History, 18th Century

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 17^th Century Variola Virus Reveals the Recent History of Smallpox. 
  • A brief history of psychiatric classification. From the ancients to DSM-IV. 
  • A brief history of surgery for peripheral nerve sheath tumors. 
  • A historical look at men's involvement in nursing and leadership in GAPNA. 
  • Acute pain on and off the battlefield: what we do, what we know, and future directions. 
  • An Eclectic Review of the History of Peripheral Nerve Surgery. 
  • Anticoagulation strategies for venous thromboembolism. 
  • Babinski's sign in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque art. 
  • Cellular plasticity: 1712 to the present day. 
  • Committee report: American Pediatrics: milestones at the millennium. 
  • Current evidence and clinical implications of aspirin resistance. 
  • Dermatologic considerations of stoma care. 
  • Diphtheria and theories of infectious disease: centennial appreciation of the critical role of diphtheria in the history of medicine. 
  • Electroneuroprostheses: past and present uses in man. 
  • Emergence of rheumatic fever in the nineteenth century. 
  • Epilepsy: A Disruptive Force in History. 
  • Ergot, the "jerks," and revivals. 
  • Evolution of cranioplasty techniques in neurosurgery: historical review, pediatric considerations, and current trends. 
  • Extensive global wetland loss over the past three centuries. 
  • Face Masks: Their History and the Values They Communicate. 
  • Heberden's nodes. 
  • Hematoxylin: Mesoamerica's Gift to Histopathology. Palo de Campeche (Logwood Tree), Pirates' Most Desired Treasure, and Irreplaceable Tissue Stain. 
  • History of the recurrent laryngeal nerve: from Galen to Lahey. 
  • In vitro culture of epithelial cells derived from urogenital tissues. 
  • Joseph Bell, MD, FRCS--Mr. Sherlock Holmes? 
  • Julia Rush's diary: coping with loss in the early nineteenth century. 
  • Laparoscopic appendectomy in the elderly. 
  • Lessons from the past. 
  • Mental illness in U.S. Presidents between 1776 and 1974: a review of biographical sources. 
  • Mercury water and cauterizing stones: Nicolas André and tic douloureux. 
  • Milestones in thoracic surgery. 
  • Missions, Humanitarianism, and the Evolution of Modern Global Surgery. 
  • Mycotic diseases. A proposed nomenclature. 
  • Nonoperative treatment of intussusception: historical perspective. 
  • Psychologic factors in the development of complex regional pain syndrome: history, myth, and evidence. 
  • Quarantine, isolation, and cohorting: from cholera to Klebsiella. 
  • Reconstructing Holocene fire history in a southern Appalachian forest using soil charcoal. 
  • Religion and medicine I: historical background and reasons for separation. 
  • Richard Kirwan's phlogiston theory: its success and fate. 
  • Sexual division and the new mythology: Goethe and Schelling. 
  • Snuff synergy: preparation, use and pharmacology of yopo and Banisteriopsis caapi among the Piaroa of southern Venezuela. 
  • Social motivation affecting individuals' actions in Japan during World War II: historical review. 
  • Space and motion in nature and Scripture: Galileo, Descartes, Newton. 
  • Surgeons, plague, and leadership: A historical mantle to carry forward. 
  • Telemedicine: climate change and mosquito-borne disease: a historical perspective. 
  • The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, Dr. Clyde Henry Donnell, and the health education of blacks. 
  • The art of observation: William Osler and the method of Zadig. 
  • The effect of race on the discriminatory accuracy of models to predict biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy: results from the Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital and Duke Prostate Center databases. 
  • The evolution of witchcraft and the meaning of healing in colonial Andean society. 
  • The names and faces of medicine. Angle of Louis. 
  • The origin and evolution of neuroendoscopy. 
  • The provision of public goods under Islamic law: origins, impact, and limitations of the waqf system. 
  • [Progress in medical information management. Systematized nomenclature of medicine (SNOMED)]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Sigal, Peter, Professor of History, History