Presenting original evidence primarily from 19th-century medical journals, this essay reveals
the hitherto neglected but substantial influence of literature on the consolidation of scientific …

The seventy-two essays that follow speak for themselves. Beyond argument, they comprise
the best and biggest body of expert research and interpretation in the history of medicine …

Medical Progress and Social Reality is an anthology of nineteenth-century literature on
medicine and medical practice. Situated at the interdisciplinary juncture of medicine, history …

410 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 12 organized to carry the benefits of
vaccination to the New World. It was to proceed not only to Mexico, but also along the …

This thesis explores the problematic relation between William Blake and eighteenth-century
medical discourses. Against the common presumption that Blake harshly rejects …

Some fifteen hundred students matriculated in medicine at Leiden from 1575–1640.1 What
did these medical students learn and how did they learn it? What practices helped make …

Sixteenth-century physicians had their letters on medical topics published in printed
collections to record their exchange of ideas and make known their professional expertise …

John Harley Warner s»? The years from 1820 to I860 have aptly been identified as the
French 858! period in American medicine. 1 During these four decades, literally hundreds of …

During the Reverdins' close daily collaboration at the rue de Carouge, one of
Jaques/students noted that" the easy-going directness and exuberance of Auguste contrasts …

WHEN news of the peace treaty of 1670 reached buccaneer Henry Morgan and his"
Brotherhood of the Coast," the only problem it posed was the choice of a Spanish city to …