Die filosofie van Smuts en Boodin.

Werkbelasting en ervaren werkdruk van de huisarts

Hendrikje van Andel, bristlecone pines, and why we die.

At the moment of writing this editorial (September 2004), the oldest living person in the world is Hendrikje van Andel. She celebrated her 114th birthday on June 29 of this year, and lives in an old people’s home in Hoogeveen, the Netherlands. When interviewed by the world press she cheerfully gave away her secret: a herring and a glass of orange juice a day. While survival beyond the age of 10...

Book review: Ziekten van vissen, schaal-, en schelpdieren, van belang voor de Nederlandse aquacultuur.

How to cite this book review: How to cite this book review: Huchzermeyer K.D.A., 2013, 'Book review: Ziekten van vissen, schaal-, en schelpdieren, van belang voor de Nederlandse aquacultuur'84(1), Art. #1016, 1 page.http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/jsava.v84i1.1016.

De segmentale innervatie van romp en ledematen bij de mens

Although the editor, in his introduction, does not make it quite clear why at this particular point in time the decision was taken to reprint Louis Bolk's neuro-anatomical work on the segmental innervation ofthe human trunk and limbs, there can be no doubt that this monograph of 1910, both from a clinical and historical point of view, is a worthwhile publication. Bolk, the most influential of D...

`De bevordering en volmaking der proefondervindelijke wijsbegeerte': de rol van het Bataafsch Genootschap te Rotterdam in de geschiedenis van de natuurwetenschappen, geneeskunde en techniek (1769–1988)

For all the obvious hazards and problems of using such a compilation, it is an extraordinary resource. It should surely provide the basis for a much-needed prosopography of the medical trade in the pre-reform era. The sheer proliferation ofnumbers (there are clearly well over 35,000 medical practitioners, in the narrow sense, listed here) provides ample confirmation of the arguments, recently a...