{"id":282,"date":"2010-05-13T17:51:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T17:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmcldev.wpengine.com\/mcgovern\/2010\/05\/13\/dissertations-and-theses\/"},"modified":"2022-07-11T22:27:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T22:27:13","slug":"dissertations-and-theses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/2010\/05\/13\/dissertations-and-theses\/","title":{"rendered":"Dissertations and Theses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/goutdis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-131\" title=\"1609 Dissertation on Gout\" src=\"http:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/05\/goutdis.jpg?w=241\" alt=\"Cover of Dissertation on Gout\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The culmination of an advanced degree is usually a document describing and proving an original contribution to scholarship. Today\u2019s scholars typically put their Dissertations or Theses online, such as the ones available at <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu\/etd_list.html\">DigitalCommons@ The Texas Medical Center<\/a><br \/>\nNo electronic publishing for the 17th century student! Students at Basel Switzerland were among some of the earliest scholars who had their theses printed. And just as it is today the thesis had to be presented and a defense given to the faculty and other students.<br \/>\nJohannes Pfretzschner completed his medical degree with a thesis on podagra, gout (in Latin of course.) A loose translation of the first two sentences describes gout as \u201ca pain in the foot joints arising from flowing humors (liquids) and re-occurring at close intervals. It may be the remains of arthritis and is like a small hammer on or fire-dart in the big toe.\u201d Ouch! The symptoms of gout are the same today, but the \u201cflowing humors\u201d are a bit more defined.<br \/>\nThe Burbank Collection houses rare Gout, Arthritis and Rheumatism books. Recently two theses from 1609 by Pfetzschner and Lorenz Leuchter and were cataloged and are now available for use. These theses were part of Nobel Laureate Dr. Philip S. Hench\u2019s collection and were donated to the library by his son.<br \/>\nItems in the McGovern Historical Collection are cataloged in the Library\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thslc-houston.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/discovery\/search?vid=01TEXASHEALTH_HOUSTON:TMC_INST&amp;lang=en\">online catalog <\/a>.This and other historical medical books are available Monday-Thursday, 8:00-5:00 in the John P. McGovern Historical Collection located on the 2nd floor of the HAM-TMC Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The culmination of an advanced degree is usually a document describing and proving an original contribution to scholarship. Today\u2019s scholars typically put their Dissertations or Theses online, such as the ones available at DigitalCommons@ The Texas Medical Center No electronic publishing for the 17th century student! Students at Basel Switzerland were among some of the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/2010\/05\/13\/dissertations-and-theses\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[63,64,65,66,67,68],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rare-books","tag-17th-century","tag-dissertation","tag-gout","tag-podagra","tag-theses","tag-thesis"],"authors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}