Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations in the text.
Aarhus University, psychiatric training 362
‘Abd Allāh bin Muhammad bin Hazn bin Harb
al-Taymī 203
abdominal illness see gastrointestinal illness
Abī Tālīb bin Ahmad (Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muhammad): Jirāb al-Mujarrabāt 200
Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muhammad see Abī Tālīb bin Ahmad
Abū Bakr Muhammad see al-Rāzī, Zakarīyā’
Abū Ja‘far Ahmad see al-Hāshimī, Īsá
Abū l-‘Alā’ Zuhr (father of Avenzoar (Ibn Zuhr) ) 196, 207
case studies 196–8, 199, 200
Kitāb al-Khawāss 197–8, 199, 200, 207
Kitāb al-Mujarrabāt 197–8, 199, 200
Abū l-Qāsim al-Zahrāwī see Albucasis
Academic Assistance Council 10
Académie Royale de Médecine, Paris 231–2
Adams, Vincanne, book review by 553–5
Addenbrooke's Hospital Sports Injuries Clinic, Cambridge 469
Adelaide University 2
Charles Kellaway as professor 14
adrenaline, in asthma treatment 188; inhalation of 189
advertising see marketing
Africa see Natal; West Africa
ageing process 284–5
Agri-Horticultural Society of India 93–4
Ainslie, Whitelaw 86
Akasoy, Anne, Charles Burnett and Ronit
Yoeli-Tlalim (eds): Astro-medicine: astrology and medicine, east and west, reviewed 552–3
Akiyama, Yuriko: Feeding the nation, nutrition and health in Britain before World War One, reviewed 118–20
al- (in Arabic names) see next element of name
Alberti, Fay Bound, book review by 423–4
Albinus, Bernhard Siegfried: Historia musculorum hominis 519
Albucasis (Abū al-Qāsim al-Zahrāwī) 206, 372, 378
Alcanyís, Lluís: Regiment preservatiu e curatiu de la pestilència, ed. Jon Arrizabalaga, reviewed 275–6
Alexander, Franz 101, 102
Allen & Hanbury's 190
allergies 187–8
Allman, R 244
Alpago, Andrea 209
Alpini, Prospero 370, 371, 372, 378
Álvarez Millán, Cristina ‘The Case History in Medieval Islamic Medical Literature: Tajārib and Mujarrabāt as Source’ 195–214
Amateur Athletics Association 468
America see United States
American Civil War (1861–5) 96
American Medical Association: Journal 192, 534, 535
Amilien, Virginia see Oddy, Derek J, Peter J Atkins and Virginia Amilien
amputation see limb amputation
anaesthesia, in childbirth 542–3
anatomy museums, women visitors 511
Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett 506
Anderson, James, as EIC President of Madras Hospital Board 79–80, 178–9
Anderson, Jennifer 321
Anderson, Warwick 14, 321
Anderson, William 88
animal cruelty 44, 45, 51
animal diseases 34, 38, 43
cattle plague 31
in horses 33, 37–40, 41, 43
prevention/control 31, 40–41, 50
see also veterinary …
ankylostomiasis see hookworm disease/infection
al-Antākī, Dāwūd Ibn ‘Umar 369, 370, 372, 381–2, 286
Tadhkirat 384
anthrax 234
anti-depressants, US marketing of 428–9
Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society (ASAPS) 252
Antrobus, Reginald 247
anxiety neurosis see gastrointestinal illness
Apocynum erectum (Blood Flower) 87–8
Apothecaries’ Company 87–8
Apothecaries’ Hall, Dublin 56, 57
Archipecus vomitoria 81
Army Medical School, Netley 301
Arnold, David
book review by 422–3
‘British India and the “Beriberi Problem”, 1798–1942’ 295–314
Arrizabalaga, Jon, book review by 550–51
see also Alcanyís, Lluís
Arrot, William 85
Ascaris 153
Askgaard, Vagn 358
Asklepios 271–2
Association of Chartered Physiotherapists 471
Association of Physicians of Australasia 17, 26
asthma 173, 174–5
causes 175, 176–7, 178, 179, 180, 187; as an allergic reaction 187–8
as disabling 181, 184, 186
increased levels of 189
Maimonides on 175
preventative measures 181
Henry Salter on 180–81, 182, 186, 193
spasmodic theory of 181
symptoms 176
treatment 175–6, 179, 180, 181, 186, 188, 191; inhalation therapy 171, 173–94
Asthma Research Council 187
Asthmador (brand) 193
astrologers, as medical healers in Ottoman Egypt 384–5
astrology, medicine and 552–3
Atees (Atibisha) 93–4
Atkins, Peter J see Oddy, Derek J, Peter J Atkins and Virginia Amilien
atropine, in asthma treatment 187, 188, 189, 192
Atrotabak (brand) 191
Australia
19th-century lunatic asylums 560–61
blood transfusion services 14, 16
BMA in 17, 22
medical training 2, 4, 5–6, 9, 11, 18–19
medical research, as a career 2, 4
medical research institutions 1–28
as scientifically isolated 4
Australian Institute of Anatomy 16
Australian Institute of Medical Research 8
Australian Institution of Tropical Medicine (AITM) 6–7, 9, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21, 23
Avenzoar (Ibn Zuhr) 205, 206, 207, 208
case studies 205–6, 208
Ibn Abī Usaybi‘a on 208
Kitāb al-Aghdhiya 208
Kitāb al-Iqtisād (Kitāb al-Zīna) 205–6
Kitāb al-Taysīr … 208
Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā) 175, 209
autobiography (completed by al-Juzjānī) 209–10, 211, 212, 213
case studies 196, 198, 199–200, 209–13, 214
clinical practice 210–12, 213
his prescriptions 198
al-Qānūn fī l-tibb (Kitāb al-Qānūn …) (Canon
of Medicine) 175, 199–200, 209, 210–11, 213, 369; Latin translations 209
his self-treatment 210, 211
death 211
Aykroyd, W R 313
Āyurvedic medicine 174, 178
bacteriology 234, 529
Baer, Gabriel 374
al-Bahādrī, Sirāj al-Din 371
Baker, Herbert 491
Baker, Monica (wife of Clifford Dobell) 535
Baker Institute, Melbourne (Thomas Baker, Alice Baker and Eleanor Shaw Medical Research Institute) 8, 9, 10, 14, 15
funding 20, 23–4, 25, 26
William Penfold as director 23–4
Bakker, Gerben, book review by 260–61
Bang, Ole 222–3, 226
Bankier, James 299
Banks, Sir Joseph 79, 83
William Roxburgh and 81, 83
Bannister, Roger 462, 463
Barber, Joseph 154
barbers, as healers in Ottoman Egypt 365, 366, 380
Barbour, Reid and Claire Preston (eds): Sir Thomas Browne: the world proposed, reviewed 278–9
Barham, Henry 87
Barnes, E, book review by 265–6
Barnett, Richard, book reviews by 114–15, 288–9, 540–41
Bartholin, Rasmus, his meteorological diary 218
Baruk, Henri 364
Bashford, Alison 24, 510
Baskett, Thomas F, On the shoulders of giants: eponyms and names in obstetrics and gynaecology, reviewed 288–9
Bastian, Henry, on insanity 443–4, 451
Bayfield, T E 250
Beer, Daniel: Renovating Russia: the human sciences and the fate of liberal modernity, reviewed 131–2
Behrens-Abuseif, Doris 367
Beier, Lucinda McCray 380
For their own good: the transformation of
English working-class health culture,
1880–1970, reviewed 117–18
Belchier, John 522, 523
Belfast Medical Students’ Association 515–16
Belgium, medical meteorology 228
Bennett, Abram 360
Bergen, Leo van: Before my helpless sight: suffering, dying and military medicine on the western front, 1914–1918, transl. Liz Walters, reviewed 411–12
beriberi
as an anomaly 300–302
causes 295–7, 299–300, 301, 302, 309–10, 312;
climatic 299, 301; dietary 296, 298, 299, 300, 302, 303, 304–7, 308–10, 311–13; germ
theory of 308–9
as contagious 301–2, 303
dropsy, comparison with 302, 309, 312
history of 297–300
identification of 296, 301–2, 304, 309–11
international debate on see Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine
name, etymology of 297, 298, 313
publications/papers on 302, 305
scurvy, comparison with 298
symptoms/descriptions of 295, 296, 297–9, 301
treatment/prevention 302, 304, 305
research on 302–6, 308–9, 311–13
beriberi, in British India 296–300, 302–4, 305–14
in Chinese population 307–8
in European population 299, 300, 307–8
famine and 300
geography/topography of 299, 300–301, 303
government policy on 306–7, 312
history of 297–300
in Indian population 297–8, 299, 300, 311–12
as localized 299, 300, 302
mortality rate 303–4
numbers of cases 300, 303, 304
research on 309–10
Berkart, J B 187
Bernard, Claude 165
Berridge, Virginia 172, 182, 462
Berrios, German 341
Berry, Dr (of EIC in Madrid) 80
Berry, Richard 5
Bettelheim, Bernard Jean, his journal and correspondence 555–6
Bhayro, Siam, book review by 269–71
Bibliotek for Læger 218
Bielewicz, Anton 388
Bini, Lucio 347
Binny, George 80
biomedicine
history of 123–4
in India/Tibet 553–4
biopower, contemporary politics and 124–6
Birmingham Hospital Contributory Association 483
Birmingham University 461
bistorta 87
Black Death 133–4
blacksmiths see farriers
blackwater fever 242
Bloch, Marc 451
blood transfusion services, in Australia 14, 16
bloodletting 372, 373
Boden, Margaret A: Mind as machine: a history of cognitive science, reviewed 143–4
Bontius, Jacobus, on beriberi 297
Bostridge, Mark: Florence Nightingale: the woman and her legend, reviewed 114–15
Bourke, Joanna, book review by 417–18
Bowman, Sir William 501
Boyle, E Mayfield 250
Boyle, Robert 400–402
Boylston, Anthea see Magilton, John, Frances Lee and Anthea Boylston
Braddon, W Leonard, on beriberi 304, 305, 308, 310
Brahe, Tycho, his meteorological diary 218
Brandt, Allan: The cigarette century 172
Braslow, Joel 342
Bray, George W 188
Brazil, Rockefeller Foundation IHB hookworm eradication campaign 155, 156, 157–8, 161–2, 163, 166, 168
Bree, Robert 177
A practical inquiry into disordered respiration 177–8
Breggin, Peter 342
Breinl, Anton 7, 9, 20
Bremer, Frederick 229
Breton, P 91
Brieger, G H 95
Bristol
Cossham Memorial Hospital 481
Lord Mayor's Fund 487
Southmead Infirmary 480, 493–4
working class in 492
Bristol, hospital contributory schemes, c.1927–1948 476–83, 479, 484, 485–9, 490, 491–4
contribution as a civic duty 487–9, 490, 491–2
contributors to 481–2, 489–90, 492; amounts contributed 479, 481, 483, 487
as general fundraising 478
management/structure 482–3, 485
as philanthropic 488–9, 491–2
for private patients 480
services provided 485–6, 487–8
types of 478, 485–6, 487–8, 491
Bristol Contributory Scheme Welfare Association (BCSWA) 486
Bristol Eye Dispensary 482
Bristol General Hospital 477, 481, 482, 491
Bristol Hospital Contributors League 482, 483, 492
Bristol Hospitals Fund (BHF) 483, 484, 485, 486, 487, 487, 489, 490, 491
Bristol Medical Institutions Contributory Scheme (BMICS) 482–3, 485, 486, 496
Extended Benefits Scheme 485–6
Bristol Orthopaedic Hospital and Home for Crippled Children 491–2
Bristol Royal Infirmary 476, 481–2
Cancer Research Fund 486
financial crisis (post-1918) 476
patients’ maintenance payments 476–7;
exemptions from 477; see also Bristol, hospital contributory schemes
Works Governors’ Committee 481, 482
Bristol Temporary Home and Lying-in Hospital 491
Bristol Times and Mirror 477
British Army medical staff, in West Africa 241, 249
British Association of Sport (and Exercise) Medicine (BAS(E)M) 459, 463, 464–5, 470, 473
BATS and 470, 471
diploma sponsored by 473
function 461, 466, 467, 468, 474
organization of 471, 474
Register of Sports Injury … Clinics 469
British Association of Trauma in Sport (BATS) 470–71
British Empire Cancer Campaign 21
British Guiana 161
British Hospital Contributory Schemes Association 485
British Journal of Sports Medicine 470, 473, 474
British Medical Association (BMA)
Dublin meeting, 1867 501
on hospital contributory schemes 478, 479
Obstetrics section 496
British Medical Association, in Australia 17, 22
British Medical Journal 67, 190, 468, 509
British Olympic Association 460, 463
British Pharmacopoeia 183
Broadbent, Charles R 183
Brøcher-Mortensen, Georg 358
Brockbank, Thomas 41
Bröker, Barbara see Tsouyopoulos, Nelly
Brough, Mary Ann, trial for murder 452
Broussais, François 223
Brown, George 51
Brown, John 221, 258
Elementia medicinæ 223
Browne, Janet: Charles Darwin … 66
Browne, R C 461
his sports injuries survey 463–4
Browne, Sir Thomas 278–9
Browne, William James 60
Brunton, Deborah: The politics of vaccination practice and policy in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, 1800–1874, reviewed 115–17
Buchan, William 176
Bucquet, J B M 90
Bundaberg Enquiry see Royal Commissions (Australia)
Burdett, Henry 478, 489
Burke, Dominic (of Ballinasloe) 63
Burma (colonial)
beriberi in 301, 307, 308
smallpox vaccination in 424–5
Burnet, Dr (of South Sea Company) 87
Burnet, Frank Macfarlane 9, 14, 15, 20, 24
as Hall Institute director 19, 21
on immunological theory 16
on Charles Kellaway 12, 17, 26–7
Burnett, Charles (ed.): The Baklarish's book of simples: medical remedies between three faiths in twelfth-century Spain, reviewed 269–71
see also Akasoy, Anne, Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
Burrell, Sean see Holland, Michael, Geoffrey Gill and Sean Burrell
Burroughs Wellcome & Co., history of 260–61
Burry, Hugh 465
Bynum, William (ed.): Gastroenterology in Britain … 96
cabbage tree bark 88
Cæsalpinia bonducella (Catcaranja) 83–4
Cahen, Claude 374
calamus aromaticus 87
Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine 309, 310
Callisen, Heinrich 224, 228
Cambridge University 18
camera obscura
William Cheselden's use of, to create images in
Osteographia 517–19, 518, 521, 522–3, 524,
525
design of 523
Joseph Locke on 524
Campbell, Samuel 242
camphor oil, as precursor to Cardiazol in shock therapy 346, 347
Canada, medical research 10, 13, 19, 20, 28
cancer
in children 265–6
history of 122–3
smoking-related 172–3, 190, 192
in women 541–2
cancer research 6, 10, 14, 21–2, 23
Cancer Research Committees (Australia) 6, 10, 14
funding 21–2, 26
cannabis
as dangerous 189–90
recreational use 171–2, 173, 182, 193
therapeutic use 180, 182
Cantor, David: Cancer in the twentieth century, reviewed 122–3
Cardano, Girolamo 175–6
Carden-Coyne, Ana see Forth, Christopher E and Ana Carden-Coyne
Cardiazol shock therapy 342, 343
Cardiazol shock therapy, in Danish state mental
hospitals 344, 346, 348, 351–61, 363–4
Danish Psychiatric Society report on 359–60
death following 357–8
effects/results 348, 350–53, 354–8, 359–60
ethical issues 357–8
history 346–8
media coverage 360–61
method 348, 354
patient numbers 356, 358, 359, 360
use of 351–8; enforced 351–3; for manic
depression 353; for patient control 352–3;
for psychopathia 352, 353; for schizophrenia 356–7, 359–61, 363
see also shock therapy
Cardiff Medical School see Welsh National School of Medicine
Carlino, Andrea and Michel Jeanneret (eds): Vulgariser la médecine: du style médical en France et en Italie, reviewed 403–4
Carman, James Burd see Vesalius, Andreas: On the fabric of the human body …
Carmichael Medical School, Dublin 57, 61–2, 71
Carnegie Corporation 20
fellowships 10
Carozzi, Luigi 327, 331
Carpenter, William B, on insanity 448
Carr, Elizabeth, trial for murder 438
Carstairs, Catherine, book review by 561–2
case studies
in Galenic medicine 196, 199, 200, 206, 214
in homicidal mania 433–6, 437, 438, 441–2, 443–4, 445, 446–7, 452
in medical research 421–2
case studies, in medieval Islamic medicine (tajārib/mujarrabāt) 195–214
authoritative voice in 206–7
by Avicenna 196, 198, 199–200, 209–13, 214
in biographical works 207–8, 209–10, 211, 214
collections/sources of 196–201; see also biographical above
as critical of other authorities 207
narrative style 203–4, 205–6, 207
prescriptions 195, 197, 198, 199, 201, 203
semantic issues 200–201
use/importance 195–6, 201–8, 209, 213–14
Casper, Johann Ludwig 228–9, 230–32
Casper, Stephen T, book reviews by 143–4, 283–4
cataract removal (couching) 527–8
Catholic (University) Medical School, Dublin 56, 57, 61, 62, 68, 495, 510, 512–13
cattle insurance companies 43
cattle plague epidemic, 1865–7 31
Cavallo, Sandra and David Gentilcore (eds): Spaces, objects and identities in early modern Italian medicine, reviewed 403–4
Caventou, J B 91
cedrela toona (toon-tree) 84, 85
Çelebi, Emir 379
Çelebi, Eviliyā 379–81, 384
cell theory, in medicine 258
Central Council of Physical Recreation (CCPR) (Central Council of Recreative Physical Training) 462
Cerletti, Ugo 347
Ceylon, beriberi in 297–8, 299, 301
see also Sri Lanka
Ceylon Medical College 243
Chakrabarti, Pratik
‘Empire and Alternatives: Swietenia febrifuga
and the Cinchona Substitutes’ 75–94
Chalmers, A J 243, 251
Chamberlain, Joseph, as Secretary of State for the Colonies 237, 239, 240, 244, 250, 251
Chandler, Alfred 320
Chapman, Henry 6, 26
Charcot, Jean-Martin 127, 128
Charing Cross Hospital, London 100, 101
chemical revolution concept 90
Chenopodium
C. ambrosoides 159
C. anthelminticum 164
chenopodium oil
adulterated with eucalyptus oil 161
British use of 154
dosage 155, 158, 159, 160, 161–2, 163, 166
as a native medical remedy (epázotl) 159–60
studies/trials of 154–5, 158–61, 162, 163
as a vermifuge 149–50, 153, 154–61; as
poisonous 149–50, 153, 154, 155–61, 167, 168, 169
Chernin, Eli 534
Cherry, Steven 478
Cherry, Thomas 23
Cheselden, William 517, 519, 522
as a draughtsman 522–3
as an ophthalmic surgeon 527–8
Cheselden, William: Osteographia 517–28
address ‘To the reader’ 519, 522, 523, 526
images in, created by camera obscura 517–19,
518, 521, 522–3, 524, 525; beauty of 519, 522; engravers of 518–19, 522, 525–6; as
realizing Joseph Locke's epistemology 517, 525–8
importance 517
purpose 517
title-page 519, 520
Chevers, Norman, on beriberi 301–2, 310
Chiang, Howard H, book review by 280–81
Chichester, St James and St Mary Magdalene leper hospital 136–7
Chiffoleau, Sylvie 366
Chikrassee 85
child fatalities, in Rockefeller Foundation IHB hookworm eradication campaigns, 1914–34 149–50, 153, 155, 156–8, 166, 168
age at death 149, 155, 156, 160–61, 162, 166, 168
chenopodium intoxication as cause 149–50, 153, 155–61, 167, 168, 169
compensation payments 150, 151, 167, 168–9
ethical issues 150, 156–7, 162, 164–9
IHB reaction to 150, 151
internal investigation 149, 156, 168
liability issues 164–9
records of 156–8, 163
childbirth
in 16th century 276–7
anaesthesia in 542–3
see also midwives
children
cancer in 265–6
deaf children, in Silesia 389, 394
tuberculosis treatment 264–5
China
19th-century famine 130–31
lead production 324, 325
leprosy in 280–81
toy factories 334, 339; conditions in 315; lead
paint, use of 315–16, 317, 325–6
China Labor Watch (US) 315
cholera 234, 544–5
in Britain 545–6
in India (colonial) 299, 300
Christie, Thomas, on beriberi 297–8, 300
Chu, Eric K 187
Church, Roy and E M Tansey: Burroughs Wellcome & Co.: knowledge, trust, profit and the transformation of the British pharmaceutical industry, 1880–1940, reviewed 260–61
Church Missionary Society (CMS), in West Africa 141, 242
Churchill, John Edward Francis, his Spirone inhalant 183, 184
Cilento, Raphael 7
Cinchona 86
C. brachycarpa 77
C. caribæa 77
C. officinalis 77
C. triflora 77
cinchona bark 77
active components 89–92
botanical description 85, 86
discovery/identification of 76, 86
importance of 76
cinchona substitutes 83–6, 93–4
active components 89–92
importance of 75, 77, 83
search for 75, 77, 78, 91–2, 93
Swietenia febrifuga as 75–94
cinchonin alkaloid 90–91
Cirillo, Vincent J, book review by 547–8
City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest 187
Claridge, William 251–2
Clark, Francis, on beriberi 305–6
classification of diseases 436
Clifford, Hugh, governor of the Gold Coast 237–8, 248
climate see medical meteorology
climate therapy 235–6
clinical genetics, as a specialization 474
clinical pharmacology 268–9
Clitoria ternata 81
Clot-Bey, Antoine-Barthélémy 365
cognitive science, history of 143–4
College of Surgeons, London 87
Collectanea meteorologica (Denmark) 224
Collip, James (“Bert”) 28
Colombia
anti-US feelings 167
Rockefeller Foundation IHB hookworm
eradication campaign 149–50, 151–2, 155, 164, 167, 169
colonial medicine 85–6, 92–3
in Africa: Natal 282–3; see also West Africa; West African Medical Staff
European authority over 75–6, 81–2, 85, 87–9, 91, 93
European rejection of colonial remedies 82–3, 87–8, 92–3
gender issues in 92
in India 75, 77, 78–9, 80, 82, 83–4
Irish doctors in 58–9, 60, 71, 72, 74
local remedies, unreliable descriptions of 87–9, 92
medical alternatives, search for 75, 76–7, 81, 85, 87, 89–92
mental health/hygiene 282–3
in South America 159
specimens from, transport problems over 87–8, 90
standardization in 89–90
colonies, climatic impact on Europeans 216
Comerford, Michael (of Ballinasloe) 63–4
Commission on Higher Education (Republic of Ireland): Report 55, 68
Committee to inquire into the causes … sufficient eligible candidates … to the Army Medical Department: Report 61, 71
Commonwealth Department of Health, Australia 7, 22
funding 25
Commonwealth Health Laboratories (Australia) 26
Commonwealth Institute of Anatomy, Canberra 8
Commonwealth Radium Laboratory (Australia) 8
Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (CSL) (Australia) 7–8, 10, 18, 24
funding 23
Hall Institute and 25
vaccine manufacture 24, 25
community nursing, in 20th-century Britain 120–21
Company of Farriers 32
Compier, Abdul Haq, book review by 277–8
Conolly, Valentine 80
consumerism 316
contagious disease(s) see infectious disease(s)
Contagious Diseases of Animals Act 1878 30, 51
contributory schemes see hospital contributory schemes
Cook, Harold 322
Coombes, Robert, trial for murder 433–4
Coope, Robert 107
Cooter, Roger 2
book review by 124–6
Cope, Sir Zachary: William Cheselden … 522
Copenhagen Observatory 226
Copenhagen University 223
psychiatric training at 362
physiological laboratory 234
Cork Infirmary 506–7
Cornette, C M 90
corpses, women in contact with 511
see also dissecting rooms
Cory, Gerald A (Jr) see Wilson, Daniel R and Gerald A Cory Jr
cosmetic medicine, in medieval Islam 205, 206
Costa Rica 157, 159
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) 5
Courtice, Frederick 4
Coventry, Peter 474
Cowie, Jefferson R: Capital moves … 320
Cox, Albert S (of Altrincham) 42
Crawford, D G: Roll of the Indian Medical Service 59
Crellin, John K and Jane Philpott: A reference guide to medical plants … 160
Croly, Dr (of West African Medical Staff) 250
Crowther, M Anne and Marguerite W Dupree: Medical lives … 57, 59
Crozier, Anna, book review by 262–3
Crozier, Ivan (ed.): Sexual inversion: a critical edition: Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds, reviewed 557–9
Cryle, Peter and Christopher E Forth (eds): Sexuality at the fin de siècle: the making of a “central problem”, reviewed 416–17
Cuba 166
yellow fever in 547–8
Cullen, Clare 496
Cullen, Lynsey 488
Cullen, William 82, 300
on asthma 176, 181
Cumpston, (John) Howard L 7, 15
influence/importance 23, 25, 26
Charles Kellaway and 23
Sir Henry Wellcome and 22–3
Cunard shipping line 58
curare, used in shock therapy 360
Cyran, Emil 393
Dagg, Christina Caldwell 504
Daily Graphic 497
Dale, Henry 10, 17, 19, 23, 25
Charles Kellaway and 11, 12
research methods 12, 13, 14
Dale, Pamela, book review by 287–8
Dale, William 501
Dalrymple, Alexander 82
William Roxburgh's criticism of 82–3
al-Damanhūrī, Sheik Ahmad 368
Dangerous Drugs Act 1920 188–9
Danish Academy of Surgery, Copenhagen 224
Danish Royal College of Health 218, 235
Danish Psychiatric Society (Dansk Psykiatrisk Selskab) 351
Cardiazol/insulin coma therapy study 359–60
Darling, Samuel 154, 158, 161, 163, 166
Darwin, Charles 455
Darwin family 66
Dasen, Véronique see King, Helen and Véronique Dasen
Daston, Lorraine 319, 519, 522
Datura
D. ferox 179, 194
D. stramonium (thorn-apple) 174, 179, 194; see also stramonium inhalation
Davaine, Casimir-Joseph 234
David, Rosalie (ed.): Egyptian mummies and modern science, reviewed 134–5
Davidson, George 77
Davies, Daniel T 101–2
Davies, William Broughton 242, 246, 251
Davis, Gayle: ‘The cruel madness of love’: sex, syphilis and psychiatry in Scotland, reviewed 139–40
Davis, Lennard J: Obsession: a history, reviewed 427–8
Davis, Vivianne de Vahl 26–7
Dawson, Lesel: Lovesickness and gender in early modern English literature, reviewed 137–8
Day & Sons, Crewe (veterinary chemists) 32
de Haan, Ido, book review by 412–14
de Kruif, Paul 529
Our medicine men 529
The sweeping wind … 529, 534
Why keep them alive? 535
de Kruif, Paul: Microbe hunters
Clifford Dobell and 529, 531–6
Ronald Ross and 533–4
de Kruif, Paul and Sinclair Lewis: Arrowsmith 529
deaf children, in Silesia 389, 394
death/dying, in medieval England 406–7
Debevoise, Thomas 164
degeneracy theory, homicidal mania and 454
Delahunt, James J (of Ballinasloe) 63
delusional insanity 442–5, 453
idée fixe 447
see also homicidal mania
Dengel, Anna 500
Denmark 226
19th-century medical meteorology 215, 217–36
medical geography/topography 217, 224, 228
meteorological observations 223–4, 225–6, 225, 228, 229, 235–6
medical training 223; psychiatric 362–3
mortality rates 228–9
psychiatry in 412–13
see also Danish …
Denmark, state mental hospitals 344, 345, 348, 358, 361, 362–3
lobotomies performed in 352, 353
shock therapy in 343–6, 348–64
Vordingborg hospital 344, 348, 349, 352–6, 357, 363
Department of the Environment 467
Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS), sports medicine/injuries and 463, 464, 465, 466, 467, 468, 472
Derrick, Edward (“Ted”) 8
Desmond, Ray 93
Dew, Harold 26
Dharmendra (Indian physician) 188
Dick, William 30, 32, 33, 35, 41, 46, 52
Dickson, Emily Winifred 501, 504, 507, 515
diet 285–6
as a cause of dyspepsia 99–100, 103, 104
obesity and 565–7
for ulcer patients 104, 107
see also nutrition; nutritional deficiency
digestion see gastrointestinal illness
Digby, Anne: Making a medical living … 61, 62, 63, 65
Dijkhuizen, Jan Frans van and Karl A E Enenkel (eds): The sense of suffering: constructions of physical pain in early modern culture, reviewed 279–80
Dioscorides 174
diphtheria, immunization against 24
disease, mapping of 215–16, 217
dissecting rooms, separate provision for women students 509–12, 516
dissection, photographic record of 540–41
Dixon, Thomas, book review by 557–9
Djørup, Michael 231
Dobell, Clifford 529, 530
Paul de Kruif: Microbe hunters and 529, 531–6
Giovanni Battista Grassi and 531, 532, 534
papers/publications 530
Ronald Ross and 531, 535–6
Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin 57, 61, 62, 506
Dodd, John 482, 483, 491, 492
Dollar, Thomas 41, 42, 46
Dols, Michael 366, 384
Doroshow, Deborah 342
Dougall, Rona see Sweet, Helen M and Rona Dougall
Douglas, James 87
Dow, Derek A, book reviews by 120–21, 567–8
Drake, Daniel 216
Drazen, Jeffrey M 187
dropsy 313
comparison with beriberi 302, 309, 312
drug taking/addiction 171–2, 173, 193–4
ether drinking as 388, 390, 392, 394
hallucinogenic drugs 174, 194
LSD 561–2
see also cannabis; opium
drugs see medicine(s)
Dublin Eye and Ear Hospital 507
Dublin Hospitals Commission Report, 1887 507
Dublin Medical Press 504, 505
Dublin Mental Hospital 508
Dublin University see Trinity College, Dublin
Dublin Women's Suffrage Association 496
Duffin, William 78
Duncan, Andrew (Jr) 84, 86, 88, 89, 91
Edinburgh new dispensatory 88, 89
Tentamen inaugurale de Swietenia … (doctoral thesis) 88, 90
Duncan, Andrew (Sr) 87, 88
Dupree, Marguerite W see Crowther, M Anne and Marguerite W Dupree
Duran-Reynals, Marie Louise de Ayala 86
Dyck, Erika: Psychedelic psychiatry: LSD from clinic to campus, reviewed 561–2
Dyer, Sidney 445
dysentery 219
Charles Kellaway's research on 11
dyspepsia see gastrointestinal illness
Easmon, John Farrell 240, 241–2, 244, 248, 250, 251
East India Company (EIC) 75, 78–81, 82, 84, 86, 178
James Anderson as Madras Hospital Board
president 79–80, 178–9
beriberi in native soldiers recruited by 297–8, 299, 300
Madras Presidency/Medical Board 298, 299, 300
Charles Oakley as Madras Council president 79
Samulcottah (Calcutta) botanical gardens 75;
William Roxburgh as Superintendent 82, 84, 92
see also India
Eaton, R (of Ballinasloe) 63–4
Ebers Papyrus (c.1550 bc) 174
Ebrahimnejad, Hormoz (ed.): The development of modern medicine in non-western countries: historical perspectives, reviewed 262–3
Eccles, John (“Jack”) 15, 16, 18
Eckersberg, Christoffer Vilhelm 225
ecological issues 76
Eder, Sandra, book review by 556–7
Edgerton-Tarpley, Kathryn: Tears from iron: cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China, reviewed 130–31
Edinburgh University Medical Faculty
Irish graduates 49, 63
West African students 242, 246
women students 509
Edmondson, James M see Warner, John Harley and James M Edmondson
Edwards, Martin: Control and the therapeutic trial: rhetoric and experimentation in Britain, 1918–1948, reviewed 421–2
Edwards, Virginia S 192
Egerton, Walter, governor of Southern Nigeria 251
Egypt (ancient), respiratory disease 174, 178
Egypt, Ottoman period (1517–1805) 365
Europeans in 365, 370, 371, 372, 378, 381, 383
Galenic medicine in 372, 380–81, 386
medical texts 367, 368–9, 372–3
medicine as science/craft, controversy over 367–73
Sufism in 382
Egypt, Ottoman period, medical healers in 365–86
barbers as 365, 366, 380
as craftsmen 365, 366, 371–3
diseases, understanding causes of 380–81
European opinion of 365–6
Greco-Roman influence 371–2
guilds for 366–7, 374–80, 386
in hospitals 373, 378, 379
humoral system practised by 366, 370
licensing/qualifications 366, 368–9, 373, 376
malpractice 376–7
as men of learning/knowledge 366, 367–71
non-Egyptian 379; Jews 377–8
popular healers 380–86
religious toleration among 377–8
Sufi Sheiks as 382–3
training 368–9, 370–71, 372–3, 380
women as 370, 378–9, 385–6; as midwives 378–9; wives as 386
Egyptian mummies, study of 134–5
Eigen, Joel P
‘Diagnosing Homicidal Mania: Forensic
Psychiatry and the Purposeless Murder’ 433–56
Eijk, Philip van der 213–14
Eijkman, Christiaan, on beriberi 302
Ekirch, A Roger, book review by 286–7
El-Nahal, Galal H 375
electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) 341, 343, 363
criticism of 341–2
see also shock therapy
Elliott, Rosemary 172
Elliott, Thomas 12
Charles Kellaway and 13
Ellis, Havelock and John Addington Symonds: Sexual inversion, a critical edition, ed. Ivan Crozier 557–9
emetics, use of 222
emigration see medical emigration
Enabling Act 1876 496
Enenkel, Karl A E see van Dijkhuizen, Jan Frans and Karl A E Enenkel
English East India Company see East India Company
Enke, Ulrike (ed.): Die Medizinische Facultät der Universität Giessen: Institutionen, Akteure und Ereignisse von der Gründung 1607 bis ins 20. Jahrhundert, reviewed 144–5
environmental issues 321–2, 334, 338
see also industrial hazards; medical
meteorology
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (US) 334, 335
ephedrine, in asthma treatment 188
epidemic constitution concept 220–21, 222, 223
epidemics
aetiology of 221–2, 231
climatic causes of 219–23, 224, 226, 227, 231–3, 235
contagious 221
demography and 224
official reports on 218–23, 235
Thomas Sydenham on 220, 222
theories of 218, 234–5, 236
treatment 222–3
epidemiology see palaeoepidemiology
epilepsy 346, 354
homicidal mania and 438, 440, 445–7, 450, 451–2, 453, 452
masked/larval/silent form of 445–7, 450, 453, 454
Henry Maudsley on 446
Pieter van Foreest: Observationes on 277–8
vertige épileptique 438–9, 453
Esler, Robert 70, 73–4
Espinosa, Mariola: Epidemic invasions: yellow fever and the limits of Cuban independence, reviewed 547–8
Esquirol, Jean-Etienne-Dominique, on insanity 436
Estes, J Worth 365–6
ether drinking 387
ether drinking, in Silesia 387–96
as illegal 388, 389, 390, 391–2, 394, 396
reasons for 390–92, 393–4
surveys/statistics on 388–9, 390, 392
ethical issues
in imperial Germany 414–15
in international public health programmes 150, 156–7, 162, 164–9
evil eye, belief in 381
see also superstitions
evolutionary theory, homicidal mania and 454, 455
eye diseases 373
Falconer, Hugh 93
Falret, Jean-François 445
famine, in 19th-century China 130–31
Fantini, Bernardino 533
Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine (FEATM), beriberi debate at 304, 305–6, 307, 308, 309, 310, 312, 313
Farley, John 163
Farquhar, William 82
farriers 41
fees 41
as veterinary surgeons in 19th-century England 32, 33, 35, 54
Fawsett, Johannes 87
Dissertatio medica … 87
febrifuge see Swietenia febrifuga
Federal Health Council (Australia) 23
Feldberg, Wilhelm 10, 18
Fenger, Carl Emil 226, 227, 231, 234
fever(s)
blackwater 242
gastric 232
malaria see malaria
treatment 75, 76, 78, 81, 82, 85, 87; quinine 77, 91, 92, 93–4
yellow fever 151, 165–6, 167; in Cuba 547–8
Fibiger, Christian 135
Om Klimaets Virkinger … 235
Fink, Max 341
Finlayson, Geoffrey 475–6, 488
First World War (1914–18) 529
effects of 11, 56; medical 96–7; on medical
research 2–4
military medicine 411–12
voluntary hospitals during 475–6
women trained as doctors during 497
Firstenberg, Julian 392, 395
Fishbein, Morris 535
Fisher, John 30, 31, 51
Fisher, Turner J 73
Fitzpatrick, A J and W E Vaughan: Irish historical statistics … 65, 69
Fitzwygram, Sir Frederick, as RCVS president 52
Fleming, George 46, 48, 49, 50, 52, 54
as RCVS president 52
Fleming, James R 216
Fleming, John 83–4, 87
‘Catalogue of Indian medicinal plants’ 84
Fletcher, Robert V (of Ballinasloe) 63
Fletcher, Walter Morley 12, 23
Flexner, Abraham 5, 13, 17
Flexner, Simon, as Rockefeller Foundation Institute for Medical Research scientific director 163
Florey, Howard 28
Floyer, John: A treatise of the asthma 176, 177
Fluery, Eleanora 504
Fog, Morgens 361
folklore see magic
Folly, T L F 78
food history, obesity and 565–7
see also diet
Forbes, John (Sr) 80–81, 85
Forbes & Co. shipping company 80
Ford, Brian 535
Foreest, Pieter van (Petrus Forestus): Observationes, on epilepsy 277–8
forensic psychiatry see homicidal mania
Forestus, Petrus see Foreest, Pieter van
Fornaciari, Gino, book review by 134–5
Rachel Forster Hospital, Sydney 10
Forth, Christopher E: Masculinity in the modern west: gender, civilization and the body, reviewed 417–18
see also Cryle, Peter and Christopher E Forth
Forth, Christopher E and Ana Carden-Coyne: Culture of the abdomen: diet, digestion, and fat in the modern world, reviewed 285–6
Fourcroy, Antoine François 90
Fox, Daniel 475
Foxcroft, Louise 182
France
19th-century medical research 215–16
beriberi commission 308–9, 310
medical meteorology 216–17, 224, 231–2
medical specialization 458
medical statistics 226
shock therapy used in 364
Frank, John Peter 218
Frankland, A W see Rapp, Doris J and A W Frankland
Fraser, Henry, on beriberi 304, 305
Freeman's Journal 496
Freidenfelds, Lara: The modern period: menstruation in twentieth-century America, reviewed 564–5
French pox, in early modern Germany 550–51
J S Fry and Sons, Bristol 481–2
fumigation see inhalation therapy
funding, of medical research
in Australia 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 17, 18, 19–29; federal 22–5; non-governmental 20–22
in Britain 20, 21, 22, 23
in Canada 19
in US 19–20, 21
Fyfe, Christopher 241
Gadelrab, Sherry Sayed
‘Medical Healers in Ottoman Egypt, 1517–1805’ 365–86
Gahagan, Terence 80
Galen (Claudius Galenius)/Galenic medicine 222, 272–3
case studies in 196, 199, 200, 206, 214;
narrative style 206
in Ottoman Egypt 372, 380–81, 386
on respiratory disease 174, 175
Galison, Peter 519, 522
Gambia 244, 249
Gamgee, John 34–5, 50
gangrene 82, 89
Garces, Julián 160
Gardner-Thorpe, Christopher see Knox, Andrew and Christopher Gardner-Thorpe
Garrison, Fielding H: An introduction to the history of medicine 530
gastric fever 232
Gastroenterological Club 104
gastroenterology, as a medical specialism 104–5, 110
gastrointestinal illness 285–6
gastrointestinal illness, in British servicemen 1939–45 95–110
causes 95, 97–8, 99–103, 105, 108; dietary 99–100, 103, 104; flying 105–6; sleep
deprivation 103, 104; stress-related 99, 101–4, 106, 108; tobacco use 99, 100, 103, 104, 105; of ulcers 95, 97–8, 99, 100–101, 102–3
history of 96–7
numbers of cases 98–9, 100–101, 102, 106, 109;
of ulcers 98, 99, 100–101, 102–3, 106
studies of 98–103
treatment 104–9; dietary 104, 107; psychological 95, 105, 107–10; surgery 107; of ulcers 104, 105, 106, 109
types of 95; dyspepsia 95, 97–101, 109; ulcers 95, 97–8, 99, 100–101, 102–3, 105
Gavarret, Jules 226–7
Principes généraux de statistique médicale 226
Geggus, David, book review by 408–9
gelatine 90
gender issues 417–18
melancholy 137–8
sex determination 557–9; US 556–7
General Medical Council (GMC) 56, 68
genetics see clinical genetics
Gent, William 178–9
Gentilcore, David see Cavallo, Sandra and David Gentilcore
geography see medical geography
Georget, Etienne-Jean, on insanity 436
Gerard of Cremona 209
Germany
19th-century medical research 215–16
French pox in early modern 550–51
medical meteorology 228
mortality, seasonal impact on 228, 230
see also Giessen University
Gerrard, James 45
Giessen University medical faculty, history of 144–5
Gijswijt-Hofstra, Marijke see Oosterhuis, Harry and Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra
Gill, Geoffrey see Holland, Michael, Geoffrey Gill and Sean Burrell
Gillespie, James 26
Glasgow University medical school, Irish graduates 57–8, 59
GlaxoSmithKline see Burroughs Wellcome and Co.
Godber, George, as Chief Medical Officer 463
Gold Coast 243, 244, 248, 250, 251–2, 253
Gold Coast Medical Service 242
Gomez, Dr (of Portuguese navy) 90, 91
Gompers, Samuel 328
Goodman, Jordan 172
Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine (US) 21
Gorsky, Martin 476, 478
book review by 568–9
Gosling, George Campbell
‘“Open the Other Eye”: Payment, Civic Duty
and Hospital Contributory Schemes in
Bristol, c. 1927–48’ 475–94
Gowland, Rebecca, book review by 407–8
Grabski, Wladyslaw 391
Gradmann, Christoph, book review by 266–8
Graham, J Gibson 99
Graham, James, his celestial bed 138–9
Grassi, Giovanni Battista
Clifford Dobell and 531, 532, 534
malaria, work on 529, 530, 531
papers/publications 531, 532, 533
Ronald Ross, controversy with 530–34, 535–6
death 532
Gray, John 85
Greaves, Thomas (of Manchester) 48
Greece (ancient)
Asklepios cult 271–2
medicine in 551–2
respiratory disease 174, 178
Green, David 476
Gregory, Andrew, book review by 552–3
Gregory, James: Of Victorians and vegetarians: the vegetarian movement in nineteenth-century Britain, reviewed 415–16
Greider, William 320
Griffith, William Brandford, governor of the Gold Coast 243
Grimwade, Russell 20–21
Grob, Gerald N 343
Grove, Richard 321
Guatemala 157, 159
Gucht, Gerard van der 518–19, 522, 525–6
guilds see medical guilds
Gulf War syndrome 95
Gunther, John and Frances: Death be not proud 265, 266
Gurney, Russell 496
Gutas, Dimitri 203
Guy's Hospital, London 509
gynaecology
in 16th century 276–7
pioneers in 288–9
Hackett, Lewis 156, 157–8, 166, 168
Hacking, Ian: Historical ontology 319
Hadfield, James, trial for murder 441, 442, 443
Hahnemann, Samuel 223
Hahnemann, Victor 348, 350, 351, 352
al-Hak, ‘Abd Allah ibn ‘Abd 373
al-Hakim, Badr al-din al-Qarāfī 368
Hall, Lesley A, book review by 416–17
Walter and Elizabeth Hall Trust 20
Hall Institute, Melbourne (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Research in Pathology and Medicine) 2
Frank M Burnet as director 19, 21
CSL and 25
funding 17, 18, 19–27; federal 22–5;
non-governmental 20–22
history 8
Charles Kellaway as director 2, 10, 12, 13, 14–27
library 21
Melbourne Hospital and 13, 14, 15, 16, 18
Melbourne University and 14, 18–19
organizational structure 9, 10, 13, 14–16, 27;
team work 15
premises 19
research programmes 14, 15–16; virus research 24–6
staff 10, 15
success of 10, 15, 27, 28
al-Hallāq, Muhammad Ibn Qayyim 373
Hamersley, Hugh 4, 10, 14, 21
Hamilton, Dr (President, Queen's College, Belfast) 501
Hamilton, Alice 328, 329
Hamilton, John, Roman Catholic Archbishop of St Andrews 175–6
Hamlin, Christopher: Cholera: the biography, reviewed 544–5
Handyside, Professor (of Edinburgh) 506
Hankinson, R J (ed.): The Cambridge companion to Galen, reviewed 272–3
Hannaway, Caroline (ed.): Biomedicine in the twentieth century: practices, policies, and politics, reviewed 121–2
Hannover, Adolph 231
Statistiske Undersøgelser 231
Harcourt, Alf 534
Harcourt, Lewis, as Secretary of State for the Colonies 240
Harden, Victoria A 123
Harrison, Mark 77, 321
book review by 411–12
Harrison, Mark, Margaret Jones, and Helen Sweet (eds): From western medicine to global medicine: the hospital beyond the west, reviewed 422–3
Harvard University 509
Harvey, David 320
al-Hāshimī, Īsá (Abū Ja‘far Ahmad) 196, 202
Al-Majālis fī-l-tibb 200
case studies 196–7, 199, 200, 201, 202–3
Haslam, Thomas and Anna 496
Hawes, Benjamin, as Deputy Secretary of War 242
Haycock, David Boyd: Mortal coil: a short history of living longer, reviewed 284–5
Hayward, Rhodri, book review by 427–8
Head, Sir Henry 259–60
Healey, Dan: Bolshevik sexual forensics: diagnosing disorder in the clinic and courtroom, 1917–1939, reviewed 418–19
health cures see climate therapy
health and safety issues see public health
Healy, David 342–3
see also Shorter, Edward and David Healy
heart conditions
electrocardiograms for detection of 358–9
in mental patients 358–9, 360
war-related 96–7
heart transplants, in Britain 423–4
Heggie, Vanessa
‘Specialization without the Hospital: The Case
of British Sports Medicine’ 457–74
Heiser, Victor 154
on beriberi 304, 305–6, 307, 310
Hektoen, Ludvig 535
Helicobacter pylori 109
Helmont, John Baptista van 176
Henderson, William R 244
Hendriksen, Valdemar 358
Henry, M (French chemist) 91
hermaphrodites 556–7
Hernández, Francisco 159
Herxheimer, H 187
Herzberg, David: Happy pills in America: from Miltown to Prozac, reviewed 428–9
Highland and Agricultural Society (HAS) 30
Highland and Agricultural Society Certificate (HASC) 32, 33, 47, 52
Hill, Archibald 10
Hill, J Woodroffe (of Wolverhampton) 41
Hill, James 3
Hilton, Matthew 172, 181–2
Hinds-Howell, C A 99
Hippocrates, on respiratory disease 174, 175, 176, 178
Hippocratic Corpus: Airs, waters and places 225, 226–7
Hippocratic medicine 199, 216, 217, 219, 222, 243
in Ottoman Egypt 369
Hippocratic Oath, history of 135–6
Hirsch, August: Handbuch der historisch-geographischen Pathologie 235
Hobbins, Peter Graeme
‘“Outside the Institute there is a Desert”: The
Tenuous Trajectories of Medical Research
in Interwar Australia’ 1–28
Hobby, Elaine (ed.): The birth of mankind: otherwise named, The woman's book, reviewed 276–7
Holland, Michael, Geoffrey Gill and Sean Burrell (eds): Cholera and conflict: 19th century cholera in Britain and its social consequences, reviewed 545–6
Home, Rod 4
homicidal mania 433–56
autonomous will and 448, 451, 452–3
case studies 433–6, 437, 438, 441–2, 443–4, 445, 446–7, 452
causes 433, 434, 438–40
definition 437, 443–4, 452
degeneracy theory and 454
evolutionary theory and 454, 455
forms of 434, 436–7, 438, 439–40, 441, 442; delusional 442–5, 447, 453; epilepsy 438, 440, 445–7, 450, 451–2, 453, 454; puerperal 440, 447–8; sleepwalking 438, 439, 440, 441
history of 433–9, 451–6
intentionality and 448–9
as loss of control 453, 456
McNaughtan Rules on 437, 438, 439
Henry Maudsley on 446, 448, 451, 454
as melancholia 440, 443
numbers of cases 436, 439
prison/police doctors on 449–51
reflex action(s) and 448–9
source material on (Old Bailey Sessions Papers) 434–6, 439, 455
Alfred Swaine Taylor on 441–2, 444–5, 455
witness observations on 435, 437, 449–51;
prisoners as witnesses 450
homosexuality 557–9
Hood, Thomas 249, 251
Hooke, Robert 526
Hooker, Claire 24
hookworm disease/infection 152–3, 158, 301
transmission of 152
treatment 152, 153; see also next entry
hookworm eradication campaigns (Rockefeller Foundation IHB), 1914–34 149–70
chenopodium oil, use of 149–50, 153, 154–61; as
poisonous 149–50, 153, 154, 155–61, 167, 168, 169
child fatalities 149–50, 153, 155, 156–8, 166, 167, 168
children, treatment of 153, 161–2
in Colombia 149–50, 151–2, 155, 164, 167, 169
ethical issues 150, 156–7, 162, 164–9
as experimental, on human subjects 150–51, 154–5, 161–9
field protocols 150–51, 161–4
information/educational campaigns on 165
jurisdictional issues 150, 151, 152, 164–5, 166–7
staffing of 166–7
hookworm eradication campaigns (Rockefeller Foundation IHB), in US, 1909–1913 151, 153, 155
Hope, Dr (Edinburgh University professor of botany) 77
Hopkins, Francis 253
Horden, Peregrine: Hospitals and healing from Antiquity to the later Middle Ages, reviewed 405–6
Horncastle Hospital, Lincoln 87
Horne, Patrick (of Ballinasloe) 64
Hornemann, Emile 234
horses see animal diseases
Horton, James Beale (“Africanus”) 242, 246–7, 251
hospital almoners 477, 488
hospital contributory schemes 492, 494–5
BMA on 478, 479
in Bristol see Bristol
development of 477, 481
as mutual societies/insurance schemes 477–8, 486, 487–8
as philanthropic 488–9
as reciprocal 491
in Sheffield 482, 492
types of 477–8, 489
hospital funding, in Ireland 497, 507–8
Hospital Saving Association, London 483
hospital visiting, history of 562–4
hospitals
early history 405–6
non-European, development of 422–3
private patients 478–81, 493–4
public 480–81, 494
Sports Injuries Clinics in 465, 467, 469
voluntary see voluntary hospitals
see also individual institutions
Houston, Robert A, book reviews by 139–40, 548–50
Howard, Hector 160, 164, 168
Hrabin, Kazimierz 388–9
Hubbard, William H, book reviews by 128–30, 548–9
Hudson, Geoffrey L (ed.): British military and naval medicine, 1600–1830, reviewed 410–11
Hull, Andrew J 15
book review by 562–4
human understanding, Joseph Locke on 517, 523–8
humoral theory, of disease 174–5, 176, 178, 258, 366, 370
Hunter, Michael: Boyle: between God and science, reviewed 400–402
Hunter, William, on tropical diseases 297–8
Hunting, Charles 48
Hurst, Arthur
as an asthmatic 187
as a gastroenterologist 104, 106, 108, 109
hygiene see public health/hygiene
Hygieniske Meddelelser 234
Hymenodictyon 84
hysteria 546–7
male hysteria 127–8
see also mental health
Ibn Abī Usaybi‘a 208
on Avenzoar in his ‘Uyūn al-anbā … 208
Ibn Baklarish: Kitāb al-adwiyat al-mufrada … 269–71
Ibn Butlān 207
Ibn Dāwūd, Sulaymān 371
Ibn al-Ghazzal 370
Ibn al-Hakīm 384
Ibn Khaldūn 378, 384
al-Muqaddimah 367
Ibn Mikkī, Muhammad 371
Ibn al-Nafis: al-Mūjiz 369
Ibn Ridwān 207
Ibn Sarabīūn, Yuhannā 175
Ibn Sinā, Abu Ali al-Hussayn ibn 'Abdallah see Avicenna
immunology, history of 266–8
India 7, 155
Āyurvedic medicine 174, 178
Bengal 84
biomedicine in 553–4
Bombay 81
colonial/native medicine(s) 75, 77, 78–9, 80, 82, 83–4
Coromandel coast 82
Madras 75, 78–80, 81, 82, 86
medical services 58–9, 71, 72, 75, 77, 78–9, 80, 82, 83–4; Irish doctors in 58–9
missionaries/mission doctors 77, 78
smoke inhalation practices 174; of stramonium 173, 178–9, 188
see also East India Company
India (colonial)
beriberi in 296–300, 302–4, 305–14
cholera in 299, 300
medicine/medical services 297
Public Health Commission 311
Indian Army 301
Indian Medical Service (IMS) 59, 71, 72, 238
beriberi, interest in 302, 309, 311
John Megaw as Director-General 309
Indian Research Fund Foundation 19
industrial hazards 315–40
attitudes to 315, 316–17, 324–6, 329–31, 338
in developing nations 315–16, 325, 329–30;
see also China; Mexico
historical survey 317–22, 326–9; business/labour
histories 320–21; ontological approach 319–20; sociological approach 320
international monitoring of 316–17; by ILO 325, 326–9, 331, 333
from lead/lead paint 315–16, 317, 322, 323, 325–6, 329–40
mortality rate from 323
spatial fix concept 320–21
infectious disease(s) 126–7, 215
see also syphilis
Infirmary for Asthma, Consumption and other Diseases of the Chest, London 179
inhalation therapy 173, 174, 176
inhalation therapy, for asthma 171, 173–94
in ancient world 174–5, 178
decline in 173, 176, 186–92, 193–4
delivery methods 186, 188; cigarettes 183–4, 185, 186, 191–2, 193; vapour inhalers 177–8, 177, 183–4, 184, 188–9, 193
history 173–8, 193
in Islamic medicine 175
opposition to 187–8, 189, 190, 192
preparations used 171, 175, 177, 178, 179, 182, 184, 187, 188–9; atropine 187, 188, 189, 192; steroids 189; stramonium 173, 178–84, 184, 185, 186–7, 188, 189–92
insomnia 286–7
Instant relief to the asthmatic 177
Institute of Medical Research, Queensland 8, 15
Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science (IMVS), Adelaide 8, 9
Institute of Pathological Research, Sydney see Kolling Institute
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Victoria 3
Institute of Sports Medicine 462
insulin coma therapy (ICT) 342–3, 347, 350–51, 356, 358, 360–61, 364
criticism of 364
Danish Psychiatric Society report on 359–60
media coverage 361
method 348
use of, for schizophrenia 359–61
see also shock therapy
insurance see medical insurance
Intercollegiate Academic Board of Sport and Exercise 473
International Labour Organization (ILO) 317, 323, 326–9, 331, 333
conventions passed by 325, 331; ban on white
lead in paint 327
international public health programmes 151–2, 153, 161
ethical issues 150, 156–7, 162, 164–9
as experimental 150–51, 154–5, 161–4
field protocols 150–51, 161–4
on hookworm eradication 149–70
jurisdictional issues 150, 151, 152, 164–5, 166–7
intersexed persons, in US 556–7
ipecacuanha 87–8, 91, 180
Ireland
doctor/patient ratio 64–5
hospital funding 497, 507–8
medical emigration from, 1860–1905 55–74
medical fees/incomes 61–2; in Ballinasloe, Co.
Galway 62–4; of Poor Law doctors 61, 66, 71
medical training/degrees 56–7; numbers of
students 61, 68–70 74; private schools 57;
for women see medical training for women;
see also individual institutions
national identity 73
partition 72
public medical appointments 63–4
voluntary hospitals 507
women's education 496
see also Northern Ireland
Irish Medical Directory 63–4
Irish Medical Register 65
Irish Medical Schools’ and Graduates’ Association 64, 72–3
Irish Poor Law doctors 61
income levels/fees 61, 66, 71
Irish Presbyterian Society 496
Irish Times 497, 505
Irving, Ralph 91
‘Īsā, Ahmad 373
Islamic medicine
in Ottoman Egypt 365–86
respiratory disease(s), treatment of 175
Islamic medicine, medieval
case studies (tajārib/mujarrabāt) 195–214
clinical practice 196, 201, 207, 210–12, 213
cosmetic medicine 205, 206
cultural/social setting 213–14
diet in 201
magic/magical recipes 197–8, 199–200; see also prescriptions below
mental illness 212
patronage in 206–7
prescriptions 195, 197, 198, 199, 201, 203; see
also magic above
surgery 204–7
therapeutic methods 201
training in 202, 203, 209
treatises/textbooks 195–6, 198, 199–200, 201, 203, 205, 207, 209
Ismā‘il, ‘Abd al-Rahmān 380, 381
Israel, health care system 568–9
Italy, history of medicine in 403–6
Jackson, Mark
book review by 268–9
‘“Divine Stramonium”: The Rise and Fall of
Smoking for Asthma’ 171–94
Jacyna, L S 504
Jade, Professor (of Copenhagen) 78
James, Sidney P 534
Jankovic, Vladimir 217, 219
Janku, Andrea, book review by 130–31
Januszewicz, Alfons 395
Japan, beriberi in 296, 297, 301, 302, 303, 304, 309
Jarcho, Saul: Quinine's predecessor … 77
Java, beriberi in 297, 302
Jeanneret, Michel see Carlino, Andrea and Michel Jeanneret
Jellett, Eva 504
Jenkins, A P (ed): The journal and official correspondence of Bernard Jean Bettelheim, 1845–54, Part 1: 1845–51, reviewed 555–6
Jennings, Denys 98
Jex-Blake, Sophia 506
al-Jirwānī, Shams al-din Muhammad Ibn 'Azzām 372–3
John, Rev'd Christopher Samuel 78
Johns Hopkins University
Charles Kellaway as Charles E Dohme
Memorial Lecturer 18
public health research programme 161
women medical students 513, 514
Johnson, J 182
Johnson, Obadiah 242
Johnson, Ryan
‘“An All-white Institution”: Defending Private
Practice in the Formation of the West
African Medical Staff’ 237–54
Joint Service Medical Rehabilitation Unit, Surrey 467
Jonathan Cape (publisher) 533–4
Jones, Frederick Wood 6
Jones, Greta
‘“Strike out Boldly for the Prizes that are
Available to You’: Medical Emigration from
Ireland 1860–1905’ 55–74
Jones, Margaret, book review by 424–5
see also Harrison, Mark, Margaret Jones and Helen Sweet
Journal of Mental Science 446, 447
Journal of Natural Philosophy … (Nicholson's Journal) 90
Juridical Society 452
Jütte, Robert, book review by 414–15
al-Juzjānī (student of Avicenna) 209, 210, 211
Kanematsu, Fusajiro 20
Kanematsu Memorial Institute of Pathology, Sydney 9, 10, 14, 16
funding 20
Charles Kellaway and 15, 18
al-Kashkarī 202
Book on medicine 202
Katz, Bernard 10, 16
Kaufman, M Robert 191
Kausmally, Tania, book review by 136–7
Kayser, Carl 226
on medical meteorology 228–31, 236
Kearns, Thomas (of Ahascragh) 64
Keelan, Jennifer see Kroker, Kenton, Jennifer Keelan and Pauline M H Mazumdar
Keetley, Charles B: The student's guide to the medical profession 68
Kehoe, Robert 331
Kellaway, Charles
at Adelaide University 14
Frank M Burnet on 12, 17, 26–7
character 11, 16, 17, 20, 25, 26
Howard Cumpston and 23
Henry Dale and 11, 12
Thomas Elliott and 13
in England 12, 17, 22, 25; London 11–12
in First World War 11
as Hall Institute director 2, 10, 12, 13, 14–27
Charles Martin and 11, 12
research work 11, 12–13, 17–18
as Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
vice-president 17
as Royal Society Fellow 18
as Royal Society Foulerton Student 12
as a teacher 12, 16–17
in US on Rockefeller Foundation fellowship 25
as Wellcome Research Institution director of
Scientific Policy 17, 22, 25
Kellaway Commission see Royal Commissions (Australia)
Keller, Hildegard E (ed.): Jakob Ruf: Leben, Werk und Studien …, reviewed 398–400
Kelly, Catherine, book review by 410–11
Kelly, Laura 57–8
‘“Fascinating Scalpel-wielders and Fair
Dissectors”: Women's Experience of Irish
Medical Education, c. 1880s–1920s’ 495–516
Kelly, Susan, book review by 264–5
Kemp, Martin 519
Kennedy, John 84
Kerr, Captain John Olav 99
Khalīfah, Hājjī 367, 384
Killen, Andreas, book review by, 127–8
King, Helen and Véronique Dasen: La médecine dans l'Antiquité grecque et romaine, reviewed 551–2
King, John (ed.): Sports injuries clinics 469
King, Nathaniel 242
King and Queen's College of Physicians of Ireland (KQCPI) 56, 59, 496–7
see also Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
King's College, London 242
King's Fund 476, 489
Kingsbury, K: The Sports Council pilot study of sports injury clinics 465–6, 468
Kirby, Stephanie, book review by 120–21
Kirk, Robert G W, book review by 123–4
Kirkup, John: The evolution of surgical instruments: an illustrated history from earliest times to the twentieth century, reviewed 141–2; A history of limb amputation, reviewed 141–2
Kitāb al-Musta‘īnī see Ibn Baklarish: Kitāb …
Kite, James (of Salisbury) 40
Kjær, Ejnar 361
Klausen, Susanne, book review by 282–3
Klein, J G 78
Kneeland, Timothy W 341
Knox, Andrew and Christopher Gardner-Thorpe: The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, 1741–2006, reviewed 287–8
Koenig, Johann Gerhard 81
Kolling, Eva 20
Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Sydney 8–9, 10, 14, 16
funding 20
Kraepelin, Emil, on schizophrenia 357
Kragh, Jesper Vaczy
‘Shock Therapy in Danish Psychiatry’ 341–64
Krementsov, Nikolai, book review by 131–2
Krishnan, B G 313
Kroker, Kenton, Jennifer Keelan and Pauline M H Mazumdar (eds): Crafting immunity: working histories of clinical immunology, reviewed 266–8
Krueger, Gretchen: Hope and suffering: children, cancer, and the paradox of experimental medicine, reviewed 265–6
Kuffler, Stephen 18
Kuhnke, LaVerne 365–6
Kyhn, Vilhelm 225
Kyne, Maud 514
Kynsey, W R, on beriberi 301
la Condamine, Charles Marie de 76
labour supply, cheap labour in developing countries 320–21, 323
Laby, Thomas 6
Lachmann, Sylvia 469
Laennec, René Théophile Hyacinthe 179, 181
Lamb, Sydney 482
Lambert, Aylmer Bourke 83
A description of the genus Cinchona 83
A description of the genus Pinus 83
Lancashire Veterinary Medical Association 46
Lancet 98, 180, 182, 183, 452, 511
Landrigan, Philip 333–4, 336
Lane, Edward William 381, 383
Lara, B W 65
Latin America see South America
Lavoisier, Antoine 90
Lawrence, Christopher, book review by 541–2
Laycock, Thomas, on insanity 448
lead, as a toxin 317, 322, 323–6
banning of, in petrol 323, 324, 337
compensation payments for poisoning by 331
effects of 333–4, 336–7
lead paint 315, 325–6
effects of 323, 327
ILO ban on 327
Mattel Inc. (toy-makers) use of 315–16, 317
lead production/smelting 323–4, 324, 326–7
Phelps Dodge lead smelter, El Paso, Texas, 317, 329–31, 330, 333–4, 335
lead regulation 331–40
by ILO see International Labour Organization
Maximum Allowable Concentration (MAC) 332–3
League of Mercy, London 489
Lederer, Susan 165
Lee, Frances see Magilton, John, Frances Lee and Anthea Boylston
Leeuwenhoek, Antony van 526, 530, 535
Legett, Mrs Janthe 506
Lemberg, Max (“Rudi”) 10, 16
leper hospitals, in Chichester 136–7
leprosy, in China 280–81
Lerner, Paul, book review by 546–7
Leung, Angela Ki Che: Leprosy in China: a history, reviewed 280–81
Lewis, Aubrey 348, 364
Lewis, Bernard 3740
Lewis, Sinclair 529, 530
see also de Kruif, Paul and Sinclair Lewis
limb amputation, history of 141–2
Lindsay, Mr (surgeon in Jamaica) 77
Linnean Society, London 81
Lipscomb, George 178
Lister Institute, London 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 23
funding 20, 21
Liverpool Chamber of Commerce 248
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine 239, 245–6, 249
lobotomies 347, 352, 353, 361
see also mental hospitals
Lock, Stephen 172
Locke, Joseph 524, 527
on the camera obscura 524
his epistemology 517, 524–5; realization of, in
William Cheselden: Osteographia 517, 525–8
Essay on human understanding 524, 527
Lombard, Henri 228
Lombroso, Cesare: L'Uomo delinquente … 455
London Hospital Institute of Sports Medicine 473
London Marathon 471–2
London School of Medicine for Women 505, 508
London School of Tropical Medicine 239, 245–6, 249, 250
longevity see ageing process
Loots, G M P: Epilepsie in de zestiende eeuw. De Observationes von Pieter van Foreest, reviewed 277–8
Lough, Sir Thomas 64
love-sickness, in medieval Islamic literature 211–12
Löwy, Ilana: Preventive strikes: women, precancer and prophylactic surgery, reviewed 541–2
LSD 561–2
Lubliniec Institution for Deaf Children, Silesia 394
Luckin, Bill, book review by 544–5
Lugard, Frederick 249, 252
Lunn, Villars 351–2, 359
McCarrison, Robert, on beriberi 305, 308, 310, 311–13
MacCarthy, Charles 241
McCarthy, Louella 10
McCay, David 311, 313
McCrae, Morrice: Physicians and society: a history of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, reviewed 121–2
McCrae, Niall 343
McDowell, D K 244
MacFaddin, Harriet 500, 504
MacGregor, William 248
McIntosh, Peter 462
McKay, Alex: Their footprints remain: biomedical beginnings across the Indo-Tibetan frontier, reviewed 553–5
Mackay, Christopher S: The hammer of witches: a complete translation of the Malleus maleficarum, reviewed 273–5
Mackenzie, Morell 184
Maclean, Ian, book review by 402–3
Maclean, W C, Surgeon-General, Indian Army 301
MacLehose, William, book review by 405–6
MacLeod, Roy 4
McMurdo, Gilbert (surgeon at Newgate prison) 449, 450–51
McNaughtan, Daniel, trial for murder 437, 441, 443, 447
McNaughtan Rules on insanity 437, 438, 449
McNeill, John 321
Madge, Charles 492
Madras Presidency/Medical Board 298, 299, 300
see also East India Company
Maehle, Andreas-Holger 82, 88–9
Doctors, honour and the law: medical ethics in
imperial Germany, reviewed 414–15
book review by 258–9
magic/magical recipes, in medieval Islamic medicine 197–8, 199–200
see also prescriptions; superstitions/supernatural
beliefs
magicians, as healers in Ottoman Egypt 380, 383–4
Magilton, John, Frances Lee and Anthea Boylston (eds): ‘Lepers outside the gate’: excavations at the cemetery of the Hospital of St James and St Mary Magdalene, Chichester, 1986–87 and 1993, reviewed 136–7
Maimonides (Rabbi Moses ben Maimon), on asthma 175
malaria 86, 151, 299, 302
history of 425–7
mosquitoes as carriers of 529, 530, 531
Ross/Grassi controversy over 530–34
treatment 86, 93
Malaya, Federated States of/ Malay peninsula 7, 158–9
Malcolmson, John Grant, on beriberi 298–9, 300, 301
male hysteria 127–8
see also mental health
male sexuality 417–18
Malleus maleficarum 273–5
Manchester, Matlock House hydropathic institute 469
Manchester University Sports Injuries Clinic 469
Manson, (Sir) Patrick
on beriberi 295, 296, 312
on malaria 530, 531, 533, 534
Manson-Bahr, Philip 533
al-Mansūri, al-Bīmāristan 373
Mapother, Edward 364
Marcet, Alexander 179
marketing, of pharmaceutical drugs 428–9
Markham, Clements R: Peruvian Bark … 85–6, 90, 93
Marks, Harry 162
Marks, Lara, book review by 263–4
Marsh, Margaret and Wanda Ronner: The fertility doctor: John Rock and the reproductive revolution, reviewed 263–4
Martin, Charles J 2, 3, 9, 13, 17, 23
Charles Kellaway and 11, 12
Marx, Karl 316
Mason, Diane: The secret vice: masturbation in Victorian fiction and medical culture, reviewed 559–60
Masson-Four (French chemist) 91
masturbation, in Victorian period 559–60
Mattel Inc. (toymakers)
factories in China, use of lead paint 315–16, 317, 325–6
factories in Mexico 334–5, 337–8, 339
Matthews, Stephen see Woods, Abigail and Stephen Matthews
Maudsley Henry 448, 451, 454
on epilepsy 446
Maudsley Hospital, London 348
S Maw and Sons, London 183
May, J Henry: Medical practitioners’ accounts 64
Mazumdar, Pauline M H see Kroker, Kenton, Jennifer Keelan and Pauline M H Mazumdar
Medical Act 1858 47
Medical Act (Ireland) 1886 56
medical archives/MSS 111–13
Medical and Chirurgical Transactions 91
Medical and Dental Students’ Register 69
Medical Directory 55, 58, 59, 63, 67, 73
medical emigration from Ireland, 1860–1905 55–74
for colonial/military service 58–9, 60, 61, 71–2, 74
destinations 56, 57, 58–9, 60; Britain 58, 59, 60, 61, 70–71, 72–3, 74
of medical students 57–8
motivation 56, 70; increased incomes 61–2, 66–8, 71–2
numbers of 55–6, 57, 58
patterns of 56, 57
as ship's doctors 58
medical ethics see ethical issues
medical fees/incomes 61–2, 64–8, 70–72, 74
in Ballinasloe, Co. Galway 62–4
of Irish Poor Law doctors 61, 66, 71
medical geography/topography 215–16
in Denmark 217, 224, 228
in India (colonial) 298–9
medical guilds, in Ottoman Egypt 366–7, 374–80, 386
purpose 374–5, 377, 378–9
significance/success of 379–80
structure/organization 375–6
medical healers, in Ottoman Egypt 365–86
astrologers as 384–5
magicians as 380, 383–4
Sufi Sheiks as 382–3
women as 370, 378–9, 385–6; as midwives 378–9; wives as 381
medical insurance, for sports injuries 469–71, 473
medical journalism 529, 532–4, 536
medical meteorology 215, 218
in Britain 216–17, 220
development of 216–17, 231–2
fresh air, perceived advantages of 216, 217
the winds and 217, 232
medical meteorology, in 19th-century Denmark 215, 217–36
decline in 232–6
development of 217–18, 223–6
effluvia concept 220, 224
epidemics, climatic impact on 219–23, 224, 226, 227
extreme weather 232
instrumental 223–6
miasma concept 216, 220
mortality, seasonal impact on 228–9
purpose 224
qualitative (non-instrumental) 218–23
rainfall, impact of 229
the seasons, impact of 227, 228; on mortality 228–9
statistical 226–33, 235, 236; criticism of 231–2
the winds and 229, 232
Medical Officer of Health (MOH) 50
Medical and Philosophical Commentaries 77
Medical Register … 55, 57, 58
medical research
in 19th-century France 215–16
in 19th-century Germany 215–16
in Argentina 28
in Canada 10, 13, 19, 28
case studies in 421–2
in Denmark 234
funding of see funding
on human subjects 150–51, 154–5, 161–4
medical training as research-oriented 161
organizational structure 9–14
problem-based 12
risk assessment in 165
Rockefeller Foundation IHB hookworm
eradication campaigns as experimental 150–51, 154–5, 161–4
team (group) work in 12–13, 15
in US 10, 19–20, 162, 165; US in the Philippines 7, 154, 162
medical research in Australia, 1914–38 2–6
as British influenced 2, 3, 4
career structure in 2, 4, 6, 9–10, 28
First World War, effects of 3–4
funding 3
organizational structure 2–3, 4
purpose 4
types of 2
Medical Research Council (Committee) (MRC) 11, 12, 17, 19, 22, 460
Walter Morley Fletcher and 23
medical research institutions, Australia, 1914–1938 1–28
as British influenced 9–10, 19
commercial 5
development of 2–3, 4, 5, 6–9, 27–8
First World War, effects of 3–4, 11
funding 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 20, 22–4, 26, 27–8
as geographically isolated 16
organizational structure 9–14
staffing/staff members 1–2, 10
survival of 1, 3, 10, 14, 16
as US influenced 10, 19
university based 5–6
see also Hall Institute, Melbourne
medical specialization 457–8
in France 458
clinical genetics as 474
sports medicine as, in Britain 458–74
medical statistics 226–33, 235, 236
medical technology 569–71
medical texts, writing of 402
medical training
in Australia 2, 4, 5–6, 9, 11, 18–19
in Britain 13
in Denmark 223, 362–3
in Egypt in Ottoman period 368–9, 370–71, 372–3, 380
in Ireland 56–7; numbers of students 61, 68–70, 74; see also medical training for women …;
individual institutions
in medieval Islam 202, 203, 209
in psychiatry 362–3
as research-oriented 161
in sports medicine 461–2, 473
in Wales 567–8
of West African physicians 239, 245–6, 249
medical training for women in Ireland,
c.1880s–1920s
accommodation/lodgings for 513–15
clinical /hospital experience 500, 501, 504, 506–7, 507–8
examinations/degrees awarded 500–501
fees/costs 497, 499, 500, 507–8
in First World War 497
institutions offering 497; curriculum/timetables 500, 402–3; see also individual institutions
male students: segregation from 498, 505, 506–7; for dissection/anatomy 509–12, 516;
social segregation 512–16; women's equality
with 498, 505–7, 508
numbers of students 497
personal accounts of 499–501, 504–6, 508, 511, 513, 514–15
poems/odes on 495, 499, 512
scholarships/exhibitions for 504
Student Councils, women on 515
success of 501
medicine(s)
in 12th-century Spain 269–71
in 17th-century England 538–40
astrology and 384–5, 552–3
European rejection of colonial remedies 82–3
history of: in ancient world 551–2; in England 538–40; in non-western countries 262–3
medical alternatives 75, 76–7, 81, 83, 87, 89–92;
see also cinchona substitutes
natural remedies, identification of 86
as science or craft, controversy over 367–73
specifics 82, 89
therapeutic trials 421–2
medieval medicine 133–4, 406–7
Islamic 195–214; in Egypt 365–86
Meduna, László 346, 350, 354
autobiography 347
shock therapy, invention of 343, 346–7, 348
Megaw, John W D 309, 313
on beriberi 305, 309–10, 311
as Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine
Director 309, 310
as IMS Director-General 309
Mein, Nicol 80
melancholy/melancholia
homicidal mania and 440, 443
as lovesickness 137–8
Melbourne Hospital 13, 14, 15, 16, 18
Melbourne Permanent Committee for Post-Graduate Work 16–17
Melbourne University 2
Cancer Research Committee 6
Hall Institute and 14, 18–19
medical research 5, 6
Melia azadirachta 81
Meltzer, Samuel 187
Menispermum cordifolium/verrucosum
(Cit-amerdu) 84
menstruation, in 20th-century US 564–5
mental health/hygiene 283–4
anti-depressants, marketing of 428–9
in colonial Natal 282–3
homicidal mania 433–56
hysteria 546–7; male 127–8
obsessive disorders 427–8
in medieval Islam 212
mental hospitals
19th-century Australian mental asylums 560–61
electrocardiography used to detect heart
conditions in 358–9
lobotomies performed in 347, 352, 353, 361
shock treatment in 341–3; in Danish state mental
hospitals 343–6, 348–64
Merrion, Edward, on epilepsy 438
meteorological observations 216, 217, 218
in Denmark 223–4, 225–6, 225, 228, 229, 235–6
instrumental 229
meteorology 216
medical see medical meteorology
ozone levels 217
as a science 224
skyscapes (of visible atmosphere 225 )
Metrazol (US) see Cardiazol
Metropolitan Police 73
Mexico 168
environmental protection 336–7, 338–9
industrialization/urbanization 334–6, 335
lead pollution 330, 331, 336–7, 338
lead production 317, 324, 325, 329–30, 331
Mattel Inc. factories 334–5, 337–8, 339
Meyerhof, Max 375
Micale, Mark S: Hysterical men: the hidden history of male nervous illness, reviewed 127–8
Michigan University 529
microscopy 526, 530
Middlesex Hospital clinic for athletes 461, 468–9
midwives, women as, in Ottoman Egypt 378–9
see also childbirth
military medicine
in Britain 410–11
in First World War 411–12
military service
doctors in 61, 84; Irish doctors 58–9, 60, 61, 71–2; in US 165
veterinarians in 46, 48, 52
Miller, Ian
book reviews by 285–6, 416–17
‘The Mind and Stomach at War: Stress and
Abdominal Illness in Britain c.1939–45’ 95–110
Mills, Jim 182
Minchin, Sarah, trial for murder 441
Minehan, Bridie Andrews, book review by 555–6
missionaries/mission doctors 77, 78
in West Africa 241, 242
women as 496
Mitchinson, Wendy, book review by 542–3
Mitman, Gregg 321
Mohan, John 476, 478
Mold, Alex, book review by 428–9
Molloy, Daniel M 160–61, 162, 165
Molyneux, D D, on sports injuries 461, 462, 463
Molyneux, William 527
Monk, Lee-Anne: Attending madness: at work in the Australian colonial asylum, reviewed 560–61
Montford, Archibald 58
Mooney, Graham and Jonathan Reinarz (eds): Permeable walls: historical perspectives on hospital visiting, reviewed 562–4
morality see ethical issues
More Madden, Thomas 496
Morehead, Charles, on beriberi 300
Morel, Bénédict-Augustin 445, 454
Traité des dégénérescences … 455
Morgan, Frederick 7–8, 25
morphine, in asthma treatment 188
Morris, Lieut. Colonel 102–3
Morrissey, Susan K, book review by 420–21
Mortimer, Ian: The dying and the doctors: the medical revolution in seventeenth-century England, reviewed 538–40
Morton, William 387
Moser, Ludwig 228, 229, 230
mosquitoes see malaria
Moulin, Anne-Marie 366
Mudge, John 177
Muhammad Ali Pasha, ruler of Ottoman Egypt 365, 379
mujarrabāt see case studies, medieval Islamic
Müller, Max 364
al-Munāwī, Sheik ‘Abd al-Rāu'f 368
Museum of Irish Industry 496
Muslim medicine see Islamic medicine
Mustafá Tāshkubrī'zādah, Ahmad ibn 367
Myles, Sir Thomas 74
Nadesan, Majia Holmer: Governmentability, biopower, and everyday life, reviewed 124–6
Naono, Atsuko: State of vaccination: the fight against smallpox in colonial Burma, reviewed 424–5
narcotics see drug taking/addiction; smoking
Nash, Linda 321
Natal, mental health/hygiene in colonial period 282–3
Nathoo, Ayesha: Hearts exposed: transplants and the media in 1960s Britain, reviewed 423–4
National Academy of Medicine, Brazil 157, 166
National Health and Medical Research Council (NH&MRC), Australia 15, 19, 25–6, 27, 28
Advisory Committee 26
funding by 26, 27
funding of 20, 21
National Health Service (NHS) 287–8, 475, 483, 487, 493
origins of 480–81
sports medicine/injuries and 463, 465–6, 467, 469, 472–3, 474
National Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) 11, 12, 17, 530
funding 21
organizational structure 12, 14, 19
National Institute of Sports Medicine 473
National Institutes of Health (US) 19–20
National Insurance Act (Ireland) 1911 56
National Museum of Australian Zoology 8
National Research Council, Canada 19
National Student 498, 513
Nature 531, 532, 535
naval medicine see military medicine
Navarro, Trinidad 160
Neher, Allister
‘The Truth about Our Bones: William
Cheselden's Osteographia’ 517–28
Netherlands, medical meteorology 216–17, 229
New Allied Medical Insurance Company 469–70
New South Wales Bureau of Microbiology 3
Newcastle University 461
Newman, Charles 99, 100, 103
Newton, Hannah, book review by 279–80
Nicaragua 160–61, 162
Nicholas, George 20–21, 25
Nicholson's Journal see Journal of Natural Philosophy
Nicolson, Malcolm, book review by 570–71
Nielsen, May-Brith Ohman: Mennesker, makt og mikrober. Epidemibekjempelse og hygiene på Sørlandet 1830–1880, reviewed 128–30
Nielsen, Otto Jul 350
Nigeria 244, 251
St Thomas Island 241
Nightingale, Florence, 114–15
Nizāmī-i ‘Arūdī-i Samarqandī 211
Chahār maqālah 211–12
Noguchi, Hideyo 166
Northern Ireland, ether drinking in 387
Norway 219
public health 128–30
tuberculosis in 548–50
Nuffield Foundation 20
nutrition, in Britain 118–20
see also diet
nutritional deficiency, as cause of beriberi 296, 298, 299, 300, 302, 303, 304–7, 308–10
dispute over 309–10, 311
Robert McCarrison on 311–13
Nutritional Research Laboratory, Coonoor (India) 311–12, 313
Nutton, Vivian
book review by 404–5
Pestilential complexities: understanding
medieval plague (ed.), reviewed 133–4
Nux vomica 92
O'Brien, Richard 23
O'Callaghan, Victoria, book review by 559–60
O'Shaughnessy, William 92
Oakley, Charles, as EIC Madras Council president 79
obesity 285–6, 566–7
obstetrics
in 19th-century 276–7
pioneers in 288–9
the occult see magic
Oddy, Derek J, Peter J Atkins and Virginia Amilien (eds): The rise of obesity in Europe: a twentieth century food history, reviewed 566–7
Oosterhuis, Harry and Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra: Verward van geest en ander ongerief: psychiatrie en geestelijke gezondheidszorg in Nederland (1870–2005), reviewed 412–14
opium
as dangerous 189–90
delivery methods 182
recreational use 171–2, 173, 174, 182, 193
therapeutic use 182
ophthalmology 527–8
Ørsted, Hans Christian 224
Osler, William 165, 186–7
The principles and practice of medicine 186
Ottoman Egypt see Egypt, Ottoman period
Ovenden, Ella 504
Oxford, Edward, trial for murder 437, 441
Oxford University 12
P&O shipping line 58
pain, perception/experience of 279–80
palaeoepidemiology 407–8
Palmer, Steven
‘Towards Responsibility in International Health:
Death following Treatment in Rockefeller
Hookworm Campaigns, 1914–1934’ 149–70
Panama 159, 163, 166
Panum, Peter Ludvig 234
Parascandola, John: Sex, sin, and science: a history of syphilis in America, reviewed 140–41
Parascandola, Mark, book review by, 122–3
Parle, Julie: States of mind: searching for mental health in Natal and Zululand, 1868–1918, reviewed 282–3
Parrotta, John A: healing plants of peninsular India 85
Partridge, Ernest, trial for murder 446–7
Passioni, Roberta 341
Pasteur, Louis 234
Pasteur Institute of Australia 3
Pate, Robert, trial for murder 441
patients, doctor/patient ratio, in Ireland 64–5
patient records (case notes), as research material 344–5, 348, 350, 352–5, 357, 363
see also hospitals
patronage, in medieval Islamic medicine 206
Pattison, Ian 30, 31
Patton, Adell (Jr) 241
Payne, Reginald T 99, 100, 103
Pearl, Raymond 535
Pedlow, Olive 499–500
Pelletier, P J 91
Pemex (Mexican national oil company) 337
Penfold, William 7, 9–10
as Baker Institute director 23–4
Penhale, William (of Barnstaple) 40
penicillin, development of 28
Pernick, Martin 165
Peruvian bark 76, 78, 80, 81, 82, 85
active components 89–92
Clements Markham on 85–6
substitutes for 81
see also cinchona
pestilence treatises 275–6
Peters, Gustavus 190
Petit, Caroline, book review by 551–2
pharmaceutical industry 173, 188, 189
in Australia 5, 18, 25
in Britain 268–9
in US 428–9
pharmacology see clinical pharmacology; prescriptions
Pharmacy Act 1868 189
Pharmacy Act 1908 189–90
Phelps Dodge lead smelter, El Paso, Texas 317, 329–31, 330, 333–4, 335
Philiatrien society, Denmark 226
Philippines 7, 154, 162
Philippines (American controlled), beriberi in 302, 303, 304, 305, 313
Philpot, William, trial for murder 445
Philpott, Jane see Crellin, John K and Jane Philpott
photography, of dissection process 540–41
Pickstone, John 474
Piddington, Henry 93
Piechowski, Anna M, book review by 564–5
Pinel, Philippe, on insanity 436
Pirquet, Clemens von 187
Pittier, Henri 159
plague 133–4
Lluís Alcanyís on 275–6
pneumonia 234
Poison Act/Rules 1960 191
Poisson, Siméon-Denis 226, 227
Poland see Silesia
Polatin, Philip 364
police surgeons 70, 73
polyneuritis 296, 310
Poor Law 1884 480
see also Irish Poor Law
Porter, Roy, on madness 435
Porter, Theodore M, book review by 421–2
post-combat disorders see war syndromes
post-natal depression see puerperal insanity
Potter's Asthma Cure/Remedy 183–4, 185, 193
Powell, Martin 476
pox see French pox
prescriptions, in medieval Islamic medicine 195, 197, 198, 199, 201, 203
see also magic/magical recipes
Pressman, Jack D: Last resort: psychosurgery and the limits of medicine 347, 363
Preston, Claire see Barbour, Reid and Claire Preston
Price-Smith, Andrew T: Contagion and chaos: disease, ecology, and national security in the era of globalization, reviewed 126–7
Prichard, James Cowles, on insanity 436
Pridham, Thomas 181
Prisoner's Counsel Act 1836 445
private medical practice, in West Africa 238, 240, 242–3, 245, 250–53
economics of 238, 245
profession(s), definition of 31
professional guilds see medical guilds
Prophet, Michael J 463, 464, 465, 467
Proust, Albert (father of Marcel Proust) 171
Proust, Marcel, as an asthmatic 171, 173, 182, 186, 187, 193, 194
psychiatry
in Denmark 412–14, 343–64; attitudes to 360–62;
shock therapy, use of 343–6, 348–64;
training in 362–3
forensic see homicidal mania, diagnosis of
male hysteria 127–8
shock therapy, use in 341–3
syphilis and 139–40
psychological treatment of gastrointestinal illness 95, 105, 107–10
psychopathia, Cardiazol shock therapy for 352, 353
psychopathology see homicidal mania
Public Assistance Committees (England) 480, 494
Public Health Committees (England) 480
public health/hygiene 152, 234
epidemics, official reports on 218–23
industrial hazards 315–40
mental health/hygiene 282–4
in Norway 128–30
sanitary conditions 215, 221, 234
see also international public health
puerperal insanity 440, 447–8
Puerto Rico 158
al-Qalqashandī 367
al-Qalyūbī, Sheik Ahmad 368
al-Qawsūnī, Badr al-din 379
al-Qawsūni, Sheik Madian Ibn ‘Abd al-Rahmān 369
Quarryman 49–8
Quartey-Papafio, Benjamin W 240, 243, 251
Queen (journal) 497
Queen's College, Belfast 56, 57, 61, 62, 73, 497, 498, 499–501, 505, 512, 514–15
women medical students, timetables for 502–3
Queen's College, Cork 56, 68–9, 497, 498, 500, 510
Queen's College, Galway 56, 69, 497, 498, 500, 504, 514
Queen's University of Ireland 59
Queensland Stock Institute, Brisbane 5
Queensland University 28
Quetelet, Adolphe 228, 231
quinine 77, 91, 92, 93–4
Quintero Parra, Juan de la Rosa 157, 164
Rockefeller Foundation, correspondence with 149, 164, 167, 168, 170; their compensation
payment to 150, 151, 167, 168–70
Quintero Parra, José Vincente (son of Juan Quintero Parra) 153
death during Rockefeller Foundation IHB
hookworm eradication campaign 149, 151, 155–6, 157, 164, 167, 168, 169; post-mortem 149
al-Rabbān, Mūsà 377
racial discrimination 238
in West African Medical Staff 237–8, 243–54;
criticism of 237–8, 246–7; reasons for 238, 245, 248–53
Raine, William 80
Ramadge, Francis 179
Ramsey, Matthew 380
Rapp, Doris J and A W Frankland: Allergies … 188
Raymond, André 374
al-Rāzī, Zakarīyā’ (Abū Bakr Muhammad) 175, 196, 210
case studies 196–7 199, 200, 201–2, 206, 209
Kitāb al-Hāwī (Continens) (posthumous
compilation by his students) 201–2, 206
Kitāb al-Tajārib (Casebook) (compiled by his
students) 200, 202, 206
on mental illness 212
Sirr sinā‘at al-tibb 197, 206
RCA (company) 320
Read, F M 149
Read, Herbert 244, 247, 248
Reed, Walter 166
Reeve-Tucker, Captain W R 243
Reeves, Carole see Shaw, Ann and Carole Reeves
reflex action(s), in homicidal mania 448–9
Reid, Robert 59
Reinarz, Jonathan see Mooney, Graham and Jonathan Reinarz
Reis, Elizabeth: Bodies in doubt: an American history of intersex, reviewed 556–7
Reiser, Stanley Joel: Technological medicine: the changing world of doctors and patients, reviewed 570–71
Reisseissen, Franz Daniel 181
Reiswitz, Felix von, book review by 144–5
reproductive medicine, history of 263–4
respiratory disease(s) 183, 187
asthma see asthma
treatment 173, 174, 181, 183–4, 184, 187, 193
Reverby, Susan M, book review by 140–41
Rey Bueno, Mar, book review by 275–6
Reynolds, Janie 511
Reynolds, L A 172
Reynolds, L A and E M Tansey (eds): Clinical pharmacology in the UK, c.1950–2000: influences and institutions, reviewed 268–9; Clinical pharmacology in the UK, c.1950–2000: industry and regulation, reviewed 268–9
Rheede, Heinrich van 84
rice, milled/polished, as cause of beriberi 303, 304–7
dispute over 308, 309–10, 311
Robert McCarrison on 311–13
Rice, T E 249
Richards, A N 25
Richardson, Jonathan 527, 528
Richardson, William Frank see Vesalius, Andreas: On the fabric of the human body …
Ridge, Steve, book review by 278–9
Riley, James C, book review by 284–5
Ripon, Lord, as Colonial Secretary 248
risk assessment, in medical research 165
see also ethical issues
Roberts, Rev'd (of Jamaica) 77
Roberts, Alun: The Welsh National School of Medicine 1893–1931: the Cardiff years, reviewed 567–8
Rock, John 263–4
Rockefeller, John D 149
Rockefeller, John D (Jr) 149, 167, 168
Rockefeller Foundation 13, 18, 20, 24–5, 151, 161, 348
Charles Kellaway in US on Rockefeller
fellowship 25
scholarships 10, 17
George E Vincent as president 164, 168
Rockefeller Foundation International Health Board (IHB) 27, 304, 305
Anti-Anaemia Commission 169
hookworm eradication campaigns
(international), 1914–34 149–70
hookworm eradication campaigns (US), 1909–13 151, 153, 155
Information Section 163–4
international public health programmes 150
organization/management 151, 154, 163
records 156–8, 163, 169
research facility 168
Wickliffe Rose as director 151, 163
Frederick Russell as director 151, 158, 164, 168, 170
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research 162
as anti-vivisection target 166
Simon Flexner as scientific director 163
Roe, Frederick Augustus, his Carbolic Smoke Ball 183
Roe, Michael 26
Rogge, Sabine see Tsouyopoulos, Nelly
Rolleston, Humphry 501
Roman Republic/Empire
medicine in 551–2
respiratory disease 174
Ronner, Wanda see Marsh, Margaret and Wanda Ronner
Rose, J R (of Stratford-upon-Avon) 51
Rose, James (of Leamington and Alcester) 40
Rose, Wickliffe, as Rockefeller Foundation IHB director 151, 163
Rosen, George: The specialization of medicine 457
Rosenberg, Charles 348
Ross, Andrew 78–9, 80
Ross, Charles Emilius 60
Ross, Ronald 530
Paul de Kruif and 533–4
Clifford Dobell and 531, 535–6
Giovanni Battista Grassi, controversy with 530–34, 535–6
malaria, work on 529, 530, 531
Memoirs … 530, 531, 533, 534
Rösslin, Eucharius: The birth of mankind 276–7
Rottler, Johan Peter 78
Rotunda Lying-in Hospital, Dublin 507, 508, 514
Rowan, Maria 515–16
Roxburgh, William 75
Sir Joseph Banks and 81, 83
‘A botanical description of a new species of
Swietenia (mahogany) …’ 78, 82
Alexander Dalrymple, criticism of 82–3
as EIC botanical garden superintendent 82, 84, 92
John Kennedy and 84
Andrew Ross and 78–9, 80
James Edward Smith and 81–2, 83
Swietenia febrifuga, discovery of 75, 78–83, 85, 88, 91; his drawing of 79
Royal Academy of Sciences, Copenhagen 224
Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester 43
Royal Agricultural Society 43
Royal Air Force (RAF), gastrointestinal illness in 105–6
Royal Army Medical College, Netley 71
Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) 99, 102–3, 104
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Melbourne 16, 17
Charles Kellaway as vice-president 17
Royal College of Physicians, London 99, 474, 496
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, history of 121–2
Royal College of Physicians of Ireland 56, 496
Royal College of Science (Ireland) 496
Royal College of Surgeons of England 87, 474
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) 56, 57, 60, 63, 74, 497, 501, 505, 510, 513
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) 30
Sir William Fitzwygram as president 52
George Fleming as president 52
function 30, 32–3; training 33, 46, 49, 52
members (MRCVS) 33, 34–5, 45
veterinary reform and 32, 47–8, 49, 51, 52–3, 54
Royal Commission on Agriculture, India 312
Royal Commissions (Australia) 1925 on Health 22, 23
1928 Bundaberg Enquiry (Kellaway
Commission) 24, 25
Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, history of 287–8
Royal Free Hospital, London 488, 505
Royal Irish Constabulary 60
Royal Society 4, 527
Foulerton Studentship 12
Charles Kellaway as Fellow 18
Philosophical transactions 81, 85, 523
Royal Society of Medicine, Denmark 225
statistical committee 227–31
Royal Veterinary College (RVC), London 30, 32, 46
J B Simonds as principal 49
training function 32, 33, 37, 46, 49
veterinary reform and 48, 49
Royal Veterinary College Infirmary 37
Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast 498, 506, 507–8, 514
Royle, J Forbes 84, 86, 93
Rubbo, Sydney 6
Ruf, Jakob 398–400
Runcorn Laboratory, Liverpool 9
Running Magazine 469
Rusnock, Andrea, book review by 115–17
Russell, Frederick, as Rockefeller Foundation IHB director 151, 158, 164, 168, 170
Russell, Patrick 81
Russia, human sciences in 131–2
Russia (Bolshevik), sexuality, state attitudes to 418–19, 420–21
see also Soviet Union
Rutherford, Dr (of Ballinasloe) 64
Rütten, Thomas: Geschichten vom Hippokratischen Eid, reviewed 135–6
Ryan, Mary 500
Ryymin, Teemu Sakari: Smitte, Språk og kultur: tuberkulosearbeideti i Finnmark, reviewed 548–50
Sadowsky, Jonathan 341
al-Sāigh, Sheik Sari Eldin 369, 370, 378
Saint Domingue slave colony, medical practice in 408–9
St George's Hospital, London 242
St Mary's Hospital, London 99
St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London 21
St Thomas’ Hospital, London 509
Sakel, Manfred 347, 350
Neue Behandlungsmethode der Schizophrenie 350
Salant, William 158, 162
salbutamol, in asthma treatment 189
Salter, Henry Hyde 180
on asthma 180–81, 182, 186, 193
Sanders, Mark A 183, 522
sanitary conditions see public health/hygiene
Sargent, Rose-Mary, book review by 400–402
Sawyer, Wilbur 168
Schiebinger, Londa 92, 323
Schijnvoet, Jacob 518–19, 522, 525–6
schizophrenia, shock therapy for 344, 346, 350
Cardiazol therapy 356–7, 359–61, 363
insulin coma therapy 359–61
Schleisner, Peter 235
Schou, Hans Jacob 250
Schouw, Joakim Frederik 225, 228
Schram, Ralph 241
Schupbach, William: Obituary of John Symons 255–7
Scottish Metropolitan veterinary society 50
Scull, Andrew 347–8
Hysteria: the biography, reviewed 546–7
scurvy, comparison with beriberi 298
Second World War (1939–1945)
Dunkirk evacuation 98
Japan, bombing of 109
London, bombing of 100–101
medical effects of 95–110
military manpower, in Britain 104, 106
Stalingrad, battle for 97–8
security issues, infectious disease(s) and 126–7
Seguin, Armand: ‘Memoir on the febrifuge principle of cinchona’ 89–90
Sellers, Christopher C, ‘Cross-nationalizing the History of Industrial Hazard’ 315–40
sex determination 556–9
Sexton, Christopher 24
sexuality, historical study of 416–17
in Bolshevik Russia 418–19, 420–21
Sha, Richard C, book review by 138–9
al-Shafra (Alī bin Farāj al-Qirbilyānī ) (Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muhammad) 204
Kitāb al-Istiqsā … 204–5, 206
Sharkey, E P (of Creagh) 64
Sharpe, Samuel 522
Shaw, Ann and Carole Reeves (eds): The children of Craig-y-nos: life in a Welsh tuberculosis sanatorium, 1922–1959, reviewed 264–5
Shaw, James, book review by 403–4
Sheehy-Skeffington, Francis 498
Shefer, Miri 373
Sheffield, hospital contributory schemes 482, 492
shell shock 95
Sherrington, Charles 12
shock therapy 341–3, 346–8
assessment of 341–4, 347–8
Cardiazol see Cardiazol shock therapy
criticism of 341–2, 343
curare, use in 360
effects of 346–7
electroconvulsive (ECT) 341, 342, 360;
criticism of 341–2
history of 341–3, 346–8
insulin coma therapy (ICT) see insulin coma
therapy
László Meduna's invention of 343, 346–7, 348
use of 342, 344; for patient control 344; for
schizophrenia 344, 346, 350
shock therapy, in Danish state mental hospitals 343–6, 348–64
Cardiazol see Cardiazol shock therapy
information sources 345; see also patient
records below
institutions surveyed 344, 345
insulin coma therapy (ICT) see insulin coma
therapy
patient numbers 344, 350
patient records (case notes) 344–5, 348, 350, 352–5, 357, 363
political issues in 361
use of 348, 350; for schizophrenia 350, 356–7
Shorter, Edward 109–10
Shorter, Edward and David Healy: Shock therapy: a history of electroconvulsive treatment … 341, 346
Shvarts, Shifra: Health and Zionism: the Israeli health care system, 1948–60, reviewed 568–9
Siam see Thailand
Siek, Theodore 191
Sierra Leone 242
Sierra Leone Company 241
Sigerist, Henry, on workplace hazards 317–18
Silesia, Poland, ether drinking in 387–96
Silesian Institution for Deaf Children 389, 394
Silver, Beverly 320
Simaruba bark 77
Simonds, J B 37
as RVC principal 49
Simpson, Alexander R 246
Sims, Dr 179
Skydsgaard, Morten A
‘It's probably in the Air: Medical Meteorology
in Denmark, 1810–1875’ 215–36
slavery 240–41, 253
slaves, as nurses/midwives 409
sleep deprivation, as cause of dyspepsia 103, 104
sleepwalking, homicidal mania and 438, 439, 440, 441
Sloane, Hans 87
smallpox vaccination, in colonial Burma 424–5
Smillie, W G 161–2, 163, 166
Smith, Aquilla 497
Smith, David F, book reviews by 118–20, 566–7
Smith, G H 182
Smith, Grafton Elliot 2
Smith, James Edward 81–2, 83
Smith, Roger, book reviews by 258–60, 418–19
smoking
anti-smoking campaigns 172, 182, 190
deterrents to 190, 191
dyspepsia caused by 99, 100, 103, 104
as a health hazard 172–3, 188, 189, 190, 192, 193
herbal cigarettes 191, 192
medicated cigarettes 173, 191; see also
inhalation therapy
popularity of 172, 181–2
promotion/marketing of 191
see also tobacco industry
snake venoms, Charles Kellaway's research on 17–18
Snow, Stephanie J, book reviews by 141–2
Society of Apothecaries 473
Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine (US) 187
Soluri, John 321
South America 76, 77, 86, 155
narcotic smoking/smoke inhalation 173–4
native medical remedies 159–60
see also individual countries
South Sea Company 87
Soviet Union (post-1945), lead production/use 332, 333
see also Russia
Soymida febrifuga see Swietenia febrifuga
Spain, 12th-century medicine(s) 269–71
Spencer, Herbert 455
Sperryn, Peter 463, 464, 465, 468, 472
BATS, his criticism of 470–71
Spinks, Jennifer, book review by 398–400
Sports Council 460–61
reorganization of 462, 467
Research and Statistics Committee 460, 461, 462, 463
Sports Council Sports Injuries Clinic Scheme 460, 462–8, 471, 473, 474
function 464, 466–7
hospitals as focal points 465, 467, 469
Kingsbury report on 465–6, 468
numbers of clinics 465
organization of 464–5
sports injury survey (R C Browne) 463–4
sports medicine, in Britain 458–74
at amateur level 459–60, 461, 462, 465, 471–3, 474
DHSS and 463, 464, 465, 466, 467, 467, 472
expenditure on 460, 461
as holistic/interdisciplinary 458
medical insurance and 469–71, 473
NHS and 463, 465–6, 467, 469, 472–3, 474
the patient in 458, 459, 460, 465–6; demands
made by 458–9
political issues in 460, 462, 463, 466, 468, 473–4
private health care and 464, 467, 468, 469–71, 473, 474
regulation of 460–61, 470, 472, 473
as a specialization 458–60, 462, 464, 466, 467, 470, 473, 474
in sports clubs/teams 461, 462, 469
sports injuries/medicine relationship 464, 467–8
training in 461–2, 473
see also Sports Council Sports Injuries Clinic
Scheme
Sri Lanka 155, 156, 169
see also Ceylon
Standard Oil 167
Stanton, A T, on beriberi 304, 305
Starks, Tricia: The body Soviet: propaganda, hygiene, and the revolutionary state, reviewed 420–21
State Veterinary Department (UK) 40–41, 49, 50–51
Stathakopoulos, Dionysios, book review by 133–4
Steere-Williams, Jacob, book review by 545–6
Stein, Claudia: Negotiating the French pox in early modern Germany, reviewed 550–51
Stephen, James Fitzjames, on insanity 452, 453
Stephenson, Clement (of Newcastle) 50
Stern, Phillip, his vapour inhalers 177, 177
steroid inhalation, in asthma treatment 189
Stevens, Rosemary 72
Stewart, Dr, as Irish Medical Schools’ and Graduates’ Association provincial honorary secretary 72
Stewart, D N 100–101
Stewart, Florence 505, 508, 515
Stewart, Mary 488
stomach complaints see gastrointestinal illness
stramonium inhalation, in asthma treatment 173, 178–84, 184, 184, 186–7, 188, 189–92
as dangerous 181, 193–4
decline in 173, 176, 186–92, 193–4
in India 173, 178–9, 188
opposition to 187–8, 189, 190
popularity of 181–2, 193
properties 179; as anti-spasmodic 179, 180–81
Strange, Julie-Marie 511
Strömgren, Erik 360
Stroup, Donna F, book review by 126–7
Sturdy, Steve 2, 11, 15
Stürup, Georg 348
Suárez, G A 160
suffering see pain
Sufi Sheiks, as medical healers in Ottoman Egypt 382–3
Sullivan, Erin, book review by 137–8
Summers-Bremner, Eluned: Insomnia: a cultural history, reviewed 286–7
superstitions/supernatural beliefs 381–2
see also magic
Surama cigarettes 193
surgical instruments, history of 141–2
Sutton, Emma, book review by 560–61
Sweden 98, 358
Sweet, Helen see Harrison, Mark, Margaret Jones and Helen Sweet
Sweet, Helen M and Rona Dougall: Community nursing and primary healthcare in twentieth-century Britain, reviewed 120–21
Swietenia febrifuga 79, 84
advantages of 80–81, 82
alternatives to 87
botanical description 79, 85
Breton on 91
as a cinchona substitute 75–94
medical properties 75, 90; discovery of 75, 78
as Neem/Rohuna barks 92
William Roxburgh and 78–83, 85, 88, 91; his
drawing of 79
samples, distribution of 78–80, 81–2
trials/testing of 75, 78–81, 86; in Europe 87, 88–9, 90
Switzerland 228, 364
Sydenham, Thomas, on epidemic diseases 220, 222
Sydney University 2, 3
Cancer Research Committee 6, 10, 14; funding 21–2, 26
Sydney University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine 7
Symonds, John Addington see Ellis, Havelock and John Addington Symonds
Symons, John, obituary by William Schupbach 255–7
syphilis 166
in Ottoman Egypt 366
in Scotland 139–40
in US 140–41
Syson, Lydia: Doctor of love: James Graham and his celestial bed, reviewed 138–9
Szasz, Thomas 342
Szreter, Simon, book review by 117–18
Taafe, Robert 59
tajārib see case studies, medieval Islamic
Takaki, Kanehiro, on beriberi 302
Tansey, E M 172
see also Church, Roy and E M Tansey;
Reynolds, L A and E M Tansey
Taylor, Alfred Swaine: The principles and practice of medical jurisprudence 441–2, 444–5, 455
Taylor, Colonel Sir William 505
Teleky, Ludwig, on workplace hazards 317–18
Thailand (Siam) 86
therapeutic methods
climate therapy 235–6
in medieval Islamic medicine 201
smoking see inhalation therapy
Thompson, Sir William 66
Thomson, A T 180
Thorndike, Lynn 197
Thorne, Dr Thorne 437
Thornton, Brigid Lyons 500, 514
thymol, as a vermifuge 153–4
Tibet, biomedicine in 553–5
Tidy, Henry Letheby 107
Titmuss, Richard 102–3
tobacco, therapeutic uses 182, 190
tobacco industry 172, 190–91
see also smoking
Totelin, Laurence, book reviews by 135–6, 271–2
Tout, Herbert 492
Trier, Frederik 232–3
Trinity College, Dublin (TCD) 56, 497, 510, 511, 513
School of Physic 56, 57, 58, 59–60
tropical diseases 297, 302–3
see also beriberi; malaria
tropical medicine 7, 18, 237, 239, 242
teaching of, to West African students 239, 245–6, 249, 250
see also Australian Institute of Tropical
Medicine; Far Eastern Association of
Tropical Medicine
Tropical Oil Company 167
Trousseau, Armand 180
Tsouyopoulus, Nelly: Asklepios und die Philosophen: Paradigmawechsel in der Medizin im 19. Jahrhundert, ed. Claudia Wiesemann, Barbara Bröker and Sabine Rogge, reviewed 258–60
tuberculosis
in Norway 548–50
treatment of 235–6; in children 264–5
Tudor, J S 485
Twining, William 92
typhus 220, 232–3
treatment of 372
Tyrell, Ian: True gardens of the gods … 321
Ugeskrift for Læger 226, 362
ulcers see gastrointestinal illness
Ulster Medical Society 73
Transactions 73–4
uncinariasis see hookworm disease/infection
understanding see human understanding
United Fruit Company (US) 167
United Kingdom Association of Doctors in Sports (UKADIS) 471
United States (US) 219, 221
19th-century settlers in Western states 216
industrial health regulations 328–9
Charles Kellaway in 25
lead production/consumption 323–6, 328, 329
lead regulation 332, 333–4
medical research 10, 19–20, 162, 165; in the
Philippines 7
meteorological observations 216
pharmaceutical drugs, marketing of 428–9
Phelps Dodge lead smelter, El Paso, Texas 317, 329–31, 330, 333–4, 335
Rockefeller Foundation hookworm eradication
campaign, 1909–13 151, 153, 155
shock therapy used in 360, 364;
electroconvulsive (ECT) 341, 342
Southern states 223
vivisection in 166
women, medical training for 509, 513, 514
US Army Medical Department 216
US Department of Agriculture 158
US Public Health Service 154, 165
universities, medical research at 5–6, 9
see also individual institutions
University College, Dublin, medical school 57, 497
University College, London 242
University College Hospital (UCH), London 12
research methods 13–14
Uscátegui Mantilla, Rafael 167, 168
vaccination
in 19th-century Britain 114–17
against diphtheria 24
Valenčius, Conevery Bolton 321
The health of the country 216
vapour inhalers 177–8, 177, 183–4, 184, 188–9
Carbolic Smoke Ball 183
Nelson inhaler 183
Ventolin 189
see also inhalation therapy
Vaughan, W E see Fitzpatrick, A J and W E Vaughan
Vedder, Edward, on beriberi 304
vegetarianism, in Victorian Britain 415–16
venereal disease(s) see syphilis
venoms see snake venoms
Verhave, Jan Peter
‘Clifford Dobell and the Making of Paul de
Kruif's Microbe Hunters’ 529–36
vermifuges 152, 160
chenopodium oil 149–50, 153, 154–61
thymol 153–4
Vesalius, Andreas: On the fabric of the human body, Book VI: The heart and associated organs. Book VII: the brain, a translation of De humani corporis … by William Frank Richardson in collaboration with James Burd Carman, reviewed 404–5
Veterinarian 37, 49
Veterinary Journal 52
veterinary journals/textbooks 32, 46
veterinary medicines/chemists 32, 33–4, 39–40, 43, 49, 50
quack remedies 32, 43, 51
veterinary reform, in 19th-century England 30–31, 32, 46–53, 54
need for 46–7
self-improvement as 47–8
RCVS and 32, 47–8, 49, 51, 52–3, 54
RVC and 48, 49
veterinary surgeons, in 19th-century England 29–54
educational qualifications see veterinary training
farriers as 32, 33, 35, 54; see also unqualified
below
history 32–3
income levels/fees 30, 37, 38–9, 40, 42, 43–4, 50, 51, 53
infirmaries run by 41
numbers of 33–7, 38, 39, 47
as professional men 30–31, 32, 54
professional relationships 30, 32, 33, 42, 45–6, 52
public appointments 40–41, 50–51, 53
regional associations for (VMAs) 46, 47, 55
regulation of 30, 31; see also veterinary reform
in rural areas 33–7, 38, 39, 43–4
services offered by 32, 37–44, 48, 50; surgical 39, 44, 49
status/conduct 30, 31, 32, 42, 44–5, 48, 49–50, 51, 53–4
unqualified 30, 31, 32, 35–7, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44–5, 46, 47–8, 49 51–2, 53–4; see also
farriers above
women as 35
Veterinary Surgeons Act 1881 30, 35, 49, 51, 52–3, 54
Veterinary Surgeons Bill 1866 47, 51, 52
veterinary training 31, 32–3, 35–7, 44, 46
apprenticeships 48, 49
cost of 35, 37
development/reform 30, 34–5, 48, 49, 54
as horse-centred 43
importance of 45
RCVS and 33, 46, 49, 52
RVC and 32, 33, 37, 46, 49
in Scotland 30, 32, 33, 35, 46, 47, 52
Vincent, George E, as Rockefeller Foundation president 164, 167, 168
virus research, in Australia 24–6
vivisection, in US 166
voluntary hospitals, in England 475, 478
in Bristol 476–94
financial crisis (post-1918) 476
funding 476–7, 481; see also hospital
contributory schemes
history 475–6
importance 475
in London 478, 479
private patients in 478–81, 493–4
voluntary hospitals, in Ireland 507
Vyse, Ann, trial for murder 441
Waite Agricultural Research Institute, Adelaide 5
Waldron, Tony: Palaeoepidemiology: the measure of disease in the human past, reviewed 407–8
Wallerstein, Immanuel 320
Wallich, Nathaniel 92
Plantæ asiaticæ rariores … 93
Wallis, Patrick, book review by 538–40
Walters, Liz see Bergen, Leo van
war syndromes 95, 96–7
symptom patterns 110
see also gastrointestinal illness
Ward, Hugh 6
Ware, Professor (of Harvard University) 5–9
Waring, Edward 92
Warner, John Harley 348
Warner, John Harley and James M Edmondson: Dissection: photographs of a rite of passage in American medicine, 1880–1930, reviewed 540–41
Warren, Andrew 168
Warren, Carol A B 341
Weaver, Karol K: Medical revolutionaries: the enslaved healers of eighteenth-century Saint Domingue, reviewed 408–9
Webb, James L (Jr): Humanity's burden: a global history of malaria, reviewed 425–7
Weisz, George 457–8, 473
Wellcome, Sir Henry, Howard Cumpston and 22–3
Wellcome Research Institution, Charles Kellaway as director of Scientific Policy 17, 22, 25
Welsh National School of Medicine, history of 567–8
Wendt, Johan 225
West Africa
Ashantis 241
British Army medical staff 241, 242, 249
climatic conditions 237, 239
explorers/traders 287, 240–41
indigenous staff in colonial service 238; see also
medical staff below
medical services 237, 240, 244; for European
women 249; see also West African Medical
Staff
medical staff: European, as incompetent 250, 251; indigenous 239–43, 246–7, 248; need
for 237, 239
missionaries 241, 242
mortality rate 241, 242
private medical practice 238, 240, 242–3, 245, 250–53
West African Medical Staff (WAMS) 237–40, 244–54
conditions of service 244–5, 253
fee-paying private patients of 240, 245, 250–53
formation of 237, 240, 244–8
Information for the use of candidates for
appointments in … 237, 246, 247
racial discrimination in 237–8, 243–54; criticism
of 237–8, 246–7, 252; reasons for 238, 245, 248–53
recruitment to 246–7, 251
success of 247–8
West Indies 77, 84, 87, 88, 221
Westerhof, Danielle: Death and the noble body in medieval England, reviewed 406–7
White, Jemima Blair 515–16
White, Richard 321
Whitley, William T: Artists and their friends in England … 522
Wickkiser, Bronwen L: Asklepios, medicine, and the politics of healing in fifth-century Greece: between craft and cult, reviewed 271–2
Wieland, Amelia, trial for murder 441–2
Wiendlocha, Michał 389, 392, 393
Wiesemann, Claudia see Tsouyopoulos, Nelly
Wilberforce, Octavia 508
Wilkins, John, book review by 272–3
Willcox, Philip 99, 100
Williams, Clara 505–6, 515
Williams, J G P 463, 464, 465, 468, 472
Willis, Thomas 176
Willis, Tim 478
Wills tobacco, Bristol 481, 482
Wilson, A T Macbeth 101–2
Wilson, Daniel R and Gerald A Cory Jr: The evolutionary epidemiology of mania and depression: a theoretical and empirical interpretation of mood disorders, reviewed 283–4
Wilson, James 3
Wilson, John Macauley 241
Wilson-Lee, Kelcey, book review by 406–7
Windle, Bertram 68–9
Winser, D M de R 100–101
Winslow, Forbes, on insanity 451, 452
Winslow, Frederick Christian 78
witchcraft 273–5
Withers, Thomas 176
Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy 392
Wolf, Jacqueline H: Deliver me from pain: anesthesia and birth in America, reviewed 542–3
Wolfenden Committee on Sport 460–61
women
cancer in 541–2
corpses, contact with 511; see also dissecting
rooms
European in West Africa, medical services for 249
as medical healers in Ottoman Egypt 370, 378, 385–6; as midwives 378–9; wives as 386
menstruation 564–5
puerperal insanity in 440, 447–8
as veterinary surgeons 35
see also childbirth
women doctors
attitudes to 495–6, 498–500, 509, 515–16; of
their families 499–500
careers 501, 504
as missionaries 496
need for 495, 496
personal qualities 504–5
training: in Britain 506, 507, 508–9; in Ireland 495–516; in US 509, 513, 514
for women/children 496
women's education 499
in Ireland 496, 500
Woodard, Dr (of Middlesex Hospital sports injuries clinic) 468
Woods, Abigail and Stephen Matthews
‘“Little, if at all, Removed from the Illiterate
Farrier or Cow-leech”: The English
Veterinary Surgeon, c.1860–1885 and the
Campaign for Veterinary Reform’ 29–54
working classes, health care in 19th-century England 117–18
work-related disease see industrial hazards
World Health Organization (WHO) 323, 331, 333
Worth-Stylianou, Valerie, book review by 276–7
Wright, Roy (“Pansy”) 6
Wright, William 77, 87
yellow fever 151, 165–6, 167
in Cuba 547–8
see also fever(s)
Yoeli-Tlalim, Ronit see Akasoy, Anna, Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tialim
al-Zahrāwi, Abū al-Qāsin see Albucasis
Zandberg, Adrian
‘“Villages … Reek of Ether Vapours”: Ether
Drinking in Silesia before 1939’ 387–96
Ziegler, Joseph, book review by 273–5
al-Ziftāwī, Sheik Nūr 376
Zuidervaart, Huib J 228, 229
Zylberman, Patrick, book review by 425–7