Here is a list of further reading that is available on the internet about medical herbalism. It includes sites that have old herbal texts and pictures on them. They make for interesting reading although not all are English language texts.
- For some historical perspective read this article by Francis Brinker: https://www.eclecticherb.com/periscop.htm
- Michael Moore has lots of olde works on his SWSBM site. (You’ll find the ones marked * as .html-files elsewhere on this site.)David Winston has some old works on his site, including Felter’s Syllabus and excerpts from Locke’s Materia Medica.
- Books: *Felter, *Ellingwood, *Petersen, Fyfe, Culbreth, and *Sayre,
- Periodicals: (*)Ellingwood’s therapeutist, (*)American Journal of Pharmacy, *Transactions of the Nat’l Eclectic Medical Assoc.,
- and others: Other Manuals, SWSBM
- Plants for a future. www.pfaf.org This is an excellent web resource which gives a lot of herbal information from a permacultural stance. They are still working on expanding their already extensive data base of plants. Please donate and support them in their work.
- There’s a new trend out there: scan enormous old encyclopediaeaea and have people spellcheck them online. I’ve seen two such efforts so far – kudos to both projects:Maude Grieve’s Modern Herbal from 1931 should be mentioned here, even if it’s almost a modern work
- in German: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. 1888-1889. 16 Bände, 16000 Seiten.
- in Swedish: Nordisk familjebok, Konversationslexikon och realencyclopedi. 1876-1899, 20 band; 1904-1926, 38 band; totalt 45000 sidor.
- Michael Tierra’s Planetherbs site currently boasts one classic work of interest: Eli Jones’ Cancer – Its causes, symptoms and treatment.
- Paul Bergner’s Culpeper-to-modern Plant Names page
- The Soil and Health Library contains works by Cook and Thurston, among others.
- Dioskorides’ Materia MedicaA library of online Homeopathic works, similar to this page in that it lists both on- and offsite resources – NOTE: homeopathy is not herbalism.
- A Medical Botany of the Confederate States by Francis Peyre Porcher, 1833
- Kräuterbuch von Jacobus Theodorus “Tabernaemontanus” anno 1625 – 1600 pages, 3000 plants (they’re still working on it – typing by hand, this kind of text can’t be scanned), in German
- Part of Purdue’s Newcrop site: The Herb Hunters Guide by A.F. Sievers, 1930.
- Rare books from the Missouri Botanical Garden
- Köhler’s, with full text: volume 1, 2, and 3, 1883-1914 (287 images), volume 4, 1898 (29 images)
- Woodville’s Medical Botany, 1790-1793: Volume 1, 2, 3, and 4
- Thomas Schöpke has scanned the plates in Köhler’s:The U of Marburg offers a scan of Dodoens’ Cruyde Boeck, 1563. That’s in Dutch, and the old script has not been OCR’d.
- Köhler’s, 1883-1914 (with 282 images)
- the same on another site (only 146 images)
- Plantaardigheden offers Rembert Dodoens’ Cruijdeboeck, 1554, and Dodoen’s Cruydt-Boeck, 1664, as images, larger scans, and text. – added 26Jan2008
- Kurt Stueber’s pages include lots of German botanical works von anno dazumal
- among them a very good German picture book, Otto Wilhelm Thomé, 1885-1905
- Köhler’s, again, with 124 images at 1-2 MB per image
- Siebold’s Flora Japonica (in Latin): Textband 1, 1935, Textband 2, 1870, Tafelband, 1870.
- Lyte’s “A new herbal, or historie of plants”, 1619, an English translation of Dodoens. – added 26Jan2008
- Gerarde “The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes”, 1597. It’s another translation of Dodoens. – added 26Jan2008
- There’s a few works of interest in Yale’s Medical Historical Library:Madaus’ Lehrbuch der Biologischen Heilmittel, 1838 – 2400 pages of botanical medicine in German, without formatting, without pics … its been fixed up by Henriette Kress and posted here.
- A German picture book, Fuchs Botanical, 1545
- Culpeper’s The English Physitian, 1652
- Paintings from Curtis’ Botanical Magazine, running from 1787 to 1807
- The Cayce Herbal holds two works not found elsewhere
- The University of Braunschweig offers lots of old (and new) pharmaceutical and botanical texts; unfortunately, they are scanned .gifs, not OCR’d .html files, which makes downloads expensive and reading cumbersome – unless you have broadband, of course. Pharmaceutical texts – botanical texts.
Among the pharmaceutical works these are worth mentioning:Scans of ancient works, for instance a 1585 Italian translation of an even earlier Portuguese history of medicinal plants- Baillière et Fils, 1866: Codex medicamentarius – Pharmacopée française.
- Friedrich A. Flückiger: Lehrbuch der Pharmakognosie des Pflanzenreichs: 1867 – 1883, 2. Aufl.
- Wilibald Artus, 1876: Hand-Atlas sämmtlicher medicinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewächse, 5. Aufl.: 1. Band – 2. Band.
- Hermann Hager, Handbuch der Pharmaceutischen Praxis: 1. Theil, 1876 – 2. Theil, 1878 und Technik der Pharmaceutischen Receptur, 5. Aufl., 1890.
- O. Schlickum, 1886: Kommentar zur 2. Auf. der Pharmacopoea Germanica.
- G. Pabst: Köhler’s Medizinal-Pflanzen, 1887, with full text: Band 1 – Band 2 – Band 3 (Ergänzungsband).
- Julius Berendes, 1902: Des Pendanios Dioskurides aus Anazarbos Arzneimittellehre aus fünf Bchern.
- Edmund White, John Humphrey, 1904: Pharmacopedia – A Commentary on the British Pharmacopoeia 1898.
- Earthly Pursuits: a few old gardening books
- Bodleian Library, scans of ancient works
