BOTANICAL NOTES FROM WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA

Sydenham's chorea in western Pennsylvania.

OBJECTIVE Chorea is characterized by involuntary, fleeting, irregular, nonrhythmic movements that flow from 1 body region to another. There are many causes of childhood chorea, including cerebrovascular accidents, collagen vascular diseases, drug intoxication, hyperthyroidism, Wilson's disease, Huntington's disease, and infectious agents. Although Sydenham's chorea (SC), a nonsuppurative sequel...

Botanical Gardens of Western Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Georgia

938 Botanical Gardens of Western Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Georgia change chambers. Other PABG laboratories investigate the effects of air pollutants (mainly SO2 and particulates) and the cultivation and use of nonsymbiotic, nitrogen-fixing Cyanobacteria as soil amendments. The region’s soils are acidic (pH 3.5–5) and of poor agricultural quality, thus requiring large amounts of fertilizer ...

Reliability of Psychological Prognosis in the Western Penitentiary of Pennsylvania

Western Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. Annual Report for 1879

proved, 39 as unimproved, and 56 have died, leaving under treatment at the close of the official year 609 persons?a number exceeding that at the same period of 1878 by ten. The condition of the patients is favourably reported on, and the extensive improvements described as completed or in progress in the arrangements of the building prove the care with which the well-being of the inmates of the...

When Inter-ethnic Botanical Borrowing does not rely on Obvious Efficacy: Some questions from Western Amazonia

Inter-ethnic botanical borrowing is usually deemed to be based on pragmatic efficiency. However, in the regional system we discovered between several indigenous groups from the Peruvian rainforest, the transfer of ethnomedicinal knowledge relies much more on relational factors than on any kind of strictly therapeutic efficacy. This is clearly substantiated by a detailed comparison between objec...