quite so different as readers of Pour une histoire des sciences might suppose. In his well-known paper on the role of Cuvier in the history of science, Foucault also sought to show the intellectual conditions necessary for the emergence of (Darwinian) transformism, with Cuvier the pivotal figure "making possible" the reconstruction of eighteenth-century natural history so as to yield nineteenth...

10. Honours and Rewards.? It lias sometimes been alleged that the number of Honours and Decorations bestowed upon officers of the I. M. S. is small. The following table shows that members of the service, on the active list or retired, have been the recipients of close upon 200 decorations. The larger share, nearly two-thirds of the whole, have gone to Bengal ; but that service has always been s...

I HAVE chosen as my subject for this address-The Medical History of Derry anid Londonderry. My chief reason for doing this is that the present year has been something of an "annus mirabilis" in the life of that city as it has seen the opening of the new general hospital built from the ground on a new site at Altnagelvin and also the putting into service of new blocks and annexes for the care an...

Scholars concerned with the European colonial period have been able to draw on a vast body of primary sources preserved in official archives. While the military may have been the ultimate arbitrators of their power, the colonial states were highly bureaucratic. They generated, and indeed depended upon, an unending flow of information that was collected, collated and archived as an organized bod...

This Perspective article, a cri de coeur, argues that a modicum of medical history should be incorporated into the compulsory medical curriculum. Many medical schools have no formal teaching in the subject, and students can thus graduate without the slightest knowledge of their profession's history. The author argues that, aside from holding intrinsic interest, a knowledge of the history of med...

Medical History, the first British journal devoted to the subject, was begun in 1957 under the editorship of William J Bishop, who had been the Librarian of the then Wellcome Historical Medical Library until 1953. Published by William Dawson, its cover stated that it was the official organ of the Cambridge University History of Medicine Society, The Norwegian Society for the History of Medicine...

To the Editor of " The Indian Medical Gazette." Sir,?May one from "the liombay side" suggest to Lt.? Ool. Crawford, from whose pen many very interesting articles on the Indian Medical Service have appeared in your pages, that a Complete History of the Service from its first beginnings would be much appreciated by the service as a whole. Such an enterprise would of course need money, but I am ce...

wet. Alexander concludes that: "The Moscow plague was the extraordinary product of a unique combination of weather, warfare, and textile weaving in a wooden metropolis." The book reveals the vast scope for research into medical problems in preRevolutionary Russia, the availability of the material, and the willingness of the authorities to provide facilities for access. It is a field which is an...