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The French Pox in the 16th Century Medical Consilia
Divišová, Bohdana ; Černý, Karel (advisor) ; Žalud, Zdeněk (referee) ; Čornejová, Ivana (referee)
Summary: Consilia played an important role in medieval but also early modern professional health literature. Literary "consilium" contained a written statement of one particular case, the patient's condition and disease as well as advice on a medical procedure where a doctor in accordance with the contemporary discourse analyzed symptoms, determined the diagnosis, prognosis and recommended its pharmacological treatment including possible technical interventions (venesection etc.). In the 16th century, the Consilia Literature was a common part of many eminent physicians' practice whereas nowadays it is unjustly neglected source of history of medicine, pharmacology, dietetics and so on. The first part of the dissertation is devoted to the definition of genre, the initial stages of its development and description of the specifics of the Middle Ages. However the results of fifteen eminent physicians of Italy (B. Vettori, G. B. Da Monte, V. Trincavelli, A. M. Venusti, G. Capodivaccio, C. Guarinoni), France (J. Fernel, G. de Baillou) and of the German-speaking areas of Central Europe (J. Crato, R. Solenander, L. Scholz, D. Cornarius, J. Wittich, T. Mermann, J. Matthaeus), became the main theme of work of early modern consultative collections. On examination of nearly seven thousand consilia from twenty two...
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Prof. Rudolf Jedlička (1869-1926) and the medical and social institutions bound up with his activities
Černá, Marcela ; Jakubec, Ivan (advisor) ; Rákosník, Jakub (referee)
Rudolf Jedlička belongs to the most important Czech doctors of the beginning of the 20th century. After finishing his studies he engaged, under the influence of his favourite professor Karel Maydl, in surgery. Nevertheless he was very soon interested in X-ray science and radiology - the science branches, which were just newly being formed, and whose pioneer in the central Europe he became. Jedlička was often consulted as a diagnostic and operator thanks to his many-sided medical skills. He connected his life with the Faculty of Medicine of the Czech Charles-Ferdinand University, respectively Charles University, where he was engaged as an educationalist - creator of so called Jedlička school, which became bearer of his medical heritage. He reached the top of his career in 1921, when he was designated as regular professor of surgery and simultaneously head of the II. Clinic of Surgery. Rudolf Jedlička did not limit his activities only to medical theory and practice, but he was also initiator and organizer of many medical and social projects, the most important of which was the foundation of Prague sanatorium and neighbouring Jedlička foundation. Prague sanatorium was opened in May 1914 as a general hospital covering all specializations except of infectious and mental illnesses. The sanatorium arrived...
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The Reception of Narcotics by British Scientists and Society in the First Half of the 19th Century
Michlová, Marie ; Tumis, Stanislav (advisor) ; Valkoun, Jaroslav (referee)
The bachelor thesis analyzes how the British society and scientists perceived the narcotics in the Great Britain during the first half of the 19th century. Numerous sources (including the period medical books, popular magazines, fiction, and letters) were used for this work. The aim was to compare how the people of different professions, ages, education, or rank perceived the narcotics and what had influenced their opinions. There are also several chapters about the physicians and their reception of narcotics, travelers and itineraries, the Opium Wars, animals, and one detailed study about Sir Walter Scott's family.
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Medical Manuscripts of Southwest Bohemia and Their Inventory
VALINOVÁ, Šárka
This thesis presents image of varied methods of treatment in the past, based on analysis of recipes, which are recorded in medical manuscripts of the 15.-19. century stored in various scientific and cultural institutions in Jihočeský region and Plzeňský region. It contains also an inventory of these manuscripts and presents an attempt of their classification. This thesis also deals with authors of recipes, which are written in these medical manuscripts. In appendices can be found (besides previously mentioned inventory) pictures of some records in these manuscripts, a dictionary of less known Old Czech expressions and archaisms, which occured in this thesis, and a list of names.
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War Injuries in the World War I
Smrčka, V. ; Mádlová, Vlasta
The paper describes the medical officer during the First World War at the front. Describes transport wounded soldiers from the front, the ways of their first treatment to treatment in field hospitals. The First World War brought about the development of numerous medical fields and the introduction of completely new, such as plastic surgery.
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War Injuries from Past to Present
Smrčka, V. ; Mádlová, Vlasta
The symposium was conceived as a meeting of Ph.D. students studying palaeopathological issues. Due to a great interest in this subject matter it was finály extended by further invited scientific lecturers who are concerned with the history of medicine. The Symposium covered this subject matter not only from the Neolithic Age to the World War I but also to the present days.
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"Jádro vybrané z mnohých knih lékařských" of 1674
VALINOVÁ, Šárka
This bachelor?s thesis presents a codicological and content analysis of manuscript titled ?Jádro vybrané z mnohých knih lékařských? of 1674 with pressmark RK 80, which is housed at the Vlastivědné muzeum dr. Hostaše in Klatovy and is partially based on Lékařské knížky from master Křišťan of Prachatice. First chapter contains brief history of medicine and introduces some of the significant persons of czech medieval medicine. Next part of the thesis deals with the analysis of the manuscript, whose part is also comparison with Křišťan?s work. In appendices can be found tables of contents of the manuscript, samples of handwritting, pictures of watermarks of paper, on which is this manuscript written, and a dictionary, which contains most frequently occuring Old Czech words in this thesis.
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5th International Symposium on History of Medicine, Pharmacy and Veterinary Medicine, 26th - 29th June, 2001 in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. Book of Abstracts
Mášová, Hana ; Valášková, L. ; Drahovzalová, J. ; Andresová, L. ; Uhlířová, D. ; Komárková, I. ; Dohnal, F.
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