the literature on the life and works of Wagner is already extensive and we are told that he ranks third in bibliographical status to Jesus and Napoleon. But much of this is rather diffuse and turgid so that it is a great pleasure to find that Bryan Magee has now produced a Wagnerian analysis refreshing in its clarity, directness and brevity. This little monograph consists of five essays dealing...

practice dating from medieval times) with increasingly concentrated and accurate firepower from rifled musketry and cannon. Thus Napoleon Bonaparte would lose over 40,000 dead and wounded in 2 days at the battle of Wagram (1809) while the murderous engagement at Antietam in the American civil war in September 1862 produced 1-day losses of 25,000 men, which rivaled even the fatalities of the Bri...

Migraine headaches have been the bane of humanity for centuries, afflicting such notables as Ceasar, Pascal, Kant, Beethoven, Chopin, and Napoleon. However, its aetiology and pathomechanism have not to date been satisfactorily elucidated. Herein we demonstrate that the characteristics of the time series associated with cerebral blood flow (CBF) significantly differs between that of normal healt...