B Medicine
General history of medicine, subdivided by time and place; Science and philosophy; Primitive medicine and folklore; Witchcraft; Biography, general and medical
BA
History of Medicine (General)
BA.AD
History of Medicine - Congresses
Subdivide general or international congresses by year in which congress is held in Roman numerals, not a Barnard time facet, eg. BA.AD.2008
Subdivide a congress on the history of medicine within a particular country with a geographical facet, eg BA.AD.35, but don't do that just on the basis of where a congress is held.
Subdivide a congress on the history of medicine within a particular time by a Barnard time facet, if possible, eg. BA.AD.AA6-7
BA.AF
History of Medicine - Festchriften
BC
Prehistoric Man; Prehistoric Medicine; Palaeography
BCT
Trephining
BD
Ancient Medicine; Ancient History (see also ZBB)
Do not subdivide by country; use BW instead
BE
Egyptian Medicine
BEP
Egyptian Papyri
BF
Oriental Medicine; Sumerian Medicine
BFC
Assyrian Medicine; Assyrian History; Babylonian Medicine; Babylonian History; Chaldaean Medicine and History
BFF
Hittite Medicine; Phoenician Medicine; Syriac Medicine
BFH
Hebrew Medicine; Jewish Medicine; Jewish History; Biblical Medicine; Talmudic Medicine; Antisemitism
BFHB
Medicine in the Bible and Apocrypha
BFHC
Medicine in the Talmud
BFS
Ayurveda; Hindu Medicine; Indian Medicine
BFT
Siddha; Thanuology
BFW
Chinese Medicine and History
BG
Aztec Medicine; Maya Medicine
(BH-BK)
this is an October 2000 empirical revision. It reflects the fact that some inconsistent or wrong classification has taken place in the past, due to lack of subject expertise, which opac searches will reveal, and will hopefully prevent it in the future. Note that if possible, single texts by Classical authors should be classed by subject matter, e.g. biology, rather than lumped into the BH-BK area.
BH
Greek History
Formerly used for Greek medicine as well. Now place Greek medicine at BJK.
BI
Specific number for Aesculapius and Socrates only
BJ
Specific number for Aristotle and Hippocrates only
BJK
Graeco-Roman medicine
Use for Greek and Roman medical traditions, even if text only covers one of them
Plato (even though not a medical writer) and Galen go here
BJM
Etruscan Medicine. Etruscan History
BK
Roman History
Place Roman medicine at BJK
BL
Byzantine Medicine
BM
Arabian/Arabic Medicine; Arabian/Arabic History; Islamic Medicine; Persian Medicine
BM.23
Unani Medicine
BN
Mediaeval Medicine; Mediaeval History
BNC
School of Salerno
BO
Humanism and Medicine; Renaissance Medicine; Reformation (Medical Aspects); 16th Century Medicine Do not use this for national histories, use BW, e.g. place British medicine in the 17th century at BW.41.AA6, not BQ.41
BQ
17th Century Medicine Do not use this for national histories, use BW, e.g. place British medicine in the 17th century at BW.41.AA6, not BQ.41
BR
18th Century Medicine Do not use this for national histories, use BW, e.g. place British medicine in the 17th century at BW.41.AA6, not BQ.41
BS
19th Century Medicine Do not use this for national histories, use BW, e.g. place British medicine in the 17th century at BW.41.AA6, not BQ.41
BT
20th Century Medicine Do not use this for national histories, use BW, e.g. place British medicine in the 17th century at BW.41.AA6, not BQ.41
BU
Anthropology; Ethnography; Ethnology; Symbolism
BUA
Folklore
BUC
Primitive Medicine; Tribal Medicine; Traditional Medicine; Folk Medicine; Primitive Society; Shamanism
BV
Occult Medicine; Occult Sciences
BV.AJ
Freemasonry
BV.AS
Rosicrucians
BVA
Magic; Sorcery
BVBA
Cannibalism
BVC
Astrology and Medicine; Chiromancy; Palmistry
BVD
Witchcraft
BVDA
Vampirism
BVE
Demonology
BVF
Cabbala
BVG
Amulets; Charms; Talismans
BVH
Gems (Magical virtues); Lapidaries
BVI
Evil Eye; Fascinatio; Philtres
BVK
Divination; Fortune-Telling
BVP
Oracles; Prophecies
BVQ
Omens; Prodigies
BVT
Visions
BVU
Apparitions; Ghosts
BVW
Clairvoyance; Sixth Sense
BW
Medicine - National Histories (subdivide by country)
Place Greek, Roman, Chinese histories at BH, BK, BFW respectively
BWA
Medical Topography
BXC
Collected Texts
BY
General Biography (Divided by period)
BYB
National Biography (Divided by country); School and University Registers; Indexes of Wills
BYBH
Heraldry
BYC
Medical Biography; Scientific Biography (May be divided by period)
Use for general dictionaries of medical or scientic biography
BYD
National Medical Biography (Divided by country)
BYP
Medical Portraits, etc. - Catalogues and Indexes
BZP
Individual Biography
BZPX
Famous Patients (incl. rulers) - Collected biography (USE FILING SUFFIX - Divide by author/editor)
BZPXA
Famous Patients (incl. rulers) - Individual biography
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