Paris, capitale de la déviance ecclésiastique au siècle des Lumières

La Médecine des lumières: tout autour de Tissot

any formal qualifications prior to the demonstration with ether is also confirmed. Interweaving the traditional story with his new information, Wolfe leads the reader through a very different tale of the introduction of ether by a man not conditioned by scientific training and lacking in moral principles. The notion is raised that it was Charles T Jackson who put the idea for the use of ether i...

La Théorie des Passions à la Lumière de la Pensée Médicale du XVIIe Siècle

Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts, by LOREN MACKINNEY, London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965, pp. xvii, 263, 104 plates, 105s. It is a pity that Loren MacKinney did not live to see the publication of this beautifully produced book, which represents to some extent the culminating point of his thirty years' search for medical illustrations in medieval manuscripts. He had i...

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...

Détermination des forces de traction au cours de la migration de cellules cancéreuses sur des gels

The migration process is a physically integrated molecular phenomena that contributes to many physiological motility in vivo processes such as development, immune surveillance and cancer metastasis. To understand cell migration it is necessary to consider the cell’s environment, cell type and morphology as well as the internal organization of the cells, i.e. its cytoskeleton and focal adhesions...

Application de la théorie de la révision des connaissances au raisonnement à partir de cas