The “Poems of Doubtful Authorship” in modern editions Samuel Johnson’s poetry include three Latin poems that were first associated with Johnson 1856. This article reveals the weakness this alleged “attribution” and discusses arguments for against authorship each poem turn. While certainty is impossible, it concludes he possibly wrote translation Ex cantico Solomonis but Venus Armour Logical War...

Abdominal actinomycosis is a rare condition caused by actinomyces species found in the normal flora of the oral cavity, gastrointestinal and genital tract. All cases reported describe localized forms demonstrating masses, pseudotumors or abscess during surgery or radiology studies and there are no reports about spontaneous peritonitis caused by actinomycetes. We report a case in which this dise...

A 37 year old woman was admitted to the hospital with acute severe asthma, shortly followed by respiratory failure and circulatory arrest. Despite intensive cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, during which extreme arterial hypoxaemia persisted, the patient died. Postmortem examination revealed a patent foramen ovale, with a diameter of 1 cm. A severe right-to-left shunt, initiated by acute pulmonar...

The aim of the present study was to compare the reduction of subjective complaints by 3 treatment strategies in 90 "amalgam patients" whose complaints could not be explained by a medical or psychological disorder. The individuals were randomly assigned either to removal of dental amalgam only (removal group), or removal in combination with a "biological detoxification" therapy with high doses o...

Certified sickness rates of 36 male welders were examined for the period 1970-9. They were compared with 36 male controls from the same petrochemical plant, matched for age, smoking habits, duration of employment, and social class. Indices of severity (average annual duration), duration (average length of spell), and frequency (inception rate of spells and inception rate per worker) were calcul...

On my voyage home from Calcutta last March, Mr. J. F. Parker, of .Messrs. Thacker, Spink & Co., of Calcutta, and Mrs. Parker, who were travelling in the same vessel with me, volunteered the following statement regarding an outbreak of fever. I cannot answer for the facts, because I was not aware of the case at the time it occurred, and because a letter which I addressed to Calcutta on the subje...

An elderly woman, distraught over the recent death of her husband, was found dead of an apparent suicide. Qualitative screening detected only the presence of diltiazem, an antihypertensive, antianginal agent that was prescribed for a known heart ailment. Quantitation of diltiazem was carried out on available fluids and tissues with the following results: blood 6.7 mg/L, urine 5.4 mg/L, vitreous...

The aim of this paper is to integrate typed attributed graph transformation with node type inheritance. Borrowing concepts from object oriented systems, the main idea is to enrich the attributed type graph with an inheritance relation and a set of abstract nodes. In this way, a node type inherits the attributes and edges of all its ancestors. Based on these concepts, it is possible to define ab...