It is frequently said and believed that the history of clinical neurology of the 19th century has much in common with the history of psychiatry. Though neurology and psychiatry are neighboring clinical disciplines, the development of clinical neurology differs from that of psychiatry in 19th century Europe. The history of bedside neurology is that of gradual separation of nervous diseases from ...

Lithuanian physical anthropology developed quite changably, having its ups and dawns, connected with the history of the country: wars, the periods of occupation and independence. The history of Lithuanian anthropology can be divided into following periods: initial (the 1st half of the 19th c.), until independence of Republic of Lithuania (the 2nd half of the 19th c. and the beginning of the 20t...

Iiie regiment was stationed at Thayetmyo (Burma) from 1st January 1884? to 19th "January 1885. During tlii.s period there were 5 admissions for beri-beri. Recovered, 5 ; sent on sick leave, 3 ; death, 0. II. Madras from 27th January 1885 to 15th July 18SC, admissions for beri-beri, 5; recovered, 4; sick leave, 2; died, 1. III. Vijianagram from 19th July 1880 to December 1890, admissions for ber...

Clemens Klokmose, James Eagan, Siemen Baader, Wendy Mackay, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon. Webstrates: demonstrating the potential of Shareable Dynamic Media. 19th ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, Feb 2016, San Francisco, CA, United States. ACM, pp.61 64, 2016, CSCW ’16 Companion Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work an...

The recent increase in inequality in the U.S. and other developed countries has stimulated debate among economists. This debate is best exemplified by Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the twenty-first century and his critics. Taking aside the predictions for the future and the role that capital gains play in this debate, a deeper question is: what is a “normal” level of inequality in historical term...

The persistence of African cultural traits among Black Americans has long been recognized. Elements of present-day Afro-American speech, music, dance, and diet have been identified as African in origin (e.g ., Blassingame 1972; Garrett 1966; Lomax 1970). It is likely that during the 18th and 19th centuries such elements were more pronounced than today. As Blassingame writes: "The most remarkabl...

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The recent increase in inequality in the U.S. and other developed countries has stimulated debate among economists. This debate is best exemplified by Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the twenty-first century and his critics. Taking aside the predictions for the future and the role that capital gains play in this debate, a deeper question is: what is a “normal” level of inequality in historical term...

Many scholars associate the 19th-century practice of moral treatment with occupational therapy practice. A more thorough understanding of moral treatment is therefore relevant for occupational therapists. This article considers moral treatment within the contexts that shaped both its characteristics and the course of its practice--the medical community and 19th-century society. This considerati...