List of medical textbooks

This is a list of medical textbooks, manuscripts, and reference works.

• Ramesseum medical papyri (c. 1800 BCE)
• Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus (c. 1800 BCE)
• London Medical Papyrus (c. 1600 BCE)
• Ebers Papyrus (c. 1550 BCE)
• Edwin Smith Papyrus (c. 1500 BCE) - Earliest mention of the brain; the pulse; the role of the heart in circulating blood, but not complete circulation.^[1] It is the world's oldest surgical textbook,^[2] containing descriptions of the zygomatic bone, dura mater, cerebrospinal fluid, and nasal cavity.^[2]
• Brugsch Papyrus (c. 1200 BCE)

• Hippocratic Corpus (c. 400 BCE to 200 CE) - Contains many important medical treatises including the Hippocratic Oath.^[3] Compared with the Egyptian papyri, the Hippocratic writings exhibit an improved understanding of brain structure and function. It correctly attributed the primary control of the body's function to the brain.^[2]
• Galenic corpus (c. 200 BCE)
• De Materia Medica (Dioscorides) (c. 50 CE)
• Medical Compendium in Seven Books (c. 600 CE)

• Huangdi Neijing (c. 300 BCE) - Most authoritative Chinese source on medical matters for over two millennia.^[4] It contributed to the Chinese understanding of anatomy,^[5] and it continues to be used as an influential reference work for practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine.^[6] The book contains many guidelines and recommendations for the prevention of chronic diseases and micronutrient deficiencies such as beriberi, xerophthalmia, and goitre.^[7]
• Wushi'er Bingfang (c. 200 BCE)
• Shennong Ben Cao Jing (c. 200 CE)
• Shanghan Lun (c. 220 CE)
• Liu Juanzi Guiyi Fang (C. 499 CE)
• Compendium of Materia Medica (c. 1578 CE)

• Kashyapa Samhita (6th century BCE)
• Sushruta Samhita (c. 300 BCE) - Early description of cataract surgery.^[8] The Sushruta Samhita emphasizes the importance of anatomical structure and function,^[9] and it contains the earliest written description of the pedicled flaps.^[10] It was translated into Arabic during the latter part of the 8th century.^[9]
• Bower Manuscript (c. 470-550 CE)^[11][12][13]
• Charaka Samhita (c. 300-500 CE) - One of the fundamental texts of Ayurveda medicine, it was translated into Chinese, Arabic, and Tibetan languages.^[14]

• Kitab al-Taṣrif (c. 1000) - Surgical encyclopedia.^[15]
• Book of Optics (c. 1000) - Exerted great influence on Western science.^[16] It was translated into Latin and it was used until the early 17th century.^[17] The German physician Hermann von Helmholtz reproduced several theories of visual perception that were found in the first Book of Optics, which he cited and copied from.^[18]
• The Canon of Medicine (c. 1000) - Described by Sir William Osler as a "medical bible" and "the most famous medical textbook ever written".^[19] The Canon of Medicine introduced the concept of a syndrome as an aid to diagnosis, and it laid out an essential framework for a clinical trial.^[20] It was translated into Latin by Gerard de Sabloneta and it was used extensively in European medical schools.^[20][21] It also became the most authoritative text on anatomy until the 16th century.^[22]
• Commentary on Anatomy in Avicenna's Canon (c. 1200): First description of the pulmonary circulation system,^[23] and the first description of the presence and function of coronary circulation.^[24]

• Compendium Medicinæ ("Compendium of Medicine") (c. 1230-1250)^[26][27][28]
• Thesaurus Pauperum ("Treasury of The Poor") (c. 1270)^[29][30]
• Rosa Anglica ("The English Rose") (1304-1317)^[28][31][32]
• La Chirurgie ("Surgery") (1306-1320)^[33]
• Stockholm, Royal Library, manuscript X. 90 (early fifteenth-century). A significant and compendious collection of Middle English medical recipes, charms, and treatises.

• Gray's Anatomy
• Gray's Anatomy for Students
• Netter - Atlas of Human Anatomy^[34]
• Clinically Oriented Anatomy^[35]
• Snell's Clinical Anatomy by Regions^[36]
• Kenhub Atlas of Human Anatomy^[37]

• Snell's Clinical Neuroanatomy^[38]
• Neuroanatomy - Text and Atlas^[39]
• Fitzgerald's Clinical Neuroanatomy and Neuroscience^[40]

• Practical Management of Pain
• Textbook of Pain - Most comprehensive scientific reference text on pain.^[41] The textbook's founding editors were Patrick David Wall and Ronald Melzack, who jointly introduced the gate control theory into the field of pain research.^[41]

• Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine
• Fuster and Hurst's the Heart

• Talley and O'Connor's Clinical Examination ^[42]
• Macleod's Clinical Examination ^[43]
• Bates' Guide To Physical Examination and History Taking ^[44]

• Rook's Textbook of Dermatology^[45]
• Fitzpatrick's Dermatology^[46]

• Langman's Medical Embryology^[47]
• The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology^[48]

• Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide^[49]
• Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice^[50]

• Netter's Essential Histology
• Histology - A Text and Atlas With Correlated Cell and Molecular Biology^[51]
• Junqueira's Basic Histology, Text and Atlas^[52]

• Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
• The Principles and Practice of Medicine
• Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine
• Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment
• The Oxford Textbook of Medicine
• Cecil Textbook of Medicine
• Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine

• Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology

• Principles of Neural Science

• Williams Obstetrics^[53]
• Williams Gynecology^[54]
• Berek & Novak's Gynecology^[55]
• Te Linde's Operative Gynecology^[56]
• Hacker & Moore's Essentials of Obstetrics and Gynecology^[57]

• Abeloff's Clinical Oncology
• Skin Cancer: Recognition and Management

• Ryan's Retina

• Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics

• Guyton's Textbook of Medical Physiology^[58]
• Ganong's Review of Medical Physiology^[59]
• Human Physiology: From Cells to Systems ^[60]

• Schwartz's Principles of Surgery
• Sabiston Textbook of Surgery - The Biological Basis of Modern Surgical Practice^[61]
• Bailey & Love's Short Practice of Surgery

• Campbell-Walsh-Wein Urology

• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) - Official publication of the American Psychiatric Association
• International Classification of Diseases (ICD) - Official publication of the World Health Organization

• Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine
• Step up to medicine
• Harrisons Manual of Medicine

• Miller-Keane Encyclopedia & Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health
• Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
• The Modern Home Physician

• Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment
• Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics
• The Merck Manuals
• The Oxford Textbook of Medicine
• The Principles and Practice of Medicine

• List of medical journals