Pharmacopeia in the Austrian Netherlands: an unpublished medical book in the Archives of Namur (Belgium); a codicological study and a study of the content.
Pharmacopeia in the Austrian Netherlands: an unpublished medical book in the Archives of Namur (Belgium); a codicological study and a study of the content.
In 1757, Struensee (1737-1772) graduated in medicine at Halle-Saale university, as his father a high dignitary in the lutherian church was, and supported by the presence of his grand-father the physician and scientist Samuel Carl. The family moved to Altona where he was nominated as physician in the city council. Then he largely dealt with medical and social items, for orphans and disabled, and attempted to prevent infectious deseases, small pox, typhus, scabies ans dysenteric syndroms. For sure when he practised his investigations on water samples with microscopy, Struensee acted as a pioneer to suspect microrganisms to be responsible for infectious diseases. Later on, he started his medical service dedicated to the Danish king Christian VII. This part of his life demonstrated the ambitious but highly capable man he was when running the whole government load for Denmark, in a liberal and advanced way. We link the drama of his death when he was condamned, to the symphony composed by Meyerbeer (1791-1864), known as an incidental music for Michael Beer's play Struensee, 1846.
A short history of the "École liégeoise" of physiology, its great men (Schwann, Van Beneden Fredericq, Florkin and Bacq) and the position of physiology in the future.
Both as a Leodiensis citizen and as a novelist, Simenon had strong and complex links with medecine and medical men.
The present paper proposes an account of my research on human and veterinary medicine in Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Egypt, undertaken since 2008 at the CEDOPAL at the University of Liège. This research focuses on literary papyri, particularly on the Anonymus Londiniensis (Hermopolis?, 2d half of the 1st).
With nine consecutive issues published from 1821 to 1836, the Formulaire concepted by Magendie as a usual tool for the medical precriptions, was first dedicated to the new chemical pharmaceuticals, mainly the pure alcaloids, strychnine, quinine and morphine, extracted from raw products. As well he included mineral chemicals, hydrocyanates, iodine and bromide, all supported by newly achieved works, from Pelletier, Caventou and others. Magendie perfectly skilled in animal experimentation, developped and standardized the as far as to evaluate the activity and safety degrees of these new components. It clearly anticipated the evaluation plan determined by the law for the registration of the new drugs in the twentieth century.
Ludwig Wittgenstein was born in 1889 in Vienna. As a scholar in Cambdrige University, his philosophical achievements are still major regarding the foundations of mathematics and language. In 1939, he took a job as a porter at London Guys' Hospital then under the Blitz. Wittgenstein met Drs. Grant and Reeve who worked in a dedicated "traumatic shock" under the auspices of the Medical Research Council unit, a unit which then moved to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle; Wittgenstein followed them as a technician and improved the preparation of fine pieces of histology fixed by paraffin. He also invented a new device to record pulse pressure and paradoxical pulse search in laboratory rats. At the end of the war, he returned to Cambridge until 1949 and died in 1951.
In 1802 the Hôtel-Dieu in Lyons was incorporated in the so-called Hospices Civils de Lyon. This allowed the expansion and renovation of buildings, as well as the improvement of the conditions of hygiene and comfort of the patients. This hospital was devoted only to the most severely ill or injured adults. 1100 patients were treated by seven doctors, a main surgeon and his deputy, residents and sisters. Broadly speaking the evolution of surgery can be divided into two periods: that of before anesthesia and septic surgery and that of antiseptic and aseptic surgery. We have to mention Gensoul and the resection of the maxillary before anesthesia, Bonnet and Ollier who were devoted to osteo-articular surgery (Ollier's disease), Poncet who built the first aseptic theater, Jaboulay and the resident Carrel who were transplantation's pioneers, Bouveret (paroxysmal tachycardia and Bouveret syndrome), Destot who did the first medical use of X-rays in 1895.
What about the pathological effects of zinc mining in the region of Liège during the 19th century.
The author, taking advantage of this meeting between the French Society of Medicine and the Centre for the history of Science and Technology in the city of Liège, provides us with a rectified list of all the Doctors in Medicine in Liège and its province who were promoted to the former Faculty of Medicine in Reims. New controls have been made thanks to the contribution of two registration books which give previous education establishments for the medical doctorate. This research has also been checked on the list established in the masterful work written by Marcel Florkin et Jean Kelecom, namely Kelecom Le monde médical liégeois avant la Révolution (Liège Medical World before the French Revolution).