De arbeidersbeweging te Manchester 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...

Claude Bernard, Cahier de Notes 1850–1860

the discovery of antitoxins (von Behring and Kitasato), the standardization of toxins and anti-toxins, the distinction between active and passive immunization (Ehrlich), bacteriolysis (Pfeiffer), haemolysis, agglutination of blood corpuscles as a diagnostic test, the opsonic index, and prophylaxis and treatment of many diseases by vaccines. In certain diseases, for example, cerebro-spinal menin...

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...

de graad van doctor in de Wetenschappen: Informatica aan de Universiteit Antwerpen te verdedigen door

Het Coolsingelziekenhuis te Rotterdam (1839–1900): de ontwikkeling van een stedelijk ziekenhuis in de 19e eeuw

Its Finnish counterpart is more for the scholar. Its strength lies in its use of the inscriptions of doctors, written in both Greek and Latin, to give some idea of their social position, a favourite Finnish theme that goes back to Gummerus. Its conclusion modifies the optimistic conclusions of Kudlien, confirming that there is little evidence for great wealth among physicians, and, equally, non...