Le monnayage de la cité phénicienne de Sidon à l’époque perse (Ve-IVe av. J.-C.). Supplément n° 11 à Transeuphratène, 2004, tome I : texte, 716 p., tome II : abréviations, bibliographie, index, figures (68) et planches (77).

Oeuvres: Tome V, Discours à la Société médicale de Bergerac

These meticulously produced volumes will be of great interest to medical historians working on France and also to those concerned with theories of mind-body interaction. Each book has a short introduction explaining the origins and main contents of the work that follows. The texts themselves, prepared from manuscripts, show all relevant variants. The editors have provided explanatory footnotes ...

Histoire de la médecine aux armées, tome 1: De l'antiquité à la révolution

to gain control, men had to "reconceptualize the phenomenon of birth and bring to it a different meaning from the one it had in the hands of the midwives." (p. 21) Oh dear, how did they do that? By declaring the body to be a machine, rather than the natural organism the midwives considered it to be, and then constantly fiddling with the machine in order to improve its performance. Forty dreadfu...

De la Médecine, Tome I, livres I-II

The new Bude edition of the Roman encyclopaedist Celsus begins promisingly. It marks an improvement over the standard, 1915, edition of F Marx, from whichW G Spencer made his Loeb translation, not only by removing many of its idiosyncratic spellings but also by being able to take account of a new manuscript, Toledo 97,12. While in general agreeing with MS. J., the new manuscript alone has the c...

Galien. Tome II: Exhortation à l'étude de la médecine. Art médical

questions. He claims to offer more convincing explanations of extraordinary achievements than the usual fall-back option of attributing whatever it is that we may term "genius" to some mysterious, magical, undefined "special innate gift". Howe thus adds his contribution to the nature versus nurture debate. Can people be born geniuses? The simple answer, in Howe's account, is no. The whole work ...

Contribution à l'étude de la virémie chez le mouton Inoculé avec le virus de la Fièvre Aphteuse.