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Medical
Books About Medical Cannabis:
Dating Back To 1873
Last update Aug. 22, 2004 -
1989
- An Ancient Egyptian Herbal - By Lise Manniche -
Pub University of Texas Press, Austin. Some
scholars believe that medical marihuana was in use in ancient Egypt.
1956
– Pharmacognosy By Edward P.
Claus – Pub Lea & Febiger – Despite the late date, it has a good
description and history on the drug. Pages 380-382.
1951
– An
Introduction to Materia Medica & Pharmacology (6th
Ed) By Elsie E. Krug and Hugh Alister McGuigan.
Pub. C.V. Mosby Co. A two
page write up, not worth reading.
1948
– Practical Therapeutics –
Some uses for Headaches are mentioned. Negative
mentions etc, as it is habit forming drug use only as a last resorts etc
1943
– Textbook of Pharmacology for Nurses
By Margene O. Faddis & Joseph M Hayman
– Pub J.B. Lippincott Co.
1942
– Synopsis of Materia Medica, Toxicology, and Pharmacology
– By Forrest Ramon Davison. . Pub. C.V.
Mosby Co. Mostly negative, but the
medical uses are noted.
1939
- Headache
and Head Pains
- By Walton Forest Dutton M.D. -
Pub - F.A. Davis Company. Must
reading, lots of post-1937 Cannabis mentions.
Every kind of headache pain imaginable.
1939
- Experimental
Pharmacology And Materia Medica - By Dennis E. Jackson,
Publisher "C.V. Mosby Co." - not worth looking at, Cannabis is only
mention in terms of a Corn Remedy, with instructor telling students that it's OK
not to use it.
1939
– The Inter-Relationship of Mind and Body
– By the Association for research in Nervous and mental Disease. From
the Proceedings of the Association (1938) Meeting in New York.
Contains the chapter “The Effects of Marihuana” by Walter Bromberg.
1938
– Pharmacology, Materia Medica and Therapeutics
– By Charles Solomon, Pub J.B. Lippincott
Co. – Only a small (one
page) section of cannabis, but of interest.
1936
- The Cyclopedia of Medicine - By George Morris
Piersol, MD. Pub F.A. Davis co. -
This is part of a multi volume medical encyclopedia set. Mentions insomnia, senile, melancholia and mania, delirium
tremens, chorea, tetanus, rabies, bronchitis, pulmonary, cough mixtures,
paralysis agitans, spasm of the bladder, goiter, ophthalmic, gonorrhea, chordee,
headaches, migraine + more
1932
- A Manual of Homceo- Therapeutics By Edwind A.
Neatby, MD and Thomas George Stonham, MD. -
The Missionary School of Medicine - Mostly a lot of negative (reefer madness
like) stuff, but does have some medical uses in it.
1931
- Bioassays - A Handbook of Quantitative
Pharmacology By
James C. Munch - Pub. Williams
& Wilkins Co. James Munch (who
would latter on work directly with Harry Anslinger during the reefer madness
campaign) wrote a pretty scientific study given the man, either that or it was
done long before he joined the reefer madness movement.
1931
- Treatment in General Practice -
By Harry Beckman MD - Pub- W.B. Saunders Co.
Section on migraines included.
1928
- The
Art of Medical Treatment
- By Francis W. Palfrey, M.D.
Only mention of Cannabis is
under Migraine Pain. (pages 287,398)
1927
– Textbook of Materia Medica – By
A.S. Blumgarten Pub. The MacMillan Co. Only a one page description on the
subject.
1925-
The Art of Medical Treatment –
By Frances W. Palfrey – Pub. W.B. Saunders Co.
Has a section on Cannabis and Migraine Pain.
1921
– Materia Medica for Nurses – By
A.S. Blumgarten – 3th Ed. Pub. MacMillan Co. Cannabis is treated pretty much
like all other medicines.
1917
– Modern Dental Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics
– By J.P. Buckley – Pub P. Blakiston’s Son & co. Only
mentions Cannabis, not its uses, but it is odd that a Dental book would mention
it at all.
1915
- An
Index of Treatment By Various
Writers –Pub. William Wood Co. Must
reading, many uses of Cannabis for various aliments. Asthma, Dysmenorrhoea, Haemorrhage, Migraine,
Menorrhagia, Metrorrhagia, Meningitis.
1909
- King's American Dispensatory - By Harvey
Wickes Felter MD and John Lloyd PhD. Pub. The Ohio Valley Co. - Lot's of stuff
in it.
1910
– Therapeutics, Materia Meica, and Pharmacy
By Sam’l O.L. Potter, Pub.
P.Blankiston’s Son & co.
1905
- Nervous and Mental Diseases By
Church and Peterson - Pub W.B. Sandders - Mostly negative stuff about cannabis,
but that it does have its uses.
1904
- Text-book of Insanity -
By R. Von Krafft-Ebing - Only a couple of negative references to Cannabis.
It is important to be able to see the negative as well as the positive.
1904
- Clinical Lectures of Mental Diseases
By T.S. Clouston MD - Insanity, Cannabis is
used for - Mania, Melancholia, Sedatives. Selective
pages photocopied only.
1903
- Diseases of the Urinary Organs -
By Clifford Mitchell MD. - Cannabis is used to treat Headache, Renal Calculus, Cystitis.
1901
- Mental Diseases and Their Modern Treatment
- By Selden Haines Talcott - Pub. Boericke & Runyon co.
1898
– Lectures on the Action of Medicines
– By T. Lauder Brunton, Pub. MacMillan
and co. – a couple of examples of Cannabis used are mentioned, pages 210, 643.
Note the Assassin myth is mention.
1895
- Practical Therapeutics
By Hobart Amory Hare, M.D. --Pub Lea Brothers & Co.
Great reference book. Mentions
uses of Cannabis, read MS-word file for book.
1890
- Diseases of the Kidneys - By Clifford
Mitchell MD - Oxaluria, cystitis, all sort of bladder diseases.
1885
- Diseases of Women - By Alexander J.C.
Skene, MD - Pub. D. Appleton and Company. -
Various (but not a great many) genealogical references to Cannabis as a
treatment to diseases of women.
1882
– The Incidental Effects of Drugs –
By Dr. L. Lewin, Pub. William Wood & Co.
Very short section on Cannabis, generally negative. Pg’s 147,148.
1873
- The Characteristics of the New Remedies
- By Edwin M. Hale MD. - about 7 pages worth of stuff.
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