{"title":"Medical Rejuvenation in Georgia in the past: the Sukhumi Station.","authors":"Laura Musajo-Somma, Alfredo Musajo-Somma","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>If youth and body appearance enhancement is as old as Homo Sapiens, reliable medical technology for such activities is only about 100 years old. At the dawn of the 20th century, surgical operations performed under the Voronoff's treatment plan (monkey gonads' tissue grafting into humans) or the Steinach's technique (vasoligation) offered a promise of longevity, beauty and therefore youth restoration. The many links with a newly recognized discipline, endocrinology, offer a critical insight on the strong interactions between medicine and surgery in the promise of successful antiaging. On the front-line of scientific research, the Institute of Experimental Endocrinology's primate station in Sukhumi (West Georgia, now Abkhazia, on the Black Sea coast) developed a leadership role in the medical research, including rejuvenation with testis' tissues. Authors focus their attention to the everlasting commitment to experimental and clinical research as developed by Sukhumi scholars and the related moral, practical and ideological implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"22 2 Suppl","pages":"59-66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35705816","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 Great Silk Road\" and the First Description of Hypoxia.","authors":"Tatiana S Sorokina","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The first written reports about the effect of high-altitude air on the human organism in Ancient China (the 30s BC) and in South America during the conquest (late XVI century) are discussed in this paper.</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"22 2 Suppl","pages":"53-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35705818","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":"[In process]","authors":"Rosa Maria Lucifora","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This passages of this discussion are related tot he VIIth book of the Metamorphoses. In the first extract Ovid illustrates the scientific method by which Medea rejuvenates Aeson, her father-in-law; in the second episode, Medea applies the same \"treatment\" to Baccus' nurturers, with a similar result. Then there's a famous hoax against Pelias: Medea, pretending to rejuvenate the old tyrant, kills him. The sham uses an accurate simulation of medicine's professional gestures and actions, that are similar to the ones of the previous episode to all the appearances: reflection and diagnosis, prognosis, patient;s anaesthesia, administration of the medications, surgery, etc. The restitution ad integrum belongs to the field of magic, but the described therapeutic procedure belongs to the medicine, and it adheres to the rules of the theory of the humors. The intentional reversal of the outcome in Pelias; mockery leads to an ethical issue about the mistrust against the doctors, a problem that was very rooted in Roman culture.</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"22 2","pages":"54-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35692987","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":"[In process]","authors":"Jean-Marie Mouthon","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Savoy, annexed by the French Revolution from 1792 to 1815, became again Sardinian within the kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia until 1860, the year of annexation to France. These changes have not prevented many students from Savoy to come to France for their medical studies, mostly in Paris. While disorganized by the Revolution, medical training and education systems were put in order as of 1803. The Theses of 142 Savoy students (found largely thanks to foreign students in Paris file prepared by Pierre Moulinier) could be consulted in the archives of the Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de santé de Paris. Accordingly, were studied the geographical origin of candidates, thesis topics, age of the students, the philanthropic Savoisienne society of Paris, the Savoy students who exercised in Paris, the students who were former militaries and the doctors who had a local or national political mandate. A similar study at the Faculty of Turin would allow to better understand the migratory flows of these students.</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"22 2","pages":"37-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35692988","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":"Vesalius, Röntgen and the origins of Modern Anatomy.","authors":"Adrian M K Thomas","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The discovery of X-rays in 1895 by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen transformed our understanding\u0000of both the physical world and our understanding of ourselves. Traditional anatomy as shown\u0000by Andreas Vesalius was learnt from dissection of the supine deceased body. Radiology\u0000showed anatomy in the living in a manner previously not possible, and has transformed our\u0000anatomical understanding, particularly of human growth and variation.</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"22 1","pages":"79-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35693642","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":"Visualizing Vesalius.","authors":"Alfredo Musajo-Somma","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The anatomist whose name became a trademark for all that is high standard in medicine was\u0000more engaging and nuanced than his portrait suggests.\u0000Padua was the epicenter of the Italian Renaissance in the XVI century, a place of unparalleled\u0000artistic and intellectual attainments where Vesalius started the revolutionary road towards the\u0000development of medical knowledge.</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"22 1","pages":"112-124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35693521","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":"Neuroimaging Five Hundred Years Later","authors":"Giuseppe Rolma","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The rapid technological progress of these last decades has brought refined instruments to\u0000neuroradiologists and consequently to anatomists, physiologists, neuroscientists. A short\u0000outline is given on recent advancements in the field. Looking at these wonderful images we\u0000must not forget the works of our predecessors, to whom we owe an inextinguishable\u0000gratitude.</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"22 1","pages":"92-102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35693643","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":"Vesalius: His Presence in New Spain.","authors":"Carlos Viesca, Ramos R Mariblanca","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this paper we present a review of Mexican medical literature in the 16th and 17th centuries,\u0000analyzing the presence of Vesalius anatomical contributions and the conservation of Galen\u0000teachings in the official circles. We start with the anecdotal identification of don Carlos, son of\u0000Philip II, with Gregorio López, a hermit living in New Spain in the second half of the 16th\u0000century, as a legendary possibility of being a celebrated patient of Vesalius.\u0000After a short review of the birth and early diffusion of Vesalius anatomy in Spain, we analyze\u0000the early anatomical and surgical books written and published in New Spain; those of Alonso\u0000López de Hinojosos (1578, 1595), Agustín Farfán (1592), Juan de Barrios (1607), Gerónimo\u0000Bezerra and Diego Osorio y Peralta (1685), identifying their acceptance or negation of the\u0000validity of Vesalius’ discoveries and the tensions existing between those two intellectual\u0000positions. In the following pages we will present and discuss the nature, dimensions and\u0000impact of Vesalius’ Fabrica knowledge in the medical thought of Colonial Mexico.</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"22 1","pages":"43-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35693526","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":"Andreas Vesalius and his hoaxes, con variazioni.","authors":"Theo Dirix","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Andreas Vesalius’s popularity increases with every anniversary. The commemorations in\u00002014/2015, the quincentenary of his birth, were no exception and may mark the turning point\u0000in Vesalius research. Hoaxes surrounding the life and death of this famed anatomist, some of\u0000which have survived despite strong counter-evidence published some fifty, and even one\u0000hundred, years ago are finally dying out, while new myths are swiftly nipped in the bud\u0000thanks to today’s speed of publication and communication.</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"22 1","pages":"103-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35693645","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 Art of Vesalius: The continuing influence of “De Humani Corporis Fabrica” on Art.","authors":"Pascale Pollier","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A search for the intimate relationship between art and science in the study of the human body\u0000inevitably leads to the beautiful pictures of Vesalius’ Fabrica.\u0000Medical artists and scientific researchers alike discover the enhanced power of text and\u0000iconography in transmitting knowledge as well as beauty of expression.\u0000Pursuing this goal, a facial reconstruction was made of Vesalius’ portrait in the Fabrica.\u0000Final proof of the correctness of this reconstruction will be given when Vesalius’ s grave and\u0000remains may be found on the island of Zakynthos where Vesalius died and was buried.\u0000Meanwhile medical artists continue to give their vision on anatomy, the human body and its\u0000intangible soul.</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"22 1","pages":"125-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35693522","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}