Notes from the Front: The Casebook of a Renaissance Hospital Surgeon
J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2023 Oct 17:jrad064. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrad064. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis essay uses the unpublished casebook kept by the Tuscan surgeon Giovanbattista Nardi to examine the provision of urgent medical care in sixteenth-century Italian hospitals. Most major hospitals on the peninsula maintained separate therapeutic spaces known as medicherie for this purpose. Written in the 1580s while Nardi worked as a staff surgeon at a Florentine civic hospital, this rare surgical casebook provides insight into the types of institutional resources devoted to acute medical problems; the clientele seeking i...
Source: Medical History - October 17, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Sharon Strocchia Source Type: research
Notes from the Front: The Casebook of a Renaissance Hospital Surgeon
J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2023 Oct 17:jrad064. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrad064. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis essay uses the unpublished casebook kept by the Tuscan surgeon Giovanbattista Nardi to examine the provision of urgent medical care in sixteenth-century Italian hospitals. Most major hospitals on the peninsula maintained separate therapeutic spaces known as medicherie for this purpose. Written in the 1580s while Nardi worked as a staff surgeon at a Florentine civic hospital, this rare surgical casebook provides insight into the types of institutional resources devoted to acute medical problems; the clientele seeking i...
Source: Medical History - October 17, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Sharon Strocchia Source Type: research
Notes from the Front: The Casebook of a Renaissance Hospital Surgeon
J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2023 Oct 17:jrad064. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrad064. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis essay uses the unpublished casebook kept by the Tuscan surgeon Giovanbattista Nardi to examine the provision of urgent medical care in sixteenth-century Italian hospitals. Most major hospitals on the peninsula maintained separate therapeutic spaces known as medicherie for this purpose. Written in the 1580s while Nardi worked as a staff surgeon at a Florentine civic hospital, this rare surgical casebook provides insight into the types of institutional resources devoted to acute medical problems; the clientele seeking i...
Source: Medical History - October 17, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Sharon Strocchia Source Type: research
Notes from the Front: The Casebook of a Renaissance Hospital Surgeon
J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2023 Oct 17:jrad064. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrad064. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis essay uses the unpublished casebook kept by the Tuscan surgeon Giovanbattista Nardi to examine the provision of urgent medical care in sixteenth-century Italian hospitals. Most major hospitals on the peninsula maintained separate therapeutic spaces known as medicherie for this purpose. Written in the 1580s while Nardi worked as a staff surgeon at a Florentine civic hospital, this rare surgical casebook provides insight into the types of institutional resources devoted to acute medical problems; the clientele seeking i...
Source: Medical History - October 17, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Sharon Strocchia Source Type: research
Notes from the Front: The Casebook of a Renaissance Hospital Surgeon
J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2023 Oct 17:jrad064. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrad064. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis essay uses the unpublished casebook kept by the Tuscan surgeon Giovanbattista Nardi to examine the provision of urgent medical care in sixteenth-century Italian hospitals. Most major hospitals on the peninsula maintained separate therapeutic spaces known as medicherie for this purpose. Written in the 1580s while Nardi worked as a staff surgeon at a Florentine civic hospital, this rare surgical casebook provides insight into the types of institutional resources devoted to acute medical problems; the clientele seeking i...
Source: Medical History - October 17, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Sharon Strocchia Source Type: research
The Efficiency of Bacterial Vaccines on Mortality during the 'Spanish' Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19
Soc Hist Med. 2023 May 8;36(2):219-234. doi: 10.1093/shm/hkad012. eCollection 2023 May.ABSTRACTThe worldwide 'Spanish' influenza pandemic of 1918-19, which extended into the 1920s, infected more than a third of the world's population and killed an estimated 50-100 million people, more than the civilian and military casualties of World War I. Present-day medical scholars, journalists, and other commentators have often ignored, downplayed or treated with scepticism the role of bacterial vaccines in reducing mortality during the pandemic. There have been repeated claims in this century that these vaccines were 'useless', 'con...
Source: Medical History - October 16, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: David T Roth Source Type: research
The Efficiency of Bacterial Vaccines on Mortality during the 'Spanish' Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19
Soc Hist Med. 2023 May 8;36(2):219-234. doi: 10.1093/shm/hkad012. eCollection 2023 May.ABSTRACTThe worldwide 'Spanish' influenza pandemic of 1918-19, which extended into the 1920s, infected more than a third of the world's population and killed an estimated 50-100 million people, more than the civilian and military casualties of World War I. Present-day medical scholars, journalists, and other commentators have often ignored, downplayed or treated with scepticism the role of bacterial vaccines in reducing mortality during the pandemic. There have been repeated claims in this century that these vaccines were 'useless', 'con...
Source: Medical History - October 16, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: David T Roth Source Type: research
Operative Innovation and Surgical Conservatism in Twentieth-Century Ulcer Surgery
J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2023 Oct 14:jrad065. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrad065. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPeptic ulcers were a common, and seemingly intractable, problem for surgeons in the US through the early twentieth century. Initial surgical efforts reduced operative mortality and achieved short term successes but failed to establish a definitive solution. The flawed successes of early ulcer surgery drove sustained effort to improve, producing a stream of novel operations over the decades. An examination of the history of ulcer surgery confirms the recent observation that surgical operations of this period were malleable ...
Source: Medical History - October 14, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Christopher Crenner Source Type: research
Operative Innovation and Surgical Conservatism in Twentieth-Century Ulcer Surgery
J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2023 Oct 14:jrad065. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrad065. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPeptic ulcers were a common, and seemingly intractable, problem for surgeons in the US through the early twentieth century. Initial surgical efforts reduced operative mortality and achieved short term successes but failed to establish a definitive solution. The flawed successes of early ulcer surgery drove sustained effort to improve, producing a stream of novel operations over the decades. An examination of the history of ulcer surgery confirms the recent observation that surgical operations of this period were malleable ...
Source: Medical History - October 14, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Christopher Crenner Source Type: research
Syphilis, < em > blanchiment < /em > and French colonial medicine in sub-Saharan Africa during the interwar period
This article demonstrates the contradictory nature of the colonial medicine approach to this disease during the interwar years. The negative impact of syphilis on population growth in Africa made it a major threat to the colonial project, and France put significant, costly investment into tackling the disease, focusing its efforts on maternal and child health. However, a closer look at syphilis control in sub-Saharan Africa reveals that the disease was also minimised as a public health issue, under-resourced and downplayed by colonial doctors and administrators. This neglect was embodied in the invention of a new colonial ...
Source: Medical History - October 13, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Guillaume Linte Source Type: research
Trained Army Nurses in Colonial India: Early Experiences and Challenges
Med Hist. 2023 Oct;67(4):347-364. doi: 10.1017/mdh.2023.31. Epub 2023 Oct 13.ABSTRACTThe paper examines the introduction of trained female nurses for the British army men in colonial India between 1888 and 1920. It discusses the genesis of the Indian Nursing Service (INS), including the background and negotiations leading up to its formation, terms of employment, duties and working conditions of the nursing sisters. The memoir of Catharine Grace Loch, who served as the first Chief Lady Superintendent of the service is used extensively to trace the early experiences and challenges of the nursing sisters. The paper primarily...
Source: Medical History - October 13, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Preethi Mariam George John Bosco Lourdusamy Source Type: research
The power of the 'universal': caste and missionary medical discourses of alcoholism in the Telugu print sphere, 1900-1940
This article explores missionary medical discourses in three Telugu journals published in the early twentieth century, to analyse how caste pivoted denunciations of alcohol, especially toddy and arrack, in the Madras Presidency and the Hyderabad state. It argues that one women's missionary journal, Vivekavathi, deployed medical knowledge to formulate subtle and occasionally explicit condemnations of toddy and arrack as unclean and unhealthy substances. The journal relied on universal medical and missionary, British and American knowledge frameworks to mark out Dalits and other marginalised castes as consumers of these loca...
Source: Medical History - October 13, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Tarangini Sriraman Source Type: research
Work, marriage and premature birth: the socio-medicalisation of pregnancy in state socialist East-Central Europe
Med Hist. 2023 Oct;67(4):285-306. doi: 10.1017/mdh.2023.28. Epub 2023 Oct 13.ABSTRACTReproductive health in state socialism is usually viewed as an area in which the broader contexts of women's lives were disregarded. Focusing on expert efforts to reduce premature births, we show that the social aspects of women's lives received the most attention. In contrast to typical descriptions emphasising technological medicalisation and pharmaceuticalisation, we show that expertise in early socialism was concerned with socio-medical causes of prematurity, particularly work and marriage. The interest in physical work in the 1950s ev...
Source: Medical History - October 13, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kate řina Lišková Natalia Jarska Annina Gagyiova Jos é Luis Aguilar López-Barajas Šárka Caitlín Rábová Source Type: research
MDH volume 67 issue 4 Cover and Front matter
Med Hist. 2023 Oct;67(4):f1. doi: 10.1017/mdh.2023.34. Epub 2023 Oct 13.NO ABSTRACTPMID:37828848 | DOI:10.1017/mdh.2023.34 (Source: Medical History)
Source: Medical History - October 13, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research
Syphilis, < em > blanchiment < /em > and French colonial medicine in sub-Saharan Africa during the interwar period
This article demonstrates the contradictory nature of the colonial medicine approach to this disease during the interwar years. The negative impact of syphilis on population growth in Africa made it a major threat to the colonial project, and France put significant, costly investment into tackling the disease, focusing its efforts on maternal and child health. However, a closer look at syphilis control in sub-Saharan Africa reveals that the disease was also minimised as a public health issue, under-resourced and downplayed by colonial doctors and administrators. This neglect was embodied in the invention of a new colonial ...
Source: Medical History - October 13, 2023 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Guillaume Linte Source Type: research
