Charles Pathé et son bouc émissaire : Bernard Natan

Claude Bernard et les Problèmes de son Temps

Dr. Brooke serves well to reveal him in a more just and favourable light than that presented by many earlier and more recent writers. The message for medical historians is clear when he writes 'Strangely the diagnosis of porphyria which exonerates George III from so much speculative psychologizing brings him nearer to us as a human being'. An important function of the doctor historian is to see...

Charles Bernard Schmitt (1933–86)

The sudden and unexpected death ofCharles Schmitt is a distressing personal loss to his many friends. It also represents a major blow to the academic community. Charles Schmitt's phenomenal productivity already established him among major scholars. The best was still to come. Work was well advanced on his vast bibliographical survey of editions and commentaries on Aristotle, which was under pre...

Le Laboratoire de Lague: Son role et son expansion

Lamarck et son époque

LYDIE BOULLE, M.D. GRMEK, CATHERINE LUPOVICI, and JANINE SAMIONCONTET, Laennec. Catalogue des manuscrits scientifiques, Paris, Masson, 1982, 4to, pp. vi, 316, Fr. 200.00. The scientific manuscripts of Laennec, among them such important unpublished items as his course in the College de France embracing all of medicine, or a book on pathological anatomy, are now distributed in five libraries in t...

convolution : son et lumière

Exterior night, cityscape. Thousands of distant points of light lie still in the summer air. Below them a neon diner sign flickers silently across a nearby empty street. Suddenly the close up face of the main character moves into the frame, the focus pulls, bringing their silent profile into crisp silhouette, while blurring the urban backdrop into a splash of color. Each point of light blooms i...