Hypsarhythmia was originally spelled with one 'r' by Drs Frederick and Erna Gibbs when they coined the term in 1952.

traditionalists of european literature in the sixteenth century ad, were trying to restore that literary heritage due to technical and human theme of the ancient greek literature since modernists began to confront the traditionalists by the the end of the seventeenth century and invited them to avoid old formats and to define literature and poetry in another way. since then, persian and arabic ...

Lion fecal DNA extracts from four individuals each from Yankari Game Reserve and Kainji-Lake National Park (central northeast and west Nigeria, respectively) were Sanger-sequenced for the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene. The sequences were aligned against 61 lion reference sequences from other parts of Africa and India. The sequence data were analyzed further for the construction of phylogeneti...

BACKGROUND Mortality rates are much more favourable in Western European countries than in those of Eastern Europe. Health behaviour and psychosocial factors have been suggested to be important contributors to East-West differences in mortality and health status. METHODS To compare reported health status as well as health behaviours and psychosocial factors which may be related to unequal heal...

The recent increase in some parts of London of syphilis acquired homosexually (Lancet, 1964; Brit. med. J7., 1967) has indicated that a drug of nontreponemicidal properties is to be preferred in the treatment of gonococcal proctitis in homosexual men. Septrin was considered as a potentially useful remedy in these circumstances. Though taken orally and so subject to error or misuse, it needs be ...

The genus Verbena L. (Verbenaceae) comprises 250 species mainly in tropical and temperate America. It is represented in Egypt by two species viz. Verbena ozcinalis L. and V. supina L. (Taeckholm, 1974). Verbena ozcinalis is widely distributed mainly in the northern hemisphere while V. supina is of Mediterranean, West Irano}Turanian and East Saharo-Arabian distribution (Fienbrun-Dothan, 1978). I...

Introduction The geography of medicine considers disease patterns in different parts of the world [1]. For this reason, it was found of interest to compare the prevalence of Paget’s disease of the breast in the Ibos of West Africa and in the Hebrews of the Middle East. The choice was made on three grounds. Firstly, I had previously published on the Paget cell with reference to its historical at...

During the 1st millennium before the Common Era (BCE), nomadic tribes associated with the Iron Age Scythian culture spread over the Eurasian Steppe, covering a territory of more than 3,500 km in breadth. To understand the demographic processes behind the spread of the Scythian culture, we analysed genomic data from eight individuals and a mitochondrial dataset of 96 individuals originating in e...

1171 urban general practices in East and West Malaysia were compared regarding their service profiles and practice facilities. In general, practices in both parts put important emphasis on preventive health care. More practices in East Malaysia were providing hormone replacement therapy and sexually transmitted diseases services but less were providing intrapartum care, counselling services inc...