Un pionnier de la médecine scientifique, Alfred Donne

Histoire de la Médecine

Sir Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, ed. by GEOFFREY KEYNES, London, Faber & Faber, 1968, pp. 416, illus., 50s. Sir Thomas Browne and Sir Geoffrey Keynes have this in common, that both were and are devoted to medicine and literature. However, Sir Geoffrey would seem to have the edge on Sir Thomas in that he is distinguished in both, whereas Sir Thomas's medical contributions were of no great i...

La médecine générale perçue par les étudiants de la faculté de médecine de Sousse (Tunisie)

Introduction: Les étudiants en début du cursus suivent la même formation hospitalo-universitaire, cependant, ils sont peu nombreux à choisir délibérément la médecine générale comme discipline d'exercice médical. Notre objectif est de préciser auprès des étudiants en médecine, les facteurs qui déterminent le choix de la médecine générale comme carrière et leur vision de cette discipline. Méthode...

La Médecine de l'Amérique précolombienne

In a literal sense the term Pre-Columbian refers to the period of the history of the Western Hemisphere from the earliest times to 1492, when Christopher Columbus set foot on the New World. In a wider sense, however, pre-Columbian commonly applies to the pre-acculturation period, before the native populations bore the full brunt of European colonization. Due to the staggered waves of exploratio...

Un syndrome « Furoculose de la truite»

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...