CANTERBURY AND CONSTANTINOPLE

The Canterbury Tales and cardiology.

Herrick revealed his broad interest in medicine in 1910 when he reported the "Peculiar Elongated and Sickle-Shaped Red Blood Corpuscles in a Case of Severe Anemia."3 He, therefore, earned for himself the distinction of recognizing and describing two clinically important disorders: obstruction of coronary arteries without sudden death and sickle cell disease. He showed us his love of history and...

Hawthorn (crataegus Monogyna) Populations in Mid-canterbury

Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) is a naturalised tree that is classified as a noxious plant in several counties in the eastern South Island. It is locally abundant in lowland forest remnants, and with the indigenous spiny shrub matagouri (Discaria toumatou), on grazing land in Canterbury. Two scrub sites near Porters Pass, where the original hawthorn trees still existed, and a forest site near Ko...

Magnificent teamwork in response to Canterbury earthquake.

Smoking Prevalence Increases following Canterbury Earthquakes

BACKGROUND A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Canterbury in September 2010. This earthquake and associated aftershocks took the lives of 185 people and drastically changed residents' living, working, and social conditions. AIM To explore the impact of the earthquakes on smoking status and levels of tobacco consumption in the residents of Christchurch. METHODS Semistructured interviews were carr...

Groundwater Recharge Interface and Nitrate Discharge: Central Canterbury, New Zealand

Regional surveys of groundwater quality in Central Canterbury, from 1977 to the present, show widespread occurrence of nitrate contamination primarily from agricultural land use. Two reported analyses of these surveys, in 1984 and 2002, describe a general decrease of nitrate concentration with depth from the groundwater table to uncontaminated water at about 50-80 m. This high quality water is ...