- For some historical perspective read this article by Francis Brinker: http://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.)
- 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
- David Winston has some old works on his site, including Felter's Syllabus and excerpts from Locke's Materia Medica.
- 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:
- 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.
- Maude Grieve's Modern Herbal from 1931 should be mentioned here, even if it's almost a modern work
- 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 Medica
- A 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:
- Köhler's, 1883-1914 (with 282 images)
- the same on another site (only 146 images)
- 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.
- 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:
- A German picture book, Fuchs Botanical, 1545
- Culpeper's The English Physitian, 1652
- Madaus' Lehrbuch der Biologischen Heilmittel, 1838 - 2400 pages of botanical medicine in German, without formatting, without pics ... I fixed it up and reposted it here.
- 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:- 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.
- Scans of ancient works, for instance a 1585 Italian translation of an even earlier Portuguese history of medicinal plants
- Earthly Pursuits: a few old gardening books
- Bodleian Library, scans of ancient works
Last updated 26Jan2008. Comments? Tell me.