January 24th, 1860

Dr. Nasser Maleki (January 25, 1953 – January 6, 2012)

24th Biennial Southern Forest Tree

Research to determine patterns of genetic differentiation among and within field populations of Crom.um quercuum f. sp.firsifome using RAPD markers is currently underway in the molecular genetics laboratory at the Southern Institute of Forest Genetics. Fungal tissue was collected as a drop of spermatia or scrapings of a discrete hymenium fiom a single gall on each tree sampled at a location. Co...

The nurse apprentice, 1860–1977

of letters, shown clearly by Laurence Brockliss and Eric Hamraoui. As well as corresponding widely with his contemporaries, Tissot has left us with abundant source material on the patient/ doctor relationship. His detailed diagnostic letters as well as the patients' requests allow historians, such as Frederic Sardet, Philip Rieder and Vincent Barras, to examine eighteenth-century conceptions of...

The Neuron Doctrine (1860-1895)

The neuron [4] doctrine is a concept formed during the turn of the twentieth century that describes the properties of neurons, the specialized cells that compose the nervous system. The neuron [4] doctrine was one of two major theories on the composition of the nervous system at the time. Advocates of the neuron [4] doctrine claimed that the nervous system was composed of discrete cellular unit...

Medical practice in New Zealand 1769-1860.

New Zealand was discovered by Captain Cook in 1769. Over the next ninety years, increasing numbers of medical practitioners visited and began to settle in what became a British colony. The first medical visitors were usually naval surgeons or served on board whaling ships. The major influx of doctors occurred at the behest of the New Zealand Company between 1840 and 1848, although Christian mis...