Four billion little brothers?

The First Four Billion Years

Four Cases of Blood-Poisoning in Brothers

In the month of August, 1893, f?ur brothers were admitted into the Bristol Royal Infirmary suffering from more or less continued fevers of obscure nature, though probably of common origin. The clinical histories of the patients will first be given, and subsequently the etiology of the observed conditions discussed. went home well on October 10th. His mother said he was in good health until five...

Transient global amnesia in four brothers.

The case histories are described of four brothers who suffered attacks of transient global amnesia. The coincidence of this disorder in four siblings suggests that the causative factors in transient global amnesia may have a familial basis and that its incidence is more common than generally realised.

Four billion people facing severe water scarcity.

Freshwater scarcity is increasingly perceived as a global systemic risk. Previous global water scarcity assessments, measuring water scarcity annually, have underestimated experienced water scarcity by failing to capture the seasonal fluctuations in water consumption and availability. We assess blue water scarcity globally at a high spatial resolution on a monthly basis. We find that two-thirds...

Different course of silicosis in four brothers of one family.

Silicosis remains a common occupational respiratory disease. Even in this era of highly sophisticated hygiene in European countries, new occupational cases of silicosis continue to be reported. Four cases of silicosis which developed after a relatively short occupational exposure to respirable silica among the members of one family are described. Four young men worked illegally abroad in mining...