Holy Baptism. Darwell Stone

Uveal Melanoma: Beyond a Baptism

Ophthalmologists focus on a very specialized region of the body; however, our years of general medical training are useful for patients, especially those with uveal melanoma. While hereditary uveal melanoma (UM) is very rare (<1% of uveal melanomas) [1], patients with a high frequency of personal and/or family history of cancer are found inabout 12% of unselected patients with UM [2]. The incre...

The Origin and Meaning of Baptism

Holy springs and holy water: underestimated sources of illness?

Use of holy springs and holy water is inherent in religious activities. Holy spring water is also used extensively for personal drinking water, although not assessed according to drinking water standards. Holy water in churches and chapels may cause infections via wetting of lips and sprinkling on persons. Our aim was to assess the microbiological and chemical water quality of holy springs and ...

Baptism of fire of a Web-based design assistant

DYNAMO – a Dynamic Architectural Memory On-line – is a Web-based design assistant to support architectural design education. The tool is conceived as an (inter-)active workhouse rather than a passive warehouse: it is interactively developed by and actively develops its users' design knowledge. Its most important feature is not merely that it presents students with design cases, but that those c...

[Baptism out of necessity--a medico-historiografic view].

Baptism of necessity of life-threatened newborns was proclaimed by church law and related midwifery regulations from the second half of the 16th century. Midwives were for centuries the only lay persons attending the pregnant woman, parturient woman and newborn, so they were obliged to baptize newborns with life-threatening conditions, which were rather common and associated with high mortality...