Historical Sources on Epilepsy Surgery: From Antiquity Through the End 20th Century

Thoracic Surgery Before the 20th Century

In this book entitled Thoracic Surgery Before the 20th Century, Dr. Lew A. Hochberg has pictured the development of this art during its hundreds of formative years. In most instances, the author has gone to original references and translations for the material to fill this volume of 858 pages. The reader is brought chronologically through the 18th century in the first 186 pages, the remainder o...

Hallmarks in the History of Epilepsy: From Antiquity Till the Twentieth Century

1.1 First reports on epilepsy The history of epilepsy is intervened with the history of humanity. One of the first descriptions of epileptic seizures can be traced back to 2,000 B.C. in ancient Akkadian texts, a language widely used in the region of Mesopotamia. The author described a patient with symptoms resembling epilepsy: his neck turns left, his hands and feet are tense and his eyes wide ...

Licorice from antiquity to the end of the 19th century: applications in medical therapy.

Modeling games from the 20th century.

A scientific framework is described in which scientists are cast as problem-solvers, and problems as solved when data are mapped to models. This endeavor is limited by finite attentional capacity which keeps depth of understanding complementary to breadth of vision; and which distinguishes the process of science from its products, scientists from scholars. All four aspects of explanation descri...

René leriche and the development of 20th century surgery

René Leriche (1879-1955) was a 20(th) century French surgeon generally known in medicine for the syndrome that carries his name, namely the Leriche syndrome in the aorto-iliac occlusive disease. This paper is published to mark the commemoration of 60 year since Leriche's death. Although Dr. Leriche's legacy resides in the domain of vascular medicine, his research enclosed bone pathology and sur...