Hippocrates: His Life and Writings

Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624–1689): his Life and Original Writings

Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689): his Life and Original Writings, by KENNEH DEWHURST, London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1966, pp. viii, 180, illus., 35s. Thomas Sydenham was 'the greatest physician this country has ever produced', Dr. Dewhurst claims boldly (p. vii). Parliamentarian soldier, member of a family which had helped to run England for Oliver Cromwell, himself a radical Whig...

Theophrastus of Eresus: sources for his life, writings, thought and influence

century AD, and its relationships with two other tracts, the Mulomedicina Chironis, perhaps written about the same time, and the Mulomedicina of Vegetius, written in the first half of the fifth century. But there are also illuminating comments on earlier veterinary authors, including Celsus, and a long section on Greek influence on Pelagonius. Adams suggests that he himself translated one major...

Theophrastus of Eresus: sources for his life, writings, thoughts and influence

conviction, for she shows how, alongside ideas of the mad as in some way privileged or licensed by God, cared for within the home, there were always attempts to separate the mad into hospitals and "mad-towers", to exile them or to canalise their madness into socially more acceptable bounds. Whether on the follies of love, theological discussions of the access of the mad to the sacraments, notab...

George Herbert Mead and social reform: his work and writings.

Sir William Osler: Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings

This book is a collection of abstracts of the world literature in surgery written by the abstract and news editor of the Journal of the International College of Surgeons. The volume is attractive in format and is easy to use. Complete references are listed at the end of each abstracted article, most of which were published in 1949. The papers were chosen on the basis of the unusual, the interes...