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483 entries match Africa & Middle East [Z01.058.500]
2020 CE
#14031
The beginnings of modern medicine in Iran.
1930 CE
#6471
The beginnings. Egypt and Assyria.
Clio Medica series.
1977 CE
#5145.1
The black death in the Middle East.
1953 CE
#9243
The book of plants [Kitâb al-nabât] of Abū Hanīfa ad-Dīnawari: Part of the alphabetical section (j-i). Edited and translated by Bernhard Lewin.
1928 CE
#5814.1
The book of the ten treatises on the eye ascribed to Hunain Ibn Is-hâq. The earliest existing systematic text-book of ophthalmology. The Arabic text from the only two known manuscripts, with an English translation and glossary by Max Meyerhof.
The earliest extant systematic textbook of ophthalmology. The Arabs were the first to make a specialty of ophthalmology.
1937 CE
#9441
The cataract operations of 'Ammar Ibn Alī Al-Mausilī by Max Meyerhof.
Mausilī invented a hollow metallic syringe, which he applied through the sclerotic, and successfully extracted cataracts through suction.
1992 CE
#9264
The colonial disease: A social history of sleeping sickness in colonial Zaire, 1900-1940.
2016 CE
#9922
The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project, Published by Livingstone Online and the UCLA Digital Library Program.
http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/index.htm "The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project is a collaborative, international effort to use spectral imaging technology and digital publishing to make available a seri…
1999 CE
#12516
The diffusion of Greco-Roman medicine into the Middle East and the Caucasus. Edited by J.A.C. Greppin, E. Savage-Smith, and J. L. Gueriguian.
2007 CE
#8278
The dispensatory of Ibn at-Tilmīd: Arabic text, English translation, study and glossaries by Oliver Kahl.
Critical Arabic edition, annotated English translation, introductory study, and two-way glossaries of the dispensatory composed around the middle of the 12th century CE by the Nestorian physician Ibn at-Tilmīḏ. The di…
1970 CE
#9894
The early history of scientific medicine in Uganda.
2014 CE
#10778
The early spread and epidemic ignition of HIV-1 in human populations.
Using the viral genome isolated from the archival serum of the "Kinshasa patient", Lemey, Faria and colleagues deduced that the prototype African viral strain first crossed from monkeys to humans about 1920 in the are…
1861 CE
#10049
The eastern, or Turkish bath: Its history, revival in Britain, and application to the purposes of health.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1987 CE
#8315
The Ebers papyrus: A new English translation, commentaries and glossary by Paul Ghalioungui.
1930 CE
#4850
The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus. Published in facsimile and hieroglyphic transliteration with translation and commentary by James Henry Breasted. 2 vols.
At Luxor, Egypt, in 1862 the American collector and dealer in papyri Edwin Smith purchased the papyrus which bears his name. It is preserved at the New York Academy of Medicine. The original text was written about 300…
1905 CE
#8390
The Hearst Medical Papyrus: Hieratic text in 17 facsimile plates in collotype with introduction and vocabulary by George A. Reisner. University of California Publications. Egyptian Archaeology, Volume 1.
The papyrus has been dated to the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, around the time of pharaoh Tuthmosis III. The text is believed to have been composed earlier, during the Middle Kingdom, around 2000 BCE. The papyrus is so unus…
2014 CE
#7411
The herbal of al-Ghāfiqī. A facsimile edition of MS 7508 in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, with critical essays. Edited by F. Jamil Ragep and Faith Wallis with Pamela Miller and Adam Gacek.
2015 CE
#10800
The historical ecology of malaria in Ethiopia: Deposing the spirits.
2013 CE
#7843
The history of blood transfusion in Sub-Saharan Africa.
1793 CE
#13041
The history of Dahomy, an inland kingdom of Africa; compiled from authentic memoirs; with an introduction and notes.
Dalzel studied medicine at Edinburgh, and served in the Royal Navy as a surgeon during the Seven Years’ War (1756–63). Discharged in 1763, he accepted a position as a surgeon in the Company of Merchants Tr…
2004 CE
#13536
The history of medicine in Iran. Entries extracted from the Encyclopaedia Iranica Vols. I-XII.
1980 CE
#12917
The history of old Turkish dentistry.
1927 CE
#5350.8
The insect transmission of Onchocerca volvulus (Leuckart, 1893), the cause of worm nodules in man in Africa.
The fly Simulium damnosum shown to be the vector of onchocerciasis.
2010 CE
#12514
The key to medicine and a guide for students, by Abū al-Faraj ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥ usayn ibn Hindū. Translated by Aida Tibi and reviewed by E. Savage-Smith [The Great Books of Islamic Civilization Series, The Center for Muslim Contribution to Civilization, Faculty of Islamic Studies, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar].
1874 CE
#12705
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa. From eighteen hundred and sixty-five to his death. Continued by a narrative of his last Moments and sufferings, obtained from his faithful servants, Chuma and Susi, by Horace Waller, F.R.G.S.
"Livingstone’s most famous expedition was in 1866–73, when he traversed much of central Africa in an attempt to find the source of the Nile. This book contains the daily journals that Livingstone kept on t…
2011 CE
#12421
The last slave market: Dr. John Kirk and the struggle to end the East African slave trade.
1967 CE
#7414
The medical formulary of Al-Samarqandi and the relation of early Arabic simples to those found in the indigenous medicine of the Near East and India.
1966 CE
#8531
The medical formulary or Aqrābādhin of al Kindi. Edited and translated by Martin Levey.
1962 CE
#8793
The medicinal and poisonous plants of southern and eastern Africa: Being an account of their medicinal and other uses, chemical composition, pharmacological effects and toxicology in man and animal. Second edition.
1457pp. The first edition of 1932 had only 314pp.
2006 CE
#12523
The medicinal use of opium in ninth-century Baghdad. (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, vol. 5).
1937 CE
#12675
The medico-philosophical controversy between Ibn Butlan of Baghdad and Ibn Ridwan of Cairo: A contribution to the history of Greek learning among the Arabs. (The Egyptian University, the Faculty of Arts: Publication 13.)
2015 CE
#9476
The medieval Islamic hospital: Medicine, religion, charity.
Focuses on Egyptian and Levantine institutions of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries.
1905 CE
#5318
The nature of tick fever in the eastern part of the Congo Free State.
Independently of Ross and Milne, Dutton and Todd demonstrated relapsing fever in monkeys conveyed by infected ticks, Omithodorus moubata. The organism was named Sp. (now Borrelia) duttoni. Both Dutton and Todd contrac…
1952 CE
#6471.1
The old Egyptian medical papyri.
A guide to the chief medical papyri, with particular attention to therapeutics.
2004 CE
#12524
The oriental tradition of Paul of Aegina's Pragmateia.
"The volume investigates how Paul of Aegina's medical handbook or pragmateia was transmitted and transformed through Syriac and Arabic translations, becoming one of the cornerstones of the Islamic medical tradition. I…
1986 CE
#7283
The origin of the human race.
First publication in English by Alekseyev of Homo rudolfensis, primarily known from KNM-ER 1470, discovered in Koobi Fora in the Lake Turkana basin, Kenya. Alekseyev (Alexeev) first proposed the species in 1978, initi…
2015 CE
#12629
The paradigmatic translator and his method: Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq’s translation of the Hippocratic aphorisms from Greek via Syriac into Arabic. IN: New Horizons in Graeco-Arabica Studies, ed
This analysis of the work of the leading medieval Arab translator of Greek texts into Arabic emphasizes that Hunayn ibn Ishāq, a Nestorian Christian, typically prepared an intermediary translation into Syriac, from wh…
1898 CE
#7011
The Petrie papyri. Hieratic papyri from Kahun and Gurob (Principally of the Middle Kingdom) edited by F. Ll. Griffith.
KAHUN GYNECOLOGICAL PAPYRUS
The Kahun Gynecological Papyrus (also Kahun Papyrus, Kahun Medical Papyrus, or UC 32057) is the oldest known medical text on papyrus, dating from circa 1800 BCE. It was found at El-Lahun, Egypt (Faiyum, Kahun, كاهم
1983 CE
#8316
The physicians of pharaonic Egypt. (Deutsches Archäologisches Instutut, Abteilung Kairo, Sonderschrift 10).
1938 CE
#7281
The Pleistocene anthropoid apes of South Africa.
Paranthropus robustus, discovered by Broom in Kromdraal, South Africa, in 1938. The species is generally dated from about 2 million to 1.2 million years before present.
1995 CE
#12517
The Prophet's medicine: A creation of the Muslim traditionalist scholars (Studia Orientalia 74)
2019 CE
#12778
The Regimen Sanitatis of Avenzoar: Stages in the production of a medieval translation.
"The authors publish a previously unedited Regimen of Health attributed to Avenzoar (Ibn Zuhr), translated at Montpellier in 1299 in a collaboration between a Jewish philosopher and a Christian surgeon, the former tra…
1870 CE
#10567
The religious system of the Amazulu. Izinyanga zokubula; or, divination, as existing among the Amazulu, in their own words, with a translation into English, and notes.
Callaway, a surgeon turned missionary and bishop of the Diocese of Natal, may have been the first to publish actual transcriptions of Zulu divination, including indigenous medical beliefs and practices, in their origi…
1886 CE
#13052
The reptiles of Sind: A systematic account, with descriptions of all the species inhabiting the province, and a table of their geographical distribution in Persia, Bloochistan, Afghanistan, Punjab, Northwest Provinces, and the Peninsula of India generally, with woodcuts, lithographs, and colored illustrations.
A re-issue with additions to date, of "Reptilian fauna" in the author's Vertebrate zoology of Sind. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1922 CE
#212
The Rhodesian skull.
Description of the skull found at Broken Hill, Rhodesia, in 1921.
1971 CE
#10678
The role of the trypanosomiases in African ecology: A study of the Tsetse fly problem.
1967 CE
#10679
The sleeping sickness epidemic of Uganda 1900-1920: A study in historical geography.
1992 CE
#8414
The social basis of health and healing in Africa. Edited by Steven Feierman and John M. Janzen.
The essays in this book concern disease, health and healing practices on the African continent. The contributors all emphasize the social conditions linked to ill health and the development of local healing traditions…
1937 CE–1939 CE
#7259
The stone age of Mount Carmel. Volume I: Excavations at the Wady el-Mughara. Volume II: The fossil remains from the Lavalloiso-Mousterian.
Garrod carried out her landmark excavations of the el-Wad, el-Tabun and es-Skhul caves on the hills of Mount Carmel, close to Wadi el-Mugharah (Valley of the Caves) between 1929 and 1934. Her monograph on the subject …
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.