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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

Ethnobotany

Exhibiting 101 entries found in the GMN corpus.

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1648 CEHistoria naturalis Brasiliae.
PISO, Willem [Guillaume le Pois] (1611 – 1678) MARGGRAF, Georg (Marcgrave) (1610 – 1644)
1919 CEIrish ethno-botany and the evolution of medicine in Ireland.
MOLONEY, Michael Francis (1891 – 1961)
2004 CEJamaican folk medicine: A source of healing.
PAYNE-JACKSON, Arvilla ALLEYNE, Mervyn Coleridge (1933 – 2016)
1787 CEMateria medica Americana, potissimum regni vegetabilis.
SCHOEPFF, Johann David (1752 – 1800)
SCHOEPFF, Johann David (1752 – 1800)
1813 CEMateria medica of Hindoostan, and artisan’s and agriculturist’s nomenclature.
AINSLIE, Whitelaw (1767 – 1837)
1847 CEMedical botany: or, Descriptions of the more important plants used in medicine, with their history, properties, and mode of administration.
GRIFFITH, Robert Eglesfeld (1798 – 1850)
1828 CE​–1830 CEMedical flora; or, manual of the medical botany of the United States of North America. Containing a selection of above 100 figures and descriptions of medical plants, with their names, qualities, properties, history &c; and notes or remarks on nearly 500 equivalent substitutes. 2 vols.
RAFINESQUE, Constantine Samuel (1783 – 1840)
RAFINESQUE, Constantine Samuel (1783 – 1840)
1746 CEMedicina Britannica; or, a treatise on such physical plants as are generally to be found in the fields or gardens of Great-Britain: Containing a particular account of their nature, virtues, and uses. Together with the observations of the most learned physicians, as well ancient as modern, communicated to the late ingenious Mr. Ray, and the learned Dr. Sim. Pauli. Adapted more especially to the occasions of those, whose condition or situation of life deprives them, in a great measure, of the helps of the learned. To which are added, three indexes: The first containing the England and Latin names of the plants treated of: The second of the diseases, and their remedies: The third to the notes.
SHORT, Thomas (1690 – 1772)
SHORT, Thomas (1690 – 1772)
1999 CEMedicinal flora of the Alaska natives. A compilation of knowledge from literary sources of Aleut, Alutiiq, Athabascan, Eyak, Haida, Inupiat, Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Yupik traditional healing methods using plants.
GARIBALDI, Ann
2004 CEMedicinal plants in folk tradition: An ethnobotany of Britain and Ireland.
ALLEN, David Elliston (1932 – ) HATFIELD, Gabrielle (1945 – )
1989 CEMedicinal plants of the desert and canyon West.
MOORE, Michael Roland Shaw (1941 – 2009)
1957 CEMedicinal uses of plants by Indian tribes of Nevada. Contributions toward a flora of Nevada. No. 45. Revised edition, with summary of pharmacological research by W. Andrew Archer, Nov. 26, 1957.
TRAIN, Percy ARCHER, William Andrew (1894 – 1973) HEINRICHS, James R.
1932 CEMedicine among the American Indians.
STONE, Eric Percy (1892 – )
1999 CEMemory, wisdom and healing: The history of domestic plant medicine.
HATFIELD, Gabrielle (1945 – )
1998 CENative American ethnobotany.
MOERMAN, Daniel Ellis (1941 – )
2003 CENative American ethnobotany. A database of plants used as drugs, foods, dyes, fibers, and more, by native peoples of North America.
MOERMAN, Daniel Ellis (1941 – )
1941 CENavajo Indian medical ethnobotany. University of New Mexico Bulletin, Anthropological Series, Vol. 3, No. 5.
WYMAN, Leland Clifton (1897 – 1988)
HARRIS, Stuart K.
HARRIS, Stuart K.
1822 CENew guide to health; or botanic family physician, containing a complete system of practice, upon a plan entirely new; with a description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for preparing and adminstering them to cure disease. To which is prefixed a narrative of the life and medical discoveries of the author.
THOMSON, Samuel (1769 – 1843)
THOMSON, Samuel (1769 – 1843)
1672 CENew-Englands rarities discovered: in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country. Together with the physical and chyrurgical remedies wherewith the natives constantly use to cure their distempers, wounds, and sores…
JOSSELYN, John (1630 – 1675)
1534 CEOm UrteVand.
PEDERSEN, Christiern (1480 – 1554)
1992 CEPlants of the gods: Their sacred, healing and hallucinogenic powers.
HOFMANN, Albert (1906 – 2008)
HOFMANN, Albert (1906 – 2008)
SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001)
SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001)
1940 CEPlants used as curatives by certain Southeastern tribes.
TAYLOR, Lyda Averill
1615 CEQuatro libros. De la naturaleza, y virtudes de las plantas, y animales que estan receuidos en el vso de medicina en la Nueua España, y la methodo, y correccion, y preparacion, que para administrallas se requiere con lo que el doctor Francisco Hernandez escriuio en lengua latina. : Muy vtil para todo genero de gente q[ue] viue en esta[n]cias y pueblos, de no ay medicos, ni botica.Traduzido, y aumentados muchos simples, y compuestos y otros muchos secretos curatiuos, por Fr. Francisco Ximenes....
HERNÁNDEZ DE TOLEDO, Francisco (1517 – 1587) XIMÉNEZ, Francisco (1560 – 1620)
1997 CESacred leaves of Candomblé: African magic, medicine, and religion in Brazil.
VOEKS, Robert A. (1950 – )
2015 CEScience and civilisation in China: Vol. 6, biology and biological technology, Part 4, traditional botany: An ethnobotanical approach.
MÉTAILIÉ, Georges
2017 CESecret cures of slaves: People, plants, and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
SCHIEBINGER, Londa (1952 – )
SCHIEBINGER, Londa (1952 – )
1567 CESecretos de chirurgia, en especial de la enfermedades de morbo-galico y lamparones, y asimismo la manera como se curan los indos las llgas y heridas, y otras pasiones en las Indias, muy útil y provechoso par España, y otros muchos secretos de chirugia hasta ahora no escritos.
ARIAS DE BENEVIDES, Pedro (1505 – )
1578 CESumma y recopilacion de cirugia, con un arte para sangrar, muy util y provechosa.
LÓPEZ DE HINOJOSOS, Alonso (1535 – 1597)
1994 CETales of a shaman's apprentice: An ethnobotanist searches for new medicines in the Amazon rain forest.
PLOTKIN, Mark J. (1955 – )
PLOTKIN, Mark J. (1955 – )
1801 CEThe American herbal, or materia medica.
STEARNS, Samuel (1741 – 1810)
1672 CEThe American physician : or, a treatise of the roots, plants, trees, shrubs, fruit, herbs, etc., growing in the English Plantations in America ; ... whereunto is added a discourse of the Cacao-nut-Tree, and the use of its fruit ; with all the ways of making Chocolate
HUGHES, William ( – 1683)
1940 CEThe Badianus manuscript. (Codex Barberini, Latin, 241) Vatican Library. An Aztec herbal of 1552. Edited and translated by Emily W. Emmart.
CRUZ, Martin De La
CRUZ, Martin De La EMMART, Emily Walcott (1898 – ) BADIANO, Juan (1484 – 1552)
1980 CEThe botany and chemistry of hallucinogens. By Richard Schultes and Albert Hofmann. With a forward by Heinrich Klüver. Revised and enlarged second edition.
HOFMANN, Albert (1906 – 2008)
HOFMANN, Albert (1906 – 2008)
SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001)
SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001) KLÜVER, Heinrich (1897 – 1979)
1928 CEThe divine origin of the craft of the herbalist.
BUDGE, Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis (1857 – 1934)
1900 CEThe ethno-botany of the Coahuilla Indians.
BARROWS, David Prescott (1873 – 1954)
BARROWS, David Prescott (1873 – 1954)
1911 CEThe ethno-botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah.
CHAMBERLIN, Ralph Vary (1879 – 1967)
CHAMBERLIN, Ralph Vary (1879 – 1967)
1961 CEThe ethnobotany of pre-Columbian Peru.
ASHLEY-TOWLE, Margaret Elizabeth (1902 – 1985)
1932 CEThe ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians. M.A. thesis.
SWANK, George R.
1972 CEThe ethnobotany of the California Indians: A compendium of the plants, their users, and their uses.
MEAD, George R.
MEAD, George R.
1990 CEThe healing forest: Medicinal and toxic plants of the Northwest Amazonia.
SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001)
SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001) RAFFAUF, Robert F. (1916 – 2001)
1962 CEThe 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.
WATT, John Mitchell (1892 – 1980) BREYER-BRANDWIJK, Maria Gerdina (1918 – 1945)
1932 CEThe Swimmer manuscript. Cherokee sacred formulas and medicinal prescriptions, by James Mooney, revised, completed and edited by Frans M. Olbrechts. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 99.
MOONEY, James (1861 – 1921)
MOONEY, James (1861 – 1921) OLBRECHTS, Frans Maria (1899 – 1958)
1988 CEThe use of medicinal plants by the Alaska natives.
FORTUINE, Robert (1934 – 2009)
1993 CETobacco and shamanism in South America.
WILBERT, Johannes
1579 CETractado breve de anathomia y chirurgia.
FARFAN, Agustin (1531 – 1604)
1988 CETraditional bush medicines: An aboriginal pharmacopoeia.
BARR, Andy
BARR, Andy
1928 CEUse of plants by the Chippewa Indians. Smithsonian Institution-Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report 44.
DENSMORE, Frances Theresa (1867 – 1957)
DENSMORE, Frances Theresa (1867 – 1957)
1919 CEUses of plants by the Indians of the Missouri River region. Thirty-third annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1911-1912.
GILMORE, Melvin Randolph (1868 – 1940)
1979 CEUses of plants for the past 500 years.
ERICHSEN-BROWN, Charlotte
1992 CEVine of the Soul: Medicine men, their plants and rituals in the Columbian Amazonia.
SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001)
SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001) RAFFAUF, Robert F. (1916 – 2001)