Canons Of Medicine Around The World

[HugoDarien]

Good Day!
Here I describe the most important Canons or Books of Medicine around the world! Your commends or information are also welcome!
Regards
/Hugo

PS. Many Canons of medicine borrow facts of other Country Canons of Medicine, and some others knowledge of medicine are in oral transmissions, and there may be some others Canons that I don’t know but that exist!

Canon of Medicine in America:

The Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis (Latin for "Little Book of the Medicinal Herbs of the Indians") is a herbal manuscript, describing the medicinal properties of various plants used by the Aztecs. It was translated into Latin by Juan Badiano, from a Nahuatl original composed in Tlatelolco in 1552 by Martín de la Cruz that is no longer extant.
Other Intresting books are:
Aspects of the history of medicine in Latin America : report of a conference / edited by John Z. Bowers and Elizabeth F. Purcell
The story of medicine in America by Geoffrey Marks and William K. Beatty

http://www.pharmacy.wisc.edu/aihp/publications.htm

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0791040410/ref=nosim/compricer-20

Canon of Medicine in Australia
I don't know but I found these interesting books:
Aboriginal Communities of the Northern Territory (1988) Traditional bush medicines : an Aboriginal pharmacopoeia. Greenhouse Publications, Richmond, Vic. 256p.
Aboriginal Communities of the Northern Territory (1993) Traditional Aboriginal medicines in the Northern Territory of Australia. Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory of Australia, Darwin, NT. 651p.
Canon of medicine in India:
Caraka Samhita
The Caraka Saṃhita, 6 vols., prepared by the Shree Gulabkunverba Ayurvedic Society

http://www.bokpris.com/click.php?shopid=61&isbn=8176370118

Sushruta Samhita

http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?S=R&qisbn=8130702770&qcond=6&siteid=GcH9YJlOjKU%2DecVhhuFqfCaBZ6V%2EpQd%5FLw&qsort=p

Canon of medicine in China:
Huangdi Neijing ( some chapter are lost)
Canon of Medicine in Tibet:
The Four Tantras(notyet translate): http://www.men-tsee-khang.org/medicine/rgyud.htm
A interesting book is Encyclopedia of Tibetan Medicine by Dash Bhawan
Canon of medicine in Vietnam:
Nam duoc than hieu and Thap tam phuong gia gaim by Tue Tinh
Hai Thuong y Tong Tam Linh
Canon of medicine in Korea:
Chejun iphyo pang
Hyangyak kugup pang
Hyangyak chipson pang and Vibang yuch wi 85 vol
Tongui pogam by Ho chun 25 vol
Canon of medicine in Japan:
Kojiki and Ishinpo by Yasuyori
Nihon Shoki(Nihongi)

http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?S=R&qisbn=0804836744&qcond=6&siteid=GcH9YJlOjKU%2DiIynPplC%2EE4LeFRT0tkPvw&qsort=p

Canon of Medicine in Europe

1. On Ancient Medicine or Tradition in Medicine by Hippocrates

2. De Materia Medica by Pedanius Dioscorides 70 Volumes.

Canon of medicine in Westen Europe
I found these intresting books:

http://www.erasmuspublishing.nl/ep/Book.jsp?id_book=148

http://www.amazon.com/Social-History-Medicine-Healing-1750-1950/dp/0415200385

http://www.amazon.com/Medicine-Disease-State-Ireland-1650-1940/dp/1859181104

http://www.amazon.com/portrait-Irish-medicine-illustrated-history/dp/B0006EGO14/sr=1-1/qid=1166972771/ref=sr_1_1/002-5516856-8419237?ie=UTF8&s=books

http://www.amazon.com/Shaping-Profession-Physicians-Norway-Present/dp/0881351687/sr=1-3/qid=1166972811/ref=sr_1_3/002-5516856-8419237?ie=UTF8&s=books

Medicine and medical ethics in Medieval and early modern Spain : an intercultural approach / edited by Samuel S. Kottek and Luís García-Ballester. Jerusalem : Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, 1996
Canon of Medicine in Africa:
I don't found them but I fund these Important Books:

http://www.amazon.com/History-Traditional-Medicine-Pre-Colonial-East-Central/dp/0773497072/sr=1-1/qid=1166972958/ref=sr_1_1/002-5516856-8419237?ie=UTF8&s=books

http://www.amazon.com/M%C3%A9decine-coloniale-grandes-end%C3%A9mies-1900-1960/dp/2865376532/sr=11-1/qid=1166973001/ref=sr_11_1/002-5516856-8419237

http://www.amazon.com/South-Africa-medical-history-1652-1898/dp/0869770039/sr=1-1/qid=1166973038/ref=sr_1_1/002-5516856-8419237?ie=UTF8&s=books

A history of medicine in South Africa up to the end of the nineteenth century. Cape Town, A.A. Balkema, 1958
Canon of Medicine in Arabian Country:
Tibb al aimma, Canon of medicine of the Profet and Imans:

http://www.amazon.com/Islamic-Medical-Wisdom-Tibb-Al-Aimma/dp/0946079862/sr=1-3/qid=1166973130/ref=sr_1_3/002-5516856-8419237?ie=UTF8&s=books

http://almashriq.hiof.no/ddc/projects/saab/avicenna/index.html

The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine, also known as the Qanun (full title: al-qanun fil-tibb) by the Persian scientist Ibn Sina (Avicenna) It is considered one the most famous books in the history of medicine.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/104-0698412-2629569?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Ibn+Sina+&Go.x=18&Go.y=7

[HugoDarien]

Canons Of Medicine Around The World

Hello!

I forget to tell in my last thread that there are older books for example:

The Divine Farmer's Herb-Root Classic by Shennong

The Ebers Papyrus:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/103-1061763-5802233?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=+Ebers+Papyrus

I write wrong before when I said that this book dont exist today! What I mean is that the book in the original language in Native aerican is lost as longer I know you can buy this book in many languages in English:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9681636074/ref=nosim/compricer-20

http://www.amazon.com/Aztec-Herbal-Classic-Codex-1552/dp/0486411303/sr=1-1/qid=1169751265/ref=sr_1_1/103-1061763-5802233?ie=UTF8&s=books

Argentina:
Historia de la Medicina en el Rio de la Plata by E Canton – 4 vols.

http://www.amazon.com/Historia-Medicina-Plata-descubrimiento-nuestros/dp/B000MEPKCC/sr=1-1/qid=1169751332/ref=sr_1_1/103-1061763-5802233?ie=UTF8&s=books

Austria:

M. Neuburger Die Entwicklung der medizin in oesterreich 1918

Belgium:

BROECKX, C. - Essai sur l'histoire de la médecine belge, avant le XIXe , 1938

Canada:

Four centuries of medical history in Canada and a sketch of the medical history of Newfoundland, by J. J Heagerty

Denmark:

Ingerslev, V. Danmarks Læger og Lægevæsen fra de ældste Tider indtil Aar 1800 En

http://www.antikvariat.net/search.cgi?open=ABH75613

France:
GUIART, JULES: Histoire de la médecine française

http://www.antiqbook.com/boox/alt/25600.shtml

Germany:
ROHLFS, H.
Die medicinischen Classiker Deutschlands.

http://www.antiquariaatbrinkman.nl/catalogues.php?catnr=518&pg=34

MEDICINE IN THE BRITISH ISLES. (ISBN: 0404589022)
POWER, Sir D'Arcy.

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?&isbn=0404589022&nsa=1

Guatemala:
Martínez-Durán C. Las ciencias médicas en Guatemala

http://www.karnobooks.com/cgi-bin/karno/8648.html

Italy:
Salvatore De Renzi, Storia della Medicina in Italia 5 vols

http://web.tiscali.it/ripostes/sottopagina%20storia%20campana.htm

Japan:
Y. Fujikawa. -- Robugen, 1976. Geschichte der Medizin in Japan

http://www.rareorientalbooks.com/jsp/detail.jsp?id=682&sku=211577

http://www.antiqbook.nl/boox/nij/20849.shtml

Latin America:
Aesculapius in Latin America by Aristides A. Moll

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-1753(194510)36%3A1%3C81%3AAILA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A

Mexico:
F. A.: Historia de la Medicina en México
Ocaranza F. Historia de la medicina en México. México
Netherlands:
BANGA, J. Geschiedenis van de geneeskunde en van hare beoefenaren in Nederland

http://www.antiqbook.nl/boox/bri/97154.shtml

Norway:
Medisinens historie i Norge. Av I. Reichborn-Kjennerud, Fr. Grøn og I. Kobro

http://ww.antikvariat.net/search.cgi?open=RUM29137

Portugal:
Maximiano Lemos, História da Medicina em Portugal

Rumania:
Ionescu-Gomoiu istoria medicinei si a invatamantului medical in romania 1936
Russia:
Gantt WH. Russian medicine
Spain:
Historia bibliográfica de la medicina española by A H Morejon
García Real E. Historia de la Medicina en España
Sweden:
J. F. Sacklén, Sveriges Läkare-Historia ifrån Konung Gustaf den I:s till närvarande tid

USA:
Packard FR. History of Medicine in the United States

http://www.amazon.com/History-medicine-United-Francis-Packard/dp/B0006ALM1K/sr=1-1/qid=1169755359/ref=sr_1_1/103-1061763-5802233?ie=UTF8&s=books

Uruguay:
SCHIAFFINO,R.- Historia de la Medicina en el Uruguay

[Ray]

Thanks Hugo,

Some neat contributions.

I guess the Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic is a must. But if I may add my own views I think one needs to learn diagnostic skills before exploring all the wonderful herbs in the world. If you mis-diagnosis yourself or someone else, then knowledge of herbal properties don't do you much good.

Take care,

Ray

[HugoDarien]

Canons Of Medicine Around The World

Hi there Ray What is diagnostic skills?

Ps. the best Herb book that I know( after searching all over and reading little inside) is this one:http://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-H...e=UTF8&s=books
I had read old classics or cannons of herbs and they are not so much good like the modern ones whit photo etc! I Hope I buy this book soon! because I want to learn herb in the future and I like to train easy things home! Another book that is modern and can be call a Classic of Canon of " medicine maybe" is this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Farmacist-Desk...e=UTF8&s=books is just the price that

see you my friend!

thansk for your reply I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT

/HUGO

[Ray]

Hey Hugo,
Diagnostic skills means basically find out what's wrong and how to fix it. For example if someone's lungs have a problem but you give them something for the liver which won't help them than that would probably be poor diagnostic skills. Similarly even if you know what all the herbs do but you don't what the person's problem or imbalance is, then it's kind of useless and giving them the wrong medicine might make things worse. In Chinese medicine common symptoms like say a cold, may have many different reasons for why they happen.

Take care,

Ray

[HugoDarien]

Canons Of Medicine Around The World

THANKS Ray for your beautiful answer

Here are another Canon of Medicine:

J D Comrie: History of Scottish Medicine:

http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?qwork=2945094&wauth=J%2ED%2E%20Comrie&matches=10&qsort=r&cm_re=works*listing*title

or a modern one:

http://www.amazon.com/History-Scottish-Medicine-Helen-Dingwall/dp/0748608656/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product/103-0117848-5549426

Bye Bye

[HugoDarien]

Canons Of Medicine Around The World

Thanks Hugo,

Some neat contributions.

I guess the Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic is a must.

Take care,

Ray

Ray Thank you

Here is the book, and hey look at this wonderful library a must for a Chinese Medicine Practitioner I guess!?(these books are on English and Chinese):

http://www.neijing.se/butiken/HemButiken/tabid/408/CategoryID/6/List/1/Level/1/ProductID/103/Default.aspx