Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 - April 14, 1964)

Rachel Carson Syndrom

For years some ecologists have been convinced that pesticides are contributing to a decline in amphibian species around the globe. From an apparent epidemic of deformed frogs in Minnesota to the near disappearance of yellow-legged frogs from California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains, pesticides have been considered prime suspects. This suspicion is no doubt rooted in the belief by the ecological com...

Natural history in America. From Mark Catesby to Rachel Carson

RUTH HALL, Marie Stopes. A biography, London, Deutsch, 1977, pp. 351, illus., £5.95. The fascinating story of Marie Stopes (1880-1958) has been told twice before, but this will rank as the best biography of a powerful and extraordinary woman. Mrs. Hall writes well, and by means of the voluminous material available, together with interviews with survivors who were involved, successfully comes to...

Charles Donald O'Malley. 1 April 1907-7 April 1970.

It is with great regret that we report the sudden death from coronary heart disease on 7 April 1970 of Professor Charles Donald O'Malley, M.A., Ph.D., the distinguished medical historian of the University of California at Los Angeles, the leading authority on Renaissance anatomy and especially on the life and work of Andreas Vesalius. Charles Donald O'Malley was born at Alameda, California on 1...

Psychiatric Aspects of March 27, 1964, Earthquake.

1074 25 April 1964 Hookworm Disease in Immigrants

are insanitary. It may also occur in mining communities in Europe if there is a combination of hot moist conditions and poor hygiene (Adams and Maegraith, 1960). The disease causes iron-deficiency anaemia because of loss of blood. The worm attaches itself to the mucosa of the small intestine and sucks the blood of the human host, passing it through its own lumen into the lumen of the gut. In ad...