BAUBÉROT (Arnaud), DUVAL (Nathalie), Le scoutisme entre guerre et paix au XXe siècle

Broussais et le matérialisme. Médecine et philosophie au XIXe siècle

The book is, however, far more than a psychological study of the tuberculous. It is a meticulously conceived work about tuberculosis in France, with intriguing sidelights on the differing experiences of other European countries. Whereas in Spain and Italy, and elsewhere in Southern Europe, the disease was considered contagious and its victims treated as lepers, ideas were more ambiguous in Fran...

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...

Relation entre le pouvoir toxique et le pouvoir antigene des toxines diphterique et tetanique

Le milieu médical en France du XIIe au XVe siècle

'Scientists and Charlatans' (pp. 257-331), Gillispie goes on to show doctors endeavouring to define more clearly the contours of their profession by attacking what they saw as medical quacks. Entertaining full-dress treatments of the medical careers of Mesmer and Marat illuminate the general theme. Gillispie's general thesis is not, it is true, novel in regard to medical science. However, the b...

Un angiobehçet: entre le marteau et l'enclume!

L'atteinte vasculaire est fréquente au cours de la Maladie de Behçet (MB). Dans 1/3 des cas, il peut s'agir d'une thrombose veineuse des gros troncs. L'atteinte artérielle peut survenir dans 4 à 17% des cas. Le traitement de ces atteintes graves d'angiobehçet repose sur les corticoïdes et les immunosuppresseurs. L'intérêt des anticoagulants reste controversé. Nous rapportons un cas de thrombose...