Antoine depage's relationship with queen elisabeth of Belgium

Manchester University Press, 2018

This book offers the first comprehensive study of nineteenth-century medical societies as scientific institutions. It analyses how physicians gathered to share, discuss, evaluate, publish and even celebrate their studies, uncovering the codes of conduct that underpinned these activities. The book discusses the publishing procedures of medical journals, the tradition of oratory in academies, the networks of anatomists and the commemorations of famous physicians such as Vesalius. Its setting is nineteenth-century Belgium, a young nation state in which the freedoms of press and association were constitutionally established. The book shows how Belgian physicians participated in a civil society shaped by the values of social engagement, polite debate and a free press. Given its broad focus on science, sociability and citizenship, it will be of interest to all those seeking to understand the position of science in nineteenth-century society. For more information: https://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526133205/

British Journal for Military History, 2025

After Germany occupied Belgium in 1940, Belgian mariners interested in continuing the war at sea joined a specially formed Belgian national branch of the British navy, the Royal Navy (Section Belge) or RNSB. The article reviews Belgian naval forces before the Second World War, explains the reasons for the creation of this unusual force, details the ships and personnel involved, and argues that the British decision to incorporate Belgians into the Royal Navy benefitted both Britain and Belgium.

This article examines the role played by royal doctors in forming an empirical political science in France at the end of the sixteenth century. Bringing with them tools from the Galenic tradition, doctors such as Rodolphe Le Maistre, Abraham-Nicolas de La Framboisière and Jean Héroard doubled as political counselors. They not only looked for ways to heal the king's body, they also looked for ways to heal and regulate the body of the nation. Their new vision of the monarch as a practicing physician of the state is an essential yet unknown facet of the origins of political modernity.

The American Archivist, 1963

The American Historical Review, 2013

Finally, she examines the intersection between poor relief and public health. Philip II's attempts to care for the most disadvantaged of his subjects faced numerous challenges, including a lack of funds and the territoriality of the religious confraternities who ran many of the hospitals. From my perspective, Clouse's most interesting work examines the interactions between the informal medical marketplace and the increasingly regulated world of formal education and medical practice. Using the examples of Aparicio de Zubia's miraculous oil and Dr Romano's urologic treatments, she shows how royal intervention led to the acceptance of empirics' 'cures' and their legitimacy as medical practitioners. Clouse's argument reinforces much of what others have argued about the many challenges to centralization and absolutism in sixteenth-century Spain. Her rich research and detailed engagement with the literature on the history of medicine make this book an important addition to the literature on early modern Spain. That being said, I would have liked to have seen her more clearly place Spanish health care/medicine in the broader European context. From time to time, she undertakes some comparative analysis, but more would have helped clarify the degree to which the Spanish reforms fit into pan-European trends. Also, woven obliquely into her narrative is a discussion of how evolving ideas about bodies and illness affected royal interventions. Highlighting those points would have helped complicate the discussion of the intellectual background to the reforms. Finally, from time to time, I wondered who exactly was driving these royal interventions. In addition to the King, 'the crown' was a complicated collection of courtiers and bureaucrats. Was it truly Philip himself? Was there someone at court with a special interest in medical reform? Nevertheless, this is a well-researched, clearly written study which will be of interest to a wide array of scholars both of Spain and its empire and of early modern Europe more broadly.

2014

The planning for surgery in war was revisited in 1937 when Ian Fraser was elected a member of the Surgical Travellers. At their 1938 Surgical Travellers meeting in Vienna, Ian and Eleanor Fraser were evicted from their hotel room by the Nazis. The 1939 meeting in Belfast discussed the organization of surgery and the conduct of Emergency Medical Service Hospitals in the United Kingdom; the vast majority were to be under civilian government and military control. From 1943 lengthy and informative organizational meetings were held at least monthly under the chairmanship of Sir Alexander Hood, KBE, Head of the RAMC. Surgical Consultants, now Major Generals, Brigadiers or Full Colonels in the British and U.S. Armies stationed in the UK, prepared for the invasion of Europe. The allocation of medical, surgical, nursing and auxiliary responsibilities was delineated. Liaison with the RAF and US Army Air Force was close as it was with the proposed leaders, Ulstermen Brooke and Montgomery. Montgomery chose Arthur Porritt as Surgeon in Chief to Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), and Eisenhower, General Albert W. Kenner. Just after D-Day, Porritt met Ian Fraser, who had waded in on Arromanches Beach. The triage and evacuation plans for Allied casualties had been controversial, particularly as regards Landing Ship Tanks (LSTs), with the dispute with the Hood-selected surgeons on one side, against medical and surgical deployment of LSTs, and Admiral Ernest King and Winston Churchill on the other, favouring LST use for surgery and evacuation. King and Churchill were correct but total Allied air superiority allowed wide use of many of the Allies' Dakotas; 10,000 DC-3s were eventually in service. Supported by forty Allied combat planes to each Luftwaffe, the dispute about Landing Ship Tank use in about a fortnight became moot. The multifaceted role of the Princess Royal in the Emergency Medical Services of the United Kingdom and her close liaison with the Consultant Surgeons was of great value to the Allies.

Fontanus, 2013

In 1776, Doctors Vicq d' Azyr and Joseph de Lassone founded the Royal Medical Society of France and that same year the new Society began publishing an annual volume of news of medical interest, obituaries on the deaths of outstanding doctors and surgeons, articles on new medicine and drugs, on new operations as well as reflecting on the causes of different diseases and illnesses. Between 1776 and 1793, ten of these volumes were published under the title Histoire de la Société Royale de Médecine: histoire et mémoires. The Osler Library of the History of Medicine possesses four of them. Breaking with the tradition of Galen and with the diagnoses based on bookish knowledge, the members of this group favoured experimentation, the dissection of corpses and the close observation of the symptoms of the sick and the dying. This article looks at two aspects of their work: first it examines the goals and the structures of the Society that published the volumes and second, it analyses the organization and the types of articles published in the annual volumes. RESUMÉ Les médecins Vicq d' Azyr et Joseph de Lassone ont fondé la Société royale de médecine en 1776 et aussitôt la nouvelle société a commencé à organiser la publication annuelle d'un volume de nouvelles d'intérêt médicales. Il devrait comporter les avis de décès des médecins et chirurgiens de renom, les articles sur des médicaments et drogues qui venaient d'être mis sur le marché, les interventions particulièrement innovatrices et les réflexions sur les causes de différentes maladies et épidémies. Entre 1776 et 1793, dix de ces volumes sont apparus sous le titre, Histoire de la Société Royale de Médecine: histoire et mémoires. La bibliothèque Osler de l'histoire de médecine détient quatre de ces volumes. Les articles des membres de ce groupe rompent avec la tradition de Galien et avec les diagnostics fondés sur les connaissances livresques. Ils favorisent l'expérimentation, la dissection des cadavres et l'observation des symptômes présentés par les maladies et les mourantes. Cet article étudie deux aspects de ces travaux: d'abord, il décrit les buts et les structures de la Société elle-même et second, il analyse l'organisation et les types d'articles publiés dans les volumes annuels.

Royal Museum of the Armed Forces, Brussels, 2016

Philipe Jacquij and Guy Deploige offer us an outstanding and quite unusual contribution for the study of the decorations of three African States, which were former colonies or under the protectorate mandate of Belgium. Indeed, the study is based on serious and thorough research of available sources both published ones, but yet poorly or insufficiently studied, as well as unpublished ones, namely testimonies from living witnesses and on a comparative study of documents and insignia held in public and private collections. Studies on the orders, medals and decorations of former European colonies after independence are quite scarce since the subject has not attracted phalerists, namely from the former colonial powers. Notable exceptions are the works of Prof. Ed Haynes (USA) on Medals and Decorations of Independent India or of Pierre Rousseau on the Orders and Decorations of Morocco, under the French protectorate (1912-1956). The book deals briefly with the history of the new States after independence – 1960 for the Congo and 1962, for Rwanda and Burundi – and the multiple vicissitudes that these nations passed during the difficult transitional period from colonial rule to independence. It then reviews in detail the process which led to the creation of new state orders and decorations by the new nations, often with the contribution of Belgians and of Belgian or French firms, as regards the creation and execution of the insignia, some of them quite ephemeral. The book is widely illustrated with portraits, brevets and other documents, images of the insignia of the orders and decorations discussed some very difficult to find. The turbulent times which followed independence in these countries have made sources disappear and the Authors, wisely filled the gaps with hypothesis and testimonies. Still, despite its apparent insufficiencies, which the Authors modestly confess, mainly due to the lack of valid sources, the book deserves to be highly praised, since it renders tribute to the orders and decorations of these African States, some ephemeral, which were former Belgian colonies or protectorates, without any hint of either paternalism or neocolonialist feeling. It is a model of research in phaleristic studies with resource to history and other of its auxiliary sciences. Philipe Jacquij is Chairman of the Société royale des Amis du Musée de l’Armée (Brussels) and Chairman of the Union royale des fraternelles coloniales, sharing a profound interest on Africa, having been the Curator of the Exhibition «Lisolo na Bisu 1885-1960, Notre histoire, Le soldat Congolais de la Force Publique », organized by the Musée royal de l’Armée et d’Histoire Militaire, in Brussels, back in 2010, paying tribute to the Congolese Soldiers of the Force Publique in the Belgian Congo. Apart from various articles on Central Africa published in Belgium and in international publications, he recently co-authored with Guy Deploige an interesting communication to the I International Colloquium the Great War in Phaleristics, organized by our Academy, in 2014, under the theme – The Commemoration Belgian Medal for the African Campaign 1914-1916, duly published in the Colloquium’s Proceedings. Guy Deploige, a prominent phalerist, has been since 1998, the Collection manager of the phaleristic collection of the Royal Museum of the armed Forces and of Military History, in Brussels, Vice-President of the Studiekring Faleristiek vzw (SKF), and Member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and of the Comité international des musées d’armes et d’histoire militaire (ICOMAM). With a wide contribution of articles on Phaleristics both in Belgium and abroad, namely the communication referred above, he is the author of « Les distinctions honorifiques de la collection Brouwet au Musée royal de l’Armée », Bruxelles 2007. He has contributed to the organization of several major Exhibitions held at the Musée royal de l’Armée et d’Histoire Militaire, namely « La Légion d’Honneur 1802-2002 » (2002), « 175 ans d’Ordre de Léopold et des Ordres nationaux belges » (2008), « Lisolo na Bisu 1885-1960, Notre histoire, Le soldat Congolais de la Force Publique” (2010), « Armes sournoises » (2013) and « 14-18, c’est notre histoire » (2014-2015). For his outstanding efforts in promoting and expanding international relations among Phalerists, namely in the organization of European Meetings of Phaleristic Societies, our Academy awarded him the Medal of Recognition, 2nd class, on the closing session of the I International Colloquium the Great War in Phaleristics. José Vicente de Bragança

Paedagogica Historica, 2010