[Artisanal Surgery in the Early 17th Century. The Practice Journal of a Barber-Surgeon in Münster]. / Handwerkschirurgie im frühen 17. Jahrhundert. Das Praxisjournal eines Münsteraner Barbiers.

This paper presents and analyzes the practice journal of a barber-surgeon in the town of Münster, in Northern Germany, in which he recorded about 950 cases he treated between 1602 and 1614. Based on this source, it examines the clientele and the fees of a German barber-surgeon in the early seventeenth century, and looks at the injuries and complaints for which patients sought his treatment.

A trajetória de médicos e barbeiros no Rio de Janeiro da segunda metade do século XIX / The trajectory of physicians and barber-surgeons in Rio de Janeiro during the second half of the nineteenth century

O trabalho analisa aspectos do exercício dos ofícios de cura de médicos e barbeiros-sangradores no Rio de Janeiro, entre 1840 e 1889, com base em nomes e endereços encontrados no Almanaque Laemmert. Além de localizar geograficamente os espaços de atuação desses agentes na cidade, são identificados os anunciantes que se repetiram ao longo do tempo e aqueles que mudaram de endereço. O cruzamento com dados das fontes cartoriais e eclesiásticas, que indicam objetos relacionados à prática terapêutica, como sarjetas, globos para sangrar e navalhas, permite compreender melhor as mudanças na atuação desses terapeutas em contexto caracterizado pela desqualificação das artes de cura populares, a crise da escravidão e mudanças nas concepções acadêmicas sobre as doenças.

This work analyzes aspects of the healing work performed by doctors and barber- surgeons in Rio de Janeiro between 1840 and 1889, based on the names and addresses in the Laemmert Almanaque. This not only provided the geographic location of where these agents were active within the city, but also identified the advertisers who featured repeatedly and those who moved to other locations. By cross-referencing this data with notary public sources and church records, which identified objects used in therapeutic practices, such as fleams, cupping-glasses and lancets, one can to better understand the way these therapists worked in a context characterized by the disqualification of the popular arts of healing, the slavery crisis and changes in academic concepts about diseases.

A trajetória de médicos e barbeiros no Rio de Janeiro da segunda metade do século XIX / The trajectory of physicians and barber-surgeons in Rio de Janeiro during the second half of the nineteenth century

O trabalho analisa aspectos do exercício dos ofícios de cura de médicos e barbeiros-sangradores no Rio de Janeiro, entre 1840 e 1889, com base em nomes e endereços encontrados no Almanaque Laemmert. Além de localizar geograficamente os espaços de atuação desses agentes na cidade, são identificados os anunciantes que se repetiram ao longo do tempo e aqueles que mudaram de endereço. O cruzamento com dados das fontes cartoriais e eclesiásticas, que indicam objetos relacionados à prática terapêutica, como sarjetas, globos para sangrar e navalhas, permite compreender melhor as mudanças na atuação desses terapeutas em contexto caracterizado pela desqualificação das artes de cura populares, a crise da escravidão e mudanças nas concepções acadêmicas sobre as doenças.(AU)

This work analyzes aspects of the healing work performed by doctors and barber- surgeons in Rio de Janeiro between 1840 and 1889, based on the names and addresses in the Laemmert Almanaque. This not only provided the geographic location of where these agents were active within the city, but also identified the advertisers who featured repeatedly and those who moved to other locations. By cross-referencing this data with notary public sources and church records, which identified objects used in therapeutic practices, such as fleams, cupping-glasses and lancets, one can to better understand the way these therapists worked in a context characterized by the disqualification of the popular arts of healing, the slavery crisis and changes in academic concepts about diseases.(AU)

Recuento histórico y análisis epistemológico de la sepsis secundaria a lesiones y su control quirúrgico. Desde el papiro de Edwin Smith hasta el pus bonum et laudabile / Historical recount and epistemological analysis of the sepsis derived from wounds and its surgical control: From thepapyrus of Edwin Smith to the "pus bonum et laudabile".

La sepsis como complicación temible del trauma ha acompañado al hombre a través de la historia en especial en la antigüedad. En el presente trabajo se analiza la evolución histórica del controlquirúrgico de la sepsis desde el Antiguo Egipto hasta la Edad Media. Se describe cómo los diferentes tratamientos tuvieron una evolución paradójica: empezando desde una relativa cura apiógena de los egipcios y alejandrinos, hasta el irrefrenable deseo de ver supurar la lesión, típico en la EdadMedia. También se exponen las causas de la ambigüedad de los griegos a la hora de promover o limitar la supuración, sustentadas en el humoralismo clásico, y cómo esta concepción fue la semilla del dogma galénico “la pus es buena y laudable”, dogma que marcó la pauta del cuidado de las heridas durante más de mil años, y que fue responsable, junto con la pérdida de valiosos conocimientos quirúrgicos en el Medioevo, del establecimiento de la cauterización como tratamiento de elección para muchos tipos de lesión. Finalmente, se presentan las razones epistemológicas del fracaso del intento de derrumbar el dogma galénico durante el siglo XIII.

Sepsis, as a fearsome complication of trauma, has accompanied mankind throughout history, particularly in the Antiquity. In this article the historical evolution of surgical sepsis control and of the importance of suppuration is reviewed, from the Ancient Egypt through the Middle Ages. The evolutionof different therapeutic approaches for wounds is described, from the non-suppurative healing of the Egyptians and Alexandrians to the irrepressible desire of seeing wound suppuration that was common in the Middle Ages. The causes of the ambiguity of Greeks concerning the promotion or limitation of suppuration are presented. They were based on the classical theory of Humoralism. This conception became the framework of the Galenic dogma expressed as the “good and laudable pus”, which served as the basisfor wound care during more than one thousand years. It was responsible, together with the loss of valuablesurgical knowledge during the Middle Ages, of the establishement of cauterization as the treatment of choice for different types of lesions. The epistemological reasons for the failure to overthrow the Galenic dogma duringthe XIII Century are also discussed.

Clinical interventional radiology: parallels with the evolution of general surgery.

Parallels between the evolution of surgery into an accepted clinical specialty and changes in the practice of interventional radiology (IR) have been drawn. Technical advances have mandated a change in the role of interventional radiologists from diagnostic radiologist to that of the treating physician. The development of "modern" IR is an accelerated repetition of the evolution of "modern" clinical surgery. The resistance or delay of some to accept IR as a clinical specialty is a duplication of the resistance to accept surgery as a clinical specialty by medicine in general. It is clearly time to understand that the benefits the interventional radiologist brings to the patient far exceed his ability to synthesize imaging data with catheter skills. Those of us who have accepted this can take some comfort in the fact that we now tread a path already proven in its destination.