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unusual facts about history of medicine


Karl Sudhoff

Karl Sudhoff (26 November 1853, Frankfurt am Main - 8 October 1938, Salzwedel) was a German historian of medicine, important in establishing that field as a legitimate discipline for research and teaching within faculties of medicine.


John Pickstone

He has held fellowships in History of Medicine at the University of Minnesota (1971–73) and at University College London (1974), before moving in 1974 to the Department of History of Science and Technology, UMIST, Manchester, to work on the history of hospitals in the Manchester region (Lecturer, 1977, later Senior Lecturer).

Psoralea corylifolia

Psoralea corylifolia (Babchi) is an important plant in the Indian Ayurveda and Tamil Siddha systems of medicine, and also Chinese medicine.

Wolfson Research Institute

The building houses the School for Medicine and Health and the North East Public Health Observatory, as well the Centre for History of Medicine and Disease, the Cognitive Neuroscience Research Unit (Department of Psychology), the Durham Endocrinology Laboratory (Department of Anthropology), the Durham University Clinical Trials Unit and researchers from the Geography department.


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Cyril Elgood

Elgood's major achievement was that he managed to combine the commonly delved into history of Post-Islamic Persia as cited through works of such Arabophone Persians such as Ali Abbas Majusi, Razi, and Avicenna, with the less commonly studied history of medicine in Pre-Islamic Persia.

Humphry Rolleston

As revised for the 14th edition (1929) Rolleston's part was Medicine, General (in volume 15), followed by the other part, Medicine, History of, by Charles Singer, Lecturer in the History of Medicine, University of London.

John Pickstone

In 1985-86, as part of a rationalisation, he moved to the Victoria University of Manchester and established the Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CHSTM), including the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine and the National Archive for the History of Computing before directing the Centre until 2002 when he became a Research Professor.

John Riddle

John M. Riddle (born 1937), a scholar who specializes in the history of medicine

Shamdasani

Sonu Shamdasani, author, editor, and Reader at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London

The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online

University of Cambridge is Director of the project; James Secord of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge and Janet Browne of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London were the principal investigators for the grant.