John M. Riddle

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John M. Riddle

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According to Wikipedia, John Marion Riddle is an American historian and specialist in the history of medicine. He is Alumni Distinguished Professor emeritus of History at North Carolina State University. Career Riddle specializes in pharmacological history particularly of the classical and medieval periods, based on previously under-utilized ancient and medieval sources. His methodology is to draw on the modern understanding of medicine, pharmacy, and chemistry to interpret texts and uncover the rationality of early medicine. He has written extensively about Dioscorides, who published a description of 500 distinct plants around 78 AD that is "still an authority on plants and drugs of ancient times" – it was "the first to study [plants] morphologically thus separating pharmacognosy from medicine." Riddle demonstrated that Dioscorides arranged his presentation of drugs by affinities and based on their physiological action. This allowed a physician who did not have a particular drug to look to the preceding or following entries for potential alternatives.

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John M. Riddle's Published Works

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Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance (1992) (214)
Techniques: Bioprospecting historical herbal texts by hunting for new leads in old tomes. (2004) (138)
Dioscorides on Pharmacy and Medicine (1986) (99)
Eve's Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West (1998) (94)
Theory and practice in medieval medicine. (1974) (93)
Roman Nature: The Thought of Pliny the Elder (1992) (78)
Oral contraceptives and early-term abortifacients during classical antiquity and the Middle Ages. (1991) (64)
Oral Contraceptives in Ancient and Medieval Times (1992) (35)
History as a tool in identifying "new" old drugs. (2002) (32)
Axial offset anomaly : coupling PWR primary chemistry with core design (2001) (30)
Ancient and Medieval Chemotherapy for Cancer (1985) (29)
The Costs of Regulation: Branded Open Supply and Uniform Pricing of Gasoline (2003) (24)
Herbals: Their Origin and Evolution. A Chapter in the History of Botany, 1470-1670. (1988) (22)
Qustā Ibn Lūqā's Physical Ligatures and the Recognition of the Placebo Effect (1995) (15)
Lithotherapy in the Middle Ages... lapidaries considered as medical texts. (1970) (15)
Pseudo-Dioscorides' Ex herbis femininis and early medieval medical botany (1981) (14)
The History of Medications for Women: Materia medica woman (review) (2003) (14)
Folk tradition and folk medicine: recognition of drugs in classical antiquity. (2013) (13)
Ever since Eve... Birth control in the ancient world (1994) (13)
Marbode of Rennes' (1035-1123) De lapidibus considered as a medical treatise with text, commentary and C.W. King's translation, together with text and translation of Marbode's minor works on stones. (1977) (12)
Amber in ancient pharmacy. The transmission of information about a single drug. (1973) (11)
Byzantine Commentaries on Dioscorides (1984) (11)
High Medicine and Low Medicine in the Roman Empire (1993) (10)
Value Based Pricing of Pharmaceuticals in the US and UK: Does Centralized Cost Effectiveness Analysis Matter? (2018) (10)
The Bell System Divestiture/Deregulation and the Efficiency of the Operating Companies* (1999) (9)
Goddesses, Elixirs, and Witches: Plants and Sexuality throughout Human History (2010) (9)
Historical data as an aid in pharmaceutical prospecting and drug safety determination. (1999) (9)
The introduction and use of eastern drugs in the early middle ages. (1965) (9)
Quid pro quo: Studies in the History of Drugs (1992) (8)
A History of the Middle Ages, 300-1500 (2008) (7)
POMUM AMBRAE. AMBER AND AMBERGRIS IN PLAGUE REMEDIES. (1964) (7)
Kidney and urinary therapeutics in early medieval monastic medicine. (2004) (7)
Tiberius Gracchus : destroyer or reformer of the Republic? (1970) (5)
Gargilius Martialis as a medical writer. (1984) (4)
Old drugs, old and new history. (1997) (4)
Goddesses, Elixirs, and Witches (2010) (4)
Book Review: De materia medica (2006) (3)
Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541–750 (review) (2008) (3)
Research Procedures in Evaluating Medieval Medicine (2017) (3)
Women’s medicines in ancient jewish sources: Fertility enhancers and inhibiters (2007) (3)
Ball bearing maintenance : a survey of design features and maintenance principles which govern performance and service life with a comprehensive study of service failures (1955) (3)
A probabilistic approach to controlling crevice chemistry (1995) (3)
Book review response. (1999) (2)
Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, Science, and Culture (review) (1998) (2)
Quadriplegia, orthostatic hypotension, and phenelzine with tyramine. (1985) (1)
The Chaste Tree (2010) (1)
Book Review:The Arabic Materia Medica of Dioscorides Mahmoud M. Sadek (1985) (1)
The Thomsonian Movement, the Regular Profession, and the State in Antebellum Connecticut: A Case Study of the Repeal of Early Medical Licensing Laws (2010) (1)
Use of the Areva BWR Crud Model to Study High Zinc Operation at a US Plant (2011) (1)
Chemistry control with morpholine at Beaver Valley Power Station (1986) (1)
PWR Fuel Deposit Analysis at a B&W Plant with a 24 Month Fuel Cycle (2011) (1)
Book Review:Greek Medicine: From the Heroic to the Hellenistic Age: A Source Book James Longrigg (2001) (1)
Birth control (abortion and contraception) (2020) (0)
Everybody, the historian, and the scientist. (1995) (0)
Book reviews (2002) (0)
Book Review (2001) (0)
On minerals and mineral products. Chapters on minerals from his “Kreutterbüch” (1979) (0)
Book Review:Dictionary of Protopharmacology: Therapeutic Practices, 1700-1850 J. Worth Estes (1992) (0)
Maurus of Salerno Twelfth-century Optimus Physicus, with His Commentary on the Prognostics of Hippocrates. Morris Harold Saffron (1974) (0)
Book review (1976) (0)
Pomegranate as Eve’s Apple (2010) (0)
Mandrake, the Love Apple, and the World’s Religions (2010) (0)
On-line monitoring of secondary-cycle chemistry with morpholine at the Beaver Valley Power Station: Final report (1987) (0)
Helen King. Greek and Roman Medicine. Reprint (2004) (0)
Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity (2010) (0)
De causis plantarum. Volume 2. Theophrastus, Benedict Einarson , George K. K. LinkDe causis plantarum. Volume 3. (1993) (0)
Advanced studies in chemistry control with morpholine. Final report (1992) (0)
Inanna’s Huluppu Tree, Pomegranates, and Sexual Power (2010) (0)
Artemisia, the “Mother Herb” (2010) (0)
Book Review:Index de la pharmacopee du ier au Xe siecle Carmelia Opsomer (1992) (0)
Remembering Glenn Sonnedecker (2017) (0)
Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity (review) (2010) (0)
Hermes, Herbs, Elixirs, and Witches (2010) (0)
De morbis acutis et chroniis (review) (2000) (0)
Electrical failure analysis for root-cause determination (1990) (0)
Book Review (2006) (0)
Book reviews, lectures, and marginal notes; three previously unknown sixteenth century contributors to pharmacy, medicine and botany: Ioannes Manardus, Franciscus Frigimelica, and Melchior Guilandinus. (1979) (0)
PWR primary shutdown and startup chemistry guidelines (1993) (0)
Dioscorides (2), of Cilician Anazarbus, medical writer, 1st cent. CE (2016) (0)
Greek and Roman Medicine (review) (2004) (0)
Opera Medica Omnia, II: Aphorismi de gradibus. Arnald of Villanova , Michael R. McVaugh (1978) (0)
Advanced studies in chemistry control with morpholine (1992) (0)
M. L. Cameron, Anglo-Saxon Medicine . (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 7.) Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 211. $59.95. (1997) (0)
Mott T. Greene. Natural Knowledge in Preclassical Antiquity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1992. Pp. xix, 182. $24.95 (1993) (0)
The Measure of Multitude: Population in Medieval Thought (review) (2003) (0)
Mark Grant.Galen on Food and Diet. x + 214 pp., bibl., index. New York/London: Routledge, 2000. $85 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). (2003) (0)
Oral contraceptives and early-term abortifacients during classical antiquity and the Middle Ages. (1991) (0)
Zohar Amar and Efraim Lev, Arabian Drugs in Early Medieval Mediterranean Medicine, Reviewer: John Riddle (2019) (0)
The Pseudo-Hippocratic Dynamidia. (1989) (0)
Book Review:The Prose Salernitan Questions: An Anonymous Collection Dealing with Science and Medicine Written by an Englishman c. 1200, with an Appendix of Ten Related Collections Brian Lawn (1981) (0)
David C. Lindberg, ed., Science in the Middle Ages. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1978, XV, 549 pp., U.S.$40.–. (1981) (0)
PWR molar ratio control application guidelines: Volume 3, Hideout return evaluation guidelines. Final report (1995) (0)
Refueling outage water clarity improvement study. Final report. [PWR; BWR] (1979) (0)

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North Carolina State University