Includes some significant early annotated references to the applictions of computing to biology and medicine.

Includes some documentation on the early applications of computing to biology and medicine.

New edition, with a foreward by Nicolaas A. Rupke and a new preface by the author (1996).

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link. Also published in Mémoires sur l'Egypte: ... Publiés dans les années VII, VIII et IX, Volume 4, (An X) pp. 125-156.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

Vol. 1, Part 1: "Primitive period among the Asiatic nations," i.e. Hindus. Vol. 2, Part 1: "Ancient state of medicine among the Hindus (continued)". Part 1: "Review of the Buddhist systems of medicine." Part 3: "Review of the history of the Chinese system of medicine." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Enlarged and retitled second edition: The influence of tropical climates on European constitutions: to which is added tropical hygiene, or the preservation of health in all hot climates, (adapted to general perusal) (1813). Digital facsimile of the 2nd ed. from the Internet Archive at this link. There were also several later editions.

Digital facsimile from the internet Archive at this link.

Revised edition, 2004.

Digital facsimile from Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf at this link.

Primarily concerning the diseases of black slaves. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

Focuses on the traditional woman-centered home-birthing practices, their replacement by male doctors, and the movement from the home to the hospital. She explains that childbearing women and their physicians gradually changed birth places because they believed the increased medicalization would make giving birth safer and more comfortable. Ironically, because of infection, infant and maternal mortality did not immediately decline.

Digital facsimile from patrimoines-martinique.org at this link.

https://www.nobelprize.org/

Includes documentation, including videos, on every Nobel Prize awarded since 1901. Re the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine see https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/

(Without an origin date for this web project I arbitrarily assigned the date of 2000 when I created this entry.)

Digital facsimile from the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.

This work includes founding material in geography, plant geography, orography, climatology and meterology, among other sciences, and citations to 9,000 sources. The atlas was issued without Humboldt's participation, and published by Krais & Hoffmann (1851). The fifth volume comprising the lengthy index, was issued after Humboldt's death. 

There were several English translations: by A. Prichard in 2 vols., London: H. Baillière, 1845; by Mrs. Eliz. Sabine, 4 vols, London: Longmans, 1846-58, and the most complete in 5 vols. by E. C. Otté (vols 1-3), Otté and B. H. Paul (vol. 4), and Otté and W. S. Dallas (vol. 5), London, 1849-52. The best introduction to the work is that to Vol. 1 by Nicolaas A. Rupke, Cosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. There are numerous digital facsimiles available.

Includes translations of many non-fictional works, including those in biology, etc. It was reprinted several times. The 1938 edition is searchable at Google Books at this link. Digital facsimile of the 1922 first edition from the Internet Archive at this link.

Revised edition 12/2012 is available online at this link: http://cmg.bbaw.de/online-publications/Galen-Bibliographie_2012_08_28.pdf

Revised edition (2013) is available online at this link: http://cmg.bbaw.de/online-publikationen/hippokrates_2013_02.pdf

Translated into English by A. Adamson as Sexuality and medicine in the Middle Ages, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1988.

A key to literature on commentaries on Greek and Latin medical writers up to the 12th century— primarily Late Antique authors, who were active before 600 CE. It takes account of commentaries on Galen in particular and of later Alexandrian physicians - surviving and lost - as well as of commentaries originally composed in Greek but which only survived in Arabic translation. 

For a critical review of this edition see Grigory Kessel, "Review Essay of Wilson, E.J. and Dinkha, S., Hunayn Ibn Ishaq’s 'Questions on Medicine for Students'. Transcription and Translation of the Oldest Extant Syriac Version (Vat. Syr. 192). Studi e testi, 459. Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2010," Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies, 15 (2010) 375-400.

Contains 130,000 very brief biographical notes compiled from nearly 200 references (which are cited) on roughly 95,000 people from Europe and the Middle East during the 1000 years of the Middle Ages. The text is searchable through Google Books. In English, German and French.

Bloodletting is thought to have been practiced by Greek physicians of the 5th century BCE. This study includes translation of Galeni de venae sectione adversus Erasistratum liber (162-163 CE), Galeni de venae sectione adversus Erasistateos Romae degenentes (175? CE), and Galeni de curandi ratione per venae sectionem (193-194 CE).

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

First published in 1980; second edition, 1999. The 2012 edition is further supplemented.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

Wallace's first book, printed in an edition of only 250 copies. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

The only known early health guide for the pilgrim to Mecca, by the Syrian Melkite Christian physician, scientist and translator.

Includes considerable discussion of the psychoactive effects of cannabis. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

Thoroughly documented and well-illustrated history, with a timeline and bibliography for each chapter.

This is the first scholarly, critical edition of the collected works of Arnau de Vilanova. When I wrote this entry in December 2016 the ongoing editing publishing project was up to 17 vols. in 20, offered at the Universitat de Barcelona Edicions website at this link.

One of the few texts on pediatrics that circulated during the Middle Ages, this short Latin tretise is the translation of a lost Arabic original attributed--perhaps mistakenly--to Rhazes.

The first comprehensive study of veterinary medicine, its practitioners and patients, in the medieval Islamic world.

Translation of Sharḥ asmāʼ al-ʻuqqār; translated from the French according to the Unique Arabic Ms. 3711 of the Aya Sofia Library, Istanbul. For the Meyerhof edition see No. 11241.

Arabic edition and English translation of Sābūr ibn Sahl's famous dispensatory as preserved in a recension made by the physicians of the ʿAḍudī hospital in Baghdad around the middle of the 11th century CE.

Critical Arabic edition, annotated English translation, introductory study, and two-way glossaries of the dispensatory composed around the middle of the 12th century CE by the Nestorian physician Ibn at-Tilmīḏ. The dispensatory, recognized as a masterpiece already by mediaeval contemporaries, soon after its appearance became the pharmacological standard work in the hospitals and pharmacies of Baghdad and the wider Arab East, replacing, after almost 300 years, the vademecum of Sābūr ibn Sahl.

"...focuses on the ways in which Greek and Latin authors viewed and wrote about the history of medicine in the ancient world. Special attention is given to medical doxography, i.e. the description of the characteristic doctrines of the great medical authorities of the past. The volume examines the various attitudes to the history of medicine adopted by a wide range of ancient writers (e.g. Aristotle, Galen, Celsus, Herophilus, Soranus, Oribasius, Caelius Aurelianus). It discusses the historical sense of ancient medicine, the variety of versions of the medical past that were created and the wide range of purposes and strategies which medico-historical writing served. It also deals with the question of the sources, the role of historiographical traditions and the variety of literary genres of ancient medico-historical writing."

The first comprehensive monograph on the Republic of Liberia, published 50 years after its colonization by freed American slaves and their descendents. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Translated into English and edited by Henk Dop and Phillip T. Robinson as Travel Sketches from Liberia. Johann Büttikofer's 19th century rainforest explorations in West Africa. (Leiden: Brill, 2013).

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

Edition and translation of the oldest manuscript on Arabic pharmacy.

Razi's Kitab al-Hawi, a vast medical-pharmaceutical encyclopedia, was compiled from multiple sources. For each identified source this study provides Razi's Arabic text with an English translation. When possible, the original version of the quoted text is provided.

"All text material appears in full Arabic with English translation whilst the traceable Indian fragments are represented here, for the first time, in both the original Sanskrit and corresponding English translations. The philological core of the book is framed by a detailed introductory study on the transmission of Indian, Syrian and Iranian medicine and pharmacy to the Arabs, and by extensive bilingual glossaries of relevant Arabic and Sanskrit terms as well as Latin botanical identifications" (publisher).

"Galen's impact on Islamic civilization, mainly on medicine but also on physics and philosophy, was enormous. His most important books were mediated through "summaries" which not only shortened, but in some cases also revised Galenic teachings. Several versions of these summaries exist, and their appreciation is critical for a proper understanding of the development of medieval science. This book presents the first editions, translations, and studies of the remaining summaries to On Critical Days. In Galenic theory, fevers develop towards a crisis which will determine the fate of a patient" (publisher).

"...the first detailed analysis of an immensely popular 13th c. Arabic guide for pharmacists, from a time in which Jewish physicians and pharmacists worked alongside Muslim and Christian practioners. Minhāj al-dukkān ("How to manage a pharmacy"), by Abū ʾl-Munā al-Kūhīn al-ʿAṭṭār (fl. 1260) is the first attempt to explore the full spectrum of pharmacy in the medieval Arabic world: identification of the materia medica and methods of preparation; pharmacy's place within the sciences and particularly its relationship with medicine; the social position of the pharmacist and his role in the marketplace and the hospital; the economics of pharmacy; legal aspects of pharmacy; and the image of the pharmacist in literature and drama." 

A systematic attempt to gather the names and locations of manuscripts on the individual treatises that circulated in the Latin West before 1500 under the name or aegis of Hippocrates of Cos.

This pre-Galenic astrological text by an unknown author from the later part of the 13th century concerns astrological prognostication. It was based upon Book III of Galen's De diebus criticis, but provided a "handy shortcut" to Galen's more convoluted text. Using it a skilled astrologer-physician could in theory calculate the critical days of an illness according to the length of the phases of the moon.