| Description Of Item | A press cutting about discolouration of the skin noted in a 26-year-old pregnant woman by Joseph Griffiths Swayne. The clipping comes from a report of the activities of a meeting of the Obstetrical Society of London held on 5 February 1862. The article was published on 15 February 1862 in the Medical Times and Gazette
A press cutting from the Gazette Médicale de Paris from 20 September 1873. It is a passage about Alphonse Fochier’s procedures of surgery. He mentions Saint-Andre Hospital and Croix-Rousse Hospital. Eugéne Azam is also mentioned. It is written in French.
A press cutting of an article about a meeting of L’Association Française Pour L’avancement Des Sciences published in Gazette Médicale de Paris on 20 September 1873. The article is about Favre’s study into colourblind railway workers and is written in French.
A press cutting from the Medical Times and Gazette from 21 June 1862 reporting on a meeting of the Ethnological Society of London that occurred on the 17 June 1862. John Crawford read his paper ‘On Colour as a Test of the Races of Men’, and received comments from Edward Beclher, Charles Carter Blake. The work of Louis Agassiz is mentioned.
A press cutting from The Medical Circular from November 8 1865 about the necklace of Venus being a sign of syphilis. Alfred Hardy’s observations of women who showed this discolouration are described.
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