FOUCAULT, Michel, Histoire de la sexualité. Tome I. La volonté du savoir

Histoire de la médecine aux armées, tome 1: De l'antiquité à la révolution

to gain control, men had to "reconceptualize the phenomenon of birth and bring to it a different meaning from the one it had in the hands of the midwives." (p. 21) Oh dear, how did they do that? By declaring the body to be a machine, rather than the natural organism the midwives considered it to be, and then constantly fiddling with the machine in order to improve its performance. Forty dreadfu...

Histoire de la Médecine

Sir Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, ed. by GEOFFREY KEYNES, London, Faber & Faber, 1968, pp. 416, illus., 50s. Sir Thomas Browne and Sir Geoffrey Keynes have this in common, that both were and are devoted to medicine and literature. However, Sir Geoffrey would seem to have the edge on Sir Thomas in that he is distinguished in both, whereas Sir Thomas's medical contributions were of no great i...

La conservation du virus de la peste bovine par lyophilisation

Contribution a l'etude du traitement de la morve experimentale du cobaye par l'anamorve, la sulfadiazine, la penicilline et la Streptomycine

De la Médecine, Tome I, livres I-II

The new Bude edition of the Roman encyclopaedist Celsus begins promisingly. It marks an improvement over the standard, 1915, edition of F Marx, from whichW G Spencer made his Loeb translation, not only by removing many of its idiosyncratic spellings but also by being able to take account of a new manuscript, Toledo 97,12. While in general agreeing with MS. J., the new manuscript alone has the c...