Facets

1799 CE

#11592

An essay on the medical properties of the digitalis purpurea or foxglove.

"John Ferriar...published the first monograph on digitalis after William Withering (1785). Ferriar was the first to suggest that digitalis was beneficial in dropsy (severe congestive heart failure), in part because it…

1760 CE

#9902

An essay on the medicinal nature of hemlock.

"Störck is remembered for his clinical research of various herbs, and their associated toxicity and medicinal properties. His studies are considered to be the pioneering work of experimental pharmacology and his …

1764 CE

#9509

An essay on the more common West-India diseases and the remedies which that country itself produces: To which are added some hints on the management, &c. of negroes.

Though the title suggests tropical medicine in general, this work mainly concerns the selection and medical care of slaves. Digital facsimile of the second edition (Edinburgh, 1802) expanded "with practical notes and …

1829 CE

#2075

An essay on the operation of poisonous agents upon the living body.

The first book in English on the action of poisons on the living body.

1745 CE

#2094

An essay on the West-India dry-gripes… to which is added, an extraordinary case in physick.

Cadwalader, an American pupil of Cheselden, left a classical account of lead colic and lead palsy. This was later shown by Benjamin Franklin, printer of the above work, to be due to the consumption of Jamaica rum whic…

1804 CE

#2071.1

An essay, medical, philosophical, and chemical, on drunkenness, and its effects on the human body.

The first book on alcoholism, expanded from Trotter's MD dissertation: Dissertatio medica inauguralis, quædam de ebrietate, ejusque effectibus in corpus humanum complectens, quam ... pro gradu doctoris ... (Edin…

1934 CE

#2415

An experimental study of mapharsen (meta-amino para-hydroxy phenyl arsine oxide) as an antisyphilitic agent.

Introduction of mapharsen.

1975 CE

#2068.14

An historical account of pharmacology to the 20th century.

2012 CE

#9886

An historical overview of natural products in drug discovery.

Available from PubMedCentral at this link.

1821 CE

#13324

An illustration of the genus cinchona; comprising descriptions of all the officinal Peruvian barks, including several new species. Baron de Humboldt's Account of the Cinchona forests of South America, and Laubert's Memoir on the different species of quinquina: To which are added several dissertations of Don Hippolito Ruiz on various medicinal plants of South America ... And a short account of the spikenard of the ancients.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1938 CE

#2027

An inexhaustible source of blood for transfusion, and its preservation. Preliminary report.

J. R. Goodall, F. O. Anderson, G. T. Altimas, and F. L. MacPhail pointed out the possibility of using placental blood for transfusion purposes.

1793 CE

#10590

An inquiry into the nature and properties of opium: Wherein its component principles, mode of operation, and use or abuse in particular diseases, are experimentally investigated, and the opinions of former authors on these points impartially examined.

Crumpe undertook extensive experiments to understand the effects of opium. His book provided the first detailed description of the effects of narcotic withdrawal. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1803 CE

#1989

An introduction to electricity and galvanism.

One of the first works in the English language entirely devoted to medical electricity. Carpue also played a key role in the development of rhinoplasty. See No. 5737.

1892 CE

#1973

An introduction to modern therapeutics, being the Croonian Lectures on the relationship between chemical structure and physiological action.

One of the best known of Lauder Brunton’s works.

1997 CE

#7461

An Oak Spring flora: Flower illustration from the fifteenth century to the present time. A selection of rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon.

2009 CE

#10957

An Oak Spring herbaria: Herbs and herbals from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries. A selection of the rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi & Tony Willis. Edited with a description of the American herbals by Mark Argetsinger.

A spectacularly beautiful volume as are the other 3 vols in the Oak Spring series.

1990 CE

#7459

An Oak Spring pomona: A selection of the rare books on fruit in the Oak Spring Garden Library.

1989 CE

#7460

An Oak Spring sylva: A selection of the rare books on trees in the Oak Spring Garden Library.

2009 CE

#9809

An Old French herbal (Ms Princeton U.L. Garrett 131). Edited by Tony Hunt.

First edition of the earliest Old French herbal in verse— "a surprisingly comprehensive work (3188 octosyllables), based on an eleventh-century Latin treatise 'De viribus herbarum' attributed to a certain 'Macer…

2021 CE

#14023

An oral SARS-CoV-2 Mpro inhibitor clinical candidate for the treatment of COVID-19.

The authors showed how a coronavirus specific protease inhibitor designed in the lab, that could be administered by mouth to humans, achieved excellent plasma concentrations and antiviral potency. This drug, marketed …

1774 CE

#6451.90

An oration…containing an enquiry into the natural history of medicine among the Indians in North-America; and a comparative view of their diseases and remedies, with those of civilized nations.

Rush was the first American physician to publish a detailed study of native American medicine. Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.

1856 CE

#2079

Analyse physiologique des propriétés des systèmes musculaires et nerveux au moyen de curare.

Bernard paralysed motor nerve-endings with curare and demonstrated the independent excitability of muscle. He showed that curare acted by stopping the transmission of impulses from motor nerves to voluntary muscles.

1663 CE

#1826

Anastasis corticis Peruviae, seu chinae defensio

A defence of the virtues of Jesuit's bark or Peruvian bark (cinchona, chinchona), the most celebrated specific remedy for malaria. It was obtained from the bark of several species of the genus Cinchona, of the Rubiace…

1675 CE–1679 CE

#536

Anatome plantarum.

Malpighi was the founder of microscopic anatomy and a pioneer in the study of plant development. He approached the subject through the study of plant tissues. His Appendix adds to the work on chick embryology Malpighi…

2016 CE

#9599

Ancient botany.

1974 CE

#8280

Ancient ophthalmological agents: A pharmaco-historical study of the collyria and seals used during Roman antiquity, as well as of the most frequent components of the collyria.

2012 CE

#7140

Anglicus ortus. A verse herbal of the twelfth century. Edited and translated by Winston Black.

Written in Latin verse, the Anglicus ortus describes in considerable detail the medicinal uses of 160 plants. Edition based on collation of the five extant manuscripts of the text, plus parallel Latin text and English…

1979 CE

#8559

Anglo-Saxon plant remedies and the Anglo-Saxons.

1816 CE

#1990

Anleitung zur Darstellung und Anwendung aller Arten der kräftigsten Bäder und Heilwässer welche von Gesunden und Kranken gebraucht werden.

Döbereiner was the first to treat the subject of light therapy on a scientific basis.

1889 CE

#10786

Antibiose et symbiose.

Villemin coined the term antibiosis and advanced the term from an evolutionary viewpoint. Though he presented the concept Villemin did not apply this concept to fight disease. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference.)

1966 CE

#11105

Antibiotic susceptibility testing by a standardized single disk method.

The disk diffusion test, or agar diffusion test, or Kirby–Bauer test (disc-diffusion antibiotic susceptibility test, disc-diffusion antibiotic sensitivity test, KB test), for the antibiotic sensitivity of bacter…

1949 CE

#12613

Antibiotics: A survey of penicillin, streptomycin, and other antimicrobial substances from fungi, actinomycetes, bacteria, and plants. 2 vols.

Order of authorship of the original set: H. W. Florey, Chain, Heatley, Jennings, Sanders, Abraham, M. E. Florey.

1471 CE

#1789

Antidotarium. Add: Quid pro quo; Synonyma.

This work, which first circulated in manuscript in 1140, was the first formulary to be printed. It consists of 139 prescriptions and includes the original formula for the “anesthetic sponge” (spongia somni…

2008 CE

#9683

Antimicrobial drugs: Chronicle of a twentieth century medical triumph.

Concerns the history of all anti-infectives, including antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, antiprotozoal and anthelminthic agents.

2014 CE

#10422

Aphrodisiacs, fertility and medicine in early modern England.

This work "... in its extensive study of gynecological treatises from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, provides an important intervention into assumptions about the subversive quality of aphrodisiacs and abor…

1985 CE

#8203

Aphrodisiacs: The science and the myth.

1978 CE

#2068.19

Apothecary jars: Pharmaceutical pottery and porcelain in Europe and the East 1150-1850, with a glossary of terms used in apothecary jar inscriptions.

The most comprehensive study in English.

1726 CE

#9073

Aquilegio medicinal em que se dá noticia das agoas de caldas, de fontes, rios, poços, lagoas, e cisternas, do Reyno de Portugal, e dos Algarves, que ou pelas virtudes medicinaes, que tem, ou por outra alguma singularidade, são dignas de particular memoria.

The first inventory of Portuguese hot springs, fountains, rivers, wells, lakes and reservoirs reputed to have medicinal properties, including some with allegedly supernatural powers of healing. For the 337 entries, Fo…

2016 CE

#11049

Arabian drugs in early medieval Mediterranean medicine.

c. 1486 CE–1488 CE

#1801

Arbolayre... Le grant herbier en francois.

GRANT HERBIER

The “Grant herbier” or Arbolayre, the only medieval herbal printed in French, was probably derived from Platearius (No. 1790). Its authorship remains unknown. The “Grete Herball” (No. 1802) is …

1785 CE

#1836.1

Arbustrum Americanum: the American grove, or, an alphabetical catalogue of forest trees and shrubs…

Like his cousin, John Bartram (No. 1832), Marshall maintained a private botanical garden. According to W. Darlington the above work is “the first truly indigenous botanical essay published in the Western Hemisph…

1495 CE–1498 CE

#8395

Aristotle. [Opera omnia]. 5 vols.

Between November 1495 and June 1498 scholar printer Aldus Manutius (Teobaldo Mannucci) of Venice issued the first edition in the original Greek of Aristotle's Opera omnia. The set appeared in five thick quarto or smal…

1938 CE

#14110

Artificial fever produced by physical means; its development and application.

Perhaps the most comprehensive study of the application of pyrotherapy in the treatment of a wide variety of diseases, including syphilis. For syphilis in particular the treatment was replaced by penicillin, developed…

1569 CE

#1986.1

Artis gymnasticae apud antiquos celeberrimae, nostris temporibus ignoratae.

A history, based on extensive study of the classical literature, of the attitudes and practices of the Greeks and Romans concerning diet, hygiene, bathing, and exercise. This is one of the earliest books to discuss th…

c. 1477 CE

#1794

Artzneibuch.

The first German pharmacopeia, and a very early work written and published in the vernacular. The book was an important German text of popular medicine in its day. Digital facsimile from the Bayerische StaatsBibliothe…

1953 CE

#2660.4

Aryl-2-halogenoalkylamines. Part XII. Some carboxylic derivatives of NN-Di 2-chloroethylaniline.

Chlorambucil (a nitrogen mustard) used in the chemotherapy of cancer. With J. R. Roberts and W. J. C. Ross.

1955 CE

#8329

Asclepiades, his life and writings: A translation of Cocchi's life of Asclepiades and Gumpert's fragments of Asclepiades, by Robert Montraville Green.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1886 CE

#9665

Atlas des poissons vénéneux et descriptions des ravages produits par eux sur l'organisme humain, et des contre-poisons à employer. Atlas iadovitykh ryb s opisaniem vida ikh, deistviia iada na organizm cheloveka i ukazaniem protivuiadii.

The first well-illustrated medical military manual on toxic marine organisms. Text in French and Russian.

1981 CE

#8841

Atlas of medicinal plants of Middle America: Bahamas to Yucatan.

1962 CE

#10506

Atlas of the British flora.

A pioneering large-scale project in plant distribution cartography, containing 10-km square distribution maps for all non-critical native and frequently occurring alien vascular plant species found in Britain and Irel…