"Con todas las cosas creó Dios la medicina, simple y específica; y a la naturaleza, admirable en lo productiva y conservativa, y vio que todo era excelente, bueno", de esta manera comienzan los Casos felices y auténticos de medicina del relojero, platero y médico Domingo Rota; libro que dio vida a esta investigación.
When 18-year-old Mary Hazard touched down in post-war Putney to begin her nurse's training, she could never have known that it was the beginning of a colourful career that would still be going 60 years later - one of the longest ever serving NHS nurses.
In ›Die Erfindung des ADHS-Syndroms‹ wird die faszinierende Geschichte dieser weit verbreiteten neurobiologischen Störung von ihren Anfängen bis zu den aktuellen Forschungsergebnissen beleuchtet.
CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, MD, offers an accessible, data-packed answer to our biggest questions about Covid-19: What have we learned about this pandemic and how can we prepare foror preventthe next one?
A timely, authoritative, and entertaining history of medicine in America by an eminent physician Despite all that has been written and said about American medicine, narrative accounts of its history are uncommon.
In ›Die Erfindung der Prä-Astronautik‹ nimmt der Autor den Leser mit auf eine fesselnde Reise durch die faszinierende Geschichte und Entwicklung einer der kontroversesten Ideen des 20.
En esta documentada historia de la medicina, el doctor Ruy Pérez Tamayo se remonta a los pueblos más antiguos, en los que predominaba el pensamiento mágico y las enfermedades eran curadas por sacerdotes, brujos o chamanes.
Excerpt: "e;It may be needless to acquaint the Reader why the following Sheets are published at this Time, we being all but too justly apprised of the Danger there may be, of wanting those Helps, which are here intended to be supplied, as far as such Means as these can do it.
James Parsons' work "e;A Mechanical and Critical Enquiry into the Nature of Hermaphrodites"e; can be seen as a pioneering text in the study of hermaphroditism.
Excerpt: "e;Sexuality is the most powerful factor in individual and social existence; the strongest incentive to the exertion of strength and acquisition of property, to the foundation of a home, and to the awakening of altruistic feelings, first for a person of the opposite sex, then for the offspring, and, in a wider sense, for all humanity.
Excerpt: "e;In March, 1904, the Southwark Borough Council at the request of Sir William Collins gave permission for an inquiry to be made into the constituents of tea in order to ascertain what injurious ingredients were present, and if it were possible to obtain the characteristic effects without subjecting tea-drinkers to any of the deleterious symptoms.
Excerpt: "e;The following treatise includes data originally accumulated in a series of papers communicated to the Canadian Institute and the Royal Society of Canada, aiming at determining the cause of Left-handedness by a review of its history in its archaeological, philological, and physiological aspects.
Excerpt: "e;The narcotic effects of hemp are popularly known in the South of Africa, South America, Turkey, Egypt, Asia Minor, India, and the adjacent territories of the Malays, Burmese, and Siamese.
Excerpt: "e;No matter how complex the form of propagation may appear, the fundamental principle which underlies all forms is a process of cell-division.
Observations on Madness and Melancholy by John Haslam is an authoritative work on madness, insanity and melancholy - terms that are used in the pejorative in most circumstances.
Excerpt: "e;Take an Onion and cut him overthwart, then make a little hole in each peece, the which you shall fill with fine Triacle, then set the pieces together again as they were before, then wrap them in a white linnen cloth.
First published over 350 years ago during the reign of Elizabeth I, Culpeper's Herbal remains one of the most complete listings of herbs and their uses in existence.
Excerpt: "e;Among the many diseases which afflict the human race, we find one, upon record, so irresistible in its progress, so fatal in its attacks, and so entirely beyond the powers of medicine; that, like the serpent Python, the Leviathan, or the Mammoth, among animals, it has generally been distinguished by names expressive of its destroying nature; not, like other diseases, by any particular appellation derived from its symptoms.
The book examines inebriety from a wide range of angles: although that caused by alcohol is the main focus, he also explores use of opium (popular at the time), tobacco, nitrous oxide, and also other various poisons, such as hemlock, "e;bangue"e; (cannabis), foxglove and nightshade.
Das Organon der Heilkunst besteht in der sechsten Auflage von 1842 aus einem Vorwort Hahnemanns, einer Einleitung und 291 Paragraphen, in denen die Prinzipien des Heilens und der Homöopathie dargestellt werden.
Jeanie Deans, a young woman from a family of highly devout Presbyterians, goes to London, partly by foot, hoping to achieve an audience with the Queen through the influence of the Duke of Argyll.
Inhalt:Vorrede durch Doctorem TheophrastumDer erste Traktat, von der PhilosophiaDer zweite Traktat, von der AstronomiaAlchimia, der dritte Grund medicinaeDer vierte Grund der Arznei, welcher ist Wesenheit
Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history.
Healing with Herbs and Rituals is an herbal remedy-based understanding of curanderismo and the practice of yerberas, or herbalists, as found in the American Southwest and northern Mexico.
Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history.
