Alleged Pseudopodes of Diatoms

Epipsammic diatoms of diatoms of Kelkit Creek (Tokat/Turkey)

In this study, diatoms in epipsammic samples, which were taken from two stations selected in Kelkit Creek (Tokat/Turkey) between March and December 2018, were analyzed. During the study, a total of 25 taxa belonging to diatoms were recorded. The diatom species represented by the highest number of taxa were Cymbela (4 taxa), Nitzschia (4 taxa), and Navicula (3 taxa). Sorensen similarity index be...

[Diatoms in the diagnosis of drowning. I. Biology of diatoms].

Alleged Infectiousness of Malaria

report on Kala-Azar ; but, after reading the article through, I fail, save on one important particular, to find any facts or arguments not already advanced in his original report. These arguments have already been crushingly refuted on the various articles, editorial and communicated, that have already appeared in your own medical journal, and to repeat this refutation, as Captain Rogers has re...

Alleged allergenicity of latex gloves.

The Editor, I feel that Sawyer and Bennett (2006) imply that there is something intrinsically hazardous about natural rubber latex (NRL) gloves. The evidence shows this not to be the case. NRL gloves were used for many years in health care and laboratory work with only a rare incidence of latex allergy. The problem arose when the health care sector decided to adopt a policy of general glove use...

Alleged Medical Benefits of Circumcision

Almost all human beings, male, female, and intersex, are born with a foreskin, or prepuce. In girls it covers the glans (head) of the clitoris; in boys it covers the glans of the penis. Since this is a normal, healthy anatomical structure, there are no medical indications for amputating or excising it in the newborn period, and rarely in infancy or childhood. This is the view of all child healt...