Ueber Hypertrophia portionis cystica

Hippokrates Ueber die Krankheiten III

irrelevant. Chemistry and the relations between science, technology, and industry are well surveyed by Crosland and Cardwell respectively. Forbes's essay on mathematical cosmography is not a comprehensive account but the story (albeit interesting) of a few German cartographers. Compared with other recent collections of essays in the history of science, this volume parades no party line: witness...

Ueber Das Verschwinden Der Θ-functionen

Spina bifida cystica.

Studies in Spina Bifida Cystica

Nicolai Tulp, the physician whose features are immortalized in Rembrandt's painting 'The School of Anatomy', first suggested the name 'spina bifida' (Tulpius, 1652), though the condition was known to Hippocrates, and the mediaeval Arab physicians are said (Denuce, 1906) to have specifically recognized the absence of the spinous processes in the affected area. Ruysch (1691) distinguished between...

Mastopathia Cystica and Mammary Carcinoma

The relationship of cystic disease of the breast, mastopathia cystica, to carcinoma is, and has always been, a subject of controversy. In 19o6, when Bloodgood (2) considered senile parenchylnatous hypertrophy, he and many other authors thought that this condition was a precancerous lesion and that the probability of cancer being associated with it was as high as 5o per cent. However, in 1921 (3...