Codex Casinensis 69: Anonymi Varia Excerpta Medica (Saec. IX)

Use study of Excerpta Medica abstract journals: to drop or not to drop?

The directors of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, a medium-sized library serving the University of Virginia medical and nursing schools, were concerned over the increasing cost of periodical subscriptions and so studied the use of the printed copy of Excerpta Medica. This study had six parts: (1) availability in other campus libraries; (2) staff perceptions of in-library use; (3) resul...

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50 words); references, not to exceed 10; figures or illustrations, not to exceed two; and a brief biographical sketch. Another Dimension: Thoughtful essays on philosophical issues related to science and human health. Book Reviews: Short reviews (250 to 500 words) of recentlypublished books on emerging disease issues are welcome. Letters: This section includes letters that give preliminary d...

De Materia Medica Versus Codex Alimentarius for the Reinforcement of the Gynecologic Immune System: the Case of Endometriosis

Since the first Pharmacopoeia under the title "De Materia Medica," the importance of the utilization of plants and herbs has been an invaluable medicinal tool successfully employed for strengthening the immune system for combating a number of diseases in general, or assisting fertility and reproductive issues in particular. The beneficial use of herbal extracts, constituting the basis of modern...

Pontificiae Academiae Scientiarvm Scripta Varia

Anonymi medici: De morbis acutis et chroniis

Just over a hundred years ago Robert Fuchs published in a German periodical part of an unknown Greek tract on acute and chronic diseases he had found in a Paris manuscript, hence its common title of Anonymus Parisinus. Lacking both beginning and ending, it gives first the cause of each disease as suggested by earlier writers, then signs and symptoms, and finally treatments. Although its appeara...