Elizabeth Bloomfield, Waterloo Township through Two Centuries

Two Centuries of Medicine

The material covered in this volume is the text of a series of papers presented at a colloquium on rapid mixing and sampling techniques held in 1964. This reviewer cannot comment on the value of this book for the expert but it is quite certain that it is of limited value to the biochemist not highly trained in the field of instrumentation. Little effort has been made by the editors to make this...

[Two centuries of urologic endoscopy].

Vekovima čovekova prirodna radoznalost za ljudsko telo dovodila je do stvaranja raznih instrumenata od kojih su mnogi slični današnjoj dijagnostičkoj opremi. Prvi veliki napredak u endoskopiji učinjen je u 19. veku. Filip Bocini (Phillip Bozzini, 1773–1809) opisao je 1806. godine instrument koji vizuelizuje unutrašnjost mokraćne bešike i nazvao ga lichtleiter . Okrugli otvor lichtleitera bio je...

The University of Halle through the centuries.

The horse through fifty centuries of civilization

ANTHONY DENT (editor), The horse through fifty centuries of civilization, London, Phaidon Press, 1974, 4to, pp. 288, illus., £8.95. For more than five thousand years until about sixty years ago, the history of the horse was the history of man. Although the dog has been man's best animal friend, the horse has been much more a part of his civilization than any other of his domesticated animals. A...

Two centuries of eye care in Hawaii.

Eye care in Hawai'i has changed dramatically since 1778. The ancient Hawaiians lacked any optical aids and had only the most primitive methods of treatment for their visual problems. During the next 200 years, Island residents benefited from a succession of technical innovations and new professional skills, all introduced from abroad: spectacles, optometry, ophthalmology, contact lenses, cornea...