Skull with Post-Mortem Trepan, Assigned to the Mid-Sixteenth Century

Human skull translucency: post mortem studies.

Measurements of optical translucency of human skulls were carried out. An incandescent light source and a CCD camera were used to measure the distribution of light transmitted through the skull in 10 subjects post-mortem. We noticed that intra-individual differences in optical translucency may be up to 100 times but inter-individual translucency differences across the skull reach 105 times. Bas...

The medical Renaissance of the sixteenth century

A. WEAR, R. K. FRENCH, and I. M. LONIE (editors), The medical Renaissance of the sixteenth century, Cambridge University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xvi, 350, £35.00. When planning their 1983 conference on renaissance medicine, the editors of this volume had in mind not so much to repeat the traditional picture, which portrays the achievements of a few great figures, as to investigate the typical the...

The Vesalian movement in sixteenth-century Spain.

In the middle o f the s ix teenth-century under the direct inf luence o f Vesalius's works there arose in Spain a m o v e m e n t devoted to the renewal o f anatomical knowledge. It was one o f the initial forces in the spread o f the Vesalian reform, bu t in spite o f that it has been almost comple te ly ignored by specialized historical research. 1 The purpose o f this article is to provide a...

Venereal diseases in sixteenth-century England.

THRmE SEEMS to have been a certain amount of despondency on the early history of syphilis in England. Several authorities have remarked what little record there is of venereal disease in the sixteenth century in England compared with continental Europe. Astrucl names only four British medical authors on venereal disease before 1600 compared with two hundred other European sources, and even then...

Felix Platter: a sixteenth-century medical student.