Walter Raunig - Prinz Asfa-Wossen Asserate (Hrsg.): Orbis Aethiopicus. Beiträge zur Geschichte, Religion und Kunst Äthiopiens, Band XIII

Beiträge zur Geschichte des Gesundheitswesens der Stadt Halle und der Medizinischen Fakultät der Universität Halle

little volume to English readers'. The most important part of the book is that which deals with the nineteenth-century attempts to control the practice of midwifery and to improve its standards. Little is now known of the attempt by the Society of Apothecaries in 1815 to incorporate into the Apothecaries Act, which controlled the standards of education of the general practitioners, a section to...

Biologie des Menschen in der Geschichte: Beiträge zur Socialgeschichte der Nauzeit aus Frankreich und Skandinavien

Index zur Geschichte der Medizin und Biologie

Index zur Geschichte der Medizin und Biologie, ed. by JOHANNES STEUDEL, Bd. 2, 1949-1951/2, Munich, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1966, pp. viii, 312, DM.72. Volume 1 of the above index, covering the years 1945 to 1948, appeared in 1953. Its long-awaited continuation adheres to the same plan of arrangement. It is equally closely packed with entries, there being 5,600 in the fields of medicine, pharmac...

Kreatur und Kosmos. Internationale Beiträge zur Paracelsusforschung

covered, with instructions to refer to the Historical Manuscripts Commission for details. Medical scientists are generously represented, along with a few clinicians. Among physiologists, for instance, William Sharpey, Michael Foster, Charles Sherrington, and Henry Dale make it, but not Ernest Starling, William Bayliss, or E. A. Sharpey-Schafer. Thomas Sydenham is included, but not Richard Brigh...

Experimentelle und Kritische Beiträge zur Händedesinfectionsfrage

bution to the literature of the subject, and deserves most attentive study. It may be taken as a truism that there are no means by which the hands can be rendered absolutely germ-free. The author's object in this work has been to ascertain to what degree and by what means the ideal condition of absolute sterility of the hands can be most nearly reached in practiceHe records the numerous bacteri...