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Taking into account that marriage, the family as a social unit, and concepts of legitimacy developed to ensure the devolution of property and that, when these concepts apply in a society based on hierarchically organized monarchies, they also involve the devolution of power, this essay furnishes examples of dislocations in such devolutions, in terms of familiar incidents in western European history. That Jane Seymour died in childbirth but her son Edward VI survived long enough to ensure the stability of the Church of England is the first example. The infertility of Mary Tudor, when married to Philip II of Spain, prevented the formation of an Anglo-Spanish dynasty that would have been Roman Catholic is the second example of such a dislocation. Likewise, the infertility of Charles II's wife, Catherine of Braganza, led to the succession of James II, a practicing Roman Catholic, whose attempts to undermine the Church of England led to the Glorious Revolution of 1788 and the preservation of English Protestantism. Another example is the death in 1817 of Princess Charlotte, in childbirth, which led to the scramble of George III's aging sons to marry and beget an heir to the throne. The only success led to the birth of the future Queen Victoria, whose dynastic competence remains unquestionable, but who herself had some passing involvement with obstetrical developments. Finally, the delivery of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who sustained a brachial plexus injury that produced Erb's palsy of the left arm, is considered, and the question of intrapartum fetal hypoxia is raised as a hypothesis, in addition to the mechanical trauma and its effect on his personality.
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Obstetricia/historia , Europa (Continente) , Historia del Siglo XVI , Historia del Siglo XVII , Historia del Siglo XVIII , Historia del Siglo XIX , Partería/historiaRESUMEN
Peter Anthony Motteux (1663-1718), a Huguenot refugee in London, established a literary reputation by completing Sir Thomas Urquhart's translation of Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, then Cervantes' Don Quixote. He later became an import-export merchant. On his 55th birthday he donned his scarlet cloak and went out on the town. He picked up a prostitute and after some dalliance returned to her bordello. Shortly thereafter he was found dead, although the evidence is that he was in good health when he arrived. Literary evidence is that he died from assisted erotic asphyxia, a variant of autoerotic asphyxia, cf. the case of Frantisek Koczwara (Am J Forensic Med Pathol 5:145-149, 1984.)
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Asfixia/historia , Conducta Sexual , Historia del Siglo XVIII , Humanos , Trabajo SexualRESUMEN
A survey of syphilis as depicted in art from 1496 to 1773 with emphasis on the absence of a depiction of a primary genital chancre for almost three centuries is presented.
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Medicina en las Artes , Sífilis , Europa (Continente) , Historia del Siglo XV , Historia del Siglo XVI , Historia del Siglo XVII , Historia del Siglo XVIII , Humanos , América del Norte , Pinturas , Sífilis/historiaRESUMEN
This paper furnishes a synoptic overview of the anatomic pathology of trophoblastic growths, with some reference to clinical implications. I will attempt to provide definitions and generalizations; however, the limitation of this approach is all too familiar. Definitions are constructed to cover the borderline case, but the borderline, as if by definition, escapes. For every generalization there are exceptions, and any pathologist who has assembled a large series of cases of a given disease entity is acutely aware of the exceptions he has encountered. Likewise, classifications are an artifact we superimpose on nature in an attempt to make order from experience and to rationalize it. It can be awkward, if not unfair, to shove the square peg of the biologic case into the round hole of man-made taxonomy.