Unpublished Manuscripts of Italian Bestiaries

Medical lore in the bestiaries.

SoME time in the first part of the Christian era, perhaps as early as the second century, there emerged a curious collection of zoological fables and religious moralizations called Physiologus."5 It may have begun as a group of tales about animals and their attributes. The number of different creatures originally was about forty.'67 The Physiologus was copied repeatedly and, in time, was greatl...

The genesis of Edward Jenner's Inquiry of 1798: a comparison of the two unpublished manuscripts and the published version.

Edward Jenner continues to be a controversial figure in medical history and his role in the introduction of smallpox vaccination is still debated. Those interested in the development of Jenner's ideas on smallpox prophylaxis will know that two manuscripts exist which contain much of what was to be incorporated into his famous monograph, privately published in 1798.1 One manuscript (here designa...

Unpublished Manuscript

We here review the evolutionary theory relevant to the question of human cooperation and compare the results to other theoretical perspectives. Then, we will summarize some of our own work, distilling a compound explanation that we believe gives a plausible account of human cooperation and selfishness. This account leans heavily on group selection on cultural variation but also includes lower l...

Of abstracts and manuscripts.

An amnesty for unpublished trials.

This month over 100 medical journals around the world are inviting readers to send information on unpublished trials. This amnesty should have important benefits for patients. Why? Reports of properly conducted randomised controlled trials are the foundation of eVective health care, but many are not submitted for publication. 2 This reduces the power of systematic reviews to detect moderate but...