Philippe Riviale, La Révolution française dans l’infortune de la finance

Atlas de la Révolution française, 7: Médecine et santé

forms one chapter of Building types (1976), lamented the lack of studies in this field. "There are", he wrote, "few 'types' as fruitful as the Hospital, if one wants to see how functional thought, i.e. medical convictions and discoveries, is reflected in plans and elevations; the pavilion type instead of the cruciform plan and the big blocks of today owing to antisepsis." Dr Taylor is one of th...

Participation de l'Institut Razi dans la lutte contre les nouvelles Epizooties de la Peste Equine

Bulletin de la Société Française d'Histoire de la Médecine

Selected Writings ofLord Moynihan: A Centenary Volume, London, Pitman Medical Publishing Co., for The Osler Club of London, 1967, pp. xiv, 177, illus., 63s. Od. This book, which is designed as a centenary tribute to Lord Moynihan, who was born on 2 October 1865, includes an admirable short biography by A. White Franklin; a charming note by W. R. Bett about the meeting of the Osler Club on 19 Ma...

La médicalisation de la société française 1770–1830

demonstration that surgical innovation was slow and often uncertain when chronicled day by day. It is a pity that the author, having surveyed such vast information and having gained such insight into the realities of innovation, should not have attempted some analysis or synthesis of his material. Perhaps another volume is in preparation: let us hope it is a slimmer one. David Hamilton Universi...

Sur la présence des antigènes solubles dans la culture liquide et aérée de Hemophilus pertussis