Medical histories typically highlight the immense progress made in the field of medicine from
its origins to the present day. The nineteenth century is presented as especially eventful, and …

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 …

This collection of papers examines the social, philosophical, and politi of eighteenth-century
medical practice. It is the third in a series on th medicine published by Cambridge University …

The Medical Revolution of the Seventeenth Century, ed. Roger French and Andrew Wear
(Cambridge; UP, 1989; pp. 328.| pounds~ 35), offers eleven case-studies, dating roughly …

The eleven essays in this volume illustrate the richness, complexity, and diversity of French
medical culture in the nineteenth century, a period that witnessed the medicalization of …

Late in the summer of 1880, a wave of odors enveloped large portions of Paris. As the
stench lingered, outraged residents feared that the foul air would breed an epidemic. Fifteen …

A “DEFENSE OF MEDICINE”/VI by Antonio Francesco Ber-tini, professor of medicine,
published at Lucca in 16991 offers an interesting view of conditions at the close of the …

Consciously placing his short volume in the Cambridge series lineage of William Coleman's
Biology in the Nineteenth Century (1971), William Bynum here balances the needs of the …

The old ward of St. John's Hospital, Bruges, housed patients continuously from the 12 th
century, when its first section was built, until the 20th. Until 1855, there was no other accom …

This book considers the underlying forces which helped to produce a revolution in
seventeenth-century medicine. It shows how in the period between 1630 and 1730 medicine …