Malaria, an often-fatal disease, has been a worldwide plague for several thousand years. The discovery of the efficacy of substances present in the bark of various cinchona trees, native to the Andes, provided some relief. A real antimalarial drug was not available until 1820, when Joseph Baptiste Caventou (1795-1877) and Josephe Pelletier (1788-1842) isolated quinine from the bark (1). Eighty ...

In 1820 the University of Maryland School of Medicine acquired the Burns Museum, a specimen collection of human anatomical structures. The extensive collection had been created by Allen Burns during the 18 century in order to study the complexities of the human body. After his death, the collection was passed on to an associate who then passed it to Granville Sharp Pattison who then sold it to ...

We celebrate, in 2010, the centenary of the death of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) and to commemorate this historical fact, the United Nations have proposed the “International Year of the Nurse”, as an initiative to “give credit to the voices, values and knowledge of these professionals”, past and present, who have demonstrated how individual and collective actions can make the “world more h...

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Address: 1The University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, Departments of Psychiatry and Community Health Sciences, 330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada, 2Calgary Health Region, Richmond Road Diagnostic Center, Room 4502, 1820 Richmond Road SW, Calgary Alberta T2T 5C7, Canada, 3The University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Cal...