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Hispanic American Historical Review (1945) 25 (1): 120–121.
Published: 01 February 1945
...William H. Ellison A Doctor Comes to California: The Diary of John S. Griffin, Assistant Surgeon with Kearny’s Dragoons, 1846-1847 . Edited with Introduction by Ames George Wallcott Jr. ( San Francisco : California Historical Society , 1943 . Pp. 97 .) Copyright 1945 by Duke...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (3): 421–443.
Published: 01 August 2016
... contexts, and the role of doctors and surgeons in legal cases involving queer bodies and lives. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 In the past two decades, the archive has been at the center of various academic discussions about history, methodology, and knowledge. Scholarship...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (3): 377–404.
Published: 01 August 1995
... concerned with expanding the population. But this was also a period in which professional roles had a different definition than we now assign to them. If a surgeon were not quickly available, the operation was to be performed by anyone, following the instructions in the cedula (written by professors...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (1): 119–121.
Published: 01 February 1963
... of medicine, surgeons, barber-surgeons, medico-pharmacists, and pharmacists. Most of them needed a secondary occupation; all were victims of social prejudice. Purging and bleeding were part of every therapy. Medical stagnation reflected domination of Spain. Weaknesses were: mediocre doctors, curanderos...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (4): 693–714.
Published: 01 November 1970
... doctors who did become acquainted with them hardly thought the gift worth taking. Dr. Joaquin Solano, a Spanish naval surgeon on duty in Lima, first observed the stubborn conformity of Peruvian physicians during the summer and fall of 1818, when the epidemic was ravaging the coastal towns. His main point...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (4): 762.
Published: 01 November 1968
... and medical roles of physicians and surgeons during the celebrated campaigns of Bolívar in Venezuela. The Liberator himself “was somewhat skeptical about the medicine of his era” (p. 99), an understandable attitude toward a primitive profession. Physicians everywhere blamed yellow fever, which decimated both...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (1): 41–81.
Published: 01 February 1999
... remodeling the plant, including the installation of boilers and streamlined disinfection equipment. 2 Fig. 1: Architectural blueprint for the El Paso Disinfection Plant, 1917. Photo Included in letter from C. C. Pierce to the Surgeon General, 16 Feb. 1917, NACP, USPHS, RG 90, CF 1897-1923, file...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1986) 66 (2): 386–387.
Published: 01 May 1986
... of a projected three-volume study tracing the history of the Jews in Chile is a biography of a colonial surgeon. The bachiller Francisco Maldonado de Silva was of partial Jewish ancestry and began to practice Judaism, as he understood it, as a young man. He confided his religious convictions to his sister, who...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (3): 584–585.
Published: 01 August 1988
... of Old World methods and learning. In all three European societies, bonafide, licensed physicians and surgeons trained in Alcalá de Henares, Paris, or London, relying on Galen, Hippocrates, and Avicenna, transmitted their theories and practices virtually unchanged to colonies overseas. Because of severe...
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in Buildings, Boundaries, and Blood: Medicalization and Nation-Building on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1910-1930
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Published: 01 February 1999
Fig. 1: Architectural blueprint for the El Paso Disinfection Plant, 1917. Photo Included in letter from C. C. Pierce to the Surgeon General, 16 Feb. 1917, NACP, USPHS, RG 90, CF 1897-1923, file 1248.
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in Buildings, Boundaries, and Blood: Medicalization and Nation-Building on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1910-1930
> Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 February 1999
Photo 1: Steam disinfection of clothing at the Santa Fe Street Station. Photo included in letter from C. C. Pierce to Surgeon General, 16 Feb. 1917, NACP, USPHS, RG 90, CF 1897-1923, file 1248.
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (3): 544–545.
Published: 01 August 1999
... the pharmacists and surgeons, the latter gaining respectability in the late eighteenth century because of their importance to the Bourbon armies. Even within each group there was a large range of status, as from the lowly itinerant surgeon who peddled his services in small towns to the well-connected faculty...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (3): 541–542.
Published: 01 August 2022
...; and the Portuguese surgeon and alleged judiazante Blas de Paz Pinto. Along with an excellent medical education, a specialty in local herbs, and hardworking, detail-oriented leadership of Catholic brotherhoods, Pinto also made an incredible fortune as a slave trader. Over the course of years of interrogations...
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in Buildings, Boundaries, and Blood: Medicalization and Nation-Building on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1910-1930
> Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 February 1999
Photo 2: Mexicans waiting to be deloused at the front end of the El Paso disinfection station. Photo included in letter from C. C. Pierce to Surgeon General, 16 Feb. 1917, NACP, USPHS, RG 90, CF 1897-1923, file 1248.
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (4): 728–729.
Published: 01 November 2024
... today. Published in the wake of Mexico's federal decriminalization of abortion and the US Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization , the book prompts urgent questions about the meaning of fetal life, the value of maternal health, and the role of physicians and surgeons...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (2): 321–322.
Published: 01 May 2021
... to other clergymen, physicians, surgeons, barbers, midwives, and even laypeople. Not simply a surgical intervention, the cesarean operation was mainly meant to ensure the spiritual salvation of thousands of fetuses through baptism. Martha Few, Zeb Tortorici, and Adam Warren, specialists respectively...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (3): 439–541.
Published: 01 August 1965
... were without success. A fourth was organized under Dr. Walter Reed because the epidemic of yellow fever among the occupation personnel continued to increase in intensity in spite of drastic sanitary measures. This American Army Board was under the direction of the surgeon general, Dr. Charles M...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (3): 393–423.
Published: 01 August 1989
... that vaccine use preceded Balmis at almost every stop in the Caribbean. In spite of his experiences in San Juan, furthermore, Balmis did not deal (except in Cuba) in any more productive or amicable fashion with the local physicians and surgeons who had already started to use the Jennerian preventive method...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (2): 307–334.
Published: 01 May 1991
.... This meant that pardos who wished to practice medicine had either to become surgeons or to study outside the university. José Pastor de Larrinaga, a mulatto surgeon, indicated in his Apología de los cirujanos del Perú (Lima, 1793) that Peruvian surgeons were in fact stigmatized as zambos by the Spanish...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (3): 470.
Published: 01 August 1963
... noble love affair ends in tragedy. In this novel, Sally and Andrew Lorimer emigrate from the South after the Civil War to claim their inheritance in Mexico. The action begins with their arrival in Vera Cruz, and the reader is immediately led into Mexico under Maximilian. A former Civil War surgeon...
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