Van moderne groei naar moderne neergang? De economische geschiedenis van Nederland in de vroeg-moderne tijd

Genèse de l'hôpital moderne. Les hospices civils de Lyon de 1802 à 1845

LESTER S. KING, Medical Thinking. A historicalpreface, Princeton University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. x, 336, £13.80. This is an interesting and a very readable book, which no doubt owes some of its interest to the author, in addition to having practised pathology, having studied philosophy before his medical studies, and having maintained a life-long interest in medical history. The leitmotiv of t...

Geschiedenis van de rekenkunst - van kerfstok tot computer

Intemeietorul Anatomiei Moderne Andreas Vesalius

middle-aged lesbian reveals 'that the mother was owner of a brothel' as the cause. Severe vertigo is traced to the patient possibly having seen her father urinating: the case confirms 'the optimistic assertion that the prognosis for the psychoanalysis of agoraphobia, given a long time for treatment, is an entirely favourable one'. And so on through 'obscene words', 'morning erections', 'smoking...

Moderne Verteilungsplattformen für die Automatisierungstechnik

Verteilungsplattformen bieten die Möglichkeit, Aufgaben und Problemstellungen zu abstrahieren und ungeachtet von Systemgrenzen umzusetzen. Die Automatisierungstechnik könnte von den positiven Eigenschaften der Verteilungsplattformen profitieren, jedoch existieren demgegenüber noch häufig Vorbehalte. In diesem Artikel werden Verteilungsplattformen und deren Erweiterung für die Verwendung in eing...

Franglais a la mode moderne

A few years ago I was writing in this column about differences between languages. Dutch and Chinese are comparatively easy to learn. None the less, the various computer languages are another game altogether. Recently a French colleague in pathology, who is also interested in the use of words and in the modern techniques of the assembly of data bases and word processing was kind enough to let me...