Richard von Volkmann

A Counterexample to Richard von Mises’s Theory of Collectives

This document presents a translation from French into English of a passage from pp. 55–63 of Jean Ville’s Étude critique de la notion de collectif, which was published in 1939.

Remembering Richard [Obituary, Richard A.Newton]

Sexual Modernity in the Works of Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Albert Moll

The modern notion of sexuality took shape at the end of the nineteenth century, especially in the works of Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Albert Moll. This modernisation of sexuality was closely linked to the recognition of sexual diversity, as it was articulated in the medical-psychiatric understanding of what, at that time, was labelled as perversion. From around 1870, psychiatrists shifted the...

Neonatal Volkmann Ischemic Contracture: Case Report and Review of Literature

Background Neonatal Volkmann ischemic contracture in newborns is a devastating condition with lifelong consequences. Case Report We report a neonate born with necrotic skin lesions and bullae on right dorsal thenar aspect of hand, who subsequently developed compartment syndrome requiring fasciotomy. Review and Conclusion Necrotic skin lesions with/without swelling, bullae are invariably present...

Richard Jorgensen

the well-known tendency of particular maladies to show breed-specificity can be used to infer likely sharing of descent of the causative alleles. As made clear in the volume under review, this is as true of major-gene diseases such as copper toxicosis and various retinopathies, as it is of the more complex and more prevalent cardiomyopathies, cancers, and dermatitis. Conduction of clinical tria...