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Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines

Exhibiting 247 entries found in the GMN corpus.

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2012 CEThe alphabet of Galen. Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. A critical edition of the Latin text with English translation and commentary by Nicholas Everett
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1801 CEThe American herbal, or materia medica.
STEARNS, Samuel (1741 – 1810)
1983 CEThe Arabic materia medica of Dioscorides.
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90)
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90) SADEK, Mahmoud M.
1924 CEThe Assyrian herbal: A monograph on the Assyrian vegetable drugs, the subject matter of which was communicated in a paper to the Royal Society, March 20, 1924.
THOMPSON, Reginald Campbell (1876 – 1941)
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)
1830 CEThe Botanic physician: Being a compendium of the practice of physic, upon botanical principles, containing all the principal branches necessary to the study of medicine, as anatomy; physiology; surgery; causes, symptoms and cure of diseases; midwifery; materia medica; pharmacy, botany, &c. Together with a great variety of useful recipes.
SMITH, Elisha
SMITH, Elisha
1992 CEThe Cleveland herbal, botanical, and horticultural collections: A descriptive bibliography of pre-1830 works from the libraries of the Holden Arboretum, the Cleveland Medical Library Association, and the Garden Center of Cleveland.
JOHNSTON, Stanley H. Jr. (1932 – 2013)
1998 CEThe divine farmer's materia medica: A translation of the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing by Yang Shou-zhong.
SHOU-ZHONG, Yang
1928 CEThe divine origin of the craft of the herbalist.
BUDGE, Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis (1857 – 1934)
1839 CE​–1840 CEThe elements of materia medica, comprehending the natural history, preparation, properties, composition, effects and uses of medicines. 2 vols.
PEREIRA, Jonathan (1804 – 1853)
PEREIRA, Jonathan (1804 – 1853)
1708 CEThe English physician.
CULPEPER, Nicholas (1616 – 1654)
CULPEPER, Nicholas (1616 – 1654)
1652 CEThe English physitian: Or, an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation. Being a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health; or cure himself, being sick, for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England, as they being most fit for English bodies. Herein is also shewed, 1. The way of making plaisters, oyntments, oyls, pultisses, syrups, julips, or waters, of all sorts of physical herbs, that you may have them readie for your use at all times of the yeer. 2. What planet governeth every herb or tree (used in physick) that groweth in England. 3. The time of gathering all herbs, both vulgarly, and astrologically. 4. The way of drying and keeping the herbs all the yeer. 5. The way of keeping their juyces ready for use at all times. 6. The way of making and keeping all kind of useful compounds made of herbs. 7. The way of mixing medicines, according to cause and mixture of the disease, and part of the body afflicted.
CULPEPER, Nicholas (1616 – 1654)
CULPEPER, Nicholas (1616 – 1654)
1911 CEThe ethno-botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah.
CHAMBERLIN, Ralph Vary (1879 – 1967)
CHAMBERLIN, Ralph Vary (1879 – 1967)
1972 CEThe ethnobotany of the California Indians: A compendium of the plants, their users, and their uses.
MEAD, George R.
MEAD, George R.
1676 CEThe family physician, and the house apothecary: Containing I. Medicines against all such diseases people usually advise with apothecaries to be cured of, II. Instructions, whereby to prepare at your own houses all kinds of necessary medicines that are prepared by apothecaries, or prescribed by physicians, III. The exact prices of all drugs, herbs, seeds, simple and compound medicines, as they are sold at the druggists, or may be sold by the apothecaries, IV. That it's plainly made to appear, that in preparing medicines thus at your own houses, that it's not onely a far safer way, but you shall also save nineteen shillings in twenty, comparing it with the extravagant rates of many apothecaries.
HARVEY, Gideon (1640 – 1700)
HARVEY, Gideon (1640 – 1700)
1852 CE​–1853 CEThe flora homoeopathica: Or, illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants used as homoeopathic remedies. 2 vols.
HAMILTON, Edward (1815 – 1903)
HAMILTON, Edward (1815 – 1903)
1597 CEThe garden of health conteyning the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of simples and plants, together with the maner how they are to be vsed and applyed in medicine for the health of mans body, against diuers diseases and infirmities most common amongst men. Gathered by the long experience and industrie of William Langham, practitioner in phisicke.
LANGHAM, William
1934 CEThe Greek herbal of Dioscorides, illustrated by a Byzantine, A.D. 512; Englished by John Goodyer, A.D. 1655; edited and first printed, A.D. 1933, by Robert T. Gunther ... with three hundred and ninety-six illustrations.
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90)
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90) GOODYER, John (1592 – 1664)
GUNTHER, Robert William Theodore (1869 – 1940)
GUNTHER, Robert William Theodore (1869 – 1940)
1526 CEThe grete herball whiche geveth parfyt knowlege and understandyng of all maner of herbes and there gracyous vertues.
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1927 CEThe herbal in antiquity and its transmission to later ages.
SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960)
SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960)
2014 CEThe 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.
AL-GHAFIQI, Muhammad ibn Aslam ( – 1165) WALLIS, Faith RAGEP, F. Jamil
1945 CEThe herbal of Rufinus. Edited from the unique manuscript by Lynn Thorndike, assisted by Francis S. Benjamin, Jr.
THORNDIKE, Lynn (1882 – 1965)
THORNDIKE, Lynn (1882 – 1965) RUFINUS (1250 – )
1597 CEThe herball or generall historie of plantes.
GERARD, John (Gerarde) (1545 – 1612)
GERARD, John (Gerarde) (1545 – 1612)
1633 CEThe herball or generall historie of plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London master in chirurgerie. Very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson citizen and apothecarye of London.
GERARD, John (Gerarde) (1545 – 1612)
GERARD, John (Gerarde) (1545 – 1612)
JOHNSON, Thomas ( – 1644)
JOHNSON, Thomas ( – 1644)
1979 CEThe illustrated herbal.
RAPHAEL, Sandra BLUNT, Wilfrid Jasper Walter (1901 – 1987)
1836 CEThe Indian vegetable family instructer: Containing the names and descriptions of all the most useful herbs and plants that grow in this country, with their medicinal qualities annexed; also, a treatise on many of the lingering diseases to which mankind are subject, ... with a large list of recipes, which have been carefully selected from Indian prescriptions ... Designed for the use of families in the United States.
BOWKER, Pierpont F.
1811 CEThe maternal physician; a treatise on the nurture and management of infants, from the birth until two years old. Being the result of sixteen years' experience in the nursery. Illustrated by extracts from the most approved medical authors
TYLER, Mary Hunt Palmer (1775 – 1866)
1801 CEThe medical assistant, or Jamaica practice of physic: Designed chiefly for the use of families and plantations.
DANCER, Thomas (1750 – 1811)
DANCER, Thomas (1750 – 1811)
1901 CEThe medicinal plants of the Philippines. Translated and revised by Jerome B. Thomas, Jr.
PARDO DE TAVERA, Trinidad Hermenegildo José Maria Francisco (1857 – 1925)
PARDO DE TAVERA, Trinidad Hermenegildo José Maria Francisco (1857 – 1925)
THOMAS, Jerome B. Jr.
THOMAS, Jerome B. Jr.
2011 CEThe Middle English version of "De Viribus Herbarum (GUL MS Hunter 497, ff. 1r-92r): Edition and philological study by Javier Calle Martín and Antonio Miranda Garcia.
ODO OF MEUNG, Odo Magdunensis [Macer Floridus] (1050 – ) MARTIN, Javier Calle MIRANDA-GARCIA, Antonio
1922 CEThe old English herbals.
ROHDE, Eleanour Sophy Sinclair (1881 – 1950)
1998 CEThe Old English illustrated pharmacopoeia. British Library Cotton Vitellius C III. Edited by M. A. D'Aronco and M. L. Cameron. Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, 27.
CAMERON, Malcolm Lawrence (1918 – 2011)
D'ARONCO, M. A.
D'ARONCO, M. A.
2001 CEThe people's doctors: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement 1790-1860.
HALLER, John S. Jr. (1940 – )
THOMSON, Samuel (1769 – 1843)
THOMSON, Samuel (1769 – 1843)
1881 CEThe plants an drugs of sind; being a systematic account, with descriptions, of the indigenous flora, and notices of the value and uses of their products in commerce, medicine and the arts.
MURRAY, James A.
MURRAY, James A.
1833 CEThe 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.
PLAYFAIR, George
KHAN, Hakim Muhammad Sharif (1722 – 1807)
KHAN, Hakim Muhammad Sharif (1722 – 1807)
1640 CETheatrum botanicum: The theater of plants: Or, An herball of large extent: containing therein a more ample and exact history and declaration of the physicall herbs and plants ... distributed into sundry classes or tribes, for the more easie knowledge of the many herbes of one nature and property ... / collected by the many yeares travaile, industry and experience in this subject.
PARKINSON, John (1567 – 1650)
PARKINSON, John (1567 – 1650)
2001 CEThree receptaria from Medieval England: The languages of medicine in the fourteenth century. Edited by Tony Hunt with the collaboration of Michael Benskin.
HUNT, Anthony "Tony" B. (1944 – ) BENSKIN, Michael
2005 CETobacco in history and culture: An encyclopedia. Edited by Jordan Goodman. 2 vols.
GOODMAN, Jordan
1994 CETobacco in history: The cultures of dependence.
GOODMAN, Jordan
2001 CETobacco: A cultural history of how an exotic plant seduced civilization.
GATELY, Iain (1965 – )
1578 CETractado de las drogas, y medicinas de las Indias Orientales, con sus plantas debuxadas al bivo.
ACOSTA, Cristóbal [Cristóvão da Costa; Christophorus Acosta Africanus] (1540 – 1599)
1877 CE​–1883 CETraité des simples. 3 vols. Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale et autres bibliothèques, 1877, tome 23,1; tome 25,1; tome 26,1. Traduit par Lucien Leclerc.
LECLERC, Lucien (1816 – 1893)
LECLERC, Lucien (1816 – 1893) IBN AL-BAYTĀR AL-MĀLAQĪ, Ḍiyāʾ Al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdllāh Ibn Aḥmad (Ibn al-Baytar) (1197 – 1248)
1694 CETrattado unico da constituiçam pestilencial de Pernambuco, offerecido a ElRey N.S. por ser servido ordenar por seu Governador aos Medicos da America, que assistem aonde ha este contagio, que o compusessem para se conferirem pelos Coripheos da Medicina aos dictames com que he trattada esta pestilencial febre.
ROSA, João Ferreira da (Ferreyra da Rosa)
1934 CETuhfat al-ahbāb: Glossaire de la matière médicale Marocaine.
RENAUD, Henri-Paul-Joseph (1881 – 1945) COLIN, Georges Séraphin (1893 – 1977)
1979 CEUses of plants for the past 500 years.
ERICHSEN-BROWN, Charlotte
1817 CE​–1819 CEVegetable materia medica of the United States. 2 vols.
BARTON, William Paul Crillon (1786 – 1856)
BARTON, William Paul Crillon (1786 – 1856)
c. 512 CEVienna Dioscorides. Codex Vindobonensis Med. Gr. 1.
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90)
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90) NICANDER OF COLOPHON (ΝΊΚΑΝΔΡΟΣ Ὁ ΚΟΛΟΦΏΝΙΟΣ; NIKANDER) (-125 – ) KRATEUAS, [Kratevas, Crateuas, Cratevas; Κρατεύας ὁ Ῥιζότομος] ( – 95)