Neological lexicography from the 19th century until the present day

Present-day central African forest is a legacy of the 19th century human history

The populations of light-demanding trees that dominate the canopy of central African forests are now aging. Here, we show that the lack of regeneration of these populations began ca. 165 ya (around 1850) after major anthropogenic disturbances ceased. Since 1885, less itinerancy and disturbance in the forest has occurred because the colonial administrations concentrated people and villages along...

The Chronicle of Arsenic Poisoning in the 19th Century

The Classification of Alcoholics Typology Theories From the 19th Century to the Present

Alth ough alcoholism often is treat­ ed as a unitary disorder that can be described by a single disease label, ample evidence indicates that alcoholics differ in a wide variety of defining characteristics, such as drinking patterns, type of dependence, genetic predisposition, personality traits, and antecedent psychiatric disor­ ders. Recognition of this heterogeneity has led to attempts to dev...

The 19th Century

Coulomb, Carl Friedrich Gauss, André Marie Ampère, and Michael Faraday discovered the four experimental laws concerning electricity and magnetism, James Clerk Maxwell added the displacement current and thereby created the great set of Maxwell’s equations. That view is not entirely wrong, but it obscures the subtle interplay between sophisticated geometrical and physical intuitions that led not ...

Chronicle of Datura Toxicity in the 18th and 19th Century

Background: Datura stramonium is a poisonous and common flowering plant that is a member of the Solanacae family. Datura poisonings are a rare occurrence in the 21st century, making toxicological information on this plant sparse. Historical information on Datura provides useful information on the clinical symptoms and characteristics of poisonings. This review looks at the state of knowledge on...