{"title":"A deathbed scene from the Fifteenth century.","authors":"David Wright","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A \"retable\" in medieval churches was made up of a number of tables or carved panels which formed a screen behind the altar.The carvings usually consisted of a set of related religious images, such as scenes from the Passion or of the life of the Virgin Mary or John the Baptist. In Scotland few of these survived the Reformation in their original position and those that are known are usually fragments which have been found in the floors or walls of buildings, or in graveyards.</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"17 2","pages":"87-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40144130","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}
Antonis A Kousoulis, Ioanna-Maria Athanasopoulou, Effie Poulakou-Rebelakou
{"title":"How to cope with disaster loss and mourning: Galen's paper which was lost for centuries.","authors":"Antonis A Kousoulis, Ioanna-Maria Athanasopoulou, Effie Poulakou-Rebelakou","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 2005, a paper, previously considered lost, by the famous historical physician Galen was found. It is entitled \"On the Avoidance of Sorrow\" (\"[Greek characters: see text]\") and it is a philosophical treatise concerning the handling of sorrow. Despite mainly talking about personal experiences and loss of fortune, Galen also makes some recommendations. His medical writing gives us the opportunity to find, in a seemingly autobiographical text, health perspectives on how to cope with disaster and loss and confront grief and mourning. Even compared to modern literature, Galen's views seem remarkably up to date.</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"17 2","pages":"99-101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40144132","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 'Führerschule' in Alt Rehse: A character school for the physicians of National Socialist Germany.","authors":"N Hansson, T Maiboum, P M Nilsson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This contribution traces the international contacts and impact of the leader school for German doctors ('Führerschule der deutschen Arzteschaft') in Alt Rehse 1935-1943 through studies of a visitors' book and of biographies.We suggest that the 'Föhrerschule', an institution providing political and ideological education for health professionals, interested non-German physicians to a larger extent than earlier described. This paper also highlights a few examples of non-German physicians who, for various reasons, visited the 'Führerschule' in Alt Rehse.</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"17 2","pages":"68-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40144128","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}
Gregory Tsoucalas, Antonis A Kousoulis, Marianna Karamanou, Ioannis Tsoucalas, George Androutsos
{"title":"The first official schools for nursing education in Greece: over a century of tradition.","authors":"Gregory Tsoucalas, Antonis A Kousoulis, Marianna Karamanou, Ioannis Tsoucalas, George Androutsos","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The pressing need for educated nursing staff in Greece was first recognized by Queen Olga and Crown Princess Sofia, at the end of the nineteenth century with significant international aid.As a result, the School of Nursing Sisters of the Sanatorium \"Evangelismos\" was founded in 1875 and the first Greek \"School of Certified Nurses\" of the \"Saint Sophia\" Children's Hospital was established in 1897. This Children's Hospital has provided Greece with excellent trained nurses in Pediatric as well as Neonatal and Infant Nursing ever since. Distinguished nurses from abroad as well as a plethora of professors and physicians have taught at the school which has effectively made a mark in forming a tradition until today. The international concept of the school, including enhancing the young nurses' practice with experience from abroad is one of its most interesting features. The first Greek nursing schools rank among the first in the world.</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"17 2","pages":"102-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40145708","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 French members of the German Medical Society of Paris (1844-1871)].","authors":"Jean-Marie Mouthon","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"17 2","pages":"108-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40145709","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 \"Bibliothèque diabolique\" of doctor Bourneville (1882-1902)].","authors":"Philippe Galanopoulos","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Published by Dr Bourneville between 1882 and 1902, the nine volumes of la \"Bibliothèque diabolique\" represent an original editorial project, at the crossroads of science, history and politics. By comparing continuously ancient and modern clinical signs, Bourneville never ceased to prove the identity of diabolical possession, mystic ecstasy and hysteric diseases.The study of the \"Bibliothèque diabolique\" shows once more that building such a published collection was one of the basements of republican propaganda in XIXth century France.</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"17 2","pages":"89-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40144131","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":"Human tumor stem cells, the petri dish and the patient. A tribute to Sydney E. Salmon.","authors":"R Bataille, E Drouin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>During the last ten years, much work has been devoted to the concept of tumor stem cells, a concept first introduced by Virchow in 1855. Despite the importance and the quality of these works, they ignore the major step forward made by SE Salmon and his group from the University ofArizona atTucson, USA, during the seventies'. The purpose of this review is to (i) contribute to the original work of SE Salmon as a pioneer in the field of cancer stem cell research (ii) emphasize the importance of his contribution in this field of research and (iii) underline the other fields of his research, especially in the domain of mathematical oncology. Finally, we would like to show that SE Salmon made Multiple Myeloma a model in Oncology, many study groups being engaged into Myeloma research now in the world.</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"17 1","pages":"42-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40119581","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":"[An encounter between medicine and astronomy: migraine visions].","authors":"Esther Lardreau","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Until the second half of the eighteenth century, the very definition of migraine as hemicrania (pain felt in one side of the head) eclipsed symptoms that were then considered as \"marginal\", although tingling sensations, speech impairment and visual impairment had already been described by Piso and Wepfer. The possibility of a migraine without a headache nevertheless started to be envisaged, inviting one to re-evaluate the status of these phenomena. But, as paradoxical as it may seem, it is in the field of astronomy that some of these phenomena such as visual aberrations were analyzed systematically and acknowledged to be migrainous. Scintillating scotoma is no exception: it was indeed mentioned as early as in the Hippocratic corpus, but until the end of the nineteenth century it was addressed as a separate condition to migraine. We limit our study to the visual aura. Our purpose is to show that the ophthalmic symptoms affecting migraine sufferers were not, by themselves, a medical object--which somehow calls into question the very functioning of science.</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"17 1","pages":"16-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40119657","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 last months of Andreas Vesalius: Part II--From Jerusalem to Zakynthos (Zante).","authors":"Maurits Biesbrouck, Omer Steeno","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Returning from his pilgrimage to the Holy Land Vesalius encountered serious trouble, as a consequence of which he died on the Greek island Zakynthos. Following a discussion of the circumstances of his death and what is known about his grave, we examine also Vesalius's intentions for the period after his journey.</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"17 1","pages":"30-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40119658","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":"Agathos Daimon and the Asklepian serpent.","authors":"John Pearn","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Much conjecture abounds about the origin of the Asklepian serpent of healing, this latter the universal metonym for curative medicine. Iconographic evidence of Asklepios with his staff-entwined serpent exists from Hippocratic times. Many theories exist about the origin of this reptilian symbol of curative medicine. Speculation has ranged from the skin-shed serpent emergent in new and robust health to putative associations with earlier Egyptian and Babylonian anguine (snake) symbols of life-determining power. Other scholars have drawn attention to the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and later Bronze-Age associations with serpent veneration in the context of rain and fertility religious invocations in India; and in many other cultures. In the South Pacific, in Australia and in Central and South America, serpents were regarded as spirits of the earth, often chthonian spirits who possessed life-giving powers. In Chaldean and Arabic etymology, the words for \"serpent\" and \"life\" have a synergy. In Classical Greece, the Agathos Daimon was literally the \"noble spirit\", a personal companion spirit ensuing health and good fortune. The Agathos Daimon was portrayed in iconography as a serpent, or as a fit and comely youth. This paper conjectures that the serpentine Agathos Daimon was one origin of the Asklepian symbol of medicine, portrayed as the serpent associated of the Homeric Asklepios. In later Roman times, the Agathos Daimon was transliterated to the agathodaemon, a protective companion spirit both of individuals and of the homes in which they lived. This benign resident spirit featured prominently in Roman art and was a common feature as a protective household spirit in first century homes at both Pompeii and Herculaneum. The agathodaemon motif also featured on Roman coins, such as bronze diobols of Antoninus Plus (138 - 161 A.D.) from Alexandrian mints in Egypt. In the twenty-first century, the serpentine Agathos Daimon is honoured not only as the symbol of medicine; but is daily acknowledged in toasts to \"Good Health\".</p>","PeriodicalId":83455,"journal":{"name":"Vesalius : acta internationales historiae medicinae","volume":"17 1","pages":"4-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40119655","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}