Większość autorów piszących o tzw. reformach Mariusza nie zadaje sobie trudu, aby prześledzić proces kształtowania się poświęconego im dyskursu. Tymczasem zwrócenie uwagi na sposób prezentowania tego zagadnienia przez dziewiętnastowiecznych badaczy dostarcza dodatkowych argumentów służących poparciu przekonania błędności wizji zakorzenionej w literaturze tematu. Zważywszy fakt, że żaden z antyc...

The essay focuses on the German physician Georg Franck von Franckenau (1643– 1704) and his Satyrae medicae from the 1670s and 1680s. It illuminates Franckenau’s ideas on sexual difference based on his discussion of sex-specific bodily functions such as menstruation and male and female genital structure. In Franckenau’s satires, a woman is not simply opposed to or likened to a man, but she is al...

BACKGROUND The interconnections between the history of neurology and neurological surgery with the development of modern, technological warfare are a vastly under-researched area of medical history. The main objectives of this paper are hence to contribute to the understanding and analysis of a major case example from World War II. MATERIALS The article's research is based on work at the Bund...

1 Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-University Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany 2 Courant Research Centre Geobiology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany 3 Federal Institute for Geosciences and Resources, 30655 Hannover, Germany 4Department of Geobiology (Geoscience Institute), Georg-August-University Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany 5 UK Centre ...

Background: The interconnections between the history of neurology and neurological surgery with the development of modern, technological warfare are a vastly under-researched area of medical history. The main objectives of this paper are hence to contribute to the understanding and analysis of a major case example from World War II. Materials: The article’s research is based on work at the Bund...

Carl Siegmund Franz Credé was born in Berlin on 23 December 1819. His parents were French, his father holding a senior position in the Ministry of Health and Education. After attending the Friedrich-Wilhelm Gymnasium, Credé studied medicine at the University of Berlin, although he also spent a few months in Heidelberg where Naegele was Professor of Obstetrics. After graduating in 1841 at the ag...