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Augen-Dienst: Oder Kurtz und deutlich verfasster Bericht von allen... (Ophthalmology by Bartisch)
Germany , 1686
Bartisch, Georg
Les Œuvres de M. Ambroise Paré, conseiller et premier chirurgien du Roy, 1st edition, 1575
France , 1575
Paré, Ambroise
Chirurgie, in welcher alles, was zur Wundarzney (Surgery, in which everything that belongs to...)
Germany , 1763
Heister, Lorenz
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da Vinci, Leonardo
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Italy , 15 April 1452, Anchiano, Italy - 2 May 1519, Château du Clos Lucé, Amboise, France
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A copy of the second edition (1555) of De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, by Andreas Vesalius, was auctioned at Christie's in January 2024 and, breaking many records, realised $2,228,000, making it one of the ten most expensive scientific publications ever sold. This copy was previously acquired for €13,200 by a Canadian doctor, who proved that it was annotated by the author.
The American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) is inviting abstract submissions for its 97th annual meeting, scheduled for May 9-12, 2024, in Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas. They are seeking proposals for papers, roundtables, panels, posters, and workshops related to the history of health, healing, and medicine, encompassing various aspects like medical ideas, practices, institutions, and technologies, as well as the experiences of health, illness, and disability. The Program Committee encourages submissions that explore the power dynamics in medicine, including issues of race, gender, and more. They also mention a supplementary virtual meeting following the main event. Submissions must include an abstract of up to 300 words and are due by October 2, 2023. Membership in AAHM is required for presenters.
The event "Reappraising the role of medical history in understanding the past, present and future developments of medicine and healthcare" is organized by the Royal Society of Medicine and includes a panel discussion and an optional dinner. It features two main lectures: "Changes in medicine and understanding their significance" by Dr. Christopher Gardner-Thorpe, a neurologist with a deep interest in medical history, and Dr. Michael Powers KC, a barrister with extensive medico-legal experience. The second lecture, "The forgotten preface," is by Dr. Hilary Morris, a medical historian focusing on nineteenth-century British military and naval preventative medicine.
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The story of how the second edition of the book De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, by Flemish Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564), desecrated by numerous marginal notes, became one of the most outstanding examples of scientific printing that has come down to us has shocked the world of medical history and bibliography. This book, first published in 1543, then revolutionised anatomy and, among of others, commented on about 200 mistakes and misconceptions of the infallible authority, Claudius Galenus, questioning more than a thousand years of anatomical beliefs. It is no wonder that the young genius (Andreas Vesalius was only 29 years old when by publishing his Opus magnum) faced not just significant opposition, but fierce hatred, a real mass shitstorm for questioning established views, rocking the comfortable chairs of professorial chairs.
Everyone who deals with antiques sooner or later encounters fakes, collectors of surgical instruments and medical historians are no exception. One of the most frequently counterfeited, or rather issued with fake description – is the lancet, perhaps the most commonly used instrument of the surgeon up to the beginning of the 20th century. The classic antique surgical lancet was an instrument used for opening abscesses, phlebotomy (bloodletting) and other procedures requiring a precise and minimal incision. In appearance, it resembled a small, thin, pointed, double-edged knife that allowed the doctor to make clean and precise incisions. The presented specimen appeared to be not a "silver Victorian lancet", but something else...
Establishing the publication date of a medical trade catalogs is not always trivial. Many medical instrument manufacturers did without catalogs for many years – there was simply no need for them. Then, when the first trade catalogs of medical and surgical instruments appeared, they often omitted the date of their publications. There are several indications that can be used to determine the approximate year of publication of catalogs, which are discussed in this article.
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