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Authors: PMID: 19801791 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - October 6, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

Presidential Address: Quarantining Women: Venereal Disease Rapid Treatment Centers in World War II America.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Authors: Concern about the infection of servicemen and essential war workers with venereal disease led the U.S. Public Health Service, with the cooperation of state and local health officials, to set up a national program of venereal disease quarantine hospitals during World War II. Although some of the hospitals eventually accepted men, the initial purpose of these facilities was to detain and treat venereally affected prostitutes and "promiscuous women" who were considered a threat to the war effort. Using quarantine powers, officials forcibly detained venereally infected women and treated them for their disease. Th...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - October 6, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

The odd case of charles knowlton: anatomical performance, medical narrative, and identity in antebellum america.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Authors: In early-nineteenth-century America, anatomical narrative was crucial to the acquisition and performance of medical identity. Dissecting the dead, robbing graves, making and exhibiting "anatomical preparations," and joking with bodies and body parts all served to affirm membership in the cult of medical knowledge. So did telling stories about such things. Through an examination of the autobiography of Charles Knowlton (1800-1850), a rural physician who practiced in northwestern Massachusetts, this article argues that the recitation and exchange of anatomical stories enabled medical practitioners to assert pro...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - October 6, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

Hydropathy at home: the water cure and domestic healing in mid-nineteenth-century britain.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article explores domestic practices of hydropathy in Britain, suggesting that these formed a major contribution to the popularity of the system in the mid-nineteenth century. Domestic hydropathy was encouraged by hydropathic practitioners in their manuals and in the training they provided at their establishments. We argue that hydropathy can be seen as belonging to two interacting spheres, the hydro and the home, and was associated with a mission to encourage self-healing practices as well as commercial interests. Home treatments were advocated as a follow-up to attendance at hydros and encouraged as a low-cost option...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - October 6, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

European cloth and "tropical" skin: clothing material and british ideas of health and hygiene in tropical climates.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article investigates the composition and use of such clothing in relation to British ideas of health and hygiene in tropical climates. First, it considers debates that ensued over the best material-wool, cotton, linen, silk, or a combination of these materials-and the role of "black" skin and local practice in the development of tropical clothing. Second, it demonstrates the importance of location in any discussion of tropical medicine and hygiene, and the tension and ambiguity that still surrounded British ideas of health and hygiene in the tropical colonies. Third, it argues that tropical clothing was important in t...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - October 6, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

American association for the history of medicine: report of the eighty-second annual meeting.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Authors: PMID: 19801796 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
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Authors: PMID: 19801798 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
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Journals under Threat: A Joint Response from History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Editors.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Authors: PMID: 19502712 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - June 27, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

The fielding h. Garrison lecture: "i am their physician": dr. Owen j. Wister of germantown and his too many patients.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Authors: Owen J. Wister, M.D. (1825-1896) acquired one of the busiest "outdoor" practices in nineteenth-century Philadelphia, conducted throughout the city's large northwest district. Through letters, he described events in his daily rounds to his wife, the writer Sarah Butler Wister, when she was traveling to restore her own health. Wister's practice was filled with the mundane details of any general doctor's existence but also with confrontations with sudden and overpowering disease, and sometimes the grisly deaths of friends and family. Often he worked from early morning until late evening, seeing as many as thirty...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - June 27, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

An "epeleptick" bondswoman: fits, slavery, and power in the antebellum South.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Authors: Epilepsy, as nineteenth-century observers understood the disease construct, was a feared diagnosis associated with insanity and uncontrollability. Cases of epileptic fits in slaves-whether they were considered genuine or feigned- highlighted deep struggles among white masters, physicians, and slaves themselves over the control of African American bodies. Some slaves who experienced fits were subjected to prolonged experimental treatments at the hands of physicians and white masters. Although Southern medical sources largely ignored the connection between epilepsy and trauma in slaves, abolitionists and ex-sla...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - June 27, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

Truth, trust, and confidence in surgery, 1890-1910: patient autonomy, communication, and consent.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article discusses why there was also a rise in the number of people who were prepared to submit to all of these operations. Contrary to popular assumptions, many nineteenth- century patients did not lack effective autonomy. Their consent to surgery could not be taken for granted, especially as surgery was expensive compared with many other forms of treatment. Persuading patients that surgery could help them was an active process, and patients and their friends were often provided with pertinent information, especially in cases in which the doctors themselves had doubts about an operation. Faith in the theoretical poss...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - June 27, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

Keeping modern in medicine: pharmaceutical promotion and physician education in postwar america.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Authors: Recent critiques of the role of pharmaceutical promotion in medical practice invoke a nostalgic version of 1950s and 1960s medicine as representing an uncomplicated relationship between an innovative pharmaceutical industry and an idealistic and sovereign medical profession-a relationship that was later corrupted by regulatory or business practice changes in the 1980s or 1990s. However, the escalation of innovation and promotion in the pharmaceutical industry at mid-century had already provoked a broader crisis of overflow in medical education in which physicians came to use both commercial and professional s...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - June 27, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

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Authors: PMID: 19502717 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - June 27, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

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Authors: PMID: 19502718 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - June 27, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

Introduction: simultaneously global and local: reassessing smallpox vaccination and its spread, 1789-1900.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Authors: Summary:The last two decades have seen a reawakening of scholarly interest in the history of smallpox prevention. Accounts of vaccination and others efforts at controlling smallpox have moved away from heroic narratives toward more nuanced and contextualized understandings. It is now accepted that several viruses traveled under the vaccine label from the outset, and it has been demonstrated that a variety of techniques were used to perform vaccination operations. The character of nineteenth century sea voyages that took the vaccine to distant territories has also been re-examined; sometimes the spread of the ...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 3, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

Catching cowpox: the early spread of smallpox vaccination, 1798-1810.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Authors: Summary:The introduction of smallpox vaccination after the publication of Edward Jenner's An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of Variolae Vaccinae depended on the spread of cowpox, a relatively rare disease. How Europeans and their colonial allies transported and maintained cowpox in new environments is a social and technological story involving a broad range of individuals from physicians and surgeons to philanthropists, ministers, and colonial administrators. Putting cowpox in new places also meant developing new techniques and organizations. This essay focuses on the actual practices of vaccination and ...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 3, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

Smallpox and Cowpox under the Southern Cross: The Smallpox Epidemic of 1789 and the Advent of Vaccination in Colonial Australia.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Authors: Summary:In histories of smallpox and vaccination, little attention has been paid to their progress in the southern latitudes. In this paper, I focus on the appearance of smallpox around Sydney Cove in 1789 and the introduction of cowpox (vaccine) to New South Wales in 1804. I demonstrate the connections, historical and virological, between the two events and examine the role of variolation in the spread of smallpox and in anticipating vaccination. I argue that imported "variolous matter," perhaps obtained in Cape Town, may have been the source of infection in the catastrophic epidemic among the Aborigines in ...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 3, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

The World's First Immunization Campaign: The Spanish Smallpox Vaccine Expedition, 1803-1813.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Authors: Summary:Smallpox produced the death of up to thirty percent of those infected, so Jenner's preventive method spread quickly. The Spanish government designed and supported a ten-year effort to carry smallpox vaccine to its American and Asian territories in a chain of arm-to-arm vaccination of children. An expedition directed by Doctor Francisco Xavier de Balmis sailed from Corunna in November 1803, stopping in the Canary Islands, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. Balmis led a subexpedition to Cuba, Mexico, and the Philippines; his assistants returned to Mexico in 1807, while Balmis took vaccine to China and returned...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 3, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

Safeguarding Slaves: Smallpox, Vaccination, and Governmental Health Policies among the Enslaved Population in the Danish West Indies, 1803-1848.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Authors: Summary:During the first half of the nineteenth century, a unique system of vaccination against smallpox was developed in the island of St. Croix in the Danish West Indies. The primary intention was to protect the population of enslaved workers, which was of fundamental importance to the economy of the colony. However, because the Danish abolition of the slave trade in 1803 had stopped the imports of new enslaved workers from Africa, the population was also decreasing. The vaccination system's success was due to a high degree of governmental control of the enslaved population that was virtually unseen anywher...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 3, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

Jennerian vaccination and the creation of a national public health agenda in Japan, 1850-1900.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Authors: Summary:Vaccination played a leading role in transforming the social and political status of medicine in Japanese society in the second half of the nineteenth century. The process began well before the Meiji Restoration of 1868 created a centralized government under the Japanese emperor. At the beginning of the century, medicine was a private business. There was no oversight from an interested government, and there were no medical societies or journals in which to debate and formulate opinion about medical practice. Medical knowledge was transmitted privately through personal lineage structures whose members ...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 3, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

Borrowing, adapting, and learning the practices of smallpox: notes from colonial goa.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Authors: Summary:In this article I will address colonial state policies toward smallpox in nineteenth-century Goa. The picture that emerges from the analysis of health services documents suggests a broad variety of coexisting practices. While the actions of some of the Portuguese head physicians epitomized the conflict between state-sponsored vaccination policies and local preferences for smallpox inoculation, others showed sympathy for and developed arguments in favor of inoculation as practiced by indigenous experts. Still others observed the existence among the population of hybrid practices combining elements of v...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 3, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

Pursuing protection from disease: the making of smallpox prophylactic practice in colonial punjab.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Authors: Abstract:Summary: Focusing on colonial Punjab, this article explores how agrarian lower-class families' pursuit of safe and effective protection from smallpox shaped the region's prophylactic practices during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Specifically, the article explains shifts from variolation in conjunction with Sitala (smallpox goddess) worship to vaccination in conjunction with Sitala worship; from vaccination with crusts to vaccination with human and animal lymph; and from vaccination with fresh lymph to vaccination with tubed lymph. The article also illustrates how, regardless of ...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 3, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

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Authors: PMID: 19329847 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - April 3, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

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Authors: PMID: 19075383 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - December 17, 2008 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

Whose Body Is It Anyway?: Trading the Dead Poor, Coroner's Disputes, and the Business of Anatomy at Oxford University, 1885-1929.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article examines the application of the Anatomy Act (1832) at Oxford University, circa 1885-1929. For the first time it retraces the economy of supply in dead bodies, sold by various black-market intermediaries and welfare agencies, transported on the railway to Oxford. Both pauper cadavers and body parts were used to train doctors in human anatomy at a time when student demand always exceeded the economy of supply. An added problem was that the trade in dead bodies was disrupted by a city coroner for Oxford in a bid to improve his professional standing. Disputes about medico-legal authority over the pauper corpse mea...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - December 17, 2008 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hurren ET Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

Race and Medical Practice in Kansas City's Free Dispensary.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Summary:Patient records from the Kansas City Free Dispensary, 1906-1912, provide material for a case study of race in early twentieth-century medicine. The dispensary was a free, racially integrated medical clinic operated for educational purposes by the University of Kansas. Little historical work has been done examining the role of race in routine medical practice. Medical records give insight to the development of durable clinical habits and rules of thumb. Practitioners at the Kansas City Free Dispensary showed clear racial inequities in their care, for example in the treatment of pain, but they did not acknowledge...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - December 17, 2008 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Crenner C Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

Psychological trauma and its treatment in the polio epidemics.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Summary:In this paper, I explore the kinds of psychological trauma experienced by polio patients in the mid-twentieth century in the United States. I argue that the trauma was the result of the experience of sudden paralysis, the conditions under which patients were treated, and the expectations for rehabilitation derived from the psychosocial context of the period. Psychiatric and psychological counseling in hospitals was only beginning to be offered in this period, and most polio patients received little or no counseling or assistance in dealing with their psychological problems. Contemporary psychological studies su...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - December 17, 2008 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Wilson DJ Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

Allied against reform: pharmaceutical industry-academic physician relations in the United States, 1945-1970.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Summary:During the 1960s, the drug industry was the subject of two congressional investigations into its business practices and pricing policies, and in 1962, passage of the Drug Amendments mandated greater Food and Drug Administration authority over pharmaceutical development. In this article, I examine the industry's efforts to circumvent these political challenges by drawing on its longstanding relationship with academic physicians and the American Medical Association. Using the medical profession's shared concern about expanding government oversight over therapeutic practice, the industry called on academic physici...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - December 17, 2008 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Tobbell DA Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

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Authors: PMID: 19075388 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - December 17, 2008 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

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Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - December 17, 2008 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

Subject and author index: volume 82.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Authors: PMID: 19075390 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - December 17, 2008 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

Table of contents: volume 82.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Authors: PMID: 19075391 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - December 17, 2008 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

From Foetid Air to Filth: The Cultural Transformation of British Epidemiological Thought, ca. 1780-1848.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century ideas about the occurrence and spread of epidemic disease were complex and contested. Although many thought that diseases such as plague, typhus, and cholera were contagious and were communicated from person to person or via the medium of goods, others believed that they were the product of atmospheric change. Moreover, as historians have emphasized, the early nineteenth century saw a move from a multifactoral, climatic etiology toward one that prioritized specific local corruption of the atmosphere caused by putrefying animal and vegetable matter. In this paper, I extend this an...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - September 16, 2008 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Brown M Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

"Not from the college, but through the public and the legislature": charles maclean and the relocation of medical debate in the early nineteenth century.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Charles Maclean is generally thought to have played an important role in the contagion debates of the early nineteenth century and to have prompted two parliamentary inquiries into the issue. The author examines the effects of Maclean's efforts to relocate the contagion debates from the medical to the public sphere. The author shows that Maclean's tactics challenged the exclusivity of medical knowledge by ceding power to decide the debate to a non-medically expert Parliament. The author also demonstrates how this conflict laid bare the side-by-side existence of two probative systems in medical debates during the early ...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - September 16, 2008 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kelly C Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

Cultures of death and politics of corpse supply: anatomy in vienna, 1848-1914.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study of the material preconditions for anatomy at one of Europe's most influential medical schools provides a contrast to the dominant Anglo-American histories of death and dissection. PMID: 18791297 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - September 16, 2008 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Buklijas T Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

"The Red Man and the White Plague": Rethinking Race, Tuberculosis, and American Indians, ca. 1890-1950.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
From the time it emerged as an epidemic in the last decades of the nineteenth century until it had become their number-one health problem in the 1950s, multiple explanations for the etiology of tuberculosis (TB) among American Indians competed for prominence. None was more debated than racial susceptibility-and none held on with such tenacity. Various race-based explanations -Indians' inherent racial susceptibility, virgin soil theory, and degree of Indian blood-had great explanatory power. These explanations faded from view by the 1950s as a result of epidemiological research begun in the 1930s-research that for the f...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - September 16, 2008 Category: History of Medicine Authors: McMillen CW Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

Atlantic conjunctures in anglo-american neurology: lewis h. Weed and johns hopkins neurology, 1917-1942.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The emergence of neurology at Johns Hopkins presents a case study for reconsidering the international and institutional contexts of neurology generally. Using a variety of sources, Hopkins's interwar plans for neurology are presented and contextualized in the international environment of neurology, medical research, and philanthropy. During this period, neurology across the world, especially in Britain, was undergoing vast institutional changes. In order for Hopkins to remain at the forefront of excellence in both medicine and medical education, a program in neurology was deemed essential, and this would seem now to ha...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - September 16, 2008 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Casper ST Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

American association for the history of medicine: report of the eighty-first annual meeting.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 18791300 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - September 16, 2008 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Crenner C Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

Minutes of the annual meeting of the council of the american association for the history of medicine, inc. 10 april 2008.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Authors: PMID: 18791301 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
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Minutes of the annual business meeting of the american association for the history of medicine, inc. 12 april 2008.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Authors: PMID: 18791302 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - September 16, 2008 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

American association for the history of medicine, inc. Financial report for the fiscal year ended 31 december 2007.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Authors: PMID: 18791303 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
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The Nature of Plague in Late Eighteenth-Century Egypt.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article uses an examination of the 1791 plague in Egypt to explore the relationships among disease, famine, flood, drought, and death in late eighteenth-century Egypt. It analyzes how plague functioned as part of a regular biophysical pathology of the environment in which the disease came and went as one iteration in a cycle that included famine, wind, flood, drought, price inflation, and revolt. Using the works of Egyptian chroniclers, archival materials, secondary studies, and traveler accounts, this article integrates plague into the study of the Egyptian environment by showing how it was a regular and expected par...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - July 16, 2008 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Mikhail A Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

Sacagawea's "Cold": Pregnancy and the Written Record of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Summary:In June 1805, Sacagawea fell gravely ill along the Missouri River during the outward journey of the Corps of Discovery. Historical discussion of her illness has failed to take into account the context of travel literature and writing at the time-in particular, the conventions governing references to personal experience, descriptions of Native American life, and the language of women's bodies. When William Clark and Meriwether Lewis wrote in their journals that Sacagawea was dangerously ill because she had "taken a cold," and that they blamed her partner Toussaint Charbonneau for her illness, they likely meant t...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - July 16, 2008 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kastor PJ, Valenčius CB Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

Doctors on Record: Uruguay's Infant Mortality Stagnation and Its Remedies, 1895-1945.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Summary:Circa 1900 Uruguayan medical authorities prided themselves on their country's health achievement: the lowest recorded infant mortality rate in Latin America and one of the lowest rates in the world. Over the next three decades, however, these doctors' pride suffered blow after blow as Uruguay's infant mortality stagnated at roughly the same 1900 rate, while other countries experienced sustained mortality declines. Even more frustrating was the apparent inadequacy of the measures that physicians themselves had advocated and implemented. This paper explores Uruguay's infant mortality dynamics during the first hal...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - July 16, 2008 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Birn AE Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals

"Physicians are not Bootleggers": The Short, Peculiar Life of the Medicinal Alcohol Movement.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Summary:This essay seeks to chronicle the effort of physicians to secure the right to prescribe beer, liquor, and other alcoholic beverages to their patients for medicinal uses during the Prohibition era. A review of the medical literature and popular press from the period 1920-26 reveals that the physicians who lobbied for the right to prescribe alcohol and, ultimately, took their claim to the United States Supreme Court, were not uniformly antiprohibitionists attempting to circumvent the Eighteenth Amendment. Instead, this coalition of physician activists, led by John P. Davin and Samuel W. Lambert, included both sup...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - July 16, 2008 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Appel JM Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals