L’œuvre tragique de Sénèque au xviiie siècle : lectures, relectures et controverses

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...

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...

Broussais et le matérialisme. Médecine et philosophie au XIXe siècle

The book is, however, far more than a psychological study of the tuberculous. It is a meticulously conceived work about tuberculosis in France, with intriguing sidelights on the differing experiences of other European countries. Whereas in Spain and Italy, and elsewhere in Southern Europe, the disease was considered contagious and its victims treated as lepers, ideas were more ambiguous in Fran...

Les figures de la guérison (XVIIIe–XIXe siècles): une histoire sociale et culturelle des professions médicales au pays de Liège

GALEN, On the therapeutic method, books I and II, transl. with an introduction and commentary by R. J. Hankinson, Clarendon Later Ancient Philosophers, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1991, pp. xxxix, 269, £37.50 (0-19-824494-0). Hankinson's English translation of the first two books of On the therapeutic method presents for the first time in a modern language Galen's own introduction to his most comp...

Epizootologie et Prophylaxie de la Fièvre Aphteuse au Moyen-Orient