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Michael Stolberg. Uroscopy in Early Modern Europe
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - July 17, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Smith, P. J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Ido Israelowich. Patients and Healers in the High Roman Empire
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - July 17, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Webster, C. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

A Disorder of Qi: Breathing Exercise as a Cure for Neurasthenia in Japan, 1900-1945
Neurasthenia became a common disease and caused widespread concern in Japan at the turn of the twentieth century, whereas only a couple of decades earlier the term "nerve" had been unfamiliar, if not unknown, to many Japanese. By exploring the theories and practices of breathing exercise—one of the most popular treatments for neurasthenia at the time—this paper attempts to understand how people who practiced breathing exercises for their nervous ills perceived, conceived, and accordingly cared for their nerves. It argues that they understood "nerve" based on their existing conceptions of qi. Neurasthenia was fo...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - July 17, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Wu, Y.-C. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Blood Trials: Transfusions, Injections, and Experiments in Africa, 1890-1920
From about 1880 to 1920, a culture of medical experimentation promoted blood transfusion as a therapy for severe anemia in Europe, which was applied in German East Africa in 1892 for a case of blackwater fever, a complication of malaria afflicting mainly Europeans. This first case of blood transfusion in Africa, in which an African's blood was transfused into a German official, complicates the dominant narrative that blood transfusions in Africa came only after World War I. Medical researchers moreover experimented with blood serum therapies on human and animal subjects in Europe and Africa, injecting blood of different sp...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - July 17, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Sunseri, T. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

The Microscope against Cell Theory: Cancer Research in Nineteenth-Century Parisian Anatomical Pathology
This study shows that at least in the field of anatomical pathology, cell theory did not directly result from the use of the microscope but was actually hindered by it. (Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences)
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - July 17, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Loison, L. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

"One and the Same the World Over": The International Culture of Surgical Exchange in an Age of Globalization, 1870-1914
This paper examines the international exchange in surgery in the decades before World War I, a period of growing globalization in communication and transport. Focusing on Europe and North America, it looks first at the various means of exchange, especially surgical travel and the culture emerging around it and follows specific directions of exchange, from France and Britain, first to the German-speaking countries and finally to North America. Subsequently, the account turns to international organizations as an important means of exchange in this time period. The International Society of Surgery, in particular, provided a f...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - July 17, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Schlich, T. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

The Story of Pain * Pain: A Political History
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - March 31, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Herzberg, D. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century: A History * Aging Bones: A Short History of Osteoporosis
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - March 31, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Fallon, C. K. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

The Lock and Key of Medicine: Monoclonal Antibodies and the Transformation of Healthcare
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - March 31, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Podolsky, S. H. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Health in the City: Race, Poverty, and the Negotiation of Women's Health in New York City, 1915-1930
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - March 31, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Colgrove, J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Discovering Tuberculosis. A Global History, 1900 to the Present
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - March 31, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Jones, M. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Embryos under the Microscope: The Diverging Meanings of Life
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - March 31, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hopwood, N. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Beastly Encounters of the Raj: Livelihoods, Livestock and Veterinary Health in North India, 1790-1920
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - March 31, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Sankaran, N. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Rum Maniacs: Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic
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Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - March 31, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Korostyshevsky, D. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research

Quinine, Malaria, and the Cinchona Bureau: Marketing Practices and Knowledge Circulation in a Dutch Transoceanic Cinchona-Quinine Enterprise (1920s-30s)
In this study, we will show how a Dutch pharmaceutical consortium of cinchona producers and quinine manufacturers was able to capitalize on one of the first international public health campaigns to fight malaria, thereby promoting the sale of quinine, an antimalarial medicine. During the 1920s and 1930s, the international markets for quinine were controlled by this Dutch consortium, which was a transoceanic cinchona–quinine enterprise centered in the Cinchona Bureau in the Netherlands. We will argue that during the interwar period, the Cinchona Bureau became the decision-making center of this Dutch cinchona–qui...
Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - March 31, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Roersch Van Der Hoogte, A., Pieters, T. Tags: Articles Source Type: research