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História da Medicina , Bibliotecas Médicas , Manuscritos Médicos como Assunto , Livros Raros , Universidades , Baltimore/etnologia , História do Século XX , História do Século XXI , Bibliotecas Médicas/economia , Bibliotecas Médicas/história , Manuscritos Médicos como Assunto/história , Livros Raros/história , Universidades/históriaRESUMO
The name Hürthle is used in medicine to designate a particular type of thyroid cell, mainly characterized by a granular and deeply eosinophilic cytoplasm. This article describes the life of Karl Hürthle (1860-1945) and the experiments he performed in the early 1890s to explore the morphology and function of the thyroid gland.
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Patologia Clínica/história , Doenças da Glândula Tireoide/história , História do Século XIX , História do Século XX , Humanos , PolôniaRESUMO
The William H. Welch Medical Library was founded in 1929 with the merger of three libraries, namely, the library of the School of Medicine, the library of the School of Hygiene and Public Health, and the library of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Engendered by the dreams of Johns Hopkins University bibliophiles, such as founding Hopkins physicians William Osler, William Stewart Halsted, Howard Kelly, and William Henry Welch, the library flourished and expanded. At the same time as the founding of the central medical library, the Institute of the History of Medicine collection was established in the Welch Library building, with William H. Welch as its first director. Innovative leadership led to many exciting projects, such as the Welch Indexing Project, which was a prototype for the National Library of Medicine's medical subject headings, and the establishment of a laboratory for research into the application of information technologies to knowledge management. The Welch Library enters the 21st century as a dynamic library committed to the continuing delivery of information services, as well as ongoing research into the development of library services for the coming 100 years.
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Centros Médicos Acadêmicos/história , Bibliotecas Médicas/história , Baltimore , História do Século XX , HumanosRESUMO
In 1894, Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle wrote "The Third Generation," a short story involving the transmission of congenital syphilis from generation to generation. Analysts of his writings have interpreted the pathogenetic mechanism involved in modern terms: infection of mother by father and then transplacental infection of the fetus. However, a review of the contemporary literature and the history of the concepts of congenital and "hereditary" syphilis demonstrates that the late 19th-century understanding of the process involved a Lamarckian transmission of paternal infection, via the sperm at the moment of conception. It was undoubtedly this concept that Doyle learned in medical school in the late 1870s and that provided the background to his story.