La chronologie du royaume de Qatabân du Ier siècle avant J.-C. au Ier siècle après J.-C.

La médecine à Lausanne du XVIe au XXe siècle

sequence of two parallel threads would have been much better. This quirk inevitably holds back, until after the EMI scanner, all the work of those who had CT in use clinically, albeit with radionuclides, before the prototype X-ray EMI scanner began to be used. It is thoroughly disappointing to see the UK work played down as "also rans", for example the work in Aberdeen is given only half a page...

Le milieu médical en France du XIIe au XVe siècle

'Scientists and Charlatans' (pp. 257-331), Gillispie goes on to show doctors endeavouring to define more clearly the contours of their profession by attacking what they saw as medical quacks. Entertaining full-dress treatments of the medical careers of Mesmer and Marat illuminate the general theme. Gillispie's general thesis is not, it is true, novel in regard to medical science. However, the b...

La Théorie des Passions à la Lumière de la Pensée Médicale du XVIIe Siècle

Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts, by LOREN MACKINNEY, London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965, pp. xvii, 263, 104 plates, 105s. It is a pity that Loren MacKinney did not live to see the publication of this beautifully produced book, which represents to some extent the culminating point of his thirty years' search for medical illustrations in medieval manuscripts. He had i...

Au sujet du traitement de la gourme du cheval par la sulfamido-chrysoidine

L'Hôpital de Grenoble des origines à la fin du Second Empire (Xlème siècle – 1870)

however, necessary to point out that Guillermand's discussion of eighteenth-century military medicine is largely confined to bureaucratic developments within France, and that even here his description of the shortcomings in the care of the sick and wounded in the Seven Years War (p. 422) glosses over the abominable mismanagement that killed off forty out of every hundred soldiers admitted to ho...