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History of burns. Prof.dr. H.J. Klasen . 2004. Description: Burns have been around ever since people started using fire. Burns have always left anindelible impression on the victims and their surroundings because they often lead toprotracted suffering with fatal consequences, or to disfiguring scars and functional disorders. It was not until recent decades that improved prognoses could be made withregard to both life expectancy and the healing of the wound. This was mainly due to improved insights into the pathophysiological disorders and wound treatment. The historical development of burns treatment has been outlined in various publications, but these publications restrict themselves to partial areas. In History of Burns the history of burns is dealt with integrally for the first time. In order to make the publication more readable, it has been divided into chapters with each chapter focusing on one aspect of the pathology or treatment. The origin of the classification of burns is also discussed. This classification only really became important once it started to influence the treatment. In the treatment of burns victims it was assumed, especially in the 19th century, that the patients died of poisoning and that detection of the toxin formed the basis for potential treatment. This research still has followers and is examined in detail. Local treatment in which silver compounds played an important role is also discussed, as is the role of baths and surgical treatment.The fascinating history of the discovery of the pathophysiological disorders and the consequences with regard to treatment is also described extensively. In the last chapter the interpretations of the results of the treatment are discussed, as are the factors that played a role in this, such as the burns units and nursing methods. Content: Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter I: Classification of burns; Chapter II: Pathogenesis and causes of death; Chapter III: Pathogenesis and causes of death II; Chapter IV: Shock; Chapter V: Operative treatment of burns; Chapter VI: The non-operative removal of necrotic tissue from burn wounds Chapter VII: The use of silver in the treatment of burns; Chapter VIII: Hydrotherapy in the treatment of burns; Index; Index of persons. Hardcover, 632 pp, illustrated, 2004
ISBN-10: 90-5235-168-6
ISBN-13: 978-90-5235-168-6
Price: $128.00

Men, microbes and medical microbiologists. A concise pictorial history of medical microbiology and infectious diseases.

Artery Flaps. 
J.F.S. Esser. Introduction by Prof. J.C. van der Meulen. 2003.
A facsimile of an important milestone in the history of plastic surgery. Contents: Introduction • Esser, surgical giant • Johannes Fredericus Samuel Esser (1867 - 1946) • International plastic surgeon, arts collector, merchant and chess player • Reception of Esser's Artery Flaps in the international medical press • Preface of the special edition of Artery Flaps • Artery Flaps, facsimile. Hardcover, 200 pp, B&W photos.
ISBN 90 5235 160 0  $119.00

At the Sign of the Oriental Lamp.
The Musschenbroek workshop in Leiden, 1660-1750.
NNBGGN 53. (Nieuwe Nederlandse bijdragen tot de geschiedenis der geneeskunde en der natuurwetenschappen)
Peter de Clercq. 1997.
Precision instrument-making has been of crucial importance in the development of science and such science-related activities as time-keeping, navigation or land surveying. This book, one of the most detailed studies ever written on a single instrument-making company, is a major contribution to the history of the instrument-making trade. Immigrated into Leiden from the Southern Netherlands around 1610, the Musschenbroeks initially ran a brass foundry, whose early specialty, a small domestic oil-lamp, gave the workshop its name De Oosterse Lamp (The Oriental Lamp). Stimulated by the proximity of the University, the Musschenbroeks branched off to a completely different type of product: instruments of science and medicine. The workshop became one of the leading enterprises of its kind in early modern Europe. A unique series of trade catalogues, which are published in the appendix section of this book, list the hundreds of different pieces of equipment, each with its price, that were available from the workshop. These included several versions of that popular demonstration device, the air-pump, and the entire set of instruments as used and described by Newton's 'apostle,' the Leiden professor Willem Jacob's Gravesande. Research in archives and museums in and outside the Netherlands has also revealed how the workshop catered for an international clientele, ranging from renowned university professors to amateurs of science. The latter included the Russian Czar Peter the Great and the Dutch Prince of Orange. As the workshop was the single most important supplier of the instruments in the Leiden Cabinet of Physics, this study may be considered as a companion volume to the catalogue The Leiden Cabinet of Physics, published by the Museum Boerhaave, the Dutch National Museum of the History of Science and Medicine. Paperback, 326 pp.
ISBN 90 5235 104 X  $64.00

Bibliography of the History of Dutch Medicine and Pharmacy. (working title)
M.J. van Lieburg. publication date TBA.
The Dutch have greatly contributed to the development of medical science, not only in the seventeenth and eighteenth century (when Boerhaave flourished as the ‘communis Europae praeceptor’), but even into this century (when Einthoven introduced electrocardiography). Since 1975 Prof. G.A. Lindeboom’s "A Classified Bibliography of the History of Dutch Medicine 1900-1974" was the reference guide of the rich history of Dutch medicine. Prof. Van Lieburg’s forthcoming bibliography is a thoroughly revised, completed and extended edition of Lindeboom’s Bibliography. The circa 15,000 entries are highly accessible by many indexes. Hardcover, 600 pp.
ISBN 90 5235 138 4  $103.00

Depression and Music.
Prelude to a historical theme.
M.J. van Lieburg. 1990.
Contents: The magic-religious dimension of music therapy: Saul and David: depression and music in antiquity • Music therapy in Western culture: Hugo van der Goes, Medieval and early modern perceptions of music therapy • Music therapy and depression: Iatro-musica • Music and depression in the Age of  Reason: Music therapy in the age of enlightenment, Carlo Broschi Farinelli, A Gallic view on melancholy • Depression and musical genius: Mozart, Beethoven, Musical analysis of La Malinconia • Depression and music in the 19th & 20th century: Scepticism of French psychiatry, a depressive quartet from 19th century music, depression and music in the 20th century. Hardcover, 78 pp., B&W photos.
ISBN 90 5235 003 5  $27.00
see also Famous Depressives and Women and Depression

NEW►Diseased Ancestors.
Essays and Stories around Medical Archaeology. 
Ivan L. Bonta. due Summer 2003.
The book compares and contrasts ancient portraits of diseased people with modern medical images of certain illnesses. Disease portraits from ancient societies are shown in opposition to images of the same disorders in modern Western societies. There is some discussion of the differences in knowledge about health conditions and subsequent therapeutic interventions between cultures and societies. Besides some Paleolithic findings and biblical sources, the main emphasis will be on art objects from pre-Columbian American societies (Inca, Aztec, Olmec, etc). There are many illustrations that emphasize the differences and striking similarities between archaic and modern portraits of disease. Furthermore, easily digestible scientific speculations are presented to endorse the view that, whilst medical methods might support the understanding of archaic findings, medical archaeology can help to improve modern-day health. The book is primarily written for a medically educated readership with an interest in cultural, historic or artistic aspects of medicine, but non-medical intellectuals may enjoy it as well. Contents: Looking twice at a disease • Medical archaeology: what does it cover? • Congenital malformations in archaic times • Skull injuries and head deformities: what do they tell us? • Holy disease and facial grimacing • Sick minds of ancient royalties • Psychoanalysis and archaeology • About love and its sequels • Pediatric anomalies in pre-Columbian art of Mexico • Spiritual relief, divine plants and sacred mushrooms • From bone fragments to cancer causation • References and Notes • Index • Picture credits. Hardcover, 224 pp, B&W photos.
ISBN 90 5235 165 1  $48.00 

Dutch Transatlantic Medicine Trade in the Eighteenth Century
Under the Cover of the West India Company. 2nd edition.
A.M.G. Rutten. 2000. 
Contents: Preface • Acknowledgments • Introduction • Part I: From archaic medicines to marketable drugs: Early traffic in remedies; Pharmacopoeial guidance; The Dutch West India Company; The merchants elite Van Eeghen; Notes. Part II: Some early overseas medicine shipments: The Columbus medicine chest; Portuguese drugs traffic; Whaling trade; American drugs shipped to Spain and the Mediterranean; Comparison; Notes. Part III: The traffic in medicines to Curaηao: Caribbean medicine traffic; Colonial mission and drugs traffic; Trade for care; The impact of Amsterdam pharmacopoeia; Shipboard medicines sent by Amsterdam and other WIC Chambers; Volume and kind of WIC medicines; Sale and purchase by the Government. Part IV: Letters from Guiana: Mad about drugs; The surgeon's medicine shop; Health care; Expedition to Pomeroon; Drugs in a vicious society; Notes. Part V: Medicine traffic to Dutch West African forts: The White Man's Grave; Medical care; Seasonal drugs; Hospital and pharmacy; Arguin's medical ingredients; The benefit of yesterdays drugs; Galen in the tropics; Notes. Part VI: The origin and quality control of traveling simples: Contribution of the New World drugs; Remedies of African origin; Notes. Appendices: Simples kept in apothecary shops • Compounds kept in apothecary shops • Glossary of  some drugs and therapeutic indications • Glossary of some medical terms • At random search on shipped plant drugs • Bibliography: Abbreviations • Printed materials • Tables, Figures and Maps. Index. Paperback, 170 pp., B&W photos.
ISBN 90 5235 148 1  $54.00

Famous Depressives.
Ten historical sketches.
M.J. van Lieburg. 1988.
Historical sketches including: Job (4th century BC) • Michelangelo (1474-1564) • Martin Luther (1483-1546) • Ignatius de Loyola (1491-1556) • Anne Grenville (1640-1691) • Albrecht van Haller (1708-1777) • Johann Georg Zimmermann (1728-1795) • Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) • Charlotte Stieglitz (1806-1834) • Sergei C. Pankejeff (1887-1979). Hardcover, 88 pp., B&W photos.
ISBN 90 5235 007 8  $27.00
see also Depression and Music and Women and Depression

The Four Seasons of Human Life.
Four Anonymous Engravings from the Trent Collection.
Edited by H.F.J. Horstmanshoff et al. 3/2002
The Trent Collection at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina holds four, probably unique, copperplate engravings, each associated with a season and concerned with morality and with scientific matters from a variety of disciplines: medicine, astronomy, astrology, meteorology, and alchemy. The texts, allegories, prints, and symbols present a fascinating cross section of the history of medicine and science up to the 17th century. The plates contain as many as 12 layers, which can be folded back to reveal underlying illustrations. Each print has at its center two human figures, standing between two trees. Each print contains an astrological arch, with the signs of the zodiac, astrological-medical and meteorological data, in addition to maps or charts. A rich background with birds, various flowers of the season, human figures and villages, can be found in all four prints, which also contain pennants, banderoles, and inscribed leaves with moral proverbs and Hippocratic texts, as well as other classical texts, all in Latin translation. Some text is in Greek. The plates are of unknown origin and date--still unsolved are the questions Who made the engravings and when? Full color and B&W photos. Hardcover, 109 pages. CD-ROM included.
ISBN 9052351368 $119.00

From Athens to Jerusalem.
Medicine in Hellenized Jewish lore and in early Christian literature.
S.E. Kottek. 2000.
Contents: Stephen T. Newmyer: Philo on animal psychology: sources and moral implications • Jacqueline Lagrιe: Wisdom, health, salvation: the medical model in the works of Clement of Alexandria • M.J. Geller: An Akkadian vademecum in the Babylonian Talmud • Danielle Gourevitch: Prιparation intellectuelle et dιontologie de la sage-femme: du traitι des maladies des femmes de Soranos d'Ιphθse aux Infortunes de Dinah • Nigel Allen: The healing serpent in the Judeo-Christian tradition • Larissa Tremblover: A sound mind in a diseased body: a medical aspect of the soul-body relationship in later Greek and early Christian philosophy • Joshua Levinson: Cultural androgyny in rabbinic literature • Helena Paavilainen: Mental changes in old age: ancient Jewish sources • Tirzah Meacham (leBeit Yoreh): Halakhic limitations on the use of slaves in physical examinations • S. Kottek and G. Baader: Talmudic and Greco-Roman data on pregnancy: a renewed examination • Jόrgen Helm: Sickness in early Christian healing narratives - medical, religious and social aspects • Marten Stol: Maternal imagination during pregnancy in Babylonia • Gary B. Ferngren: Early Christian views of the demonic aetiology of disease • Manfred Horstmanshoff: Who is the true eunuch? Medical and religious ideas about eunuchs and castration in the works of Clement of Alexandria. Paperback, 180 pp., illustrated with B&W photos.
ISBN 90 5235 135 X  $82.00

Out of Galileo.
The Science of Waters 1628-1718.
NNBGGN 49.
C.S. Maffioli.1994.
This traces the developing science of moving water from Benedetto Castelli, Galileo's student and follower, through the early 18th century Paduan professor, Giovanni Poleni, the last representative of a Galilean tradition on the subject. The author points out that hydraulics was primarily an Italian science during the 17th century due to flooding along the Reno in the territory of Bologna, where efforts early in the century to relieve flooding in Ferrara had imposed a disaster on Bologna, as well as to the eternal problem of the Venetian lagoon. Contents: Part I Introduction • Part II From Castelli to Borelli • The scientific scene in the Italian “Seicento” • The birth of the science of river hydraulics • Further debates up to Castelli’s Book II Della misura dell’acque correnti • The law of efflux • In the steps of Torricelli • The fading of princely patronage: the fate of Borelli • Part III Along the Waters 1675-1700: Montanari at Bologna • At the school of Monanari • Guglielmini’s search for independence • The birth of hydrometry • A new opening towards Europe • The physics of rivers • Part IV Along the Waters 1700-1725: Padua & Venice in the early 18th century • Skirmishes on the Po: Venice vs. Bologna • The building of an academic career in science • Poleni’s lagoon hydraulics and fluid mechanics • Riccati’s critical role • Part V New Patterns in Science • Out of Galileo • The thread of the waters. Hardcover, 509 pp.
ISBN 90 5235 071 X  $114.00

Plague and Print in the Netherlands.
A Short-title Catalogue of Publications in the University Library of Amsterdam.
Paul Dijstelberge and Leo Noordegraaf.  1997.
The STCN "fingerprint" method as a means of distinguishing various editions is explained. When the author is known, the standardized name of the author is chosen as the main heading, followed, when known, by the years of birth and death. The index lists all variants occurring in the catalogue with a reference to the chosen standardized name. The index also includes finding references from anonymous titles to the standardized author's name. If no author is known, the first word of the title is chosen as the main heading, with the exception always of (in)definite articles. The spelling of the main title heading is presented in modern Dutch spelling. The short title consists of the following parts in so far as they occur: the edited author's name, the short title, the imprint, often also edited. In general, the tuels of the Short-Title catalogue, Netherlands (STCN) are followed. Contents: Introduction to the catalogue of works published before 1800 • Reference works • List of plates • Abbreviations • Catalogue • Bibliography • Indices. Hardcover, 360 pp.
ISBN 90 5235 126 0  $110.00

Proceedings of the 1st European Congress on the History of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care.
Edited by L. de Goei and J. Vijselaar. 1993.
Contents: Introduction: Leonie de Gloei and Joost Vijselaar • Religion: J.A. van Belzen: The quest for a Christian psychiatry: a Dutch initiative (1880-1924) • L.S. Cauwenbergh: J.C.A. Heinroth (1773-l843): a re-examination • A. Liegois: Hidden philosophy and theology in the theory of degeneration and the nosology of Morel (1809-1873) • Mesmerism Hypnosis Psycho-analysis, Psychotherapy: H. Feldt: The ‘force’ of imagination in the medicine of late eighteenth century Germany • J. Vijselaar: The reception of animal magnetism in The Netherlands • E. Shorter: Psychotherapy in private clinics in Central Europe 1880-1913 • V. Roelcke: Psychosomatic medicine in post-war Germany: the domestication or psychoanalysis by public institutions • D.T.D. de Ridder: Seeking psychotherapeutic help: the Amsterdam Institute for Medical Psychotherapy • Patients: C. Vanja: Gender and mental diseases in the early modern society: the Hessian Hospitals • P. Allderidge: Sketches in Bedlam • L.D. Smith and A. Swann: In praise of the asylum: the writings of two nineteenth century Glasgow patients • A. Beveridge: John Home: ‘If you want to demoralise a man in every way put him in a madhouse’ • Z. Lothane: Schreber’s soul murder: a case of psychiatric persecution • Fundamental Issues: G. Verwey: Double aspect theory in Freud: a case of disguised romantic love? • A.H.A.C. van Bakel: Emil Kraeplin and Wundtian experimental psychology • Syndromes: S. Bouquet: Contribution to a history of dιjΰ vu • A. Poslavsky: The influence or psychoanalysis on the theory and treatment of hysteria as reflected in two Dutch medical journals 1909-1939 • G. Hutschemaekers: Hysteria in The Netherlands • E. van den Heuvel: The increase of anorexia nervosa: a new myth • Psychiatric Historiography: R. Porter: Psychiatry and its history: Hunter and Macalpine • F. Vidal: Jean Starobinski and the history of psychiatry • Confinement and the Asylum: M.J. Clark: Law, liberty and psychiatry in Victorian Britain: an historical survey and commentary, c.1840-c.1890 • R. Stockman: Life within the walls of the Guislain Institute in Ghent (1850-1950) • F.W. Kersting: Medical profession and lunatic asylums. The case of Westphalia 1900-1945 • Mental Health Care and Education: R. Alvarez Pelaez: Psychiatric and sexual education in Spain: 1900-1936 • A. van der Wurff: Dutch non-residential mental health care for children, 1928-1982. The example of a Medical-Pedagogical Institution • L.M.L.M. de Goei: The history of child psychiatry in The Netherlands: the first generation of academic child psychiatrists (1930-1980) • Psychiatry in the Former European Colonies: A. Kerkhoven: Dutch psychiatrists on Java and Sumatra (1900-1927) • A. Diefenbacher: The lunatic asylum Lutindi: a contribution to the history of the mentally ill Africans in the colony of German East Africa • I.M. Begue: A century of French psychiatry in Algeria (1830-1939) • Miscellaneous: R. Qvarsell: Forensic psychiatry, criminology and criminal law in Sweden during the 20th century • J.C. Coffin: Is modern civilization sick? The response of alienists in mid-nineteenth century France • G. Vandendriessche: Mental diseases and the four temperaments: A preliminary report on the discovery of a very early representation • Symposium ‘History of Psychiatry’: J. Pigeaud: The triumph of dualism in ancient psychopathology • P. Vandermeersch: The victory of psychiatry over demonology, The origin of the 19th century myth • D.B. Weiner: The scientific origins of psychiatry in the French revolution • K. Dφrner: The role of psychiatry in solving the social question 1790-1990 • R. Porter: Hearing the mad. Communication and excommunication. Paperback, 352 pp.
ISBN 90 5235 036 1  $86.00

Public Bodies, Private Lives.
The Historical Construction of Life Insurance, Health Risks, and Citizenship in the Netherlands, 1880-1920.
Klasien Horstman. 3/2002.
This book deals with the public role of medicine. It focuses on the introduction of risk selection and analyzes the interrelatedness of medicine and life insurance. It demonstrates how the medical involvement in life insurance has contributed to a redefinition of health in terms of risks, the construction of the body as a public body, and the individualization of the responsibility for preventive behavior. Paperback, 211 pp.
ISBN 9052351562  $54.00

The Task of Healing.
Medicine, religion and gender in England and the Netherlands 1450-1800. Pantaleon Reeks 24.
H. Marland & M. Pelling. 1996.
This book explores aspects of the healing task as it was interpreted and structured between 1450 and 1800 in the predominantly Protestant cultures of England and the Netherlands. Spheres of work, balances of power, gender connotations, and notions of the proper competence of different medical groups all changed during this period, in ways reflecting the differences in social structure in the two countries. Some dimensions of medical practice were explored in art as a form of social commentary, particularly by the Dutch and Flemish genre painters of the seventeenth century. The volume draws upon this important pictorial evidence, in addition to a wide range of archival and literary sources. Contents: Hilary Marland and Margaret Pelling: Introduction • Fred Bergman: Hoping against hope? A marital dispute about the medical treatment of leprosy in the fifteenth-century Hanseatic town of Kampen • Peter Murray Jones: Book ownership and the lay culture of medicine in Tudor Cambridge • Frank Huisman: Civic roles and academic definitions: the changing relationship between surgeons and urban government in Groningen, 1550-1800 • Margaret Pelling: Compromised by gender: the role of the male medical practitioner in early modern England • Mart va Lieburg: Religion and medical practice in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century: an introduction • Andrew Wear: Religious beliefs and medicine in early modern England • Hans de Waardt: Chasing demons and curing mortals: the medical practice of clerics in the Netherlands • Willem Frijhoff: Medical education and early modern Dutch medical practitioners: towards a critical approach • Margaret Pelling: The body's extremities: feet, gender, and the iconography of healing in seventeenth-century sources • Harold J. Cook: Natural history and seventeenth-century Dutch and English medicine • Hilary Marland: ‘Stately and dignified, kindly and God-fearing’: midwives, age and status in the Netherlands in the eighteenth century • Index. Paperback, 317 pp.
ISBN 90 5235 096 5  $78.00

Woman and Depression.
Impressions from the history of a connection.
M.J. van Lieburg. 1992.
Historical sketches including: Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) • Melancholy in the arts & sciences • Lovesickness as a depressive disorder • The depressive woman in 19th century novels • In the pursuit of the somatic basis of the depressive disorder • Depressions at the interface of 2 centuries • The alleged depression of Queen Victoria • Charlotte Bronte & her sisters • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • Postnatal depression. Hardcover, 93 pp., B&W photos, 1 full color.
ISBN 90 5235 025 6  $27.00
see also Depression and Music and Famous Depressives

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