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Die Medizin des Aulus Cornelius Celsus (Blütezeit: erstes Drittel des ersten nachchristlichen Jahrhunderts) ist keine Schullektüre und gehört keinem Kanon an. Das Werk vom Anfang bis zum Ende zu lesen fällt selbst Medizinhistorikern schwer. Doch wer die Geschichte der Medizin in der Antike studiert, kommt an Celsus nicht vorbei, obwohl der Autor mutmaßlich selbst nicht beruflich als Arzt gearbeitet hat. In den acht Büchern sind zahllose geistreiche Bemerkungen und historische Juwelen verborgen. Die vorliegende Auswahl enthält die Proömien, die wichtigsten Passagen aus der Darstellung der theoretischen und klinischen Fächer, die originellsten Fallbeschreibungen und außerdem die wesentlichen Beiträge des Werkes zur Terminologie und Ethik in der Medizin. Für die Diskussion der Quellen und der Rezeption in Antike und Mittelalter werden zahlreiche Originaltexte präsentiert. Der Schlussteil enthält die Fragmente der verlorenen nicht-medizinischen Teile (Landwirtschaft, Militärwesen, Rhetorik, Philosophie) des Opus Celsi.

Medicine, Greek and Roman --- Celsus. --- Medicine / history. --- practical medicine.

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This open access book surveys drinking in Britain between the Licensing Act of 1869 and the wartime regulations imposed on alcohol production and consumption after 1914. This was a period marked by the expansion of the drink industry and by increasingly restrictive licensing laws. Politics and commerce co-existed with moral and medical concerns about drunkenness and combined, these factors pushed alcohol consumers into the public spotlight. Through an analysis of public and private records, medical texts and sociological studies, the book investigates the reasons why Victorians and Edwardians consumed alcohol in the ways that they did and explores the ideas about alcohol that circulated in the period. This book shows that they had many reasons for purchasing and consuming alcoholic substances and these were driven by broader social, cultural, medical and commercial factors. Although drunkenness may have been the most visible consequence of alcohol consumption, it was not the only type of drinking behaviour. Alcohol played an important social role in the everyday lives of Victorians and Edwardians where its consumption held many different meanings.

History. --- Ethnology --- Great Britain --- Social history. --- Medicine --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- Social History. --- History of Medicine. --- British Culture. --- Europe. --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- History --- Sociology --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- England --- Health Workforce --- Great Britain—History. --- Medicine—History. --- Ethnology—Europe. --- Great Britain—History --- Medicine—History --- Ethnology—Europe

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This open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced in the early nineteenth century. Bold and daring, surgeons who performed it claimed to be initiating a new era of surgery by opening the abdomen. Ovariotomy soon occupied a complex position within medicine and society, as an operation which symbolised surgical progress, while also remaining at the boundaries of ethical acceptability. This book traces the operation’s innovation, from its roots in eighteenth-century pathology, through the denouncement of those who performed it as ‘belly-rippers’, to its rapid uptake in the 1880s, when ovariotomists were accused of over-operating. Throughout the century, the operation was never a hair’s breadth from controversy.

History. --- Social history. --- Medicine. --- Abdomen --- Sociology. --- History of Science. --- Social History. --- History of Medicine. --- Abdominal Surgery. --- Gender Studies. --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Abdominal surgery --- Laparotomy --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- History --- Sociology --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Surgery. --- Health Workforce --- Medicine—History. --- Abdominal surgery. --- Medicine—History --- Ovariectomy --- Ovariotomy --- Castration, Female --- Female castration --- Oophorectomy --- Ovaries --- Sterilization of women --- Surgery

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In this book, the ownership, distribution and sale of patent medicines across Georgian England are explored for the first time, transforming our understanding of healthcare provision and the use of the printed word in that era. Patent medicines constituted a national industry which was largely popular, reputable and stable, not the visible manifestation of dishonest quackery as described later by doctors and many historians. Much of the distribution, promotion and sale of patent medicines was centrally controlled with directed advertising, specialisation, fixed prices and national procedures, and for the first time we can see the detailed working of a national market for a class of Georgian consumer goods. Furthermore, contemporaries were aware that changes in the consumers’ ‘imagination’ increased the benefits of patent medicines above the effects of their pharmaceutical components. As the imagination was altered by the printed word, print can be considered as an essential ingredient of patent medicines. This book will challenge the assumptions of all those interested in the medical, business or print history of the period.

Patent medicines --- History. --- History --- Medicines, Patent, proprietary, etc. --- Proprietary drugs --- Proprietary medicines --- Drugs --- Drugs, Nonprescription --- Medicine. --- Great Britain-History. --- Law-History. --- History of Science. --- History of Medicine. --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- Legal History. --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Health Workforce --- Medicine—History. --- Great Britain—History. --- Law—History.

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This volume deals with philosophically grounded theories of animal generation as found in two different traditions: one, deriving primarily from Aristotelian natural philosophy and specifically from his Generation of Animals; and another, deriving from two related medical traditions, the Hippocratic and the Galenic. The book contains a classification and critique of works that touch on the history of embryology and animal generation written before 1980. It also contains translations of key sections of the works on which it is focused. It looks at two different scholarly communities: the physicians (medici) and philosophers (philosophi), that share a set of textual resources and philosophical lineages, as well as a shared problem (explaining animal generation), but that nevertheless have different concerns and commitments. The book demonstrates how those working in these two traditions not only shared a common philosophical background in the arts curricula of the universities, but were in constant intercourse with each other. This book presents a test case of how scholarly communities differentiate themselves from each other through methods of argument, empirical investigation, and textual interpretations. It is all the more interesting because the two communities under investigation have so much in common and yet, in the end, are distinct in a number of important ways.

Renaissance. --- Renaissance --- Revival of letters --- History --- Fernel, Jean, --- Fernelius, Joh. --- Fernelius, Joannes, --- Fernelius, Ioannes, --- Fernelius, Io. --- Medicine. --- Medicine --- Medical education. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- History of Medicine. --- Philosophy of Medicine. --- Medical Education. --- Philosophy. --- History. --- Civilization --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Modern --- Humanism --- Middle Ages --- Medicine-Philosophy. --- Medical personnel --- Professional education --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Education --- Health Workforce --- Medicine—History. --- Medicine—Philosophy.