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Before 1500 1500 - 1599   1600 - 1699   1700 - 1799 1800 - 1849 1850 - 1899 1900 - 1949 Modern Texts If a link does not work, please click here Texts published before 1500 Hippocratic corpus. c. 400B.C. Dioscorides: de Materia Medica. 1st cent A.D. Pliny the Elder: the Natural History. circa 77A.D. Galen: On the Natural Faculties. 170 A.D. Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum. 12th cent. Roger Bacon - Tract on the Tincture and Oil of Antimony. 13th cent. The Physician's Handbook. 1454 Herbarius latinus, with French synonyms. circa 1486. Triumphal Chariot of Basil Valentine:15th cent. Texts published 1500 - 1599 Hieronymus Brunschwig’s Liber de Arte Distillandi. 1512 Otto Brunfels: Herbarum vivae eicones. 1532-36 Regimen Sanitatis Salerni [Regimen of Health]. 1535 edn. Paracelsus: Grosse Wundartzney. 1536 Leonhard Fuchs: Primi de Stirpium Historia. 1545 Christian Egenolff: Herbarum, arborum, fruticum, frumentorum ac leguminem. 1546 Leonhard Fuchs: Den nieuwen Herbarius, dat is, dboeck vanden cruyden. 1549 Hieronymus Bock (Tragus): Neu Kreuterbuch. 1588   Texts published 1600 - 1699 Valerius Cordus: Dispensatorium. 1622 John Gerard: The Herbal, or General History of Plants. 1633 Rembert Dodoens: Herbarius oft Cruydt-Boeck. 1644 Nicholas Culpeper: A physicall directory, or, A translation of the London dispensatory. 1649 John French: The Art of Distillation. 1651 Nicholas Culpeper: The English Physitian. 1652 Nicholas Culpeper: The Complete Herbal. Boulton, Samuel: Medicina magica tamen physica: magical, but natural physick. 1656 Paracelsus: The Book Concerning the Tincture of The Philosophers. 1659 Robert Boyle: Boyle's Remedies. 1696 Stephen Blankaart: Den Neder-landschen Herbarius ofte Kruid-boek: 1698   Texts published 1700 - 1799 Thomas Fuller: Pharmacopoeia Extemporanea. 1710 John Radcliffe: Pharmacopoeia Radcliffeana. 1716 Henry Banyer: Pharmacopoeia Pauperum, or, The Hospital Dispensatory. London, 1718 W. Bickerton: A Critical Dissertation on the Mandrake. 1737 Elizabeth Blackwell's Curious Herbal. 1739 Boerhaave, Herman: An essay on the virtue and efficient cause of magnetical cures. 1743 R. James: Pharmacopoeia Universalis, or a New Universal English Dispensatory. 1747 Richard Mead. A Mechanical Account of Poisons. 1747 Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences. 1748 James Lind: A Treatise of the Scurvy. 1753 William Alexander: On the External Application of Antiseptics in Putrid Diseases. 1768 William Lewis: The New Dispensatory, Containing (1) the Elements of Pharmacy, (2) the Materi Medica. 1778 Hugh Smith: Formulae Medicamentorum. 1781 William Withering: An Account of the Foxglove and Some of its Medical Uses. 1785 Thomas Sydenham: The Works of Thomas Sydenham, vol 2. 1788 Matthew Turner: An Account of the Extraordinary Medicinal Fluid, called Aether. 1788 William Meyrick. The New Family Herbal. 1790 William Woodville: Medical botany, containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants. 1790-93 Claude-Louis Berthollet: Elements of the Art of Dyeing. 1791 John Relph: An Inquiry into the Medical Efficacy of a New Species of Peruvian Bark ... Yellow Bark. 1794 William Cullen: First Lines of the Practice of Physic, vol 1. 1796 Aylmer Bourke Lambert: A Description of the Genus Cinchona. 1797 Texts published 1800 - 1849 Humphry Davy: Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concening Nitrous Oxide. 1800 William Nisbet: The Clinical Pharmacopoeia. 1800 W. Lewis, J. Rotheram: The Edinburgh New Dispensatory. 1801 William Withering: A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants: With an Easy Introduction to the Study of Botany. 1801 J. Murray: A System of Materia Medica and Pharmacy. 1810 Samuel Hahnemann: Organon of Medicine. 1810 Samuel Hahnemann: Materia Medica Pura. James Hamilton: Observations on the Utility and Administration of Purgative Medicines in Several Diseases.1811 J. Stokes: A Botanical Materia Medica: Consisting of the Generic and Specific Characters of the Plants Used in Medicine and diet. 1812 Whitelaw Ainslie: Materia Medica of Hindoostan. 1813 J. Wilson: Pharmacopoeia Chirurgica; Or, A Manual of Chirurgical Pharmacy. 1814 Nicholas Culpeper: The English Physician; Enlarged with Three Hundred and Sixty-nine Medicines ... 1814 A. Crawford: An Experimental Enquiry Into the Effects of Tonics. 1816 J.G.A. Lugol, trans. W.B. O'Shaughnessy): Essays on the Effects of Iodine in Scrofulous Disease. 1817 J. Bigelow: American Medical Botany: Being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants of the United States. 1817 J. Hamilton: Observations on the Use and Abuse of Mercurial Medicines in Various Diseases. 1819 S.F. Gray: A Supplement to the Pharmacopoeia: Being a Treatise on Pharmacology in General. 1821 Jacob Bigelow: A Treatise on the Materia Medica. 1822 J.A. Paris: Pharmacologia; Comprehending the Art of Prescribing. 1824 William T. Brande. A Manual of Pharmacy. 1826 Whitelaw Ainslie: Materia Indica. 1826 J. Rennie: A New Supplement to the Pharmacopæias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin and Paris, Including the New French Medicines. 1826 R. Christison: A Treatise on Poisons: In Relation to Medical Jurisprudence, Physiology, and the Practice of Physic. 1829 Andrew Duncan, William Lewis: The Edinburgh New Dispensatory. 1830 Thomas Thomson: History of Chemistry. 1830 Charles Scudamore: Cases illustrative of the efficacy of various medicines administered by inhalation, in pulmonary consumption. 1830 John A. Paris, John B. Beck: Pharmacologia. 1831 R. Phillips: A Translation of the Pharmacopoeia [of] 1824, with Notes and Illustrations. 1831 William Maugham: The London Manual of Medical Chemistry. 1831 H.M. Edwards, P. Vavasseur: A Manual of Materia Medica and Pharmacy (translated from the French). 1831 George W. Carpenter: Essays on some of the most important articles of the materia medica, comprising a full account of all the new proximate principles. 1831 Anthony T. Thomson. Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. 1833 Alexander Turnbull: An Investigation into the Remarkable Medicinal Effects Resulting from the External Application of Veratria. 1834 James Johnstone: A Therapeutic Arrangement and Syllabus of Materia Medica. 1835 F. Magendie: A Formulary for the Preparation and Medical Administration of Certain New Remedies (trans. by J.M.Gully). 1836 R. Phillips: Translation of the Pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of London. 1836 A.T. Thomson: The London Dispensatory. 1837 John F. Royle. An Essay on the Antiquity of Hindoo medicine. 1837 J. Lindley:Flora Medica; a Botanical Account of all the More Important Plants Used in Medicine, in Different Parts of the World. 1838 Daniel Spillan: A compendium of materia medica, pharmacy, and toxicology. 1839 Jacob Bell: A Concise Historical Sketch of the Progress of Pharmacy in Great Britain. 1843 Arnold J Cooley: Cyclopaedia of Several thousand Receipts. 1846 J. Forbes Royle, Joseph Carson: Materia medica and therapeutics : including the preparations of the pharmacopias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin and of the United States. 1847 William Morton:Remarks on the Proper Mode of Administering Sulphuric Ether by Inhalation. 1847   Texts published 1850 - 1899 John Bell: A Treatise on Baths, Including Cold, Sea, Warm, Hot, Vapour, Gas, and Mud Baths. 1850 Robley Dunglison: New Remedies. 1851 T.F. Branston: The Druggist's Hand-book of Practical Receipts. 1851 J.B. Beck: Essays on Infant Therapeutics: to which are Added, Observations on Ergot; History of the Origin of the Use of Mercury. 1852 J.Y. Simpson: Homœopathy, its Tenets and Tendencies. 1853 C.H. Peirce: Examinations of Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, & As to their Purity and Adulterations. 1853 Royal College Physicians (Lond.): Translation of the New London Pharmacopoeia, including also the New Dublin and Edinburgh Pharmacopoeias. 1854 J. Pereira: The Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. 1854 H. Beasley: The Book of Prescriptions Containing 2900 Prescriptions. 1855 G.B. Wood: A Treatise on Therapeutics, and Pharmacology: or Materia Medica. 1856 Edward Parrish: An Introduction to Practical Pharmacy. 1859 J. Moore Neligan: Medicines, their Use and Mode of Administration: Including a Complete Conspectus of the Three British Pharmacopoeias. 1859 A.T. Thomson: A Conspectus of the Pharmacopoeias of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Physicians and U.S. Pharmacopoeia. 1862 William Cook: Physiomedical Dispensatory. 1869 James MacTear: On the antiquity of the Chemical Art. 1879 Jacob Bell: Historical Sketch of the Progress of Pharmacy in Great Britain. 1880 C.D.F. Phillips: Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Inorganic Substances; Volume 1. 1882 C.D.F. Phillips: Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Inorganic Substances; Volume 2. 1882 R.T. Edes: Therapeutic Handbook of the United States pharmacopoeia. 1883 James Mooney: The Sacred formulas of theCherokees. 1886 J.U. & C.G. Lloyd: Drugs and Medicines of North America. 1884-1887 F.E. Köhler: Medizinal-Pflanzen. 1887 T.L. Brunton: An Introduction to Modern Therapeutics; Being the Croonian Lectures on the Relationship Between Chemical Structure and Physiological Action in Relation to the Prevention, Control, and Cure of Disease. 1892 H.W. Felter, J.U. Lloyd: King's American Dispensatory. 1898 Hermann Peters: Pictorial History of Ancient Pharmacy. 1899 Texts published 1900 - 1949 J.U. LLoyd: Eclectic Materia Medica. 1901 S.O.L. Potter: Compendium of Materia Medica, Therapeutics. 1902 Pure Food and Drug Act. 1906 F. Francis, J.M. Fortescue-Brickdale: The Chemical Basis of Pharmacology. 1908 Paul Ehrlich: Experimental Researches on Specific Therapeutics. 1909 W.H.S. Jones: Malaria and Greek History. To which is Added The History of Greek Therapeutics and the Malaria Theory. 1909 F.E. Stewart, J.P. Remington: A Compend of Pharmacy, 8th edn. 1910 E.G. Beck: Bismuth Paste in Chronic Suppurations, its Diagnostic Importance and Therapeutic Value. 1910 J.U. and C.G. Lloyd: The Eclectic Alkaloids. 1910 J.U. Lloyd: History of the Vegetable Drugs of the U.S.P. 1911 James J. Walsh: Old-time Makers of Medicine. 1911 British Pharmaceutical Codex. 1911 William Osler: The Evolution of Modern Medicine. 1913 M. Pattison: The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry. 1913 Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (AMA): A handbook of useful drugs. 1913 L. Spiegel: Chemical Constitution and Physiological Action. 1915 A.R. Cushny: A Textbook of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 1915 Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America. 1916 Lucius E. Sayre: A Manual of Organic Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy. 1917 The Dispensatory of the United States of America. 1918 Edwin E. Slosson: Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries. 1919 John M. Stillman: Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim called Paracelsus; his personality and influence as physician, chemist and reformer. 1920 Percy May: The Chemistry of Synthetic Drugs. 1921 H.A. McGuigan: An Introduction to Chermical Pharmacology. 1921 M. Barrowcliff, F.H. Carr: Organic Medicinal Chemicals (Synthetic and Natural). 1921 A.R. Cushny: A Text-book of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 1926 David M.R. Culbreth; A Manual of Materia Medica and Pharmacology. 1927 Amer. Pharm. Assn: The Pharmaceutical Recipe Book. 1929 M. Grieve: A Modern Herbal. 1931 Edward Bach: The Twelve Healers. 1936 Ethel M. Mairet: Vegetable Dyes. 1938 D. Masters: Miracle Drug. The Inner History of Penicillin. 1946 Modern Texts about the history of drugs P.C. Ray: A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century, A.D. 1903 J.J. Walsh: Old-time Makers of Medicine : the Story of the Students and Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages. 1911 A.J. Cramp: Nostrums and Quackery; Articles on the Nostrum Evil and Quackery. 1911 E.A. WallisBudge: Syrian Anatomy, Pathology and Therapeutics; or, "The Book of Medicines." 1913 George B. Griffenhagen: Drug Supplies in the American Revolution. 1961 Sami K. Hamarneh: Drawings and Pharmacy in Al-Zahrawi's 10th-Century Surgical Treatise. 1961 James H. Young: The Toadstool Millionaires: A Social History of Patent Medicines in America before Federal Regulation. 1961 Alice Stroup: A Company of Scientists Botany, Patronage, and Community at the Seventeenth-Century Parisian Royal Academy of Sciences. 1990 M. McVaugh, L. Ferre: The Tabula Antidotarii of Armengaud Blasi and Its Hebrew Translation. 2000 C.D. Selassie: History of Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships. 2003 R.A. Donkin: Between East and West: The Moluccas and the Traffic in Spices Up to the Arrival of Europeans. 2003 H.F.J. Horstmanshoff, M. Stoll: Magic and Rationality in Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine. 2004 Selma Tibi: The Medicinal Use of Opium in Ninth-Century Baghdad. 2006

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