JOSEPH BOULOGNE, THE CHEVALIER DE ST GEORGE: 18. YÜZYIL FRANSASININ UNUTULMUŞ SİYAHİ BESTECİSİ

Arthur St George Joseph McCarthy Huggett, 1897-1968.

Duchenne de Boulogne: electrodiagnosis of poliomyelitis.

Duchenne de Boulogne was among the first to investigate neuromuscular diseases. He stimulated muscle and nerve with moistened surface electrodes, thereby avoiding tissue necrosis. Technique and self-designed equipment are discussed in his first major work de l'électrisation localisée. During his 30 years of practice, he examined several hundred patients with poliomyelitis. With electrodiagnosti...

Joseph de Maistre and Retributionist Theology

Joseph de Maistre is usually portrayed as Edmund Burke’s French counterpart, as they both wrote important treatises against the French Revolution. Although Maistre did share many of Burke’s conservative political views, he was much more than a political thinker. He was above all a religious thinker who interpreted political events through the prism of a particular retributionist theology. Accor...

Validity and Reliability of the Persian Version of the St. George Respiratory Questionnaire for COPD

Background and Objective: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common disease that causes 6% of deaths, 90% of which occur in low- and middle-income countries. Improving these patients' quality of life (QOL) is one of the primary treatment goals. The St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) is used to measure the health status of patients with respiratory problems. This resear...

Duchenne De Boulogne: a pioneer in neurology and medical photography.

Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne was born 200 years ago in Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais, France). He studied medicine in Paris and became a physician in 1831. He practiced general medicine in his native town for about 11 years and then returned to Paris to initiate pioneering studies on electrical stimulation of muscles. Duchenne used electricity not only as a therapeutic agent, as it was c...