ASPNS Bibliography 10: Medical History


10. Medical History
(For works on specific medicinal plants, see Section 5.10. For early medical texts, see Bibliography 2).

10.1 Journals

Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Clio Medica
Journal of Ethnopharmacology




10.2 Reference Sources

Daems, Willem F., Nomina simplicium medicinarum ex synonymariis medii aevi collecta (Leiden, 1993)
Flückiger, Friedrich A., and Daniel Hanbury, Pharmacographia: a History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin Met With in Great Britain and British India (London, 1879)
Moorat, S.A.J., Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 2 vols (London, 1973) [part 1: manuscripts written before 1650; part 2: manuscripts written after 1650]
[See also Palmer below]
Palmer, Richard, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Trust's History of Medicine Library, MSS 5120-6244 (London, 1999) [manuscripts acquired from 1899-1991, mostly concerning medicine in the 18th and 19th centuries, but including some mediaeval items] [See also Moorat above]
Talbot, C.H. and E.A. Hammond, The Medical Practitioners of Medieval England: a Biographical Register (London, 1965)
UCLA Index of Medieval Medical Images [project in progress]




10.3 Plant Medicine (General)

Anderson, F.J., An Illustrated History of the Herbals (New York, 1977)
Arber, A., Herbals, their Origin and Evolution, second edition (Cambridge, 1938)
Griggs, Barbara, Green Pharmacy: a History of Herbal Medicine (London, 1981)
Hewe, N., Välsignade Växter: Skrock och Fakta om Hundra Läkeörter (Stockholm, 1947)
Nielsen, H., Läkeväxter Förr och Nu (Stockholm, 1978)
Singer, Charles, 'The Herbal in Antiquity and its Transmission to Later Ages', Journal of Hellenic Studies 47 (1927), 1-52




10.4 Science of Plant Medicine

Newall, Carol A., Linda A. Anderson, and J. David Phillipson, Herbal medicines: a Guide for Health-Care Professionals (London, 1996)
Schulz, V., R. Hansel and V.E. Tyler, Rational Phytotherapy: a Physicians' Guide to Herbal Medicine (Binghamton, NY, 1997)




10.5 Ancient World Medicine

10.5.1 General Works

Grmek, Mirko D., ed., Western Medical Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Cambridge, MA, 1999)
Longrigg, James, Greek Medicine from the Heroic to the Hellenistic Age (London, 1998)
Stannard, Jerry, Pristina Medicamenta: Ancient and Medieval Medical Botany, edited by Katherine E. Stannard and Richard Kay (Aldershot, 1999)




10.6 Medieval Medicine

10.6.1 General Works

Conolly, Ann, 'Castles and Abbeys in Wales: Refugia for 'Mediaeval' Medicinal Plants', Botanical Journal of Scotland 46.4 (1994), 628-36
Getz, Faye, Medicine in the English Middle Ages (Princeton, 1998)
Grmek, Mirko D., ed., Western Medical Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Cambridge, MA, 1999)
Klemming, G.E., ed., Läke- och Örte-Böcker från Sveriges Medeltid (Stockholm, 1883-6)
Riddle, John, 'The Introduction and Use of Eastern Drugs in the Early Middle Ages', Sudhoffs Archiv für die Geschichte der Medizin 49 (1965), 185-98
Stannard, Jerry, Herbs and Herbalism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, edited by Katherine E. Stannard and Richard Kay (Aldershot, 1999)
Stannard, Jerry, Pristina Medicamenta: Ancient and Medieval Medical Botany, edited by Katherine E. Stannard and Richard Kay (Aldershot, 1999)

10.6.2 Anglo-Saxon Medicine

Bonser, Wilfrid, 'Anglo-Saxon Medical Nomenclature', English and Germanic Studies 4 (1951-2), 13-19
Bonser, Wilfrid, The Medical Background of Anglo-Saxon England (London, 1963)
Cameron, M.L., Anglo-Saxon Medicine (Cambridge, 1993)
Cameron, M.L., 'The Sources of Medical Knowledge in Anglo-Saxon England', Anglo-Saxon England 11 (1983), 135-55
Cockayne, Oswald, ed., Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England, 3 vols (London, 1864-6)
D'Aronco, M.A., 'L'erbario anglosassone, un' ipotesi sulla data della traduzione', Romanobarbarica 13 (1994-5), 325-65
Lambert, C., 'The Old English Medical Vocabulary', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 33 (1940), 137-45
Payne, J.F., English Medicine in the Anglo-Saxon Times (Oxford, 1904)
Storms, Godfrid, Anglo-Saxon Magic (The Hague, 1948)
Talbot, C.H., 'Some Notes on Anglo-Saxon Medicine', Medical History 9 (1965), 156-69
Voigts, Linda E., 'Anglo-Saxon Plant Remedies and the Anglo-Saxons', Isis 70 (1979), 250-68

10.6.3 Anglo-Norman Medicine

Hunt, Tony, Popular Medicine in Thirteenth Century England: Introduction and Texts (Cambridge, 1990)
Norri, Juhani, Names of Body Parts in English, 1400-1550 (Helsinki, 1998)
Norri, Juhani, Names of Sicknesses in English, 1400-1550: an Exploration of the Lexical Field (Helsinki, 1992)
Norri, Juhani, 'Notes on the Origin and Meaning of Chemical Terms in Middle English Medical Manuscripts', Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 2.92 (1991), 215-36
Rawcliffe, Carole, Medicine and Society in Later Medieval England (Stroud, 1997)
Schöffler, Herbert, Beiträge zur mittelenglischen Medizinliteratur (Halle, 1919)
Wallner, Björn, 'A Note on Some Middle English Medical Terms', English Studies 50 (1969), 499-503



10.7 Early Modern Plant Medicine (1500-1799)

10.7.1 General Works

Stannard, Jerry, Herbs and Herbalism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, edited by Katherine E. Stannard and Richard Kay (Aldershot, 1999)
Tonning, H., Norsk Medicinsk og Oeconomisk Flora (Copenhagen, 1773)



10.8 Modern Plant Medicine
(For the science of modern plant medicine, see Section 10.4)

10.8.1 General Works

Dacombe, M.R., ed., Dorset Up Along and Down Along: a Collection of History, Tradition, Folk Lore, Flower Names and Herbal Lore (Dorchester, 1935)
Graves, George, Medicinal Plants: an Illustrated Guide to More than 180 Plants that Cure Disease and Relieve Pain, abridged edition of Hortus medicus (1834) (London, 1990)



ASPNS Bibliography contents