In A history of Population Health Johan P. Mackenbach offers a comparative study of trends
in 40 specific diseases in Europe and their explanation, focusing on the causes of the …

The Autopsy Medical Practice and Public Policy presents the history of autopsy. It discusses
its contributions to the theory and practice of medicine. It addresses the decline of interests …

Clinicians have long recognized that acute myocardial infarction (MI) can occur in the
absence of atherothrombosis (1). The Universal Definition of MI Global Taskforce introduced …

(CCU)“the single most important advance in the treatment of acute myocardial
infarction”(AMI). 1 The first description of the CCU concept published in North America …

CARDIOVASCULAR PHARMACOLOGY owes much to Thomas Lauder Brunton (1844-
1916), a Scottish physician and medical scientist whose career spanned half a century. He …

A lthough cardiac electrophysiology emerged as a clinical discipline only recently, much of
our knowledge about arrhythmias is the result of experiments and clinical observations …

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) was rare a century ago and was diagnosed in few living
patients prior to 1925. By 1950, it was the most common heart problem seen by clinicians …

An exchange familiar to most historians of medicine recently took place at our school of
medicine during a discussion about the inclusion of medical history in the curriculum. A …

Abstract In 1880, a German Jewish Professor of Pathology, Carl Weigert (1845–1904) first
defined heart infarction as myocardial, coagulative necrosis (“Coagulationsnekrose”) due to …

Tinsley Harrison--doctor, teacher, researcher, medical school leader--is one of the most
important medical figures of the 20th century. He edited the first five editions of Harrison's …