期刊: MEDICAL HISTORY, 2022; 66 (1)
The Ospedale Maggiore, known as Ca' Granda, was founded in 1456 by will of Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan, and was considered for almost five centuri......
期刊: MEDICAL HISTORY, 2022; 66 (2)
The St Petersburg declaration, signed in 1868, is a milestone in the history of warfare and humanitarian law, as it prohibits the use of explosive bul......
期刊: MEDICAL HISTORY, 2022; 66 (2)
This article examines the introduction of the medical mask in the late nineteenth century at the intersection of surgery, bacteriology and infection c......
期刊: MEDICAL HISTORY, 2022; 66 (2)
In Japan, schistosomiasis was endemic in Yamanashi Prefecture and a few other hotspot areas where the Miya'iri snail lived. The parasite's lifecycle r......
期刊: MEDICAL HISTORY, 2022; 66 (1)
This article aims to demonstrate how researchers from different South American countries took part in the process of globalisation of the tropical med......
期刊: MEDICAL HISTORY, 2022; 66 (1)
Medical acculturation forms a crucial part of the process of migration, and equally, the influx of migrants can shape how medical structures develop i......
期刊: MEDICAL HISTORY, 2022; 66 (2)
Poliomyelitis is a disease whose incidence steadily increased during the second half of the twentieth century on both sides of the Atlantic. If in the......