The Wounded Angel

The Angel wins

The angel-devil game is played on an infinite two-dimensional “chessboard” Z. The squares of the board are all white at the beginning. The players called angel and devil take turns in their steps. When it is the devil’s turn, he can turn a square black. The angel always stays on a white square, and when it is her turn she can fly at a distance of at most J steps (each of which can be horizontal...

The wounded worm

The ability to heal wounds is an ancient and conserved function of epidermal epithelial layers. The importance of skin wound healing to human life and biology has long been evident, however many of the molecular mechanisms underlying wound repair remain little understood. In the past several years, analysis of the C. elegans innate immune response to fungal infection of the epidermis has led to...

First Aid to the Wounded

Immediate Care of the Wounded

“Of all the surgical operations which are performed in man for the preservation of life by the physician, I have always judged to be the foremost that by which man is recalled from a quick death to a sudden repossession of life, a feat which raises to the level of Aesculapius; the operation is the opening of the asperia arteria [trachea], by which patients, from a condition of almost suffocatin...

Sunday Afternoon with the Wounded

The house was " sold out"?-packed from floor to ceiling. And small wonder since, apart from any sentimental reasons, that marvellous man, Mr. Alan Adair, had provided a full afternoon's entertainment of talent, humour and rollicking jollity. Many of the capable artists were greeted like old friends, which, indeed, they were, often having given their services on previous occasions to hearten up ...