Zum 70. Geburtstag von A. von Hippel

Medizin und Verbrechen. Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Walter Wuttke

explanations which medicine offered for the Gulf veterans' strange symptoms-fatigue, headaches, diarrhoea, shortness of breath, and impaired memory. As Wheelwright explains, two main schools of thought soon emerged-the stress hypothesis and the toxic exposure hypothesis; and, although he pretends for a while to be even-handed between them, it is soon apparent that his money is on stress. Elaine...

Festschrift für Erna Lesky zum 70. Geburtstag

The translation is preceded by a short historical note on Maimonides, a brief description of the background to Mishnah Torah and a glossary of technical terms for those not acquainted with Jewish terminology. Although the terseness of the Hebrew language and the difficulties of rendering it into English are referred to, the translation is readable and lucid. There is, however, no indication of ...

Paracelsus. Das Werk—die Rezeption. Beiträge des Symposiums zum 500. Geburtstag von Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, genannt Paracelsus (1493–1541)

which progressed into nearby areas resulting in epidemic waves, then a climatic stage in the form of an extensive core area, and finally spreading to previously spared areas of central Europe. Perhaps the most innovative component of the structural relationships is the proposition that "the usual outcome of the flow of plague during a cycle was that an area of terminal disease activity became a...

Von Hippel-Lindau disease.

Von Hippel-Lindau Disease

A germline mutation in the Von-Hippel Lindau (VHL) gene predisposes carriers to development of abundantly vascularised tumours in the retina, cerebellum, spine, kidney, adrenal gland and pancreas. Most VHL patients die from the consequences of cerebellar haemangioblastoma or renal cell carcinoma. The VHL gene is a tumour suppressor gene and is involved in angiogenesis by regulation of the activ...