Chapter 7. Evelyn Briggs Baldwin and Kersting Bay

7 Chapter 7 : Measles

I. Disease Description Measles is an acute viral illness caused by a virus in the family paramyxovirus, genus Morbillivirus. Measles is characterized by a prodrome of fever (as high as 105°F) and malaise, cough, coryza, and conjunctivitis, followed by a maculopapular rash.1 The rash spreads from head to trunk to lower extremities. Measles is usually a mild or moderately severe illness. However,...

John Evelyn and medicine.

JOHN EvELYN has often been described as a virtuoso in the seventeenth-century meaning of that word, and if it be recalled that the Earl of Arundel, the greatest of the virtuosi was his patron, that Evelyn was a member of the Royal Society almost from its inception and a diligent attendant of its meetings, which at that time dealt with a wide variety of curiosa and technological as well as scien...

Chapter 7 Convection and complexity

Contrary to current textbooks ... the observed world does not proceed from lower to higher "degrees of disorder", since when all gravitationally-induced phenomena are taken into account the emerging result indicates a net decrease in the "degrees of disorder", a greater "degree of structuring" ... classical equilibrium thermodynamics ... has to be completed by a theory of 'creation of gravitati...

Chapter 7 Summary and conclusions

chapter 7 – vasomotion and adiponectin

Obesity-related microvascular dysfunction, including alterations in rhythmic changes in vascular diameter, socalled 'vasomotion', may be important in the clustering of obesity with other cardiovascular risk factors. Adipokines have been suggested to play a role in obesity-related vascular dysfunction. Alterations in vasomotion have been found using extreme body mass index (BMI) phenotypes. Whet...