The Norwegian system for wild reindeer management — major development since the 19th century

The Chronicle of Arsenic Poisoning in the 19th Century

THE ACTUARY: THE ROLE AND LIMITATIONS OF THE PROFESSION SINCE THE MID-19th CENTURY

The history of any profession relates to the history of the division of labour in society. This is generally true and can also be attributed to expertise in the financial world a world which generates with increasing complexity growing numbers of specialists offering know-how and expertise. The competition amongst these different specialists as to whose services are the more useful, valuable or...

The 19th Century

Coulomb, Carl Friedrich Gauss, André Marie Ampère, and Michael Faraday discovered the four experimental laws concerning electricity and magnetism, James Clerk Maxwell added the displacement current and thereby created the great set of Maxwell’s equations. That view is not entirely wrong, but it obscures the subtle interplay between sophisticated geometrical and physical intuitions that led not ...

Chronicle of Datura Toxicity in the 18th and 19th Century

Background: Datura stramonium is a poisonous and common flowering plant that is a member of the Solanacae family. Datura poisonings are a rare occurrence in the 21st century, making toxicological information on this plant sparse. Historical information on Datura provides useful information on the clinical symptoms and characteristics of poisonings. This review looks at the state of knowledge on...

Infection In A Village Community In The 19th Century And The Development Of The Dispensary System

Private medicine flourished in the large cities in Ireland at the end of the 18 Century but it did not make professional or economic sense for physicians or surgeons to set up privately in rural areas. This left rural communities bereft of medical care until the establishment of the medical charities. By 1830 they were well established with the county infirmaries starting in 1765, the dispensar...