The paper examines mortality patterns in the city of Hermoupolis, on Greek island Syros, from 1859 to 1940. It produces important new insights into Mediterranean urban historical demography and is first comprehensive study Greece, utilising largest one longest time series at individual level yet calculated civil registration census data. Abridged life tables were constructed for a settlement, e...

MATTHEWS wrote: 'The compilation of a pharmacopoeia by the physicians and the apothecaries of a hospital proved a great convenience to the many resident and consulting physicians treating patients there. Prescriptions in regular use for the treatment of a particular set of symptoms constituted the bulk of the formulae. Time could be saved by merely writing the name of the mixture or pills, etc....

Legal historians have turned with renewed energy in recent years to the project of fleshing out the myriad rules by which the common law of the free labor employment contract structured social relations in nineteenth-century America. 1 Of course, labor relations have always been prominent in the literature. The German sociological tradition has long taught us to see in the legal protection of p...

says of the reader, "I can expect him to provide his own framework". At the same time, Horace Davenport, Professor Emeritus of Physiology at Michigan, has an easy command of the material, and the reviews he presents of the publication of one or another faculty member are sometimes detailed and lucidly explained. Occasionally his accounts of medical life at Michigan, such as the fine description...

In the paper Children’s Books: from ABCs to Pop-ups, I reconstruct development of published offerings for pre-schoolers, both in Italy and abroad, across nineteenth twentieth centuries. The rich varied documentation held at Turin’s school museum allows us analyse this kind source multiple levels: graphics (dimensions, colours, font type) messages directed children calibrated their social class;...