Roy Lee Moodie was a geologist whose interest in ancient disease was stimulated by his finding of pathological change in some of the fossils that he studied, including many from the Rancho La Brea site in California. He occupied teaching positions in Chicago, Dallas and Santa Monica and in 1928 began an acquaintance and a correspondence with Henry Wellcome who was then in the United States and ...

Wernicke's aphasia, Wernicke's encephalopathy, Wernicke-Mann hemiplegia, Wernicke's area, Wernicke's bundle, Wernicke's fissure .. .: such monuments to the localization of mental disorders in cerebral pathology are familiar to every student of psychiatry and higher cortical function. In this workman-like, if brief, biography, Lanczik shows how Wernicke exemplified the achievements of the German...

Bu makale, Midhat Paşa’nın Kasım 1878-Ağustos 1880 tarihleri arasında devam eden Suriye valiliği ile ilgili hususları ele almaktadır. Makale, Büyükelçi Henry Layard’ın Paşa ilgisinin seyrini ve valiliğine tayininde nasıl bir rol oynadığını aldıktan sonra döneminde gerçekleştirilen reformları açıklamaktadır. 1879’da mahkemelerin vilayet yöneticilerinden bağımsızlığını hedefeyen reformların hükûm...

This text aims to unite two neglected areas of study in Colombian medical historiography: disfiguring disease and the concept of climate. It seeks to show how physicians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Colombia associate a clinical semiology of disfiguring disease with the influence of certain climatic and hereditary conditions. Characterizing disfiguring disease associa...

In so far as there are two schools, an old and a new, in cardiology, there are two schools in the following sense. There is a small body of workers who spend their time and energies in the collection of new knowledge, a body of workers who insist upon proof to demonstration or an approach to that ideal. This school, if school it be, has been productive, some would say extremely productive, duri...

In his 1998 overview of the writing of medical history, John Burnham argued that recent decades have witnessed tensions between medically trained and non-medically trained historians, or what he called MDs and PhDs (John Bumham, How the idea ofprofession changed the writing of medical history, London, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine). There are no such tensions in Formative years...

The systematic study of forensic toxicology dates from the end of the eighteenth century. It arose as a branch of forensic medicine concerned with the problem of proving deliberate poisoning in criminal cases. It was often very difficult to distinguish symptoms produced by many common poisonous plants like belladonna (deadly nightshade) and henbane from those of certain diseases. Medicines also...

OBJECTIVE Canine ovariohysterectomy (OVH) is one of the most commonly performed surgical procedures in companion animal practice. The aim of the study was to determine the frequency and types of complications related to OVH. MATERIAL AND METHODS The clinical records of all street dogs admitted to the public dog shelters of the Veneto Region (Italy) between January 2010 and December 2011 were ...