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. He was born to a wealthy Swiss family living in Paris, ever his favourite city, in 1891. One of Sigerist's grandfathers had been a wine dealer, the other a goldsmith who had opened a small metal-plating factory. His father was a successful businessman, the founder and director of a shoe company
9 Making a Medical Living: The Economics of Medical Practice in the Cape c.1860-19101 Anne Digby The economics of colonial medicine have been largely neglected. This chapter shall seek first to give an overview of the medical market in the Cape during the late nineteenth and early twentieth
physiologists, and presumably many other researchers in the life sciences, encountered in their trials on living, and especially human subjects: A methodologically “good” experiment required that the subjects and their bodies functioned in particu- lar ways, but neither the subjects nor their bodies were
a rival establishment that he called the Medical Hall at 171 Piccadilly, London. Maybe he was just knocking the opposition. 9 Early Life More serious was the sale of completely useless medicines given the label of a recognised preparation: quackery or fraud in serious cases. This was motivated
body of the Vanity of philosophizing [sic] in Physick. he has found out a better way of rendering m<Jlkind immortal, without knowledge of Mathematicks or Mechanism, only by Fasting and Prayer, by subsisting without Meat and Drink, and Living by Faith above the World on the Philosophical Principles
PART I THE MEDICAL HOLISM OF PRIMITIVE PHYSIC 1 Introduction: Primitive Physic Explain’d in an Easy and Natural Method Without any concern about the obliging or disobliging any man living, a mean hand has made here some little attempt, towards a plain and easy way of curing most diseases. I have
advent of galvanism and then within a decade, of the Voltaic pile, accelerated major changes that were already taking place in the medical and physical sciences. These events were transformative both because they had immense theoretical implications for understanding the basis of life and matter, but
Infection by Inoculation, has a much fairer Chance for his life, than he who takes it the Natural Way…22 Arbuthnot combined the language of political arithmetic with the language of individual risk. His figures supported inoculation first by revealing the advantages to the state (a larger population) and
Wesley the Christian life of devotio and provided guidance on inward holiness. After attending Charterhouse school, Wesley was elected scholar of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1720, graduating in 1724 before becoming a fellow of Lincoln College in 1726. His reading of patristic texts, combined with his
1 Biography A life-long passion for science, seen as an essential underpinning to medicine, and a burning ambition not for money bur for an endur- ing reputation in the world of scientific medicine, ruled Marshall Hall's life. Both the passion and the ambition had their roots in his home