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In 1536, at the siege of Turin, French military surgeon Ambroise Paré changed surgical history. At that time, it was the custom to treat gunshot wounds by pouring boiling oil into them, often without removing the fragment or bullet. Paré,... more
Medicine and Healing in the Premodern West traces the history of medicine and medical practice from Ancient Egypt through to the end of the Middle Ages. Featuring nearly one hundred primary documents and images, this book introduces... more
Aslında cerrahinin tarihçesi ile tıbbın tarihçesini birbirinden ayrı düşünmek pek mümkün değildir. İnsanlık tarihi boyunca hastalıklar ya da yaralanmalar yaşamla içiçe olmuş, insanlar da bunlara yönelik çeşitli çözüm yöntemleri... more
The book furnishes a unique insight into the world of meanings and emotions associated with hospital life by including narratives from both patients and caregivers. The story is told in a dozen episodes which illustrate the transformation... more
Now that a fair amount of Anglo-Norman medical literature has been edited (most of it by the Oxford scholar, Tony Hunt), it is possible to give some assessment of the genesis of this unusually early corpus of vernacular medical writing.... more
The thorough study of historical researches that reflect the radical appearance, the gradual formation, but also the multidimensional contribution of medical achievements, as if of their talented inspir-ers deterministically lead to the... more
In 1876 Theodor Billroth - the founder of modern scientific surgery - published a book in which he talked about medical education in German universities. It was a profound criticism of the Austrian university system which, within its... more
Das Meer als Transportweg für Mensch, Tier und Handelswaren wurde nachweislich bereits in der Antike mit Schiffen befahren. Und schon immer barg dies Gefahren für die Gesundheit. Sei es durch kriegerische Auseinandersetzungen,... more
This article examines the treatment of gunshot wounds used in the 16th century from the point of view of modern surgery. Instead of cauterizing the wounds with the aim of destroying the "gunpowder poison" (I.Brunswig, John. da Vigo) came... more
The aim of this paper is to examine the process of transformation of the midwives’ education in Spain, from the late eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. With this objective, the circumstances which determined that midwives... more
[Article in English.] Au début du XXe siècle, l’impératif de renforcer et de défendre le gouvernement du Ganden Phodrang motiva les réformes tant médicales que militaires au Tibet. Mobilisant les mémoires de médecins tibétains ainsi que... more
Cerrâhiyye-i İlhâniyye ve Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu'nun Sırrı. İlter Uzel Armağanı, Tıp Tarihinden Enstantaneler. Yay.Haz. Selim Kadıoğlu&Gülay Halidi, Karahan Kitabevi, Adana: 2021, 51-57.
Günümüze kadar ulaşan bazı veriler Antik Çağ’da tedavi konusunda bizi bilgilendirmektedir. Roma Dönemi’nde, köleleri, saray mensuplarını, imparatorları, asker ve gladyatörleri ve belediyeler tarafından görevlendirilerek yoksulları tedavi... more
"Allianoi is located in Paşa Ilıcası, close to Bergama (Pergamon) in Izmir. Allianoi is under the threat of disappearing by the Yortanlı Dam. In this thesis, surgical tools which were unearthed in Allianoi between years 1998 - 2006 are... more
This bibliography was prepared in response to a New York Times article that appeared on 23 Nov. 2016 claiming that an "apparent case" of a successful Caesarean section had been found dating from 1337... more
We received so many biographies of women neurosurgery leaders for this issue that only a selection could be condensed here. In all of them, the essence of a leader shines through. Many are included as “first” of their country or color or... more
By the fifteenth-century firearms had spread all over Europe, but surgeons had no idea how to cure gunshot wounds. It was generally accepted that high mortality from gunshot wounds could be explained by some kind of 'gunshot poison'... more
Estudi del procés d'emergència social dels barbers fonamentat en la pràctica quirúrgica i en l'ús de la literatura mèdica en llengua vulgar, a partir de l'edició i exhaustiu comentari de l'inventari de béns 'post mortem' de Joan Vicenç (†... more
SOMMAIRE - Une boite de lithotritie périnéale des collections du musée d’histoire de la méde- cine de Lyon (Philippe Lépine) - Dioptres ancêtres des grands speculums. A propos de deux représentations égyp- tiennes (Richard-Alain Jean)... more
Joseph Maclise (1815–91), a gifted surgeon, anatomist, and medical illustrator of mid-19th-century Britain, left behind a corpus of brilliant, idiosyncratic anatomical images, and opinionated commentaries, but almost no evidence of... more
In 1536, at the siege of Turin, French military surgeon Ambroise Pare changed surgical history. At that time, it was the custom to treat gunshot wounds by pouring boiling oil into them, often without removing the fragment or bullet. Pare,... more
Abstract: This essay examines the circulation of Gerard of Cremona's twelfth-century Latin translation of the Surgery of al-Zahrawi (Albucasis), a work composed in Arabic in Umayyad Spain around the year 1000. Entirely invisible for the... more
Abstract: Viewing the history of science through its objects provides a practical and direct comprehension of its technical-scientific level and social-historical context. This approach is particularly useful in the study of Greek-Roman... more
Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit Karl Schuchardt (1901–1985) – dem wohl einflussreichsten Kieferchirurg in der Generation unmittelbar nach Georg Axhausen (1877–1960), Wolfgang Rosenthal (1882–1971) und Martin Waßmund (1892–1956), die dem... more
My aim here is to consider the evidence for both anatomical and surgical knowledge in the Middle East and Europe during the medieval period. A large body of excellent re-search exists that explores medicine at that time. However, some... more
La nueva sensibilidad social por todo lo relacionado con la salud y la enfermedad surgida en la Europa latina medieval con la difusión del nuevo sistema médico a partir de la transición del siglo Xlll al XIV, implicó la exigencia de... more
This book examines the role of literate medicine in shaping women's access to medical learning and medical care in the high Middle Ages. At its core is a cultural history of the so-called 'Trotula' texts, including an analysis of the... more