Rinderpest : an historical overview : historical overview : Onderstepoort and veterinary research in Africa

Inhaled anesthetics: an historical overview.

Inhalational agents have played a pivotal role in anesthesia history. The first publicly demonstrated anesthetic of the modern era, diethyl ether, was an inhalational anesthetic. The attributes of a good agent, ability to rapidly induce anesthesia, with limited side effects has led research efforts for over a hundred and fifty years. The explosion hazard was largely conquered with the developme...

Patents and Industrialization: an Historical Overview

The aim of this paper is to provide a critical survey of patent systems during the first phase of the industrialization process with a special focus on the British case. Perhaps surprisingly, no consensus has been reached yet as to whether the emergence of modern patent systems exerted a favourable impact on inventive activities in this historical phase. However, the recent literature has shed ...

Medicine and art: an historical overview.

Art is an exercise of human skill - sometimes figments of imagination to express the natural world in various forms-literal and visual. Medicine and art interact in the doctor's life and work. The science and art of healing takes many forms; so does the expressive and evocative process known as art. The details are presented here.

Research on Biochemistry of Herbicides: An Historical Overview

Otto Warburg, the father o f cellular bioenergetics, seems to have been the first investigator to report on inhibition o f a plant biochemical reaction by a progenitor o f a selective herbicide. The year was 1920 and the compound was phenylurethane (ethyl N-phenylcarbamate or EPC). Warburg found that it strongly inhibited photosynthesis in Chlorella. EPC did not de­ velop into a commercial herb...

RTV4HCI: A Historical Overview