The Burnt Child and His Family [Abridged]

The handicapped child and his family.

Histidinaemia: a child and his family.

Histidinaemia, an inherited disorder of histidine metabolism, was first described by Ghadimi, Partington, and Hunter in 1961. The principal metabolic pathway for histidine is through urocanic acid and formiminoglutamic acid (FIGLU) to glutamic acid (Fig. 1). Zannoni and La Du (1963) demonstrated that histidase, the enzyme necessary for the conversion of histidine to urocanic acid, was absent fr...

Nicolò Massa, his family and his fortune.

THE VARIED interests of the Venetian physician Nicolo Massa (d. 1569) found expression in a range of publications on subjects which included anatomy, syphilis, plague and other pestilential fevers, venesection, and logic. Successful as a writer, he was also renowned as a practitioner and as a teacher, though he never held a university chair. He combined a shrewd common sense and an eye to busin...

The Child, His Parents and the Nurse

sarily known to the subject; "quite the contrary." The central importance of choice is emphasized throughout: "Since what the method seeks is a choice of being at the same time as a being, it must reduce particular behavior patterns to fundamental relations-not of sexuality or of will to power, but of being-which are expressed in this behavior.... It will utilize the comprehension of being whic...

The family doctor, his life and history

and science fulfil similar functions". As he says, "The human brain needs to have a representation of the world that is unified and coherent." In his discussion of evolution Jacob is an out-and-out Darwinian, but gives a good analysis of the problems raised by molecular biology. He contrasts the selectionist Darwinian model with the instructionist theories of creationists. As an immunologist, h...