Early Britain. Roman Britain

Agriculture in Roman Britain

I F we consider that agriculture employed a majority of the population in non-industrial societies and is still man's staple occupation, we must ad-mit that the agriculture of Roman Britain has concerned archaeologists and historians much less than it should, for on its vicissitudes depended to no small degree the well-being and decline of the province. The existence of Roman 'villas' was first...

Arthritis in Roman Britain.

The pattern of arthritis in Roman Britain was investigated by examining the skeletons of 416 adults from the Roman cemetery at Poundbury Camp near Dorchester, Dorset. The mean height of the people was not much less than that of the current British population, and the prevalence of right handedness was similar to our own. There was a high prevalence of osteoarthritis for such a relatively young ...

A case of dyschondrosteosis from Roman Britain.

Early blood chemistry in Britain and France.

I review here key research in the early years of the field of blood chemistry. The review includes successes and limitations of animal chemistry in the critical period of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Eighteenth century medical theories emphasized the primacy of body solids. Body fluids were governed by the tenets of humoral pathology. After Boerhaave sparked interest in the chemistr...

IS MIDDLE BRITAIN MIDDLE - INCOME BRITAIN ? Matthew Wakefield