L’abbé Pierre Maillard : une figure missionnaire emblématique du XVIIIe siècle acadien

La médecine hospitalière française au XVIIIe siècle

The way ahead is shown by the last essay in the book, Karl Figlio's meaty piece of social history, 'How does illness mediate social relations? Workmen's compensation and medico-legal practice, 1890-1940'. The title is spot-on, and highlights the paper's concerns and approaches. Taking the eye malfunction, nystagmus, Figlio shows that late nineteenth-century medical interest in its exact specifi...

alphonse daudet, des poèmes à la prose poétique une trajectoire emblématique du xixe siècle

Biographies Médicales et Scientifiques, XVIIIe Siècle

because he came from a region famous above all for its portrait painters?; and so on, and so on. When he is not busy posing questions, Herrlinger does his best to provide answers. For example, he demonstrates the persistence of classical motifs through the Middle Ages (citing an eleventh-century Byzantine MS in the Laurentian Library, Florence) and into the Rennaissance (e.g. Vidius Vidius); he...

le reflet des lettres philosophiques de voltaire dans la société française du xviiie siècle

en 1734 paraissent à londres, puis en france, les lettres anglaises, intitulées ensuite lettres philosophiques. cest lors de son exil en angleterre que voltaire en a conçu lidée, et a commencé de les rédiger. louvrage est condamné par le parlement de paris, et lauteur doit se réfugier en lorraine pour éviter la prison. les lettres présentent, en effet, à travers léloge des institutions anglais...

Pierre Rayer (1793–1867): un demi-siècle de médecine française

indecision and resistance to change all hindered plans set out so hopefully in Tenon's fifth memoir, with his vision of 'How splendid hospitals can be'. It is tempting to see parallels in some of the problems faced by Tenon in drawing up his reports and in the politics of the finance, administration and location of hospitals today. The recent Tomlinson Report on hospitals throws the same shadow...