La escena española.

La medicina española renacentista

Treves took some medical interest in Merrick, exhibiting him before the Pathological Society of London, before Merrick was whisked off on the English and Continental freak-show circuits. Robbed in Brussels, Merrick got back to England with no identification but Treves's visiting card. Treves befriended him, arranging permanent lodgings in the London Hospital where he became the ideal object of ...

Historia de la Oftalmologia Española

Historia de la Oftalmologia Espaniola, by Luis S. GRANJEL, Salamanca, Universidad de Salamanca, 1964, pp. 150, illus. No price given. Professor Granjel has accorded special attention to the contributions of the Arabic school in Spain and to the analysis of Daza de Valdes's treatise (1623) which is one of the great books on refraction as applied to the human eye. The author must be praised for h...

La medicina española antigua y medieval

structure to concepts in biology to the social make-up of the German professoriate to the academic policy of the State. This is material of undoubted importance, not least in relation to Paul Forman's views on German physics, and one hopes to see it developed and refined in future. There are two papers of particular relevance to medical historians: Brian Harrison's provocative and elegantly wri...

La anatomia española en la primera mitad del siglo XIX

JOHN L. WEST, The Taylors of Lancashire, Manchester, [the author], 1977, 8vo, pp. 134, illus., £1.50 + postage (paperback). (Obtainable from: 11 Half Edge Lane, Eccles, Manchester). An excellent account of a remarkable medical family, based on extensive research into manuscript and printed sources. It extended over six or seven generations, from James Taylor (1708/10-1777) of Whitworth to Herbe...

Resumen de la XI Conferencia de la Asociacion Española para la Inteligencia Artificial (CAEPIA 2005)