Paul Theerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1094817 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Theerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Theerman |
| SIGNATURE | THEERMAN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Elizabeth Fee, Jan Lazarus, and Paul Theerman are with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Digital Media and Humanities
Digital Media and Humanities Paul Theerman The National Museum of Health and Medicine http://www.medicalmuseum.mil/ One of the first institutional embodiments of the history of medicine in this country was the Library and Museum of the Office of U.S. Army Surgeon General, which dates from the 1860s. By the late nineteenth century, the Library and Museum were housed in a Victorian red brick masterpiece on the National Mall in Washington. They spli…
Julia Lathrop and the Children's Bureau
“WITH A LITTLE UNDERSTANDING of the importance of immunization and moral support from an older student, each child finds the process an interesting one.” So reads the caption on this photograph, one of a collection of some 160 photographs at the National Library of Medicine originally assembled by the Children's Bureau. Once part of the US Department of Labor and now an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, the Children's Bur…
The Tooth Puller [L'arracheur de dents]
FROM THE MIDDLE AGES through the early 19th century, tooth pulling was often performance art. Barber-surgeons cut hair, set bones, let blood, and pulled teeth. Toothache could be treated with leeches, blistering, cupping, and laxatives, as well as with prescriptions of lizard liver, green frogs, and a urine gargle.1 Opium mixtures were popular painkillers. When refined sugar became widely available in the 17th century, dental caries became common…
The Smoke Nuisance
AS VIVIDLY ILLUSTRATED IN this 1886 wood engraving, the American campaign against cigarettes long antedated the rigorous mid-20th-century epidemiological demonstration of the association between smoking and specific pathological conditions, such as lung cancer and cardiovascular disease. This image, which suggests the mix of medical, sanitary, social, moral, and aesthetic objections to smoking current in this earlier period, appeared in Good Heal…
Baxter Street Then
THIS IMAGE OF BAXTER Street, New York City, NY, was published in A Handbook of the People's Health (1913), one of several textbooks written by Walter Moore Coleman.1 Like other textbooks in the series, it was intended to present modern problems in an engaging way to audiences of adolescents. The upbeat text emphasizes how much things have changed for the better and how modern, professionally led public health reform initiatives will lead to a bet…
Domestic Violence—Medieval and Modern
AS THE WORLD HEALTH Organization’s just-released World Report on Violence and Health makes abundantly clear, violence by intimate partners is a worldwide problem with major public health implications.1 The American Psychological Association has estimated that 4 million American women experience a serious assault by an intimate partner during an average 12-month period.2 A study of women visiting emergency rooms found that 54% had been threatened …
Public Health Service Dentist Examines an Alaska Native Child, 1951
A Dedicated Public Health Nurse
MISS EUGENIA BROUGHTON, a public health nurse with the Berkeley County Health Department of South Carolina, is shown here teaching newborn baby care to a class of pregnant women. Born in 1914, “Miss Genie” never married but devoted herself to the health care and education of people in the sparsely populated rural area around Charleston. Nurse Broughton received her nursing training and diploma at the Charity Hospital of Savannah, Ga, in 1937. In …
Young Men of 50 and 60 Years Behave Like Kids After Having Read the New Work by M. Flourens
IN THIS LITHOGRAPH BY 19TH-century French artist and caricaturist Honore Daumier, we see 2 elderly gentlemen kicking up their heels and dancing. They have just read a new book by the distinguished physiologist Jean Pierre Marie Flourens (1794– 1867), De la longevite humaine et de la quantite de vie sur la globe (On human longevity and the quantity of life upon the globe), first published in 1854.1 In this work, Flourens argued that, as a general …
Rural Health Centers in the Americas
The Effects of the Corset
THIS ILLUSTRATION APPEARED as a foldout in a little book, Uber die Wirkungen der Schnurbruste (On the Effects of the Corset), written by Samuel Thomas von Sommerring.1 The essay was published in 1793 and republished in an expanded edition in 1803. Translated into several languages, it became a best-seller.2 Von Sommerring, a physician and well-known anatomist, argued that the back-laced corset, as worn by fashionable ladies of the time, constitut…
Medical Education for Women, 1870
At the last meeting of the South Dublin Union a lady guardian called attention to the system which, slhe said, was growing up among the women who had children at nurse.-The children were neglected, and when they were
The March on Washington, 1963
HUNDREDS OF DOCTORS, dentists, nurses, social workers, and other health professionals formed the medical contingent of the August 28, 1963, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Many were inspired by this historic civil rights experience—particularly by the now famous “I have a dream” speech by the Rev Martin Luther King, Jr—to join demonstrations and other efforts to eliminate racism in the health field, first in the US South and then throug…
Exploring Acupuncture
THIS TECHNICIAN IS demonstrating the use of lasers to stimulate acupuncture points. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, health is a state of balance between yang and yin, and between the 5 elements of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water.1 Life energy, or qi, flows through the meridians of the body and may be accessed at several hundred points. The skilled acupuncturist is able to restore balance by using selected points to ad…
Saudi Nutrition Education for Pregnant Women, 1988
THIS POSTER, ORIGINALLY printed in bright colors, was produced by the Department of Preventive Medicine of the Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It provides guidance about good nutrition for expectant women. The woman pictured is asked to turn her back on a list of less healthy food choices, such as bread, rice, sweets, coffee, and tea, and she is warned against taking drugs without consulting her physician, consuming alcoholic b…
Theerman Responds
So That Others May Walk”
STRICKEN WITH POLIO IN 1921 at the age of 39, Franklin Delano Roosevelt put his remarkable political skills to work on behalf of other polio victims to develop a rehabilitation center in Warm Springs, Georgia. In 1928, the demands of his campaign to become governor of New York led him to transfer leadership of the rehabilitation center development to his law partner, Basil O'Connor. O'Connor made Warm Springs a nonprofit foundation, created the N…
Immigrant Mother and Child
THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS published in the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Chicago Lying-In Hospital and Dispensary for 1910. Through 1910, more than 12 000 women had delivered babies at home, attended by dispensary physicians. This image was used as part of a fund-raising effort by the Women's Board of the dispensary to help build 3 small hospitals for women who could not safely be attended in their homes. The mother and child in the photograph are id…
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
committee of the American Public Health Association stated that any type of gathering of people involving mixing of bodies and sharing of breath in crowded rooms was dangerous. It advised that saloons, dance halls, and cinemas should be closed and public funerals prohibited as unnecessary assemblies. The influenza pandemic spread worldwide through 1918‐1919, during the later phases of the war. Military populations were particularly at risk, with …
Night Shift in a Glass Factory
THE EXPLOITATION OF CHILD labor, a practice still evident in this country and common in many parts of the world, was once rampant in the United States. As captured in this photograph by John Spargo (1876– 1966), published in his The Bitter Cry of the Children (New York: Macmillan Co; 1906), children—who should have been in bed resting before the next day at school—often toiled through the night. The 1870 US census recorded 750 000 workers younger…
The Papers of Joseph Henry. Vol. 6
Journal Article The Papers of Joseph Henry. Vol. 6: January 1844–December 1846: The Princeton Years. Ed. by Marc Rothenberg, Kathleen W. Dorman, John C. Rumm, and Paul H. Theerman. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. xlii, 662 pp. $55.00, ISBN 1-56098112-1.) Get access Donald Fleming Donald Fleming Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of America…
The History of Cartography. Vol. 1
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 551 inventory, produced with others, Catalogue des cartes nautiques sur vélin conservées au Département de Cartes et Plans, was published in 1963. After his retirement he devoted his time entirely to the history of cartog raphy and instrumentation. In his first article, reproduced in this volume, Destombes proved with solid argument that the world chart of 1519 of Lopo Homen was part of the anonymous Portugues…
The History of Cartography. Vol. 1
Cities and People
Science and Social Change in Britain and Europe, 1700-1900 . Colin Russell
Unaccustomed Role
Some gauge of the changing social role of the scientist in early Victorian Britain is made by looking at biographies of scientists written by scientists. Two authors of Newton biographies are contrasted: Sir David Brewster (1781-1868) and Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871). Both were connected with and wrote from the viewpoint of political Whiggism. But Brewster, concerned for the public image of the scientist, stressed Newton's genius and his high m…
So That Others May Walk”
STRICKEN WITH POLIO IN 1921 at the age of 39, Franklin Delano Roosevelt put his remarkable political skills to work on behalf of other polio victims to develop a rehabilitation center in Warm Springs, Georgia. In 1928, the demands of his campaign to become governor of New York led him to transfer leadership of the rehabilitation center development to his law partner, Basil O'Connor. O'Connor made Warm Springs a nonprofit foundation, created the N…
The March on Washington, 1963
HUNDREDS OF DOCTORS, dentists, nurses, social workers, and other health professionals formed the medical contingent of the August 28, 1963, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Many were inspired by this historic civil rights experience—particularly by the now famous “I have a dream” speech by the Rev Martin Luther King, Jr—to join demonstrations and other efforts to eliminate racism in the health field, first in the US South and then throug…
Exploring Acupuncture
THIS TECHNICIAN IS demonstrating the use of lasers to stimulate acupuncture points. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, health is a state of balance between yang and yin, and between the 5 elements of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water.1 Life energy, or qi, flows through the meridians of the body and may be accessed at several hundred points. The skilled acupuncturist is able to restore balance by using selected points to ad…
The History of Cartography. Vol. 1
American Literature and the Universe of Force . Ronald E. Martin
Cambridge before Darwin
Relations of Literature and Science, 1980-1981 . Walter Schatzberg
Engineering and Humanities
A thought provoking discussion of the humanities in the classical sense and their interaction with engineering. Offers a wide choice of readings drawn from a range of sources in literature, philosophy, the fine arts, and engineering. Includes descriptive materials and introductions to readings
James Clerk Maxwell
The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918
Research in Philosophy & Technology
Unaccustomed Role
Some gauge of the changing social role of the scientist in early Victorian Britain is made by looking at biographies of scientists written by scientists. Two authors of Newton biographies are contrasted: Sir David Brewster (1781-1868) and Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871). Both were connected with and wrote from the viewpoint of political Whiggism. But Brewster, concerned for the public image of the scientist, stressed Newton's genius and his high m…
Science and Social Change in Britain and Europe, 1700-1900 . Colin Russell
The National Physical Laboratory
Cities and People
The History of Cartography. Vol. 1
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 551 inventory, produced with others, Catalogue des cartes nautiques sur vélin conservées au Département de Cartes et Plans, was published in 1963. After his retirement he devoted his time entirely to the history of cartog raphy and instrumentation. In his first article, reproduced in this volume, Destombes proved with solid argument that the world chart of 1519 of Lopo Homen was part of the anonymous Portugues…
The History of Cartography. Vol. 1
The Papers of Joseph Henry. Vol. 6
Journal Article The Papers of Joseph Henry. Vol. 6: January 1844–December 1846: The Princeton Years. Ed. by Marc Rothenberg, Kathleen W. Dorman, John C. Rumm, and Paul H. Theerman. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. xlii, 662 pp. $55.00, ISBN 1-56098112-1.) Get access Donald Fleming Donald Fleming Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of America…
Saudi Nutrition Education for Pregnant Women, 1988
THIS POSTER, ORIGINALLY printed in bright colors, was produced by the Department of Preventive Medicine of the Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It provides guidance about good nutrition for expectant women. The woman pictured is asked to turn her back on a list of less healthy food choices, such as bread, rice, sweets, coffee, and tea, and she is warned against taking drugs without consulting her physician, consuming alcoholic b…
Theerman Responds
So That Others May Walk”
STRICKEN WITH POLIO IN 1921 at the age of 39, Franklin Delano Roosevelt put his remarkable political skills to work on behalf of other polio victims to develop a rehabilitation center in Warm Springs, Georgia. In 1928, the demands of his campaign to become governor of New York led him to transfer leadership of the rehabilitation center development to his law partner, Basil O'Connor. O'Connor made Warm Springs a nonprofit foundation, created the N…
Immigrant Mother and Child
THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS published in the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Chicago Lying-In Hospital and Dispensary for 1910. Through 1910, more than 12 000 women had delivered babies at home, attended by dispensary physicians. This image was used as part of a fund-raising effort by the Women's Board of the dispensary to help build 3 small hospitals for women who could not safely be attended in their homes. The mother and child in the photograph are id…
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
committee of the American Public Health Association stated that any type of gathering of people involving mixing of bodies and sharing of breath in crowded rooms was dangerous. It advised that saloons, dance halls, and cinemas should be closed and public funerals prohibited as unnecessary assemblies. The influenza pandemic spread worldwide through 1918‐1919, during the later phases of the war. Military populations were particularly at risk, with …
Night Shift in a Glass Factory
THE EXPLOITATION OF CHILD labor, a practice still evident in this country and common in many parts of the world, was once rampant in the United States. As captured in this photograph by John Spargo (1876– 1966), published in his The Bitter Cry of the Children (New York: Macmillan Co; 1906), children—who should have been in bed resting before the next day at school—often toiled through the night. The 1870 US census recorded 750 000 workers younger…
The Tooth Puller [L'arracheur de dents]
FROM THE MIDDLE AGES through the early 19th century, tooth pulling was often performance art. Barber-surgeons cut hair, set bones, let blood, and pulled teeth. Toothache could be treated with leeches, blistering, cupping, and laxatives, as well as with prescriptions of lizard liver, green frogs, and a urine gargle.1 Opium mixtures were popular painkillers. When refined sugar became widely available in the 17th century, dental caries became common…
The Smoke Nuisance
AS VIVIDLY ILLUSTRATED IN this 1886 wood engraving, the American campaign against cigarettes long antedated the rigorous mid-20th-century epidemiological demonstration of the association between smoking and specific pathological conditions, such as lung cancer and cardiovascular disease. This image, which suggests the mix of medical, sanitary, social, moral, and aesthetic objections to smoking current in this earlier period, appeared in Good Heal…
Baxter Street Then
THIS IMAGE OF BAXTER Street, New York City, NY, was published in A Handbook of the People's Health (1913), one of several textbooks written by Walter Moore Coleman.1 Like other textbooks in the series, it was intended to present modern problems in an engaging way to audiences of adolescents. The upbeat text emphasizes how much things have changed for the better and how modern, professionally led public health reform initiatives will lead to a bet…
Domestic Violence—Medieval and Modern
AS THE WORLD HEALTH Organization’s just-released World Report on Violence and Health makes abundantly clear, violence by intimate partners is a worldwide problem with major public health implications.1 The American Psychological Association has estimated that 4 million American women experience a serious assault by an intimate partner during an average 12-month period.2 A study of women visiting emergency rooms found that 54% had been threatened …
Public Health Service Dentist Examines an Alaska Native Child, 1951
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