Hortus Indicus Malabaricus: An Enquiry Into Alien Plants:II

Hortus Malabaricus and the Ethnoiatrical Knowledge of Ancient Malabar

Hortus Malabaricus is the oldest important printed book on Indian medicinal plants. The 1(st) of its 12 volumes was published in 1678 from Amsterdam this book, written by H.A. Van Rheede is perhaps the only authentic record of the ethnoiatrical knowledge of ancient Malabar, available to us today. Several hundred medicinal plants which were successful used by the Ayurvedic physiclans of 17(th) c...

An Imaging Enquiry into Prostatic Calcifications

Often these calcifications are tiny and cannot be palpated and hence, remain practically hidden. However, they become readily visible on ultrasound scanthe most widely used imaging modality; as hyperechoic foci with or without posterior acoustic shadowing. They can also be detected on CT-scan or MRI-scans. On CT-scan the calcifications appear as tiny hyperdense foci having CT density value +90 ...

Young Offenders. An Enquiry into Juvenile Delinquency

Oil dermatitis: an enquiry into its prognosis.

Johnson, M. L., and Wilson, H. T. H. (1971). Brit. J. industr. Med., 28, 122-125. Oil dermatitis: an enquiry into its prognosis. One hundred industrial workers who developed skin disease while working with soluble or cutting oils were seen. Between 6 and 13 years later 87 of these cases were contacted and their subsequent histories obtained. Of these, 42 had oil dermatitis, 10 had oil dermatiti...

An Enquiry into the Value of Autohaemotherapy in Juvenile Asthma

In view of the uncertainty of the usual results of specific desensitization methods in allergic types of bronchial asthma, this enquiry was undertaken to determine whether the claims made in some quarters for the value of a course of injections of the patient's own blood in the relief of this distressing malady were justified or not. The reactions of the skin to foreign proteins of all classes ...