Foundations
De Materia Medica
- Author: Pedanius Dioscorides
- Publication data: De Materia Medica, 50–70
- Online version: Online version of first volume
- Description: This five-volume work was a precursor to all modern pharmacopeias. In fact, it remained in use until the 16th century, though with some additional commentary and additions from Arabian and Indian sources.
- Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Impact
The Canon of Medicine
- Author: Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
- Publication data: The Canon of Medicine, 1025
- Description: This fourteen-volume medical encyclopedia was the first of its kind and remained the most popular medical textbook in both Europe and the Islamic world up until the 17th century and continued to be in use as late as the 19th century. Among other things, the book is known for the discovery of contagious diseases, and the introduction of experimental medicine, clinical trials, randomized controlled trials, efficacy tests, and clinical pharmacology. The work is considered one of the most famous books in the history of medicine.
- Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Impact
Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus
- Author: William Harvey
- Publication data: 1628
- Description: The work in which Harvey explained the circulation of the blood.
- Importance: Breakthrough, Impact
The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine
- Author: William Osler
- Publication data:
- Online version:
- Description: First published in 1892 while Osler was Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, this textbook was, in its time, translated into French, German, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish and Chinese. It became the most significant medical textbook of the next 40 years.
- Importance: Impact
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