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• Medicina Practica, or, Practical Physick Shewing the Method of Curing the Most Usual Diseases Happening to Humane Bodies (London: Printed for T. Howkins et al., 1692), ed. by William Salmon, contrib. by Hermes Trismegistus, Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī, Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, Artephius, Nicolas Flamel, Roger Bacon, and George Ripley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Aetii Amideni Librorum medicinalium tomus primus, primi scilicet octo nunc primum in lucem editi (In aedibus haeredum Aldi Manutii, & Andreae Asulani, 1534), by of Amida Aetius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thesaurus pauperum. English ([Imprynted at London : In Fletestreate at the sygne of the Rosegarland by Wyllyam Coplande, [not before 23 Aug. 1553]]), by Pope John XXI, Humphrey Llwyd, of Carystus. Epistola de secunda valetudine tuenda. English Diocles, and Hippocrates (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The difference betwene the auncient phisicke, first taught by the godly forefathers, consisting in vnitie peace and concord: and the latter phisicke proceeding from idolaters, ethnickes, and heathen: as Gallen, and such other consisting in dualitie, discorde, and contrarietie And wherein the naturall philosophie of Aristotle doth differ from the trueth of Gods worde, and is iniurious to Christianitie and sounde doctrine. By R.B. Esquire. (Imprinted at London : [By G. Robinson] for Robert VValley, 1585), by Richard Bostocke and Robert Bostocke (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Hoti tais tou sōmatos kratesin hai tēs psychēs dynameis hepontai (Typis Junge et Filii, 1880), by Galen and Iwan von Müller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Galeni libellus qui est de parvae pilae exercitio (Ph. J. Pfeifferi'sche Buchdruderei, 1878), by Galen and Georg Helmreich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aretaiou Kappadokou peri aition kai semeion oxeon kai chronion pathon bibalia tessarha, peri therapeias oxeon kai chronion pathon, bibalia tessarha = Aretaei Cappadocis de causis et signis acutorum, et diuturnorum morborum libri quatuor, de curatione acutorum et diuturnorum morborum libri quatuor (apud Janssonios Vander Aa, 1735), by Arzobispo de Cesarea Arethas, Hermann Boerhaave, Pierre Petit, Janssoon van der Aa, Universidad Complutense (Alcalá de Henares), and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) ) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hippocratis Coi Aphorismi, cum concordantia eorumdem ac indice locupletissimo : Accedunt iidem Aphorismi versu heröico explicati à Joann. Bapt. Condè ... (apud J.P.G. Michel, Bibliopolam, 1781), by Hipócrates, Francisco Viñals y Torrero, Marcos Viñals y Rubio, Joannes Baptista de Condé, and J. P. G. Michel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aur. Cornelii Celsi De Medicina libri octo : ad editionem patavinam quam anno DMCCL. vulpius dedit et nuperiorem lipsiensem (sumptibus Franc. Grasset & Socior, 1772), by Aulo Cornelio Celso, François Grasset, Philippe Rodolphe Vicat, and Albrecht von Haller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aur. Cornelii Celsi De Medicina libri octo : ad editionem patavinam quam anno DMCCL. vulpius dedit et nuperiorem lipsiensem (sumptibus Franc. Grasset & Socior, 1772), by Aulo Cornelio Celso, François Grasset, Philippe Rodolphe Vicat, and Albrecht von Haller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Galeni Opera ex octaua Iuntarum editione. Quae, quid superioribus praestet, pagina versa ostendit, ad amplissimum Venetorum Medicorum Collegium. (apud Iuntas, 1609), by Galeno, Giunta (Familia), and Haussy de Robécourt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Galeni Isagogici libri : qui, cum in totam artem medicam introducant, in principio totius operis sunt locati ... (apud Iuntas, 1609), by Galeno and Giunta (Familia) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Galeni Extra ordinem classium libri in quibus breues rerum determinationes traduntur ... (apud Iuntas, 1609), by Galeno, Haussy de Robécourt, and Giunta (Familia) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spurii Galeno Ascripti libri qui variam artis medicae farraginem ex variis auctoribus excerptam continentes ... (apud Iuntas, 1609), by Galeno and Giunta (Familia) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Galeni librorum secunda classis materiam sanitatis conseruatricem tradit ... (apud Iuntas, 1609), by Galeno and Giunta (Familia) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Galeni operum quorundam, quae aliquo modo mutilata ad nos peruenere fragmenta : ad varias medicinae partes attinentia, quae proximae tantum ante hanc editione euulgauerant ... (apud Iuntas, 1609), by Galeno and Giunta (Familia) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antonii Musae Brasauoli ... Index refertissimus in omnes Galeni libros, qui ex nona Iunctarum editione extant, in quam indicem eorum operum inclusimus, quae postremo ad nos peruenere. (apud Iuntas, 1609), by Antonio Musa Brasavola and Giunta (Familia) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commentaires de M.P. André Matthiolus, medecin senois, sur les six liures de Pedacius Dioscoride Anazarbeen de la matiere medecinale : traduits de latin en françois par M. Antoine du Pinet, & de nouueau accreus d'vn bon nombre de figures, & reueus & augmentez en plus de mille lieux sur la derniere edition de l'autheur : auec plusieurs tables fort amples, les vnes medicinales, les autres des mots & matieres traitees esdits commentaires : le tout au prouffit & commodité des amateurs de la medicine. (A l'Escu de Milan, par la vefue de feu Gabriel Cotier, 1572), by Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Veuve de Gabriel Cotier, Gabriel Cotier, and Antoine Du Pinet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Épidémiques d'Hippocrate, traduites du grec : avec des réflexions sur les constitutions épidémiques : suivies des quarantedeux histoires rapportées par cet ancien médecin, & du Commentaire de Galien sur ces histoires : on y a joint un Mémoire sur la mortalité des moutons en Boulonnois dans les années 1761 & 1762 & une Lettre sur la mortalité des chiens dans l'année 1763, dans laquelle sont développées les vues d'Hippocrate sur les constitutions (A Paris : Chez la veuve d'Houry, imprimeur-libraire, 1798., 1798), by Hippocrates, Galen, J. T. Desmars, and Jeanne d' Houry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Qarābādīn-i Kabīr. (880-03 Lucknow : Nawal Kishawr, 1912., 1912), by Sayyid Muḥammad Hādī Shīrāzī ibn 'Alawī K̲h̲ān, William Osler, and Osler Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Qānūnchah ma'a Risālah-ʼi qabrīyah. (880-03 Lucknow : Maṭba'ah Nāmiyyah, 1923., 1923), by Hippocrates, William Osler, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad Jaghmīnī, Quṭb al-Dīn Aḥmad, and Osler Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Risala-i qabriyya. (880-03 Lucknow: Kārkhānah-i Valī Muḥammad, 1873., 1873), by Muḥammad Mahdī-'Alī khān Bahādur, William Osler, and Osler Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Qarābādīn-i jalālī. (880-03 Lucknow : Nawal Kishawr, 1897., 1897), by Jalāl al-Dīn Amrūhavī, William Osler, and Osler Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deuxiesme liure de Claude Galene intitule lart curatoire a Glaucon, auquel est specialeme[n]t traicte des differences dinflammation et de leur cure (Imprime nouuellement a Paris pour Hieroisme Denys librayre demourant a la rue Sainct Jasques a lenseigne de la croix blanche, 1530), by Galen, Hipprocrates, and Jérôme Denis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Risālah-ʼi qabrīyah. (880-03 Kānpūr : Nawal Kishawr, 1881., 1881), by Hippocrates, William Osler, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad Jaghmīnī, Ḥusayn ibn Isḥāq, and Osler Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anonymi Londinensis ex Aristotelis Iatricis Menoniis et aliis medicis eclogae (Reimer, 1893), by Anonymus Londinensis, Frederic G. Kenyon, Hermann Diels, and Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hippokratous aphorismou = Hippocratis aphorismi, ad fidem veterum monimentorum castigati, latine versi (apud Clousier ... :, 1779), by Hipocrates, Segaud, Clousier, and Jean-Baptiste Lefebvre de Villebrune (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hippokratous aphorismou = Hippocratis aphorismi, ad fidem veterum monimentorum castigati, latine versi (apud Clousier ... :, 1779), by Hipocrates, Segaud, Clousier, Jean-Baptiste Lefebvre de Villebrune, Marcos Viñals y Rubio, and Francisco Viñals y Torrero (page images at HathiTrust)

• ميزان الطب ([Amritsar?], 1822), by Muḥammad Akbar ibn Muḥammad Shāh Arzānī and active 1822 Muḥammad Bakhsh ibn Muḥammad ʻAẓīm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jāmiʻ al-fawāʼid, [first half of 19th century]. (1800), by Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Maḥallī Yūsufī and Frank E. Nuttall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ikhtiyārāt-i Badīʻī. (Cawnpore, 1888), by ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn Anṣārī Shīrāzī (page images at HathiTrust)
• هذا كتاب تحفه خاني في الطب (in the 18th century), by active 15th century Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Maḥmūd Nūr Allāh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Qarābādīn. (1872), by Casey A. Wood and Seyyid Muḥammad Sarfarāz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kifāyah-i Manṣūrī va Risālah-i chūb-i Chīnī (1400), by active 14th century Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, William Osler, and Osler Library (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Magician and leech; a study in the beginnings of medicine with special reference to ancient Egypt (Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1929), by Warren R. Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The healing gods of ancient civilizations (Yale University Press, 1925), by Walter Addison Jayne and Philip Hamilton McMillan Memorial Publication Fund (page images at HathiTrust)
• The healing gods of ancient civilizations. (University Books, 1962), by Walter Addison Jayne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The divine origin of the craft of the herbalist (The Society of herbalists, 1928), by E. A. Wallis Budge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die griechische Uebersetzung des Apologeticus Tertullian's. Medicinisches aus der ältesten Kirchengeschichte. (J.C. Hinrichs, 1892), by Adolf von Harnack (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caspari Bauhini Basileens archiatri & praxeos profess, ordinar. de lapidis bezaaris oriental. & occident. cervin. & germanici; ortu natura differentiis veroque usu ex veterum & recentiorum placitis. (sumptibus Ludovici Regis, 1625), by Caspar Bauhin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les médecins grecs à Rome (Hachette, 1894), by Maurice Albert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de la medecine : où l'on voit l'origine & les progrès de cet art, de siècle en siècle, les sectes, qui s'y sont formées, les noms des médecins, leurs découvertes, leurs opinions, & les circonstances les plus remarquables de leur vie (I. van der Kloot, 1729), by Daniel Le Clerc (page images at HathiTrust)
• Of the causes and signs of acute and chronic disease (W. Pickering, 1837), by Aretaeus of Cappadocia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Syrian anatomy, pathology and therapeutics; or, "The Book of Medicines." (Oxford University Press, 1913), by E. A. Wallis Budge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Medizin im Talmud (Sänger & Friedberg, 1909), by A. Stern (page images at HathiTrust)
• Medicorum Graecorum opera quae extant (C. Cnoblochii, 1821), by Karl Gottlob Kühn, of Anazarbos Dioscorides Pedanius, Aretaeus of Cappadocia, and Hippocrates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hippokratous Peri opsios. Hippocratis De visu libellus ... (Sumtibus Caroli Godofr. Fleckeisen, 1792), by Hippocrates and Johann Heinrich Jugler (page images at HathiTrust)
• De medicina libri octo (Voigtländer, 1922), by Aulus Cornelius Celsus and Th. Meyer-Steineg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber die therapeutische Verwendung des Weines bei den Alten. ([n.p.], 1871), by C. F. Zimmermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fragmentum medicum Graec. ([n.d.], 1873), by Conrad Bursian (page images at HathiTrust)
• De pathologiæ veterum initiis. (Basileæ, 1876), by Jacob Wackernagel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Institutiones historiae medicinae (In bibliopolio Bauero-Manniano, 1792), by Johann Christian Gottlieb Ackermann and Henry R. Viets (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fragmenta (Sumtibus ... Industrie-Comptoir, 1794), by of Bithynia Asclepiades and Christian Gottlieb Gumpert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Review of the history of medicine (J. Churchill; [etc.], 1867), by T. Wise (page images at HathiTrust)
• De causis continentibus libellus (N. G. Elwert, 1904), by Galen and K. Kalbfleisch (page images at HathiTrust)
• A disquisition on the ancient history of medicine; comprising critical notices of the origin of medical science, its vicissitudes in the remotest times, and of its reconstruction and final establishment by the Greeks. (Power Press of C.F. Bradely & Co., 1855), by T. L. Wright and Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liber de quadruplici vita. (Impressum expensis Stephani Gueynardi & Jacobi Huguetan[n]i, arte vero et industria Jannot de Campis, 1507), by Symphorien Champier, Pliny the Elder, Ludovico Lazzarelli, and Hermes Trismegistus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die nichtpathologische Gynaekologie der alten Aegypter .. (Emil Billig Nachf, 1894), by Felix Oefele (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address on inebriety amongst the ancients and how they "cured" it, delivered at a meeting of the Society for the Study of Inebriety ... 1898 (Medical Magazine Co., 1898), by William Lauzun-Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Medicine in Chaucer's day (s.n., 1900), by A. G. Nicholls (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wesley's system of medicine (A.R. Elliott, 1914), by William Renwick Riddell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chirurgische Instrumente des Altertums; ein Beitrag zur antiken Akiurgie (G. Fischer, 1912), by Theodor Meyer-Steineg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Etude sur la trousse d'un chirurgien gallo-ramain du iiie siècle. (H. Caals, 1893), by Victor Deneffe (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'urologie et les médecins urologues dans la médecine ancienne ; Gilles de Corbeil, sa vie, ses oeuvres, son poème des urines (F.R. de Rudeval, 1903), by C. Vieillard, Johannes von Cuba, de Corbeil Gilles, Raphaël Blanchard, and Petrus Ægidius Corboliensis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studia pseudippocratea (Typis B.G. Teubneri, 1883), by Johannes Ilberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité de médecine de A. C. Celse (G. Masson, 1876), by Aulus Cornelius Celsus, A. Védrènes, and Paul Broca (page images at HathiTrust)
• Darstellungen Normaler und krankhaft veränderter körperteile an antiken weihgaben (G. Fischer, 1912), by Theodor Meyer-Steineg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chirurgia (Excudebat Petrus Galterius Luceciae [sic] Parisiorum, 1544), by Francesco Primaticcio, physician Nicetas, and Guido Guidi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Della storia della medicina e delle dottrine d'Ippocrate : discorsi tre (Dalla stamperia del Vaglio, 1858), by Salvatore de Renzi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alexandrou Trallianou iatrou Biblia duokaideka. Rhaze Logos peri loimikēs apo tēs Syrōn dialektou exellēnistheis = Alexandri Tralliani medici lib. XII. Rhazae De pestilentia libellus ex Syrorum lingua in Graecam translatus. Iacobi Goupyli in eosdem castigationes. (Ex Officina Rob. Stephani ..., 1548), by of Tralles Alexander, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Rāzī, and Jacques Goupyl (page images at HathiTrust)
• The beginnings, Egypt & Assyria (P.B. Hoeber, Inc., 1930), by Warren R. Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Medicine and pharmacy : an informal history (Bloomfield, N.J. : Schering Corporation, [1955]-, 1955), by Schering Corporation and Sheldon G. Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Medicina dos lusitanos ([Gráficas do Museu Comercial de Lisboa], 1925), by J. Leite de Vasconcellos and Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il volto di Ippocrate; istorie di medici e medicine d'altri tempi. (Società editrice Unitas, 1925), by Arturo Castiglioni (page images at HathiTrust)
• 傷寒論 (in Chinese), by Zhongjing Zhang (Gutenberg ebook)
• De tuenda sanitate praecepta. English. Selections ([[London] : Imprynted by me Robert Wyer, [ca. 1545]]), by Plutarch (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• De tuenda sanitate praecepta. English. (Londini : In officina Richardi Graftoni, 1543), by Plutarch and John Hales (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Histoire de la médecine. English (London : Printed for D. Brown ... A. Roper ... T. Leigh, and D. Midwinter ..., 1699), by Daniel Le Clerc, James Drake, and Andrew Baden (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The chymical Galenist a treatise, wherein the practise of the ancients is reconcild́ to the new discoveries in the theory of physick, shewing that many of their rules, methods, and medicins, are useful for by George Castle ... (London : Printed by Sarah Griffin for Henry Twyford ... and Timothy Twyford ..., 1667), by George Castle (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Medicine in Ancient Assur: A Microhistorical Study of the Neo-Assyrian Healer Kiṣir-Aššur (Leiden: Brill, 2020), by Troels Pank Arbøll (JSTOR ebook)

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