# B Medicine

<table><thead><tr><th width="115">B</th><th width="635">Medicine</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>BA</strong></td><td><strong>History of Medicine (General)</strong></td></tr><tr><td>BA.AD</td><td><p>History of Medicine - Congresses</p><p><mark style="background-color:red;">Subdivide general or international congresses by year in which congress is held in Roman numerals, not a Barnard time facet, eg. BA.AD.2008</mark></p><p><mark style="background-color:red;">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.</mark></p><p><mark style="background-color:red;">Subdivide a congress on the history of medicine within a particular time by a Barnard time facet, if possible, eg. BA.AD.AA6-7</mark></p></td></tr><tr><td>BA.AF</td><td>History of Medicine - Festchriften</td></tr><tr><td><strong>BC</strong></td><td><strong>Prehistoric Man; Prehistoric Medicine; Palaeography</strong></td></tr><tr><td>BCT</td><td>Trephining</td></tr><tr><td><strong>BD</strong></td><td><p><strong>Ancient Medicine; Ancient History</strong> <mark style="background-color:blue;">(see also ZBB)</mark></p><p><mark style="background-color:red;">Do not subdivide by country; use BW instead</mark></p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>BE</strong></td><td><strong>Egyptian Medicine</strong></td></tr><tr><td>BEP</td><td>Egyptian Papyri</td></tr><tr><td><strong>BF</strong></td><td><strong>Oriental Medicine; Sumerian Medicine</strong></td></tr><tr><td>BFC</td><td>Assyrian Medicine; Assyrian History; Babylonian Medicine; Babylonian History; Chaldaean Medicine and History</td></tr><tr><td>BFF</td><td>Hittite Medicine; Phoenician Medicine; Syriac Medicine</td></tr><tr><td>BFH</td><td>Hebrew Medicine; Jewish Medicine; Jewish History; Biblical Medicine; Talmudic Medicine; Antisemitism</td></tr><tr><td>BFHB</td><td>Medicine in the Bible and Apocrypha</td></tr><tr><td>BFHC</td><td>Medicine in the Talmud</td></tr><tr><td>BFS</td><td>Ayurveda; Hindu Medicine; Indian Medicine</td></tr><tr><td>BFT</td><td>Siddha; Thanuology</td></tr><tr><td>BFW</td><td>Chinese Medicine and History</td></tr><tr><td><strong>BG</strong></td><td><strong>Aztec Medicine; Maya Medicine</strong></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:red;"><strong>(BH-BK)</strong></mark></td><td><mark style="color:red;">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.</mark></td></tr><tr><td><strong>BH</strong></td><td><p><strong>Greek History</strong> </p><p><mark style="background-color:red;">Formerly used for Greek medicine as well. Now place Greek medicine at BJK.</mark></p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>BI</strong></td><td><strong>Specific number for Aesculapius and Socrates only</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>BJ</strong></td><td><strong>Specific number for Aristotle and Hippocrates only</strong></td></tr><tr><td>BJK</td><td><p>Graeco-Roman medicine</p><p><mark style="background-color:red;">Use for <strong>Greek and Roman medical traditions</strong>, even if text only covers one of them</mark></p><p><mark style="background-color:red;"><strong>Plato</strong> (even though not a medical writer) and <strong>Galen</strong> go here</mark></p></td></tr><tr><td>BJM</td><td>Etruscan Medicine. Etruscan History</td></tr><tr><td><strong>BK</strong></td><td><p><strong>Roman History</strong> </p><p><mark style="background-color:red;">Place <strong>Roman medicine</strong> at BJK</mark></p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>BL</strong></td><td><strong>Byzantine Medicine</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>BM</strong></td><td><strong>Arabian/Arabic Medicine; Arabian/Arabic History; Islamic Medicine; Persian Medicine</strong></td></tr><tr><td>BM.23</td><td>Unani Medicine</td></tr><tr><td><strong>BN</strong></td><td><strong>Mediaeval Medicine; Mediaeval History</strong></td></tr><tr><td>BNC</td><td>School of Salerno</td></tr><tr><td><strong>BO</strong></td><td><strong>Humanism and Medicine; Renaissance Medicine; Reformation (Medical Aspects); 16th Century Medicine</strong><br><mark style="background-color:red;">Do not use this for <strong>national histories</strong>, use BW, e.g. place British medicine in the 17th century at BW.41.AA6, not BQ.41</mark></td></tr><tr><td><strong>BQ</strong></td><td><strong>17th Century Medicine</strong><br><mark style="background-color:red;">Do not use this for <strong>national histories</strong>, use BW, e.g. place British medicine in the 17th century at BW.41.AA6, not BQ.41</mark></td></tr><tr><td><strong>BR</strong></td><td><strong>18th Century Medicine</strong><br><mark style="background-color:red;">Do not use this for <strong>national histories</strong>, use BW, e.g. place British medicine in the 17th century at BW.41.AA6, not BQ.41</mark></td></tr><tr><td><strong>BS</strong></td><td><strong>19th Century Medicine</strong><br><mark style="background-color:red;">Do not use this for <strong>national histories</strong>, use BW, e.g. place British medicine in the 17th century at BW.41.AA6, not BQ.41</mark></td></tr><tr><td><strong>BT</strong></td><td><strong>20th Century Medicine</strong><br><mark style="background-color:red;">Do not use this for <strong>national histories</strong>, use BW, e.g. place British medicine in the 17th century at BW.41.AA6, not BQ.41</mark></td></tr><tr><td><strong>BU</strong></td><td><strong>Anthropology; Ethnography; Ethnology; Symbolism</strong></td></tr><tr><td>BUA</td><td>Folklore</td></tr><tr><td>BUC</td><td>Primitive Medicine; Tribal Medicine; Traditional Medicine; Folk Medicine; Primitive Society; Shamanism</td></tr><tr><td><strong>BV</strong></td><td><strong>Occult Medicine; Occult Sciences</strong></td></tr><tr><td>BV.AJ</td><td>Freemasonry</td></tr><tr><td>BV.AS</td><td>Rosicrucians</td></tr><tr><td>BVA</td><td>Magic; Sorcery</td></tr><tr><td>BVBA</td><td>Cannibalism</td></tr><tr><td>BVC</td><td>Astrology and Medicine; Chiromancy; Palmistry</td></tr><tr><td>BVD</td><td>Witchcraft</td></tr><tr><td>BVDA</td><td>Vampirism</td></tr><tr><td>BVE</td><td>Demonology</td></tr><tr><td>BVF</td><td>Cabbala</td></tr><tr><td>BVG</td><td>Amulets; Charms; Talismans</td></tr><tr><td>BVH</td><td>Gems (Magical virtues); Lapidaries</td></tr><tr><td>BVI</td><td>Evil Eye; Fascinatio; Philtres</td></tr><tr><td>BVK</td><td>Divination; Fortune-Telling</td></tr><tr><td>BVP</td><td>Oracles; Prophecies</td></tr><tr><td>BVQ</td><td>Omens; Prodigies</td></tr><tr><td>BVT</td><td>Visions</td></tr><tr><td>BVU</td><td>Apparitions; Ghosts</td></tr><tr><td>BVW</td><td>Clairvoyance; Sixth Sense</td></tr><tr><td><strong>BW</strong></td><td><p><strong>Medicine - National Histories</strong> (subdivide by country) </p><p><mark style="background-color:red;">Place <strong>Greek</strong>, <strong>Roman</strong>, <strong>Chinese histories</strong> at BH, BK, BFW respectively</mark></p></td></tr><tr><td>BWA</td><td>Medical Topography</td></tr><tr><td>BXC</td><td>Collected Texts</td></tr><tr><td><strong>BY</strong></td><td><strong>General Biography</strong> (Divided by period)</td></tr><tr><td>BYB</td><td>National Biography (Divided by country); School and University Registers; Indexes of Wills</td></tr><tr><td>BYBH</td><td>Heraldry</td></tr><tr><td>BYC</td><td><p>Medical Biography; Scientific Biography (May be divided by period)</p><p><mark style="background-color:red;">Use for <strong>general dictionaries of medical or scientic biography</strong></mark></p></td></tr><tr><td>BYD</td><td>National Medical Biography (Divided by country)</td></tr><tr><td>BYP</td><td>Medical Portraits, etc. - Catalogues and Indexes</td></tr><tr><td>BZP</td><td>Individual Biography</td></tr><tr><td>BZPX</td><td>Famous Patients (incl. rulers) - Collected biography (USE FILING SUFFIX - Divide by author/editor)</td></tr><tr><td>BZPXA</td><td>Famous Patients (incl. rulers) - Individual biography</td></tr></tbody></table>