The interview with Robert Koch held by Huseyin Hulki and the Ottoman delegation on tuberculin therapy.

Robert Koch (1843-1910), who was one of the significant representatives of the golden age of microbiology, claimed to have discovered the tuberculin/vaccine therapy in 1890. During that era, the Ottoman Empire closely followed the important developments in the field of microbiology. For this reason, it was decided that a delegation should have been sent to Germany to observe the lecture "On Bacteriological Research" to be delivered by Koch on August 3, 1890 during the 10th International Congress of Medicine to be held in Berlin.

History of Spine Deformity in Turkey.

Spine deformities are among the most important spinal disorders, affecting health-related life quality. Although there are some studies in past centuries, most spine deformity-related studies and research has started in the last century. Many surgical techniques, performed between 1960 and 1990, made scoliosis a touchable pathology.

A glimpse into the process of gaining permission for the educational dissection of human cadavers in the Ottoman Empire.

Dissection of the human body for educational purposes became officially permitted in the Ottoman Empire only after a long, difficult process. In the West, studies based on the findings of Galen had been taboo during a long period in which dissection of human bodies had been prohibited. Although the first dissection studies since ancient times began to appear in the Western literature in the late 13th and early 14th centuries, the post-Galen taboo against dissection was broken only in the 16th century by the studies of Vesalius.

DR. CELAL MUHTAR OZDEN (1865-1947) AND THE MEMOIRS ABOUT HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIETY OF HILAL-I AHMER.

[In this study, dermatologist Dr. Celal Muhtar Ozden's short biography will be given along with his contributions to the Society of Hilal-I Ahmer summarized from his own memories].

Florence Nightingale: light to illuminate the world from the woman with the lantern.

The Ottoman-Russian war of 1853 to 1855 was significant not only as a war, but also in response to a reflex from the West brought with itself novel approaches related to care of patients under severe health conditions. Florence Nightingale and her associates assigned at that time to care for soldiers in Istanbul who were severely ailing as a result of battle conditions were instrumental in the emergence of a hitherto unknown profession. This article examines the progress of events in the London-Istanbul axis that led to this development.

Celalettin Muhtar Ozden (1865-1947): his life, works and contributions to the study of dermatophytes.

Background: Most of the distinctive studies concerning dermatophyte infections were carried out at the end of the 19(th) century. One of the contributors of these studies was the Turkish dermatologist Dr. Celalettin Muhtar Ozden.

The history of psychosurgery in Turkey.

The modern age of psychosurgery can be said to have started with Moniz and Lima. Freeman and Watts subsequently revised and popularised the lobotomy procedure. Moniz shared the 1949 Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses, which accelerated the worldwide popularisation of lobotomy, particularly during the years from 1948 to 1953.

First colored illustration and detailed description of hermaphroditism by a Turkish surgeon, Serefeddin Sabuncuoğlu, in the 15th century.

Cerrahiyyetü'l-Haniyye (Imperial Surgery), written by the surgeon Serefeddin Sabuncuoğlu in the 15 century, is the first illustrated surgical book in Turkish-Islamic literature containing human figures. Sabuncuoğlu had begun a new era by demonstrating for the first time the application of many surgical methods on human beings, with illustrations in the style of miniatures in his handwritten work. This was a first in medical history, and, owing to this property, Sabuncuoğlu's book was one of the most important original works of that period.

On the report of the first successful surgical treatment of brain abscess in the Ottoman Empire by Dr. Cemil Topuzlu in 1891.

IN 1891, Dr. Cemil Topuzlu operated on a brain abscess that originated as a complication of a depression fracture of the cranial inner table. The patient presented with Jacksonian seizures on his left side after a sharp trauma resulting in a 15 cm-long scalp laceration and underlying linear cranial fracture in the right parietal bone.

The introduction of variolation 'A La Turca' to the West by Lady Mary Montagu and Turkey's contribution to this.

Aims: This study deals with the history of variolation as the oldest immunization method to be transferred from East to West, with emphasis on Turkey's role in this transmission.

Scope: The technique of variolation was used by various ancient civilizations such as those in India, Tibet and many other parts of Asia. It was based on the subcutaneous inoculation of attenuated pustule material in patients.

Friedrich Dessauer's (1881-1963) contributions to the development of radiotherapy in Turkey.

Famous physicist Friedrich Dessauer carried out innovative studies in the field of radiotherapy in Turkey where he took refuge escaping from the political situation in Germany before the Second World War. The paper deals with Dessauer's works for the establishment of a radiotherapy institute in Turkey and his contributions to this field.

Süleymaniye Külliyesi: a historically important medical, scientific, and cultural center.

SCIENCE HAS MANY Western and Eastern historical roots. All of these contributed to the body of academic literature. One of the most important aspects of scientific progress is educational institutions, including hospitals, schools, and libraries.

[Journal of Darulfunun School of Medicine (1916-1933)].

In this study one of six academic journals published by Istanbul University, Darülfünun Tip Fakültesi Mecmuasi (Journal of Darulfunun School of Medicine), is reviewed. This review study covered all issues of the journal published between 1916 and 1933. Our aim was to determine the publication period of the journal, to determine the published papers and their authors, and as a result, to help the researchers for study in the field of history of medicine.

["Turkish Anthropology Journal (Türk Antropoloji Mecmuasi)", is it a medicine journal?].

Turkish Journal of Anthropology had published between 1925-1939. In this article it is discussed whether this journal would be regarded as a medical journal or not.

[Dr. Mehmed Emin Fehmi's pioneering medical history work: the Hakayik-i Tababet].

Mehmed Emin Fehmi, who graduated in 1866 with the rank of captain from the Ottoman Medical School (Mekteb-i Tibbiye), died in 1871, During his short life, Dr. Fehmi taught physics classes and translated two books, as well as writing two books and several articles himself. Mehmed Emin Fehmi's "Hakayik-1 Tababet [Facts of Medicine], "published for the first time in 1870, was the earliest printed Ottoman Turkish work on the history of medicine.