Zur pathologischen Anatomie der Dysmenorrhoea membranacea

Grundriss der pathologischen Anatomie

This is an enlarged and improved version of the first edition of the book. The author modestly disclaims originality for his work, which is not designed to replace the larger and more comprehensive treatises on Pathology, but to present to the student and learner in pathology the main facts of the science in as comprehensive a manner as is consistent with a treatment of the subject within a mod...

Anatomie des Wahnsinns. Geisteskrankheit im medizinischen Denken der frühen Neuzeit und die Anfänge der pathologischen Anatomie

Traditional historians of psychiatry have often argued that in medieval and in early modern times madness was interpreted in theological rather than in medical categories. According to this view, it was not before the seventeenth-century rivalry between religious and secular explanations that a rationalization and naturalization of madness took over. And even then, psychiatric knowledge was mai...

Beiträge zur Pathologie und pathologischen Anatomie des Centralnervensystems

Carl von Rokitansky and the Italian translation of the Handbuch der Pathologischen Anatomie: a linguistic and doctrinal enigma.

Carl von Rokitansky was the author of a treatise that came out between 1842 and 1846 with the title Handbuch der Pathologischen Anatomie. A historical milestone in pathological anatomy, Rokitansky's work represented the first attempt to systematically classify pathological specimens. Its publication inevitably made a great impact on Vienna, at that time the major European medical centre. The It...

Eine Geschichte der Anatomie und Physiologie von Albrecht von Haller

Eine Geschichte der Anatomie und Physiologie von Albrecht von Haller, by CARLo ZANETrI and URsuLA WIMMER-AESCHLIMANN (Berner Beitraige zur Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften, Band 1), Berne, Huber Verlag, 1968, pp. 157, S.Fr./DM.19. This paperback is the first of a new collection of historical reviews published under the general title of 'Berne reviews on the history of Medicine...