Essays in the History of Medicine, presented to Professor Arturo Castiglioni on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday, April 10, 1944

摘要

Professor Arturo Castligioni, one of the outstanding medical historians of our time, passed his seventieth birthday on April 10, 1944. Thanks to the energy of Dr. Henry E. Sigerist, Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine, a large volume of papers by Dr. Castiglioni's friends has been issued, edited by Dr. Sigerist and his associate, Miss Genevieve Miller, as a supplement to the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. The papers, covering a wide variety of subjects, are mostly in English, although five other languages are used. Preceding the paper is a dedicatory letter from Dr. Sigerist to Professor Castiglioni written in a charming, intimate style and serving as a pleasant introduction to the volume. From this letter, moreover, there emerges a word portrait of the man, skillfully delineated, enabling those who do not know him to realize what Professor Castiglioni is like aid how superbly he has overcome the tragedy of his exclusion from his native land, five years ago, to settle in New Haven, Connecticut, as research associate and lecturer in the history of medicine at Yale University. This change of country, as well as the change of language, was not easy for a man already well along in years and firmly established as a sound, respected practitioner of medicine by vocation and historian by avocation. Great credit is due to Castiglioni for making his journey to America so successfully and in never losing on the way his impetus to carry on the work he had already started in spite of the almost overwhelming odds against him.