Proteus: Mythology to modern times

Modern Times

Melancholia and Depression: From Hippocratic Times to Modern Times (1986).

Diabetes : Modern Times.

*Endocrinology Unit, Department of Clinical Medicine, S. Orsola-Malpighi General Hospital, Bologna, Italy, 40138 I 1964 Dorothy Crowfort Hodgkin (19101944) (Figure 1) won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin molecular structure by X-ray crystallography. In 1977 Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (born in 1921) (Figure 2) was awarded with Nobel Prize for the development of radioimmunoassay of polypep...

Lead and Lead Poisoning from Antiquity to Modern Times

Lead, because of its low melting point, was one of the first metals used by man. It was probably isolated soon after the ancients discovered the use of fire. Archeological discoveries indicate the presence of lead objects and pigments during the early Bronze Age. In ancient Egyptian and Greco-Roman times metallic lead was produced as a by-product of silver mining. Extensive evidence of ancient ...

Latin Language and Latin Culture from ancient to modern times