Author : Richard Yeo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 11,94 MB
Release : 2001-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521651912
Cultural history of Enlightenment encyclopaedias revealing Enlightenment debates concerning organisation and communication of knowledge.
Author : Great Britain. Patent Office. Library
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 1857
Category : Industrial arts
ISBN :
Author : Sir William Osler
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 30,48 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0773590501
During his tenure as the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford from 1905-1919, Sir William Osler amassed a considerable library on the history of medicine and science. A Canadian native, Osler had studied at McGill University and decided to leave his collection of 7,600 items to its Faculty of Medicine. A catalogue, the Bibliotheca Osleriana, was compiled - a labour of love that took ten years to complete and involved W.W. Francis, R.H. Hill, and Archibald Malloch. Osler himself laid down the broad outlines of the catalogue and wrote many of the annotations.
Author : University Microfilms International
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : U.M.I.
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780835721028
Author : Johann Jacob Wecker
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,7 MB
Release : 1660
Category : Formulas, recipes, etc
ISBN :
Author : Johann Jacob Wecker
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,95 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Medicine
ISBN :
Author : Alanna Skuse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 22,2 MB
Release : 2015-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137487534
This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before the nineteenth century. This book provides the first in-depth examination of perceptions of cancerous disease in early modern England. Looking to drama, poetry and polemic as well as medical texts and personal accounts, it contends that early modern people possessed an understanding of cancer which remains recognizable to us today. Many of the ways in which medical practitioners and lay people imagined cancer – as a 'woman's disease' or a 'beast' inside the body – remain strikingly familiar, and they helped to make this disease a byword for treachery and cruelty in discussions of religion, culture and politics. Equally, cancer treatments were among the era's most radical medical and surgical procedures. From buttered frog ointments to agonizing and dangerous surgeries, they raised abiding questions about the nature of disease and the proper role of the medical practitioner.
Author : Ben Giladi
Publisher : Shengold Books
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 29,24 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN :
Piotrkow Trybunalski contained one of the oldest Jewish communities in Poland. In this large compilation of essays, the city is described during various periods of its history, with a special emphasis on the last 150 years. With contributions from many authors, most of them survivors, the volume gives a multifaceted picture of life as it was lived in a typical Jewish community before the Holocaust.
Author : L. Whaley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 20,56 MB
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0230295177
Women have engaged in healing from the beginning of history, often within the context of the home. This book studies the role, contributions and challenges faced by women healers in France, Spain, Italy and England, including medical practice among women in the Jewish and Muslim communities, from the later Middle Ages to approximately 1800.
Author : Dietrich v. Engelhardt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 25,59 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 364248364X
Diabetes. Its Medical and Cultural History covers the history of scientific inquiry into this affliction from antiquity to the discovery of insulin (1921) with concurrent consideration of the history of the patient and the cultural historical background. The reprints of medical historical studies discuss general relationships as well as specific details and exceptional research achievements of the past. Included in the bibliography of primary sources are the most important historical contributions in diabetic research and diabetic therapy with the author's name and information on the place of publication. The bibliography of secondary literature consolidates international studies from the past century to the present on the history of the theory of diabetes and therapeutic approaches. Illustrations and literary texts document cultural historical relationships. In index of persons and items facilitates use of this work which is intended to provide a stimulus for the physician, medical historian, medical student, general historian as well as diabetics themselves.
