Helen Levitt à la fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson

Annales de la Fondation

Electron optics was born in 1927, when Hans Busch showed that the elementary lens equation is applicable to electron image formation. Interest was soon awakened in France and a book on the subject by Louis de Broglie appeared in 1950. We draw attention to the highlights of electron optics and microscopy over the decades, with particular reference to aberration correction, and to some little kno...

La dysplasie ectodermique anhydrotique: à propos d’un cas au Centre Mère et Enfant de la Fondation Chantal Biya, Yaoundé, Cameroun

Ectodermal dysplasia are rare genetic diseases characterized by the absence or dysplasia of some tissues of ectodermal origin. We present a case of a young boy seen at the age of seven and a half years for late eruption of teeth, morphologic abnormalities of the teeth and a feeling of exaggerated heat. The diagnosis of anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia was discussed. The absence of sweat glands o...

Contribution à l'étude de la maladie athéromateuse

Henri Dutrochet (Henri du Trochet 1776–1847). Le matérialisme mécaniste et la physiologie générale

Médecine à la Molière.

Of Moliere's thirty six plays, seven deal, to a greater or lesser extent, with medicine; the medicine as practiced in Paris during the reign of Louis XIV. In these days, Moliere satirises the recalcitrant conservatism of the Paris medical faculty. It is, however, an informed satirisation. This paper explores Moliere's motives and attempts to place Moliere's medical plays against a broad canvas ...