On the Heart of the Hippocratic Corpus: its meaning, context and purpose [0.03%]
赫希俄德著作《心脏》的意义、背景与目的
Ryan C Fowler
Ryan C Fowler
Though the Hippocratic text On the Heart has garnered significant attention in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from classicists, physicians and historians of medicine alike, no commentary on this important work currently exists. Th...
The 'new era in medicine': John Ryle and the promotion of social medicine [0.03%]
“医学的新纪元”——约翰·雷尔和推动社会医学
John Stewart
John Stewart
John A. Ryle was Britain's first professor of Social Medicine. In the 1930s and 1940s, at the peak of his influence, he was a vigorous proponent of social medicine, then a relatively new, if contested, field. This article examines Ryle's vi...
Sophia Xenophontos
Sophia Xenophontos
Imagery is an overarching feature of Maximus of Tyre's Orations which has never been the subject of systematic investigation. This paper provides a starting point by focusing exclusively on medical imagery, one of the most pervasive and ins...
Ludger Wimmelbücker,Anita Kar
Ludger Wimmelbücker
In contrast to the well-known stories of the embryotoxic drug, thalidomide, in countries where it was responsible for large numbers of birth defects, there is limited information on its history in India. Its presence before 2002, when the c...
Ways of knowing the health of livestock populations: the age of surveys, 1928-65 [0.03%]
了解畜群健康状况的方法：调查的时代（1928-1965）
Abigail Woods
Abigail Woods
This article advances historical understandings of health, veterinary medicine and livestock agriculture by examining how, in mid-twentieth-century Britain, the diseases of livestock were made collectively knowable. During this period, the ...
Workhouse or asylum? Accommodating pauper lunatics in nineteenth-century England [0.03%]
济贫院还是收容所？——19世纪英国的贫困精神病人安置问题
Alistair Ritch
Alistair Ritch
The late eighteenth and early nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of pauper lunatics being admitted to institutions and many mentally-ill paupers found their way into workhouses. The range of options existing for ...
'Pearls' of the nineteenth-century: from therapeutic actors to global commodities medicinal leeches in the Ottoman Empire [0.03%]
十九世纪的“宝石”：从具有疗效的演员到全球性商品——奥斯曼帝国的药用蛭疗法
Büşra Arabacı
Büşra Arabacı
Nineteenth-century physicians increasingly favoured leeching - the placing of a live leech onto a patient's skin to stimulate or limit blood flow - as a cure for numerous ailments. As conviction in their therapeutic properties spread, leech...
Participating in eradication: how Guinea worm redefined eradication, and eradication redefined Guinea worm, 1985-2022 [0.03%]
参与消灭：1985—2022年防治饮乳病如何定义根除，以及根除又如何重新定义饮乳病
Jonathan David Roberts
Jonathan David Roberts
Guinea worm disease (dracunculiasis) is a debilitating waterborne disease. Once widespread, it is now on the brink of eradication. However, the Guinea Worm Eradication Programme (GWEP), like guinea worm itself, has been under-studied by his...
Have we lost sleep? A reconsideration of segmented sleep in early modern England [0.03%]
我们丢失了睡眠吗？兼论英国早期现代史中的分段睡眠现象
Niall Boyce
Niall Boyce
The theory that the people of the early modern period slept in well-defined segments of 'first' and 'second' sleeps has been highly influential in both scholarly literature and mainstream media over the past twenty years. Based on a combina...
Medical fears of the malingering soldier: 'phony cronies' and the Repat in 1960s Australia [0.03%]
造假军人的医学恐惧：“冒牌病友”与20世纪60年代的澳大利亚退伍军人事务局
Effie Karageorgos
Effie Karageorgos
The fear of the malingering soldier or veteran has existed in Australia since its first nationwide military venture in South Africa. The establishment of the Repatriation Department in 1917 saw the medical, military and political fields wor...