CORROSION’s 75th Anniversary Celebration Continues

1807-2007: a great anniversary celebration.

In celebration of NMC's 50th anniversary.

The 30 th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Congress of Neurolog-ical Surgeons has ended successfully and we are enjoying the brief period of pleasant weather just before the rainy season starts. I wish to share some views with you in this 50 th anniversary issue of the NMC. In the 42 years since I decided to work in neurosurgery, many things have happened. This 30 th Congress focused on ``Surgery...

Volume commemorating the 75th anniversary of G. A. Lindeboom

establishments for recognition of Scottish degrees, and the slow decline of the Scottish, clinically-based medical curriculum as its laboratory-based German counterpart rose to displace it in popularity. The final chapter on the twentieth century gives a valuable account of the development of state medicine in Scotland, including a section on the Highlands and Islands Medical Service, and the s...

2013 Was the 75th Anniversary of Ervin Bauer’s Death

Science minded people commonly remember Lotka, Rashevsky, Bertalanffy and Haldane etc. when they are speaking about the foundation of theoretical biology (see Alt et al. 2010). In similar Russian (or Hungarian) works Ervin Bauer’s name is perhaps mentioned too (see Tokin 1965). Why is Bauer omitted in most cases? The usual explanation is that Bauer’s principal work: Theoretical Biology (Бауэр 2...

Transmission of malaria. 75th anniversary of Ronald Ross's great discovery.

sarily be applicable to patients seen at a district general hospital. Our findings suggest, however, that successful colostomy closure is not dependent on the age of the patient or the disease for which the distal resection is performed. While breakdown is thought to be due primarily to a failure of technique, closure of a colostomy within one month of its construction should be undertaken with...