MILITARY MEDICINE IN THE MEDIEVAL EASTERN EUROPE

Medicine in Eastern Europe

genuine intra-abdominal disease in the presence of diabetic ketoacidosis was more likely in patients over 40 years of age. There was no correlation between the presence of intraabdominal disease and the concentration of blood sugar or the degree of dehydration. Furthermore, they concluded that pain caused by metabolic decompensation should resolve after a few hours of rehydration and treatment ...

Networks in the Early Medieval Eastern Europe : Polycentric Connections and Entangled Hierarchies

Social Choice in Medieval Europe

Il existait au Moyen-âge des pensées profondes et raffinées du choix social, surtout chez Ramon Llull, (ca 1232-1316) et Nicolaus Krebs, surnommé ‘de Cusa’ ou ‘Cusanus’ (1401-64). Deux règles fondamentales du choix social moderne, c'est-à-dire celles de Copeland (généralisation de la règle de Condorcet) et de Borda, ont été proposées par Llull et Cusanus plusieurs siècles avant l'«âge d'or» du ...

A migration-driven model for the historical spread of leprosy in medieval Eastern and Central Europe.

Leprosy was rare in Europe during the Roman period, yet its prevalence increased dramatically in medieval times. We examined human remains, with paleopathological lesions indicative of leprosy, dated to the 6th-11th century AD, from Central and Eastern Europe and Byzantine Anatolia. Analysis of ancient DNA and bacterial cell wall lipid biomarkers revealed Mycobacterium leprae in skeletal remain...

Medicine in Medieval England

Medicine in Medieval England, by C. H. TALBOT, London, Oldbourne, 1967, pp. 222, 35s. Od. The author of this book, Dr. Talbot, is medievalist at the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine. He has produced a book which will appeal to both expert and non-expert-medical or otherwise. The book is a hardback of 222 pages with a table of contents, an index and a bibliography, which lists books...