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Canon of Medicine
~1020 encyclopedia of medicine compiled by Ibn Sīnā/Avicenna
Sushruta Samhita
sushruta samhita is an ancient sanskrit text on medicine
Marcellus Empiricus
Roman writer and physician
Al-Tasrif
The Kitāb al-Taṣrīf (), known in English as The Method of Medicine, is a 30-volume Arabic encyclopedia on medicine and surgery, written near the year 1000 by Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis). It is available in translation. The took al-Zahrawi over 50 years to complete. It contains information about a wide variety of illnesses, injuries, medical conditions, treatments, and surgical procedures. It describes over 200 different surgical instruments. Surgeons continued to rely on the well into the 1700s.
Medicina Plinii
manual of medicine in Latin language written in the 4th century CE
medical encyclopedia
specialized encyclopedia on medicine
Radiopaedia
Radiopaedia is a wiki-based international collaborative educational web resource containing a radiology encyclopedia and imaging case repository. It is currently the largest freely available radiology related resource in the world with more than 60,000 patient cases and over 16,000 reference articles on radiology-related topics. The open edit nature of articles allows radiologists, radiology trainees, radiographers, sonographers, and other healthcare professionals interested in medical imaging to refine most content over time. An editorial board peer reviews all contributions.
Colliget
thumb|Page from Averroes' Colliget
De medicina
book by Celsus
Bald's Leechbook
manuscript collection of medical remedies in Old English
Paradise of Wisdom
early Islamic medical encyclopedia