La fotografía en León (1839-1900)

Thomas Wrigley Grimshaw (1839–1900). Registrar general 1879–1900

Thomas Wrigley Grimshaw was born in Whitehouse, County Antrim, in 1839, and learned his medicine at the Dublin School of Medicine when its reputation was at its highest. If his teachers strayed from the art of bedside medicine into science it was into meteorology that had been revived by Thomas Sydenham, the 'English Hippocrates' in the seventeenth century. When Grimshaw was appointed Registrar...

La lutte contre la Fasciolose en Iran

La peste bovine en Iran

Combattre la tuberculose, 1900–1940

D. DESSERTINE and 0. FAURE, Combattre la tuberculose, 1900-1940, Lyons, Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 1988, 8vo, pp. 244, illus., Fr. 110.00, (paperback). Recent French contributions to the history of tuberculosis have been impressive, often iconoclastic, and this volume is a valuable addition to the corpus. As Pierre Guillaume set out to destroy the Western myth of tuberculosis as the gentle...

Sur la fréquence de la leptospirose en Iran