This paper aims to describe and explain the processes behind the creation of a digital library composed of two Swiss newspapers, namely Gazette de Lausanne (1798–1998) and Journal de Genève (1826–1998), covering an almost twocentury period. We developed a general purpose application giving access to this cultural heritage asset ; a large variety of users (e.g. historians, journalists, linguists...

It is 200 years since Abraham Colles published his famous article where he described the common dorsal deformity of the distal radius fracture with an associated dislocation of the distal radio-ulnar joint. He provided a detailed description of the fracture, 80 years before the developed of radiographs. The fracture still bares his name, despite the fact that this article was never cited during...

In the 18th century, there was no standardized training for practitioners of medicine (or " physic(k), " as it was referred to at the time). The level of care sick individuals received was proportional to their social status, and diagnosis and treatment of illnesses varied widely between doctors. Medicine at Yale: The First 200 Years is the story of the evolution of medical training and practic...

Alkali metal compounds have been known since antiquity. In 1807, Sir Humphry Davy surprised everyone by electrolytically preparing (and naming) potassium and sodium metals. In 1808, he noted their interaction with ammonia, which, 100 years later, was attributed to solvated electrons. After 1960, pulse radiolysis of nearly any solvent produced solvated electrons, which became one of the most stu...

Copyright © 2012 Massachusetts Medical Society. Diabetes was first recognized around 1500 b.c.e. by the ancient Egyptians, who considered it a rare condition in which a person urinated excessively and lost weight. The term diabetes mellitus, reflecting the fact that the urine of those affected had a sweet taste, was first used by the Greek physician Aretaeus, who lived from about 80 to 138 c.e....

An overview on the short, only 200 years, past history and future expectations in the field of vaccines is presented. The focus is on development trends and potential rather than individual vaccines. While the first vaccines were a result of keen observation, the further development has been tightly dependent on the development of microbiology to provide both the knowledge basis and the technol...

We have recently compiled a database with all doctoral dissertations (PhDs) completed in modern Greece (1837-­‐2014), in the general area of astronomy and astrophysics, as well as in space and ionospheric physics. A preliminary statistical analysis of the data is presented along with a discussion of the general trends observed.