Charles Guérin et la fiction au XIX siècle

La médecine hospitalière française au XVIIIe siècle

The way ahead is shown by the last essay in the book, Karl Figlio's meaty piece of social history, 'How does illness mediate social relations? Workmen's compensation and medico-legal practice, 1890-1940'. The title is spot-on, and highlights the paper's concerns and approaches. Taking the eye malfunction, nystagmus, Figlio shows that late nineteenth-century medical interest in its exact specifi...

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...

Epizootologie et Prophylaxie de la Fièvre Aphteuse au Moyen-Orient

La première révolution biologique: réflexions sur la physiologie et la médecine du XVIIe siècle

of cranial and facial bones, and Berengario's treatise does not discuss the latter. Dr Lind tells us that Berengario is probably a dialectal corruption of his true name, Barrigazi, as entered on his will and testament, although Berengario is spelt "Beregario" throughout the last 80 pages of his translation, presumably a printer's error. Carpi is a small town near Bologna. If treatises on 'Wound...