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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

Botanic Sources of Single Component Drugs

Exhibiting 135 entries found in the GMN corpus.

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1669 CEIl tabacco opera ... Nella quale si tratta dell'origine, historia, coltura, preparatione, qualità natura, virtà & uso in fumo, in polvere, in foglia, in lambitivo, et in medicina della pianta volgarmente detta tabacco, si discorre degl'vtili ch'arreca moderatamente preso, de i danni ch'apporta smoderatamente usato, e qual sia il vero e legitimo modo di prenderlo: trattato naturale, medico, morale & curioso.
STELLA, Benedetto
1971 CEInhibition of prostaglandin synthesis as a mechanism of action for aspirin-like drugs.
VANE, Sir John Robert (1927 – 2004)
VANE, Sir John Robert (1927 – 2004)
1853 CEUntersuchungen über die wasserfreien organischen Säuren.
GERHARDT, Charles Frédéric (1816 – 1856)
GERHARDT, Charles Frédéric (1816 – 1856)
1998 CEA brief history of cocaine.
KARCH, Steven B.
1949 CEA critical review of the basic facts in the history of cinchona.
JARAMILLO-ARANGO, Jaime (1897 – 1962)
1730 CEA dissertation upon tea, explaining its nature and properties by many new experiments; and demonstrating from philosophical principles, the various effects it has on different constitutions. To which is added the natural history of tea; and a detection of the several frauds used in preparing it. Also a discourse on the virtues of sage and water, and an enquiry into the reasons why the same food is not equally agreeable to all constitutions....
SHORT, Thomas (1690 – 1772)
SHORT, Thomas (1690 – 1772)
2003 CEA history of cocaine: The mystery of coca Java and the Kew plant.
KARCH, Steven B.
1930 CEA report of progress on the use of ephedrine in a case of myasthenia gravis.
EDGEWORTH, Harriet Isabel (1892 – )
1926 CEActions and uses of the salicylates and cinchophen in medicine.
HANZLIK, Paul John (1885 – 1951)
1582 CEAigentlich Beschreibung der Raiss, so er vor diser Zeit gegen Auffgang inn die Morgenländer, fürnemlich Syriam, Iudaeam, Arabiam, Mesopotamiam, Babyloniam, Assyriam, Armeniam etc....
RAUWOLF, Leonhard (1535 – 1596)
RAUWOLF, Leonhard (1535 – 1596)
2013 CEAlcohol and opium in the Old West: Use, abuse and influence.
AGNEW, Jeremy
1922 CEAll about coffee.
UKERS, William Harrison (1873 – 1945)
1935 CEAll about tea. 2 vols.
UKERS, William Harrison (1873 – 1945)
1985 CEAn account of the foxglove and its medical uses 1785-1985.
WITHERING, William (1741 – 1799)
WITHERING, William (1741 – 1799) ARONSON, Jeffrey Kenneth (1947 – )
1785 CEAn account of the foxglove, and some of its medical uses.
WITHERING, William (1741 – 1799)
WITHERING, William (1741 – 1799)
1763 CEAn account of the success of the bark of the willow in the cure of agues.
STONE, Edward (1702 – 1768)
2011 CEAn anatomy of addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and the miracle drug, cocaine.
MARKEL, Howard (1960 – )
MARKEL, Howard (1960 – )
1884 CEAn epitome of the reports of the medical officers to the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Office from 1871 to 1882. With chapters on the history of medicine in China: Materia medica: Epidemics: Famine: Ethnology: And chronology in relation to medicine and public health.
GORDON, Sir Charles Alexander (1821 – 1899)
1799 CEAn essay on the medical properties of the digitalis purpurea or foxglove.
FERRIAR, John (1761 – 1815)
FERRIAR, John (1761 – 1815)
1821 CEAn 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.
HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von (1769 – 1859) LÓPEZ, Hipólito Ruiz (1754 – 1816)
LAMBERT, Aylmer Bourke (1761 – 1842)
LAMBERT, Aylmer Bourke (1761 – 1842) LAUBERT, Jean Charles (1762 – 1834)
1793 CEAn 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, Samuel (1766 – 1796)
1663 CEAnastasis corticis Peruviae, seu chinae defensio
BADO, Sebastiano [Baldi, Baldo] (1610 – 1676)
1892 CEAzione della chinina sui parasite malarici e sui corrispondente accessi febbrili.
GOLGI, Camillo (1844 – 1926)
GOLGI, Camillo (1844 – 1926)
1960 CEBibliographie des Kaffe, des Kakao der Schokolade, des Tee und deren Surrogate bis zum Jahre 1900.
MUELLER, Wolf
1761 CECautions against the immoderate use of snuff. Founded on the known qualities of the tobacco Plant; and the effects it must produce when this way taken Into the body: And by instances of persons who have perished miserably of diseases, occasioned, or rendered incurable by its use,
HILL, (Sir) John (1714 – 1775)
HILL, (Sir) John (1714 – 1775)
1945 CECinchona in Java: The story of quinine.
TAYLOR, Norman (1883 – 1967)
1994 CECoca prohibition in Peru: The historical debates.
GAGLIANO, Joseph
2008 CECocaine: Global drug.
GOOTENBERG, Paul Eliot (1954 – )
1999 CECocaine: Global histories.
GOOTENBERG, Paul Eliot (1954 – )
2002 CECoffee: A bibliography. A guide to the literature on coffee. 2 vols.
HÜNERSDORFF, Richard von HASENKAMP, Holger G.
1822 CEConfessions of an opium eater.
DE QUINCEY, Thomas Penson (1785 – 1859)
DE QUINCEY, Thomas Penson (1785 – 1859)
1656 CECortex Peruviae redivivus, profligator febrium, assertus ab impugnationibus Melippi Protimi ...
BADO, Sebastiano [Baldi, Baldo] (1610 – 1676)
1631 CECurioso tratado de la naturaleza y calidad del chocolate, divido en quatro puntos. En el primero se trata, que sea chocolate; y que calidad tenga el cacao, y los demas ingredientes. En el segundo, se trata la calidad que result de rodos ellos. En el tercero se trata el modo de hazerlo, y de quanta maneras se toma en las Indias, y qual dellas es mas saludable. El ultimo punto trata de la quantidad, y como se ha de toma, y en que tiempo, y que personas.
COLMENERO DE LEDESMA, Antonio
1679 CECurrus triumphalis, è terebinthô. Or an account of the many admirable vertues of oleum terebinthinae. More particularly, of the good effects produced by its application to recent wounds, especially with respect to the hemorrhagies of the veins, and arteries, and the no less pernicious weepings of the nerves, and lymphaducts. Where also, the common methods, and medicaments, used to restrain hemorrhagies, are examined, and divers of them censured. And lastly, A new way of amputation, and a speedier convenient method of curing stumps, than that commonly practised, is with divers other useful matters recommended to the military surgeon.…
YONGE, James (1646 – 1721)
1805 CEDarstellung der reinen Mohnsäure (Opiumsäure); nebst einer chemischen Untersuchung des Opiums, mit vorzüglicher Hinsicht auf einen darin neu entdeckten Stoff.
SERTÜRNER, Friedrich Wilhelm Adam (1783 – 1841)
1528 CEDe compositionibus medicamentorum liber unus
SCRIBONIUS LARGUS (1 – 50)
1658 CEDe Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica libri quatuordecim.
PISO, Willem [Guillaume le Pois] (1611 – 1678) BONDT, Jacob de [Jacobus Bontius] (1592 – 1631)
1698 CEDe ipecacuanha novo Gallorum antidysenterico. Resp. C[hristophe] F[riedrich] Kneussel.
VALENTINI, Michael Bernhard (1657 – 1729)
VALENTINI, Michael Bernhard (1657 – 1729)
1671 CEDe l'usage du caphe, du the, et du chocolate.
DUFOUR, Philippe Sylvestre (1622 – 1687)
DUFOUR, Philippe Sylvestre (1622 – 1687)
1790 CEDe l'usage du quinquina dans les fièvres rémittentes. Mémoire qui a remporté en 1785, au jugement de la Societé Royale de Médecine de Paris.
BAUMES, Jean Baptiste Timothée (1756 – 1828)
1795 CEDe morbis vasorum absorbentium corporis humani.
SOEMMERRING, Samuel Thomas von (1755 – 1830)
1914 CEDie unregelmässige Herztätigkeit und ihre klinische Bedeutung.
WENCKEBACH, Karel Frederik (1864 – 1940)
WENCKEBACH, Karel Frederik (1864 – 1940)
1916 CEDigitaliswirkung am isolierten Vorhof des Frosches.
STRAUB, Walter (1874 – 1944)
1930 CEDigoxin, a new digitalis glucoside.
SMITH, Sydney
SMITH, Sydney
1806 CEDissertation sur le café; son historique, ses propriétés, et le procédé pour en obtenir la boisson la plus agréable, la plus salutaire et la plus économique; Par Ant.-Alexis Cadet-de-Vaux...Suivie de son analyse; par Charles-Louis Cadet.
CADET DE VAUX, Antoine-Alexis (1743 – 1828) CADET, Charles-Louis (1769 – 1821)
1939 CEDolantin, ein neuartiges Spasmolytikum und Analgetikum. (Chemisches und pharmakologisches.)
EISLER, O
EISLER, O
SCHAUMANN, O
SCHAUMANN, O
1810 CEEnsaio sobre o cinchonino, e sobre sua influencia em a virtude da quina, e de outras cascas.
GOMES, Bernardino António (1769 – 1823)
1799 CEEnsaios sobre algumas enfermidades d'Angola....
AZEREDO, José Pinto de (1766 – 1810)
1887 CEEphedrin.
NAGAYOSHI, Nagai (1844 – 1929)
NAGAYOSHI, Nagai (1844 – 1929)
1930 CEEphedrine and related substances.
SCHMIDT, Carl Frederic (1893 – 1988)
SCHMIDT, Carl Frederic (1893 – 1988)
CHEN, Ko Kuei (1898 – 1988)
CHEN, Ko Kuei (1898 – 1988)