Exploring The Netley British Red Cross Magazine: An example of the development of nursing and patient care during the First World War.

Netley Hospital played a crucial role in caring for the wounded during the nineteenth century and twentieth century, becoming one of the busiest military hospitals of the time. Simultaneously, Florence Nightingale delved into the concept of health and developed the theoretical basis of nursing. This research aims to describe the experiences related to nursing and patient care described in The Netley British Red Cross Magazine during the First World War. The analysis displays different nurses' roles and the influence of environmental factors in the delivery of the soldiers' care. There are indications that Nightingale's ideas would have infiltrated the nursing practices and other aspects of the soldiers' recovery at Netley. The history of the Netley Red Cross Hospital shows the theoretical and practical advancement of nursing care towards a holistic approach.

A introduçao da penicilina nos hospitais da universidade de Coimbra, Portugal (1944-1946) / The introduction of penicilin in Coimbra university hospitals, Portugal (1944-1946)

A importação regular de penicilina para Portugal iniciou-se em Setembro de 1944 através da Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa. Até Junho de 1945 a importação e distribuição do medicamento foram controladas por esta instituição humanitária mas a partir desta data, com o aumento da produção mundial, a penicilina começou a ser importada por intermédio da indústria farmacêutica. No Arquivo da Universidade de Coimbra consultamos papeletas (processos individuais) de doentes internados nos Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra desde Setembro de 1944 até Agosto de 1946. A investigação realizada permitiu-nos recolher informações sobre a introdução da penicilina e sobre os primeiros tratamentos efetuados com o medicamento nestes hospitais. Com base nos dados recolhidos pretendemos, pelo presente artigo, mostrar como foi feita a receção da penicilina num hospital central de grande dimensão, um dos principais hospitais portugueses, saber a frequência com que era prescrita, as patologias mais comuns em que era empregue, as doses administradas, a posologia e o tempo de tratamento assim como os clínicos responsáveis pela sua prescrição (AU)

The Portuguese Red Cross began to import of penicillin regularly following September 1944. Until June 1945, the humanitarian institution controlled the distribution of the antibiotic, subsequently, due to the increase in world production penicillin began to be imported by means of the pharmaceutical industry. We consulted and analyzed files of patients admitted to Coimbra University Hospitals between September 1944 and August 1946. These files, located in Coimbra University Archive, enabled us to collect information on the introduction of penicillin and on the first cases treated with the antibiotic at these hospitals. In the present paper, we aim to shed some light upon how penicillin was received in one of the main Portuguese central hospitals, the frequency with which it was prescribed, the most common diseases in which the antibiotic was utilized, the dosage administrated, the length of the treatment and the physicians responsible for prescribing the antibiotic (AU)

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The Colour Treatment: A Convergence of Art and Medicine at the Red Cross Russell Lea Nerve Home.

When the Red Cross opened its new convalescent home at Russell Lea in Sydney in 1919, it contained a coloured room designed for treating 'nerve cases'. This room was painted by Roy de Maistre, a young artist, and was modelled on the Kemp Prossor colour scheme trialled at the McCaul Convalescent Hospital in London for the treatment of shell shock. Dubbed the 'colour cure' by the popular press, this unconventional treatment was ignored by the Australian medical profession. The story of de Maistre's colour experiment is not widely known outside the specialist field of Australian art history. Focusing on the colour room as a point of convergence between art and medicine in the context of the First World War, this article investigates Red Cross activities and the care of soldiers suffering from nervous conditions.

[Analysis of a documental source of the Gynecological-Obstetric Institute of Milan. Year 1907]. / Analisi critica di una fonte documentaria dell'assistenza proveniente dall'Istituto Ostetrico-Ginecologico di Milano. Epoca di riferimento: 1907.

The look I have at those origins of the obstetric assistance that are historically accepted, both as documental and narrative sources or monumental and instrumental ones, it is for some way very similar to the curious glance, fascinated and respectful of an archaeologist who begins to look and study some vestiges emerged from deep in the past. He looks to these rests as if he looked at so many evidences of men's lives that have passed through the history and at facts that have characterized the evolution of our society during the last centuries as well. The aim of this work was an historical source of the contemporary assistance. The purpose is the critical analysis and the interpretation of this source itself. The instruments involved in this work are: the description of the source, its intrinsic and extrinsic examination and the interpretation compared to the midwifery considered in the historic context. The followed method is the ''historical method'' suggested by Federico Chabod. As the choose document is in some way a ''no name'', before I enter in this historiographical examination, I believe it is convenient to describe the place where such document was born and has attended to its aims.