Aa. Vv., La Traversée des thèses. Bilan de la recherche doctorale en littérature française du XXe siècle, Actes du Colloque de la Société d’étude de la littérature française du XXe siècle

le reflet des lettres philosophiques de voltaire dans la société française du xviiie siècle

en 1734 paraissent à londres, puis en france, les lettres anglaises, intitulées ensuite lettres philosophiques. cest lors de son exil en angleterre que voltaire en a conçu lidée, et a commencé de les rédiger. louvrage est condamné par le parlement de paris, et lauteur doit se réfugier en lorraine pour éviter la prison. les lettres présentent, en effet, à travers léloge des institutions anglais...

La médecine à Lausanne du XVIe au XXe siècle

sequence of two parallel threads would have been much better. This quirk inevitably holds back, until after the EMI scanner, all the work of those who had CT in use clinically, albeit with radionuclides, before the prototype X-ray EMI scanner began to be used. It is thoroughly disappointing to see the UK work played down as "also rans", for example the work in Aberdeen is given only half a page...

La Théorie des Passions à la Lumière de la Pensée Médicale du XVIIe Siècle

Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts, by LOREN MACKINNEY, London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965, pp. xvii, 263, 104 plates, 105s. It is a pity that Loren MacKinney did not live to see the publication of this beautifully produced book, which represents to some extent the culminating point of his thirty years' search for medical illustrations in medieval manuscripts. He had i...

La conservation du virus de la peste bovine par lyophilisation

Bulletin de la Société Française d'Histoire de la Médecine

Selected Writings ofLord Moynihan: A Centenary Volume, London, Pitman Medical Publishing Co., for The Osler Club of London, 1967, pp. xiv, 177, illus., 63s. Od. This book, which is designed as a centenary tribute to Lord Moynihan, who was born on 2 October 1865, includes an admirable short biography by A. White Franklin; a charming note by W. R. Bett about the meeting of the Osler Club on 19 Ma...