Historical Note: General Scientific Societies in British India

Historical Note on Cholera in India

ment that the first authenticated outbreak in India took place in the Marquis of Hastings' camp in Jessore in 1817-18. Some time ago, however, I came across a curiously interesting note on the history of cholera in this country in an old book.* From the account of the disease given, it would appear that cholera must have existed in Madura for centuries before the compilation of the book referre...

British Medical Societies

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Michael Darmady (1906–1989) is now largely forgotten, although he played a major role in several areas of Nephrology in the early days of the speciality, both as a clinician and as a pathologist. His contributions to the early understanding of acute renal failure and of the use of haemodialysis during the 1940s have been particularly neglected. His nephron microdissection work achieved some inf...

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Alexander Pope (1688±1744): his spinal deformity and his doctors. O.P. Sharma. #ERS Journals Ltd 1999. ABSTRACT: Alexander Pope was the towering figure of 18th century England. A poet and a wit he commanded unswerving loyalty from his friends and penetrating hatred from his enemies. His spinal deformity, either due to tuberculosis, trauma or congenital weakness, shaped his career. This brief re...

Historical Note

Part 1 of this two-part series highlighted tensions between the anatomical quest for scientific knowledge about the human interior and artistic representations of the anatomized body, contrasting the roles of Goethe’s scientific Prosektor and humanistic Proplastiker—roles disturbingly fused in Gunther von Hagens. Part 2 first examines religious interpretations of the human body that fuel the te...