Histoire des sciences médicales
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Up to the 19th century, reanimation of persons apparently dead just included respiratory managing. Cardiac reanimation was born with the accession to anesthesia and their severe cardiac complications. Although closed-chest cardiac massage had been described from the outset of our century, bloody techniques of direct cardiac massage was especially used until the end of the fifties. Methodically, Kouvenhoven has demonstrated closed-chest cardiac massage effectiveness, and has known to lay down this technique in cardiac reanimation.
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Biography Historical Article
[Derocque and Dessaint, cloak and dagger surgeons].
Deroque was 18 years old as the 1914-18 war outbreak. Born of a long surgeon's lineage, he was expecting medical studies but his own sense of duty was so strong that he decided to join up the field-artillery. Twice wounded, he waited for the victory to start again studying. ⋯ Severely disabled, a leg lost, he settled to become a surgeon. Paris hospital's Interne, he succeeded as chief-surgeon and professor in Rouen where, despite appaling pains, he kept on as long as he could stand up. According to his will, he was buried in his lieutenant uniform, in Dijon.
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Biography Historical Article
[Ludwig van Beethoven: an autoimmune deafness?].
The author reminds us of the great moments of Beethoven's life and of the different stages of his deafness onset, until to last instants. The post-mortem examination, performed by doctor Wagner, and the scientific studies of the remains, during the exhumations, are reported. ⋯ A new theory is emphasized, based on modern studies about autoimmune sensorineural hearing losses in relation with chronic inflammatory bowel ailment. Conclusion is that Beethoven's deafness was probably owing to a primary autoimmune degeneration of the organ of Corti, giving rise to atrophy of the auditory nerve.
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Hippocrates' influence is known in Lyons as soon as the time of the Renaissance, after the discovery of printing. Symphorien Champier and later chiefly Rabelais translated texts of the Cos master and had them edited by the first printers. ⋯ In the XIXth century, surgeon major Pétrequin published the first book devoted to Hippocrates's surgery. More recently, Professor Pierre Delore has been a convinced supporter of neo-hippocratic medicine of which he developed the chief principles in his works.