FULL ONLINE TEXTS ABOUT THE HISTORY OF DRUGS AND MEDICINES For access to online records of historical clinical trials from ancient times to the 21st Century, please go to: http://www.jameslindlibrary.org/trial_records/published.html Texts published before 1500 Hippocratic corpus. 5th cent B.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 Jean Bonhomme: Herbarius latinus : with French synonyms. circa 1486. Triumphal Chariot of Basil Valentine:15th cent. Texts published 1500 - 1800 Regimen Sanitatis Salerni [Regimen of Health]. 1535 edn. Leonhard Fuchs: Primi de Stirpium Historia. 1545 Christian Egenolff: Herbarvm, arborvm, frvticvm, frvmentorvm ac legvminem. 1546 Paracelsus: The Book Concerning The Tincture Of The Philosophers. Published 1659 John Gerard: The Herbal, or General History of Plants. 1633 John French: The Art of Distillation. 1651 Nicholas Culpeper: The English Physitian. 1652 Thomas Fuller: Pharmacopoeia Extemporanea. 1710 John Radcliffe: Pharmacopoeia Radcliffeana. 1716 Pharmacopoeia Pauperum, or, The Hospital Dispensatory. London, 1718 W. Bickerton: A Critical Dissertation on the Mandrake. 1737 R. James: Pharmacopoeia Universalis, or a New Universal English Dispensatory. 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 Claude-Louis Berthollet: Elements of the Art of Dyeing. 1791 Texts published 1800 - 1900 Samuel Hahnemann: Organon of Medicine. 1810 Humphry Davy: Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concening Nitrous Oxide. 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 J. Stokes: A Botanical Materia Medica: Consisting of the Generic and Specific Characters of the Plants Used in Medicine and diet. 1812 J. Wilson: Pharmacopoeia Chirurgica; Or, A Manual of Chirurgical Pharmacy. 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 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 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 Alexander Turnbull: An Investigation into the Remarkable Medicinal Effects Resulting from the External Application of Veratria. 1834 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 J. Lindley:Flora Medica; a Botanical Account of all the More Important Plants Used in Medicine, in Different Parts of the World. 1838 Arnold J Cooley: Cyclopaedia of Several thousand Receipts. 1846 William Morton:Remarks on the Proper Mode of Administering Sulphuric Ether by Inhalation. 1847 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 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 J.U. & C.G. Lloyd: Drugs and Medicines of North America. 1884-1887 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 Texts published 1900 - 1950 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 E.G. Beck: Bismuth Paste in Chronic Suppurations, its Diagnostic Importance and Therapeutic Value. 1910 J.U. Lloyd: History of the Vegetable Drugs of the U.S.P. 1911 British Pharmaceutical Codex. 1911 William Osler: The Evolution of Modern Medicine. 1913 Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (AMA): A handbook of useful drugs. 1913 L. Spiegel: Chemical Constitution and Physiological Action. 1915 Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America. 1916 The Dispensatory of the United States of America. 1918 Percy May: The Chemistry of Synthetic Drugs. 1921 M. Barrowcliff, F.H. Carr: Organic Medicinal Chemicals (Synthetic and Natural). 1921 A.R. Cushny: A Text-book of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 1926 Amer. Pharm. Assn: The Pharmaceutical Recipe Book. 1929 M. Grieve: A Modern Herbal. 1931 D. Masters: Miracle Drug. The Inner History of Penicillin. 1946 Modern Texts covering historical topics 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 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 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
FULL ONLINE TEXTS ABOUT THE HISTORY OF DRUGS AND MEDICINES
For access to online records of historical clinical trials from ancient times to the 21st Century, please go to: http://www.jameslindlibrary.org/trial_records/published.html
Texts published before 1500
Hippocratic corpus. 5th cent B.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
Jean Bonhomme: Herbarius latinus : with French synonyms. circa 1486.
Triumphal Chariot of Basil Valentine:15th cent.
Texts published 1500 - 1800
Regimen Sanitatis Salerni [Regimen of Health]. 1535 edn.
Leonhard Fuchs: Primi de Stirpium Historia. 1545
Christian Egenolff: Herbarvm, arborvm, frvticvm, frvmentorvm ac legvminem. 1546
Paracelsus: The Book Concerning The Tincture Of The Philosophers. Published 1659
John Gerard: The Herbal, or General History of Plants. 1633
John French: The Art of Distillation. 1651
Nicholas Culpeper: The English Physitian. 1652
Thomas Fuller: Pharmacopoeia Extemporanea. 1710
John Radcliffe: Pharmacopoeia Radcliffeana. 1716
Pharmacopoeia Pauperum, or, The Hospital Dispensatory. London, 1718
W. Bickerton: A Critical Dissertation on the Mandrake. 1737
R. James: Pharmacopoeia Universalis, or a New Universal English Dispensatory. 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
Claude-Louis Berthollet: Elements of the Art of Dyeing. 1791
Texts published 1800 - 1900
Samuel Hahnemann: Organon of Medicine. 1810
Humphry Davy: Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concening Nitrous Oxide. 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
J. Stokes: A Botanical Materia Medica: Consisting of the Generic and Specific Characters of the Plants Used in Medicine and diet. 1812
J. Wilson: Pharmacopoeia Chirurgica; Or, A Manual of Chirurgical Pharmacy. 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
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
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
Alexander Turnbull: An Investigation into the Remarkable Medicinal Effects Resulting from the External Application of Veratria. 1834
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
J. Lindley:Flora Medica; a Botanical Account of all the More Important Plants Used in Medicine, in Different Parts of the World. 1838
Arnold J Cooley: Cyclopaedia of Several thousand Receipts. 1846
William Morton:Remarks on the Proper Mode of Administering Sulphuric Ether by Inhalation. 1847
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
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
J.U. & C.G. Lloyd: Drugs and Medicines of North America. 1884-1887
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
Texts published 1900 - 1950
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
E.G. Beck: Bismuth Paste in Chronic Suppurations, its Diagnostic Importance and Therapeutic Value. 1910
J.U. Lloyd: History of the Vegetable Drugs of the U.S.P. 1911
British Pharmaceutical Codex. 1911
William Osler: The Evolution of Modern Medicine. 1913
Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (AMA): A handbook of useful drugs. 1913
L. Spiegel: Chemical Constitution and Physiological Action. 1915
Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America. 1916
The Dispensatory of the United States of America. 1918
Percy May: The Chemistry of Synthetic Drugs. 1921
M. Barrowcliff, F.H. Carr: Organic Medicinal Chemicals (Synthetic and Natural). 1921
A.R. Cushny: A Text-book of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 1926
Amer. Pharm. Assn: The Pharmaceutical Recipe Book. 1929
M. Grieve: A Modern Herbal. 1931
D. Masters: Miracle Drug. The Inner History of Penicillin. 1946
Modern Texts covering historical topics
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
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
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