Introduction To The History Of Medical And Veterinary Mycology

Author : G. C. Ainsworth,Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521524555

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Introduction to the History of Medical and Veterinary Mycology by G. C. Ainsworth,Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth Pdf

This book is the first to give a well-documented, illustrated survey of the historical background to disease caused by fungi in man and domesticated animals. Medical and veterinary mycology includes the study of infectious diseases caused by actinomycetes and allergic conditions induced by both fungi and actinomycetes, and their history is also described here. The foundations of medical mycology have been laid over the past centuries but have only been completed during recent decades. This is therefore an appropriate moment to write the history of this specialty, which involves the collaboration of medically qualified and non-medically trained workers. Dr Ainsworth's long and varied career in mycology fits him ideally to the task he has undertaken and he has drawn on his experience to provide an invaluable scholarly perspective on the area.

Author : Indranil Samanta
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9788132222804

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Veterinary Mycology by Indranil Samanta Pdf

This book is a comprehensive overview of the fungi that are clinically relevant for animals and humans. It is divided in three major parts: the first part comprises the history of veterinary and medical mycology, general aspects of morphology, growth, nutrition, reproduction and classification of fungi. In the second part, the etiologic agents of cutaneous, subcutaneous and systemic mycoses are described in detail with special emphasis on emerging and uncommon pathogenic fungi. Each chapter consists of a brief history and the morphology, classification, reproduction, susceptibility to disinfectants, natural habitat, distribution, genome, isolation, growth and colony characteristics, antigenic characteristics, virulence factors. The major diseases and their routes of transmission, pathogenesis, immunity, diagnosis and treatment are also covered. The third part focuses on laboratory diagnosis including clinical sample collection, their processing for fungal isolation, special stains for microscopic visualization, culture media composition and a relevant glossary. Each chapter includes color photographs, schematic diagrams and tables for better understanding.

Author : G. C. Ainsworth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1976-10-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521210135

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Introduction to the History of Mycology by G. C. Ainsworth Pdf

Outlines the development of the main branches of mycology.

Author : A. Homei,M. Worboys
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137377029

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Fungal Disease in Britain and the United States 1850-2000 by A. Homei,M. Worboys Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY license. The narrative of 20th-century medicine is the conquering of acute infectious diseases and the rise in chronic, degenerative diseases. The history of fungal infections does not fit this picture. This book charts the path of fungal infections from the mid 19th century to the dawn of the 21st century.

Author : Ana Victoria Espinell-Ingroff
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401703116

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Medical Mycology in the United States by Ana Victoria Espinell-Ingroff Pdf

The development of medical mycology in the United States is assessed within the context of scientific progress as demonstrated by the creativity and scholarly contributions from research, technological activities, and training toward the management of fungal diseases. Although it focuses on American figures and events, it covers the origins of the discipline in Europe and Latin America. It describes historically significant scientific, technological and educational development and the narrative description is accompanied by an analysis of the causes of these and their perceived impact on the development of the discipline from the late 1880s into the 1990s. The development was conceptualised into five aras: the era of discovery, the formative years, the advent of antifungal and immunosuppressive therapies, the years of expansion and the era of transition.

Author : Jagdish Chander
Publisher : JP Medical Ltd
Page : 958 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789386261830

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Textbook of Medical Mycology by Jagdish Chander Pdf

Medical mycology refers to the study of fungi that produce disease in humans and other animals, and of the diseases they produce, their ecology, and their epidemiology. This new edition has been fully revised to provide microbiologists with the latest information on fungal infections, covering the entire spectrum of different types of infection, and therapeutic modalities. Beginning with a general overview explaining morphology, taxonomy, and diagnosis, the following sections cover the different categories of fungal infection including superficial cutaneous mycoses, subcutaneous mycoses, systemic mycoses and opportunistic mycoses. A complete section is dedicated to pseudofungal infections. The highly illustrated text concludes with a detailed appendices section and each chapter features key references for further reading. Key points Fully revised, fourth edition providing latest information on the diagnosis and management of fungal infections Covers the entire spectrum of mycoses Highly illustrated with clinical photographs and figures Previous edition (9788188039780) published in 2009

Author : Brian Sutton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996-05-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521570565

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A Century of Mycology by Brian Sutton Pdf

British mycologists have had a major impact worldwide. Commemorating the centenary of the British Mycological Society, founded in 1896, this book gives an account of the British contribution to mycology, both at professional and amateur level. A variety of distinguished British and American authors give an authoritative commentary on the state of mycology, and on potential future developments in fields in which British mycologists made important breakthroughs. The book is introduced by an overview of the British contribution and personal views on pioneering work on aquatic hyphomycetes, tropical mycology and the amateur contribution. Later review articles treat a number of subjects in depth such as physiology, systematics, ecology, chemistry and mapping. This unique book will be of great interest to all professional and amateur mycologists in both research and teaching.

Author : Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth
Publisher : CABI
Page : 783 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780851998268

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Ainsworth & Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi by Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth Pdf

This 10th edition, of the acclaimed reference work, has more than 21,000 entries, and provides the most complete listing available of generic names of fungi, their families and orders, their attributes and descriptive terms. For each genus, the authority, the date of publication, status, systematic position, number of accepted species, distribution, and key references are given. Diagnoses of families and details of orders and higher categories are included for all groups of fungi. In addition, there are biographic notes, information on well-known metabolites and mycotoxins, and concise accounts of almost all pure and applied aspects of the subject (including citations of important literature). Co-published by: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

Author : David Greenwood
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780191560071

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Antimicrobial Drugs by David Greenwood Pdf

Between 1935 and 1944 the field of microbiology, and by implication medicine as a whole, underwent dramatic advancement. The discovery of the extraordinary antibacterial properties of sulphonamides, penicillin, and streptomycin triggered a frantic hunt for more antimicrobial drugs that was to yield an abundant harvest in a very short space of time. By the early 1960s more than 50 antibacterial agents were available to the prescribing physician and, largely by a process of chemical modification of existing compounds, that number has more than tripled today. We have become so used to the ready availability of these relatively safe and highly effective 'miracle drugs' that it is now hard to grasp how they transformed the treatment of infection. This book documents the progress made from the first tentative search for an elusive 'chemotherapy' of infection in the early days of the twentieth century, to the development of effective antiviral agents for the management of HIV as the millennium drew to a close. It also offers a celebration of the individuals and groups that made this miracle happen, as well as examining the inexorable rise of the global pharmaceutical industry, and, most intriguingly, the essential input of luck. Infection still maintains a high profile in both medicine and the media, with the current threats of 'superbugs' such as MRSA acquired in hospital, and a potential resistance to antibiotics. This book tracks the history of antimicrobial drugs, a remarkable medical triumph that has provided doctors with an amazing armoury of safe and effective drugs that ensure that reversion to the helpless state of the fight against infection witnessed in the early 1900s is extremely unlikely. This timely compendium acknowledges the agents that have surely led to the relief of more human and animal suffering than any other class of drugs in the history of medical endeavour.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1308 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015020600089

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Bibliography of the History of Medicine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Thrusfield
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781118280263

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Veterinary Epidemiology by Michael Thrusfield Pdf

A comprehensive introduction to the role of epidemiology in veterinary medicine This fully revised and expanded edition of Veterinary Epidemiology introduces readers to the field of veterinary epidemiology. The new edition also adds new chapters on the design of observational studies, validity in epidemiological studies, systematic reviews, and statistical modelling, to deliver more advanced material. This updated edition begins by offering an historical perspective on the development of veterinary medicine. It then addresses the full scope of epidemiology, with chapters covering causality, disease occurrence, determinants, disease patterns, disease ecology, and much more. Veterinary Epidemiology, Fourth Edition: ● Features updates of all chapters to provide a current resource on the subject of veterinary epidemiology ● Presents new chapters essential to the continued advancement of the field ● Includes examples from companion animal, livestock, and avian medicine, as well as aquatic animal diseases ● Focuses on the principles and concepts of epidemiology, surveillance, and diagnostic-test validation and performance ● Includes access to a companion website providing multiple choice questions Veterinary Epidemiology is an invaluable reference for veterinary general practitioners, government veterinarians, agricultural economists, and members of other disciplines interested in animal disease. It is also essential reading for epidemiology students at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Author : Di Lu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031247231

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The Global Circulation of Chinese Materia Medica, 1700–1949 by Di Lu Pdf

This book explores the dissemination of knowledge around Chinese medicinal substances from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries in a global context. The author presents a microhistory of the caterpillar fungus, a natural, medicinal substance initially used by Tibetans no later than the fifteenth century and later assimilated into Chinese materia medica from the eighteenth century onwards. Tracing the transmission of the caterpillar fungus from China to France, Britain, Russia and Japan, the book investigates the tensions that existed between prevailing Chinese knowledge and new European ideas about the caterpillar fungus. Emerging in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Europe, these ideas eventually reached communities of scientists, physicians and other intellectuals in Japan and China. Seeking to examine why the caterpillar fungus engaged the attention of so many scientific communities across the globe, the author offers a transnational perspective on the making of modern European natural history and Chinese materia medica.

Author : Louise Hill Curth
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004179950

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The Care of Brute Beasts by Louise Hill Curth Pdf

This book is about medical beliefs and practices for animals in early modern England. Although there are numerous texts on human health, this is the first to focus exclusively on animals during this period. For most academics, the foundation of the London Veterinary College in 1791 marks the beginning of 'modern' veterinary medicine, with the period before unworthy of serious study. In fact, there is ample evidence of how the importance of animals resulted in a highly complex system of both preventative and remedial care. This book is divided into sections which start by 'setting the scene' with an overview of animals in early modern England and the contemporary principles behind health and illness. It moves onto an examination of the medical marketplace and printed literature on animal health care, followed by an in-depth look at preventative and remedial methods. It ends by addressing the question of what impact, if any, new colleges had on veterinary beliefs and practices.

Author : Louise Hill Curth
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004257702

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'A plaine and easie waie to remedie a horse' by Louise Hill Curth Pdf

'A plaine and easie waie to remedie a horse' is the first complete text to focus exclusively on the health and illness of the most important animals in early modern England. It also follows on and further develops the subject of early modern veterinary medicine introduced by Louise Hill Curth in 'The Care of Brute Beasts: a social and cultural study of veterinary medicine in early modern England'. This book is divided into three sections which start by providing an overview of the evolution of English hippiatric medicine from ancient and medieval times into the early modern period. The second section moves on to the structures of practice which include the astrological principles between preventative, remedial and surgical medicine for horses, followed by an in-depth discussion of how such knowledge was disseminated through the oral, manuscript and print culture.

Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Medicine
ISBN : STANFORD:36105214548997

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National Library of Medicine Current Catalog by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) Pdf