[Medical Heritage Library - The world's largest digital medical library]. / Medical Heritage Library - La plus grande bibliothèque médicale numérique du monde.

TITLE: Medical Heritage Library - La plus grande bibliothèque médicale numérique du monde. ABSTRACT: À l'heure où l'accès libre et gratuit aux ressources numériques est devenu un enjeu majeur, le but de cette présentation est d'introduire le lecteur à la visite de deux outils informatiques incontournables : la bibliothèque numérique Medica fondée en France dès 2000 et la Medical Heritage Library, premier consortium nord-américain mondial regroupant l'essentiel des ressources en histoire de la médecine tombées dans le domaine public.

Epidemiology of Chikungunya in the Americas.

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) emerged in the Americas in late 2013 to cause substantial acute and chronic morbidity. About 1.1 million cases of chikungunya were reported within a year, including severe cases and deaths. The burden of chikungunya is unclear owing to inadequate disease surveillance and underdiagnosis. Virus evolution, globalization, and climate change may further CHIKV spread. No approved vaccine or antiviral therapeutics exist. Early detection and appropriate management could reduce the burden of severe atypical and chronic arthritic disease. Improved surveillance and risk assessment are needed to mitigate the impact of chikungunya.

Greek and Roman patients under Galen's gaze: a doctor at the crossroads of two cultures.

Born in Pergamum in 129 A.D., Galen received his first medical training in his native city and then continued his studies in Smyrna, Corinth, and Alexandria. He began his medical career in Asia Minor, treating peasants and performing surgery on the gladiatorial troupe that worked as slaves under the high priest upon his return to Pergamum in 157. Subsequently, he settled in Rome, where he lived most of his life and treated many prominent patients. The aim of this paper is to explore how Galen viewed his Asian and Roman patients and how he adapted his practice and medical procedures based not only on each patient's social and economic status, but on his or her intellectual acumen and customs as well, through proposing an intelligent and original synthesis of Asian and Roman lifestyles.

[At the origin of the theriac: the receipt of Andromachus]. / Aux origines de la thériaque: la recette d'Andromaque.

The Greek physician Galen of Pergamum (129-c. 210) has preserved in his two tracts De antidotis and De theriaca ad Pisonem the original recipe of the theriac under the name of Andromachus. Galen specifies that Andromachus was the first to add flesh of vipers in this pharmacological preparation. This paper intends to study the real originality of Andromachus compared with his predecessors and to examine in which sense he can really be considered as the inventor of the theriac.

Art, science and conjecture, from Hippocrates to Plato and Aristotle.

This paper attempts to study the notion of stochazesthai in the Hippocratic Corpus in relation to Hippocratic reflections on the status of the medical art. Considering the passages where the verb stochazesthai is employed, we can see that this word is not yet synonymous with the term "conjecture". The main point of interest are the relations between the Hippocratic writings and the relevant works of Plato and Aristotle. In revising the concept of stochazesthai in this way, it appears that this "conjectural" mode of knowledge was unknown to the Hippocratic writers and that it is really too early in their case to speak of "stochastic medicine".