19th Century Medical History - Science topic

I've been working on how rabies has been historically viewed in colonial-era and pre-independence India, and would like to submit my findings to a journal. I find that there's a lot to be gained from the historical treatment of the disease in the country. However, I've never written such a piece before, and haven't exactly read many similar articles myself, so I'm not sure which journal I should approach (without having to learn things the hard way).

I'm currently working on the life of Charles West (1816-1898), the father of British Pediatrics and Founder (in 1852) of the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London.

His main book about pediatrics is Lectures on the diseases of infancy and childhood, Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, London 1848 [subsequent Longmans' enlarged and revised editions in 1852, 1854, 1859, 1865, 1874 and 1884].

In the Preface of the 1884 English edition of the book, West himself says that also a Dutch edition had been already published: can anybody help me to find the data of this Dutch edition?

 Thank you very much for this help (no special hurry, of course…) and best wishes for the New Year!

I am interested in the visual representation and iconography of tuberculosis and male tuberculosis patients, specially concerning art and male artists. Any suggestion?

Try to do some background reading for my dissertation and want to get a basic understanding of the scholarship available. 

29th Jan 1881: Christian Albert Theodor Billroth Billroth (* 26. Apr 1829 in Bergen, Island of Rügen, Germany; † 6. Feb 1894 in Abbazia, Istria) performed the 1st successful distal gastric cancer resection, known as the Billroth-I-operation (B-I operation) in the 43y female patient Therese Heller, a mother of 8 children [Billroth 1881]. It was the 3rd reported try performing a distal gastric resection but the first successful one, these days known as the Billroth-I-operation. Therese Heller died 4 months later due to metastatic spread into the liver.

Earlier, in 1879, the french surgeon Jules Émile Péan alias "The Pean" (* 29. Nov 1830 in Châteaudun; † 30. Jan 1898 in Paris) performed the 1st known and reported distal gastric cancer resection, but the patient died at the 4th postoperative day [Pean 1879].

And in 1880, Nov 16th, the polish surgeon Ludwik Rydygier (* 1850 in Graudenz [= today Grudziądz]; † 25. Jun 1920 in Lemberg / Ukraine) had performed the 2nd but not successful distal gastric resection on a 63-year-old man named Julius Mickotajewicz who was known to have a duodenal ulcer, the patient died 12 hours later [RYDYGIER 1882]. A 2nd try at 21st Nov 1881 in a gastric ulcer patient was successful.

The achievements above had been possible – despite of course due to the experimental work of Billroth’s pupil’s Czerny, von Mikulicz-Radecki, Woelfler and von Hacker - due to the detailed report of a medical student from Giessen, Germany, Daniel Karl Theordor Merrem [* 1790 in Duisburg, Germany; † 1859], who demonstrated the operation in three dogs, and two survived, in a dog.

I would assume, we can learn a lot fom historic achievements not only in regard to technical surgical perspectives,

Did you know that already these days, fast track - one of the newer hype man-made therapies in patient treatment was performed? Therese Heller received sour milk, starting "1 hour" after the operation, so maybe some surgeons start smiling as they recognize that the hype “fast track” had been already in use long time ago.

However, Billroth performed 41 gastric resections until 1890 and only 19 had been successful, meaning less than 50%.

Other achievements of Billroth had been:

1870 1st successfull esophagectomy ina a dog

1873 1st successfull laryngectomy in a human

1874 discovery of the streptococcus

PEAN, J. E. (1879), Gaz. Hop. (Paris), 52, 473.

RYDYGIER, L. VON (1882), Berlin. klin. Wschr., 19, 39 and RYDYGIER, L. VON (1882), Zbl. Chir., 9, I98.

BILLROTH T (1881), Ibid., 31, 162.

BILLROTH T (1881): Offenes Schreiben an Herrn Dr. Wittelshofer. Wien Med Wochenschr;31:162-5.

I'm specifically looking at the intergenerational aspect of historical trauma in Native Americans and its relationship to adverse health outcomes (cortisol effects maybe?).

There's some great info re: relationship of HT to mental health issues (Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart, Eduardo/Bonnie Duran and Joseph Gone) and some re: Holocaust survivors (Baronowsky), but looking for more info and anything you might know of specifically related to physiologic changes?  Many thanks!

In the Museum we are analyzing how typhus affected the population of Saint Sebastian after the Siege (1813) and we would like to know if there are more references about its effects that we haven't found, especially about France or Spain.

I found an old medicine bottle a while back with bisurated magnesia tablets embossed in the glass. I'm quite interested what 'bisurat-ion?' is/was, I've found quite a lot of indigestion tablet adverts online with vibrant descriptions of acid base reactions but not much about the preparation. Can anyone shed any light?