ANTI-VENEREAL MEASURES IN SCANDINAVIA

Anti-Venereal Measures in Denmark and Sweden.

As most of the substance of this paper is derived from the report of an official mission to certain Scandinavian countries to study their anti-venereal measures, it seems proper that I should say something about the events which led to our being sent there. In I936 there was published in America the report of a mission from New York to Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Great Britain to study the anti...

Reforestation challenges in Scandinavia

In the keynote, major reforestation challenges in Scandinavia will be highlighted. The following countries make up Scandinavia: Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. For Iceland, with only a forest cover of 2%, a major reforestation challenge is the deforestation and overgrazing in combination with land degradation and extensive soil erosion. The challenges include the conflicts with li...

Surgical Clinics in Scandinavia

Meningococcal disease in Scandinavia.

Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) comprises with mutual borders and 22.3 million inhabitants an area where the socioeconomic and cultural conditions are similar. Epidemic diseases, such as meningococcal infection, might therefore be expected to be uniformly distributed. An epidemiological study in the 10-year period 1970-9 shows, however, remarkable differences in the ...

Magical medicine in Viking Scandinavia.

BY THE year A.D. 1213 Christianity was victorious across Europe; only a few isolated pockets of paganism in remote districts of Sweden, Finland, and Moslem Spain held out against what must have seemed to be the inevitable influence of the Church. Nordic expansion was in eclipse. The age of the Vikings was at an end. The marauders who had loosed such fury on the continent to the south, had, in t...