Oh, be kindly

`The kindly fruits'

F. BIANCHINI and F. CORBETTA, 'The kindly fruits', English adaptation by M. A. Dejey, illustrations by M. Pistoia, London, Cassell, 1977, fo., pp. 241, illus., £12.50. Le piante della salute appeared in 1975 and has now been adapted into English. It deals with eighty-two herbs and plants that have been used for centuries in the kitchen and, or, in medicine. Each is described and its location an...

Oh, dura dear! What can the mater be?

Elizabeth Conrad and the children had eagerly awaited the Mediterranean cruise that would take them to Greece and the Greek Isles. Theodore Conrad had been invited to lecture in Athens and this would mean opportunities to visit the Acropolis, Parthenon and Agora; then traveling to Rhodes to see its Colossus, the Asclepion, a renowned center of healing, and finally Kos, the birthplace of Hippocr...

Kindly medicine: physio-medicalism in America, 1836–1911

in America as throughout Europe, a sweeping reaction against speculative systems was the rule everywhere by 1820, even in romantic Germany, and it is very difficult to disentangle this overall trend (due only in part to Paris medicine) from the influence of those who went abroad. How would American medicine have been different if no American had gone abroad? And how much of the heavily-touted r...

تعیین روش ریزازدیادی پایه‌های همگروه گلابی OH × F333 و OH × F69

  این پژوهش به منظور تعیین پروتکل تکثیر درون شیشه‏ای دو پایه همگروه گلابی OH × F69 و OH × F333 در قالب چهار آزمایش مجزا انجام شد. طی آزمایش اول، اثر محیط‏های MS ، QL و QL تغییر یافته روی صفات رویشی ساقه‌چه‌های درون شیشه بررسی شد. در بین این محیط‏ها، محیط کشت QL تغییر یافته با بهترین پرآوری و کیفیت شاخه به عنوان محیط کشت پایه برای آزمایشات بعدی انتخاب شد. در آزمایش دوم و سوم ارزیابی اثر دو نوع س...

Seaside accidents. Oh, we do like to be beside the seaside!