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Nicolas Andry was born in 1658 in Lyons, France, and had a long Parisian career. He wrote a book entitled "L'orthopédie ou l'art de prévenir et de corriger dans les enfants les difformités du corps" just before his death, which was the first to use the term orthopedics.
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Stanley Rachman, known to his colleagues as Jack Durac, has had a powerful influence on British clinical psychology. It is hypothesised that Duracic goonery has played a major role in the development of new treatments, as well as in the training of new clinical psychologists. Objective, historical evidence is assembled to support the view that this Duracic spark should be brought out into the field of scientific discourse and should not be hidden behind more comfortable jargon.
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The study of the medieval sciences and their technical vocabulary has been considered essential to an adequate understanding of Chaucer's works ever since the nineteenth century. But any attempt of evaluating Chaucer's scientific vocabulary is confronted with several major difficulties. The well-known fact that the Norman Conquest caused the breakdown of an established literary standard and eventually led to the dominance of French and the suppression of the native vernacular as a means of instruction and formal education up to the middle of the fourteenth century is equally responsible for the comparative lateness of Middle English literature on the artes. This limitedness of comparative material also contributes to the difficulty in evaluating Chaucer's scientific lexicon and its use in fictional contexts. The still unsatisfactory state of scholarship in the field of Middle English prose enhances these problems. Concerning Chaucer, three separate possibilities are discussed: the poet follows an already established native tradition, he makes use of existing French or Latin terminology, or he coins a new word. Especially the third case poses intricate problems which are connected with the question of the status of words, since it is often impossible to draw precise limits between different categories.--In addition to that, Chaucer's use of the hermeneutic technique of etymology and the linguistic importance of variant readings are dealt with.
The 'Antidotarius magnus'--compiled about 1080 by the archbishop of Salerno, Alphanus--deals with the pharmacological methods of healing and contains nearly 1073 antidots. We have discovered 13 Latin manuscripts of the 'Antidotarius magnus' in the libraries of Basel, Bern, Cambridge, Erfurt, Florence, London, Oxford, Paris and Parma. One should remember that the MS Taurin.I.VI.24 had been totally destroyed in 1904, but this manuscript is still noted in the catalogues of Pasin, Giacosa and Thorndike/Kibre. The most remarkable manuscript--the MS Palat.lat.747--is preserved in the National Library at Florence. The MS Palat.lat.747 is dated to 1153 and seems to be similar to the archetype. We are currently preparing a critical edition based on the oldest manuscripts.
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Three hundred years after the first edition of Ramazzini's "De Morbis Artificum Diatriba", this paper reviews all the articles on the work of the great Master of Carpi that have been published over a century in the ninety volumes of "La Medicina del Lavoro". Since the first issue of the journal in 1901, many authors have submitted papers which revisited and commented on the work of Ramazzini, particularly in anniversary years (1914, the anniversary of his death, 1933 and 1983, anniversaries of his birth), but only Luigi Devoto was capable of fully understanding the methodology introduced by Ramazzini, transforming it into practical applications which he listed in ten fundamental actions. Mainly for this reason and considering that Ramazzini had been practically ignored for two centuries, it was decided to consider the Devoto period as the "true Ramazzini era". The death of the founder of the journal in 1935 marked the unexpected beginning of a long silence, lasting up to 1983, during which not one paper on Ramazzini was published in "La Medicina del Lavoro". It is concluded that a comparison between the diseases described by Ramazzini and those of to-day is of no practical use and that a tribute to Ramazzini is simply necessary in recognition of his contribution to the birth and development of occupational medicine, but is nonetheless insufficient. What is also needed, following in the footsteps of the founder of this journal and of the Clinica del Lavoro of Milan, is to reinterpret Ramazzini's methods in modern terms in the perspective of the ten actions he proposed, bearing in mind that possibilities exist to-day whereby his efforts can be completed and further enlarged in terms of practical applications.
The work of Dr. Claudio Costa Casaretto covers a broad field in the history of Medicine in Chile. He contributed with the historical aspects in the Centennial issue of Revista Médica de Chile in July, 1972. He published 85 papers in this journal in a lapse of 20 years. In his works, he investigated about medical personalities with the highest relevance for Chilean medicine such as Dr. William Blest, graduated in Edinburgh and director of the first Medicine Course in Chile in 1833, the French obstetrician Dr. Lorenzo Sazie, first Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile in 1843 and Dr. Eloisa Díaz, first physician graduated in Chile and South America in 1887. He published the translation from Latin of Juan Ignacio Molina's verses "Elegies to smallpox", Chilean writer and erudite of the XVIII century. He also undertook the origins of Universidad de San Felipe (1737), Universidad de Chile (1842) and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (1889) and the main educational events occurred in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile, during the past century. He also published about the public health situation and sanitary care during the XIX century, about the conflict between private and public teaching and other political events of the past century. The work of Dr. Costa as a whole, is a real history textbook of Chilean Medicine. Dr. Costa and Dr. Enrique Laval are the most important Chilean medical historians of the XX century.