "summaries" which not only shortened, but in some cases also…

1905 CE–1911 CE

#5365

The anatomy and life history of Agchylostoma duodenale Dub. A. monograph. 2 pts.

Vols. 3 and 4 of Records of the School of Medicine, Cairo. In 1898 Looss discovered that hookworm larvae can penetrate the skin. His monograph epitomized all knowledge of the condition to 1911.

1890 CE

#11449

The antiquity of man in South Africa, and evolution.

The first separately published work on human origins published in the continent of Africa. Hillier's text was read on his behalf before the Eastern Province Literary and Scientific Society in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape…

1832 CE

#12667

The Aphorisms of Hippocrates, translated into Arabic by Honain ben Ishak, physician to the Caliph Motawukkul. [Edited from two MSS

1983 CE

#9244

The Arabic materia medica of Dioscorides.

1918 CE

#10998

The Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt. An illustrated and detailed account of the early organisation and work of the Australian medical units in Egypt in 1914-1915.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1887 CE–1890 CE

#13053

The avifauna of British India and its dependencies. A systematic account, with descriptions of all the known species of birds inhabiting British India, observations on their habits, nidification, &c., tables of their geographical distribution in Persia, Beloochistan, Afghanistan, Sind, Punjab, N.W. Provinces, and the peninsula of India generally, with woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.