History, 17th Century
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Richard Lower (1631-1691): acknowledging his notable contributions to the exploration of the nervous system. Historical vignette.

30 Oct 2009 Richard Lower (1631-1691), an anatomist and physician, was born in St. Tudy, Cornwall, England, and became an avid follower of William Harvey and a pupil to Sir Thomas Willis. Unfortunately, little is written of his contributions to the study of the ... Read more...

Training guidelines for ultrasound: worldwide trends.

30 Aug 2009 Sound travels through objects that block light. Only very recently has technology advanced enough to decipher ultrasound for medical use. Machines have become smaller, cheaper, more versatile and more advanced than ever before. The medical use of ... Read more...

Sources of nutrients to windward agricultural systems in pre-contact Hawai'i.

30 Aug 2009 Prior to European contact in 1778, Hawaiians developed intensive irrigated pondfield agricultural systems in windward Kohala, Hawai'i. We evaluated three potential sources of nutrients to windward systems that could have sustained intensive ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'History, 17th Century'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Richard Lower (1631-1691): acknowledging his notable contributions to the exploration of the nervous system. Historical vignette. 30 Oct 2009
• Tenofovir coadministration is not associated with lower unboosted atazanavir plasma exposure in the clinical setting. 30 Oct 2009
• When history really is not applicable or relevant. 24 Oct 2009
• Cardioversion: past, present, and future. 18 Oct 2009
• Women in medical microbiology: reflections on contributions. 29 Sep 2009
• Archaeology: Maya, Khmer and Inca. 22 Sep 2009
• The cover. Lute-player. 14 Sep 2009
• Religious belief and the history of science. 8 Sep 2009
• Training guidelines for ultrasound: worldwide trends. 30 Aug 2009
• Sources of nutrients to windward agricultural systems in pre-contact Hawai'i. 30 Aug 2009
• The 150th anniversary of Nagasaki University School of Medicine: recovery from the atomic disaster and evolution of the department of neurosurgery. 30 Aug 2009
• Counting the dead and regulating the living: early modern statistics and the formation of the sociological imagination (1662-1897). 30 Aug 2009
• Legal controls of the medical profession. 30 Aug 2009
• Eruption of primary dentition--a grave health problem according to Spanish doctors of the XVI-XVIII centuries. 30 Aug 2009
• The enigma of Galileo's eyesight: some novel observations on Galileo Galilei's vision and his progression to blindness. 30 Aug 2009
• Anatomy, technology, art, and culture: toward a realistic perspective of the brain. 30 Aug 2009
• 2,000-year-long temperature and hydrology reconstructions from the Indo-Pacific warm pool. 25 Aug 2009
• [Pápai Páriz and the stagnating pulmonary circulation] 21 Aug 2009
• The cover. A boy and a girl with a cat and an eel. 17 Aug 2009
• [Experience and prospects in the treatment of heart failure] 9 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'History, 17th Century'

Definition: Time period from 1601 through 1700 of the common era.

Descriptor UI: D049670

Alternative terms: History, 17th Century; 17th Century Histories; Century History, 17th; Histories, 17th Century; History, Seventeenth Century; Century Histories, Seventeenth; Century History, Seventeenth; Histories, Seventeenth Century; Seventeenth Century Histories; Seventeenth Century History; 17th Century History; History of Medicine, 17th Cent.; Medical History, 17th Cent.; 17th Cent. History of Medicine; 17th Cent. History (Medicine); 17th Cent. Histories (Medicine); Cent. Histories, 17th (Medicine); Histories, 17th Cent. (Medicine); History, 17th Cent. (Medicine); Historical Events, 17th Century; Medicine, 17th Cent.; 17th Cent. Medicine;

Tree Number: K01.400.504.750;

History Note: 2005

Technical Notes: IM general only; NIM as check tag