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Récamier et ses contemporains (1774-1852)
Extrait: \"L'histoire de la Médecine — pour répondre à l'état d'esprit actuel — ne peut plus être le récit des systèmes éphémères qui ont tour à tour gouverné l'art médical et qui représentent plutôt le tableau des variations doctrinales que celui de l'évolution progressive de la science. Quel que soit l'intérêt des méthodes dogmatiques qui, depuis Galien jusqu'à Barthez, ont si profondément agité l'ancien monde médical.\" À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN: Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de grands classiques de la littérature ainsi que des livres rares, dans les domaines suivants: • Fiction: roman, poésie, théâtre, jeunesse, policier, libertin.
• Non fiction: histoire, essais, biographies, pratiques.
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History of pharmacology:2 - The Institute of Pharmacology of the University of Strasbourg: genealogy and biographies
The Institute of Pharmacology of the University of Strasbourg played an eminent role in the development and international spread of pharmacology between 1872 and 1918. In this article, genealogy and biographies of key players are documented. Unfortunately, lack of data did not permit the complete biographical description of all scientists. Oswald Schmiedeberg played a decisive role in the global establishment of pharmacology, having trained most of the professors of his time. From Strasbourg, pharmacology spread into many countries including Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Norway, the UK, and the USA. The Institute of Pharmacology in Strasbourg played a major role in the establishment of both academic pharmacology and the modern pharmaceutical industry. The Institute of Pharmacology in Strasbourg also mirrors the history of Germany and France and the Nazi period.
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Introduction: Alternative Approaches to Health and Wellness in the Nineteenth Century
Alternative medicine is never more topical than during a pandemic. Since it began, Covid-19 has brought forth anti-vaxxers, Covid-deniers, and questionable remedies in ways that parallel responses to earlier disease crises. Allopathic medicine has historically proven ineffective against chronic pain, degenerative illnesses, migraines, insomnia, and psychological complaints, leading unsatisfied patients to seek care from chiropractors, osteopaths, mesmerists, and Christian Science healers.3 Such unorthodox therapies have disproportionately appealed to women, who have a harder time getting doctors to take their pain seriously and who were, until the 1990s, seldom included in clinical trials of new medications and treatments.4 Today, “Americans now consult their homeopaths, naturopaths, herbalists, acupuncturists, chiropractors, and Reiki workers more often than they see their primary care physicians,” as Steve Silberman wrote in 2015.5 A similar situation prevails in Britain, where “dozens of . . . creative, sensory, mind-body and manual therapies” vie for prominence with traditional medicine.6 How did we get here? [...]though, both the idea of scientific medicine and the distinction between orthodox and alternative medicine are relatively new. Some alternative treatment systems, such as Thomsonianism with its reliance on harsh emetics, were scarcely less punishing than their allopathic counterparts.14 Nevertheless, the heterodox emphases on individual choice and on gentle, natural healing understandably attracted many customers. [...]midcentury, allopaths promoted so-called “heroic” remedies such as bleeding, emetics, laxatives, blistering, and the application of leeches to the skin.
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Iatrochemistry and the Evaluation of Mineral Waters in France, 1600–1750
Existing literature on mineral springs in early modern France suggests that composition played a minor role in the evaluation of those springs. In fact it played a major role from at least the beginning of the seventeenth century. Composition was studied by a wide range of actors, from physicians in the provinces to chemists at the Paris Academy of Science, with a view to establishing the efficacy of particular springs against particular diseases. Iatrochemistry played a complex role in these evaluations. Followers of Paracelsus and van Helmont were among the first to perform chemical analyses on mineral waters. But there were physicians who studied composition without chemistry, or who used chemistry while opposing iatrochemistry. Conversely, there were iatrochemists who used chemistry to study mineral waters but not to evaluate them, and there were many chemists who gave at least as much weight to clinical experience as they did to composition.
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Joseph Babinski
The life and work of Joseph Babinski (1857-1932) has been revisited by two French physicians whose enthusiasm for the subject is reflected in the depth and breadth of documentary sources. From Babinski's Polish roots, his father (an intrepid revolutionist, his brother(the gold miner and famous gastronome Ali-Bab to the Babinski circle, his friends, his colleagues and his disciples, the reader will find a refreshing perspective on a particularly fascinating period in French medicine. His scientific contribution is analyzed in detail, with for the first time a complete bibliography of his publications. These includes not only the Babinski Sign, but also the earlier and heretofore less-known concerning pathological anatomy and histology, the papers on cutaneous and tendinous reflexes, cerebellar and vestibular semeiology, hysteria and pithiatism, localization of spinal cord compression s and the birth of French neurosurgery.
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