It is with great regret that we report the sudden death from coronary heart disease on 7 April 1970 of Professor Charles Donald O'Malley, M.A., Ph.D., the distinguished medical historian of the University of California at Los Angeles, the leading authority on Renaissance anatomy and especially on the life and work of Andreas Vesalius. Charles Donald O'Malley was born at Alameda, California on 1...

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This study attempts to address the issue of relative living standards in Portuguese medieval and early 20th century periods. Since the growth of children provides a good measure of environmental quality for the overall population, the skeletal growth profiles of medieval Leiria and early 20th century Lisbon were compared. Results show that growth in femur length of medieval children did not dif...