Tidsskrift for den Norske lægeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny række
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Tidsskr. Nor. Laegeforen. · Dec 1998
Historical Article[Who were the healers in medieval Trondheim?].
When Trondheim celebrated its millenium in 1997, this also marked a 1000 year-old medical tradition. In medieval times, sick and disabled people made their pilgrimage to the Nidaros cathedral and the grave of Saint Olav (995-1030). Working from the assumption that every organized society develops rituals and rules to deal with disease and death, we have looked for evidence of what kind of healers one would expect there were in medieval Trondheim up to the reformation in 1537. ⋯ The charitable clerics emerged with Christianity. The "professional" wound healers evolved from the needs of the military, later to merge with the early barber surgeons. Traces of scientific traditions, the Salerno school and early European university medicine can be found in local texts, but there is no evidence of any university educated doctor practising in Trondheim before the 17th century.
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The Greek word aorta means lifter. The vessel was so termed because Aristotle, who first described it, assumed that the heart was lifted by/hanging in aorta. Leonardo da Vinci described the detailed anatomy of aorta. ⋯ In 1955 he suffered rupture and died after having refused operation. In 1951 the first successful operation for abdominal aortic aneurysm was performed in Paris by Charles Dubost. With slight modifications, the same operative technique is used today.
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Tidsskr. Nor. Laegeforen. · Dec 1998
Review[Visual hallucinations in ophthalmological and neurological diseases].
Visual hallucination can be defined as visual sensory perception without external stimulation, or something that a patient sees that other observers in the same environment do not see. The images may be unformed (lights, streaks, flashes) or formed (objects, people, scenes). ⋯ Content, duration and timing of visual hallucinations relate to their cause and provide useful clinical information. This paper reviews the topical, pathophysiological and clinical aspects of visual hallucinations.
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Tidsskr. Nor. Laegeforen. · Dec 1998
Biography Historical Article[The first cesarean section in Norway].
The first reported caesarean section in Norway was performed on 20 August 1843 by a general practitioner, Lars Thalian Backer (1812-84). The operation took place in Lardal, Vestfold County, on a 27 year old woman who had been in labour for six days. ⋯ The first caesarean section in Norway resulting in a living child was performed in 1849, but no mother survived the operation before 1890. We recapitulate the caesarean section of 1843; Dr Backer and his qualifications for operative obstetrics; and the state of instrumental and surgical obstetrics in Norway at that time.
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Tidsskr. Nor. Laegeforen. · Dec 1998
Biography Historical Article["An appropriate forceps"--150-year anniversary of Simpson's forceps].
Despite the increasing use of caesarean section and vacuum extraction, obstetric forceps is still in frequent use in obstetric wards. There has, in fact, been an increase due to more active management of births. ⋯ Simpson's forceps has been the most widely used forceps in Norway over the last 120 years. This article describes James Young Simpson, his long forceps, and its use in Norwegian obstetrics.