History Of Medicine

Have you ever looked at a word and thought: I wonder where that came from? You might well find the answer in this book, which considers the origin ...

It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America's most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been...

The eminent physician and anatomist Dr William Hunter (1718-1783) made an important and significant contribution to the history of collecting and t...

In 1768, Amad al-Damanhr became the rector (shaykh) of al-Azhar, which was one of the most authoritative and respected positions in the Ottoman Emp...

Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808) lived in decidedly interesting times in which established orders in politics and science were challenged by revolutionar...

This volume focuses on early modern Italy and some of its key multilingual zones: Venice, Florence, and Rome. It offers a novel insight into the in...

Published in 1910. Treatises of Fistula in Ano discusses Medicine during the early 15th century.

This book is a case study which narrates the history of the National Organization of the Spanish Blind (ONCE), established in 1937 during the Spani...

Manuscripts containing Greek medical texts were inventoried by author and work at the beginning of the 20th century by a group of philologists unde...