November 27th, 1860

Proceedings 27th Symposium ESVN‐ECVN

The nurse apprentice, 1860–1977

of letters, shown clearly by Laurence Brockliss and Eric Hamraoui. As well as corresponding widely with his contemporaries, Tissot has left us with abundant source material on the patient/ doctor relationship. His detailed diagnostic letters as well as the patients' requests allow historians, such as Frederic Sardet, Philip Rieder and Vincent Barras, to examine eighteenth-century conceptions of...

Proceedings of the 27th Princeton conference: preface.

The 27 th Princeton Conference was held in Boston, Massachusetts on April 22 to 24, 2010. This year’s Conference focused on translational research in the field of cerebrovascular disease. Representatives from academia, industry, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the FDA participated in the robust discussion. The invited speakers were required to present new, late-breaking and often u...

The Neuron Doctrine (1860-1895)

The neuron [4] doctrine is a concept formed during the turn of the twentieth century that describes the properties of neurons, the specialized cells that compose the nervous system. The neuron [4] doctrine was one of two major theories on the composition of the nervous system at the time. Advocates of the neuron [4] doctrine claimed that the nervous system was composed of discrete cellular unit...

The Early Treatment and Diagnosis of Anterior Poliomyelitis *Read at Bath, at a Meeting of the Bath and Bristol Branch of the British Medical Association, November 27th, 1929.

my personal experience goes, through observation of the cases admitted to the Bath Orthopaedic Hospital, the present epidemic began somewhere about the beginning of August and covers an area from Bridport to Swindon. It does not appear that the cases are exceedingly numerous, and, as a rule, this feature has been found in all the epidemics which have been studied, namely a wide epidemic area wi...