Dictionary of Mexican American History

Criminal history and assaults on intimate partners by Mexican American and non-Mexican White college students.

This study analyzed a sample of 348 college students to examine the role that criminal history and Mexican ethnicity play in predicting intimate partner violence. Respondents who committed crimes in the past (before the age of 15) had a higher probability of severely physically assaulting a partner than those respondents who had committed crime later in life (after the age of 15). A history of ...

American Pocket Medical Dictionary

Many practitioners are no doubt familiar with this book which gives the pronunciations and concise definition of medical terms arranged alphabetically and with many tables which are convenient for quick reference. First published 50 years ago, it has gone through eighteen editions, so it needs no introduction. In this edition the book includes many new terms that have appeared in the literature...

The American Illustrated Medical Dictionary

Illustrations particularly those in colour deserve special mention, prominent among them being : 1. Anterior pituitary hormone, facing page 674. All that is known of the hormone can be grasped from the illustration almost at a glance. 2. Life cycle of the malarial parasite of man, facing page 1133. 'Probable tissue stages (cryptozoites) ' have retrieved this excellent plate from obsolescence. 3...

The American Illustrated Medical Dictionary

Borland, M.D. Pp. 770. London and Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders & Company. 1900. The English-speaking practitioner has no ground for complaining that his philological needs are neglected. On both sides of the Atlantic medical dictionaries are issued with almost perplexing frequency, varying from the traditional " vestpocket " booklet to the portly volume for which it is difficult to find accommo...

The American Pocket Medical Dictionary