Viral infections have become an increasingly worsening threat, SARS-Cov-2 is the third coronavirus that emerged during past twenty years. The contagion can also occur by inhalation of aerosolized viruses, capable floating in air for long times (in closed spaces) and traveling unknown distances. A lesson from history shows exclusive infectious disease hospitals with multiple building are still a...

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We studied the relationship between myocardial contractile state and left ventricular functional response to exercise in 14 asymptomatic patients with isolated moderate-to-severe aortic regurgitation and six control subjects. The slope of the systolic blood pressure-left ventricular endsystolic volume (pressure-volume) relationship determined by radionuclide ventriculography during angiotensin ...

The cardiologist tends to envisage the history of coronary heart disease in terms of anatomy, physiology, pathology and clinical features, whereas the historian approaches it chronologically as Dr. Leibowitz has done, but by passing backwards and forwards in time in the text, he has succeeded in presenting a pleasantly readable account of the growth of our knowledge of arterial disease, angina ...

This paper summarizes Grmek's theoretical contribution to history of disease and explores to what extent the longue durée could still be a useful concept in order to better understand past perceptions of, and reactions to, diseases. The case of the medical responses to epidemic disease in pre-industrial Europe is synthetically expounded in order to illustrate this issue.