Facets

1478 CE

#20

De medicina. Ed: Bartholomaeus Fontius.

De Medicina is the oldest Western medical document after the Hippocratic writings. Written about 30 CE, it remains the greatest medical treatise from ancient Rome, and the first Western history of medicine. Celsus&rsq…

1978 CE

#10691

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome XIII: Des lieux dans l'homme, Du système des glandes, Des fistules, Des hémorroïdes, De la vision, Des chairs, De la dentition. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises from the Hippocratic Collection concerning anatomy, physiology, and pathology with the following possible periods of orig…

1770 CE–1773 CE

#437.1

Histoire de l’anatomie et de la chirurgie. 6 vols.

A biobibliographical survey to 1755, including dentistry.

1936 CE–1949 CE

#6430

Histoire générale de la médecine, de la pharmacie, de l’art dentaire et de l’art véterinaire. 3 vols.

This splendidly produced work, beautifully illustrated, was written by experts in each branch of the subject, with Laignel-Lavastine as general editor.

1528 CE

#36

In principio singulorum librorum omnia indicantur, quae in eo libro continentur. [Title in Greek and Latin].

Paul of Aegiina was the most famous physician and surgeon in the Byzantine Empire during the seventh century, and probably thereafter. According to Eugene F. Rice, "Paulus Aegineta", Catalogus translationum et comment…

1875 CE

#2

Papyros Ebers: Das hermetische Buch über die Arzeneimittel der alten Ägypter in hieratischer Schrift, herausgegeben mit Inhaltsangabe und Einleitung versehen von Georg Ebers, mit Hieroglyphisch-Lateinischem Glossar von Ludwig [Christian] Stern, mit Unterstützung des Königlich Sächsischen Cultusministerium. 2 vols.

The Ebers Papyrus dates from about 1552 BCE. It measures 20.23 m. in length and 30 cm. in height, and is, along with the Edwin Smith Papyrus, one of the two most important surviving medical papyri. It was written in h…

1998 CE

#7701

The Cambridge encyclopedia of human paleopathology by Arthur C. Auderheide and Conrado Rodríguez-Martín, including a dental chapter by Odin Langsjoen.

Includes a significant historical introduction.