Caudillos in Spanish America, 1800-1850

The Advent of Modern Medicine in Philadelphia, 1800-1850 *

The historian can quote sources to suit his own purpose. It would be easy to portray the American medicine of 1800 as essentially forward-looking and progressive, if just the right evidence were selected to support this interpretation. This was indeed the view of contemporary physicians themselves, who faced the nineteenth century confident that American science had more than caught up with tha...

Popular Medicine in America 1800-1900.

Music in Ibero-America to 1850: A Historical Survey (review)

Why Ireland starved: a quantitative and analytical history of the Irish economy, 1800–1850

was written c. 1450 in N. France. Such errors and omissions by Professor Ullmann do not seriously diminish the value of what he has offered us, but they emphasize that any editor of a text of an ancient medical author, in whatever language, should first check with the office of the Corpus Medicorum in East Berlin, whose files constitute the most up-to-date and correct list of manuscripts. For a...

British anatomy 1525–1800. A bibliography of works published in Britain, America, and on the Continent

John R. Brinkley (d. 1942) of Kansas. While Voronoff had orthodox training and held an appointment at the College de France, Brinkley was not fully qualified as a physician and may be characterized as a quack in his style of self-promotion. As in the case of Brinkley, the press was effective in promoting Voronoff's career. Hamilton points out that both Voronoffand Brinkley benefited substantial...