Osteoarchaeology and the History of Medicine in our experience.

The encounter between archaeology and medicine is no longer the result of sporadic or intermittent research. Stemming from different areas of expertise and training, as well as historical sciences, archaeology, biology and medicine, common investigative objectives must come together in a coordinated manner. However, defining the boundaries of different areas of work, collaboration, interferences and interconnections is not an easy task.

[Joseph Frank (1771-1842) and professional evaluation of the physician].

The paper aims to analyze and comment on a booklet written and published at the end of the eighteenth century by Joseph Frank , son of the even more famous Johann Peter Frank. In this work the author takes on the task of educating the public to weigh carefully the medical professional to choose the most suitable and capable to safeguard the health of citizens. The figure of the doctor is considered under different viewing angles: from the exterior to the physical, the moral qualities to those intellectual, behavior toward others than toward physicians - surgeons and barbers to pharmacists.

[Oscar Giacchi and 'spermatic malincholy'].

Oscar Giacchi was the Director of the Psychiatric Hospital in Racconigi. In one of this works, he presented the clinical case of a malinconic patient affected by a jealousy delirium. The article analyzes the text in the light of Giacchi's scientific production and according to the principal psychiatric theories at the and of XIX century.