{"title":"The great Russion surgeon Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov (1810-1881).","authors":"Tatiana Sorokina","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 2010 we celebrated a great date in the world history of medicine--the bicentenary of Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov, the greatest Russian surgeon and one of the greatest military surgeons of all times, the founder of Surgical (or Topographical) Anatomy and experimental branch of Surgery, a co-founder of Military-field surgery, an educator and a social figure, a man of daring humanistic ideals. Each aspect of his fruitful activities is by itself a subject of special scientific investigation and deep studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"17 1","pages":"10-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40119656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C Tsiamis, E Poulakou-Rebelakou, A Tsakris, E Petridou
{"title":"Epidemic waves during Justinian's plague in the Byzantine Empire (6th-8th c. AD).","authors":"C Tsiamis, E Poulakou-Rebelakou, A Tsakris, E Petridou","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of the present study is to collect the epidemic outbreaks and the epidemic waves of the bubonic plague of the Byzantine Empire during the first pandemic (541-751 AD). Human activities, such as trade and military movements have been speculated as underlying factors for the causation of the pandemic. Historical data combined with geographical spreading of the plague, allows an alternative speculation of suspicious enzootic areas in the Middle East. We conclude that the possible existence of enzootic areas in that region might have been responsible for the causation of the numerous outbreaks of the bubonic plague in the Eastern provinces of the Byzantine Empire during the 6th-8th century period.</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"17 1","pages":"36-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40119580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Historical sources about diseases, death and embalming regarding the family of Jean Antoine Michel Agar, Minister of Finance of Gioacchino Murat.","authors":"S Marinozzi, V Gazzaniga, V Giuffra, G Fornaciari","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Among the mummies preserved in the Basilica of San Domenico Maggiore in Naples, there are the bodies of the wife and three children of Jean Antoine Michel Agar, Minister of Finance of Naple's Kingdom during the Monarchy of Joachim Murat (1808-1815). Between 1983 and 1987 paleopathological analyses were performed; in particular, X-ray examination allowed investigation of the health status of the Agar family members and reconstruction of the embalming processes used to preserve the bodies. In addition, an analysis of the historical and archival documents was carried out, to formulate hypotheses about the causes of death, demonstrating how these sources could become important instruments to obtain diagnoses and pathological histories.</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"17 1","pages":"45-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40119582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heart failure in Penzance--a cornish enigma.","authors":"Robin Agnew","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Following his discharge from the Royal Navy at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1816, Dr John Forbes (1787-1861) studied at the University of Edinburgh and gained his MD degree in the following year. He moved to Cornwall in September 1817 and started using a primitive stethoscope. In 1821 he translated Laennec's classical De L'Auscultation Mediate (1819) into English.As physician to Penzance Public Dispensary, his clinical experience in the local population is meticulously recorded in a large series of case notes of patients seen by him between 10 April and 4 December 1821. The casebooks are now in the care of Aberdeen University Library.</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"17 1","pages":"35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40119659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Smallpox at the Hotel Dieu of Paris in 1900. An unpublished letter of Professor Brissaud].","authors":"Jacques Poirier","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>On November 26, 1900, René Monod, resident in Professor E douard Brissaud's department, wrote at Brissaud's request a report on the cases of smallpox which had happened in his department at the Hôtel-Dieu since September. This unpublished document attests to Brissaud's interest in hygienism, Pasteurism and Jennerian vaccination.</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"17 1","pages":"52-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40119583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ibn Abi Ussaibea \"Oyoun aI-Anbaa Fi Tabaqat al-Attiba\" a selected review of this Index of Physicians and their Works; (from early Greeks to his time in Egypt).","authors":"M Nasser Kotby, Hassan Wahba, Amr Mabrouk","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Muwaffaq-al-Deen abu-al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Abi Ussaibea (1203-1270) was born in Damascus. He started his brilliant career in his birth place then moved to Cairo where he worked and excelled for the rest of his life. His learning was intensified by the scholarly contacts of the intellectual leaders of the day. In this study we review The Index of Physicians-Oyoun al-Anbaa Fi Tabaqat al-Attiba--(Sources of Information in the Classes of Physicians) of ibn Abi Ussaibea.The biographies in this book do not just cover physicians only but also the learned people of his day whose knowledge and expertise covered medicine, astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, and botany. For this reason the book of ibn Abi Ussaibea represents an indispensable source of the scientific and philosophical achievements of the Arabic/Islamic civilization.</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"Suppl ","pages":"6-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29923958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On \"officinalis\" the names of plants as one enduring history of therapeutic medicine.","authors":"John Pearn","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The officina was the building, usually an out-building, in medieval monasteries where medical monks prepared medicaments and pharmaceutical preparations to heal the sick. Dried extracts, infusions, decoctions, tinctures and distillates were prepared therein. Often the officina was attached to the medicinal or herbal gardens, also enclosed within the monastery precinct. When Linnaeus invented the binomial system of nomenclature, he gave the specific name \"officinalis\", to dozens of herbs and plants whose medical use had been established in preceding millennia. In the 1735 (1st Edition) of his Systema Naturae, he acknowledged the historical traditions of healing by naming scores of plants with the species designator, \"officinalis\", as a generic qualifier. Literally \"from the officina\", the species name \"officinalis\" thus embodied the history of many centuries of medicinal use and health lore.</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"Suppl ","pages":"24-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30225706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dimitrios Kardamakis, Evi Gustavson-Kadaka, Ekaterini Spiliopoulou, Sten Nilsson
{"title":"The history of Radiumhemmet in Stockholm in the period 1895-1950. The transformation of an outpatient clinic to an academic department,.","authors":"Dimitrios Kardamakis, Evi Gustavson-Kadaka, Ekaterini Spiliopoulou, Sten Nilsson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Radiation therapy has been in use as a cancer treatment for more than 100 years, with its earliest roots traced from the discovery of X rays in 1895 by Wilhelm Rontgen. The field of radiation therapy began to grow in the early 1900s, largely due to the groundbreaking work of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie, who discovered the radioactive elements polonium and radium.This began a new era in medical treatment and research. Radium was used in various forms until the mid-1900s, when cobalt and caesium units came into use. Medical cobalt units and linear accelerators have been used to as sources of radiation since the late 1940s. Swedish doctors showed a great interest in this medical specialty from the beginning, making major contributions in the fields of radiobiology, radiophysics and radiotherapy are contributed to doctors of Swedish origin, working mainly those early days in Stockholm. Immediately after the discovery of X rays, the first treatment of patients with these'mysterious rays' took place, with two patients with skin carcinomas being treated by Stenbeck and Sjogren in Stockholm. This article makes a detailed reference to historical data regarding the gradual transformation of a small private outpatient clinic into an academic department with a world-wide recognition.</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"16 2","pages":"95-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29873225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[The control of the population under the Vichy Government (1940-1944), a benefit for sports medicine].","authors":"Baptiste Viaud","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The sports movement benefited from the severe measures implemented by the Vichy Government in France.The ideological sensitivity that was granted to the benefits of physical activities was responsible for the French state's will to improve sport practice. The medical intelligentsia was not in favour of such a great political effort, because of generalized malnutrition. However, health professionals were quickly muzzled by the authorities, and their warning signal was soon to be hushed up. Finally, in the line of the well-tested population control strategies set up by the Vichy government, French doctors of physical education and sport whose practice till then had not found propitious conditions for its development, would at last be able to take a stand thanks to an unprecedented institutionalization of sports medicine.</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"16 2","pages":"63-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29873273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dr. Sigmund Wolfsohn (1765-1850) and the Biedermeier era: an orthopaedist, manufacturer of surgical appliances and leisure time products, and the builder of the Apollosaal in Vienna.","authors":"Avi Ohry","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This is the extraordinary story of a British born orthopedist, Dr. SigmundWolfsohn (1765-1850), who came to Vienna, manufactured artificial limbs and surgical appliances, and created the magnificent colossal dancing and entertainment palace--the \"Apollosaal\"</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"16 2","pages":"91-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29873224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}