Normand SÉGUIN, La conquête du sol au 19e siècle ; Michel VERDON, Anthropologie de la colonisation au Québec

Au sujet du traitement de la gourme du cheval par la sulfamido-chrysoidine

La médecine à Lausanne du XVIe au XXe siècle

sequence of two parallel threads would have been much better. This quirk inevitably holds back, until after the EMI scanner, all the work of those who had CT in use clinically, albeit with radionuclides, before the prototype X-ray EMI scanner began to be used. It is thoroughly disappointing to see the UK work played down as "also rans", for example the work in Aberdeen is given only half a page...

La Science du mal: l'institution de la psychiatrie au Québec, 1800–1914

scruple then every prescription where this occurs has a serious error, and so, in a sense, invalidates Brownrigg's treatment. A drachm (3)=60 grains, whilst a scruple (3)=only 20 grains-an error of 1:3. Of less importance is to have equated the apothecary ounce (3) with that of the avoirdupois (oz) as there is a difference of 42.5 grains between them. It would thus seem that the editors have an...

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...

Etude Sérologique de souches du virus de la Fièvre Aphteuse au Moyen-Orient