Bu çalışma, özellikle Mustafa Kemal Paşa'nın hayatında önemli bir yere sahip olan "Karlsbad Hatıraları" üzerinden Türkiye ile Avusturya arasındaki tarihi ve sosyolojik ilişkilere dikkat çekmek amacıyla kaleme alınmıştır. Prof. Dr. Afet İnan, 1931 yılında basılan Atatürk'ün adlı yetmiş sayfalık kitabında, yaşamının mesleki entelektüel yönlerine ilişkin çok özel bilgileri beyan etmekte, aktarmakt...

To the Editor—Plans for responding to an influenza pandemic are based on estimates of the effects that a 1918-like pandemic would have in modern populations and settings [1– 4]. Most recent descriptions of the 1918 pandemic emphasize the unique clinical expressions of the H1N1 pandemic strain—particularly the rapid progression to respiratory failure and death—and suggest that such cases were th...

Photo 1. Dr. Roger at the first international workshop, Marseille, 1983. Joseph Roger passed away on September 3, 2012. He was a great man, a ‘‘giant’’ as one epileptologist has written, with a remarkable personality. It is with a great sense of loss that I pay tribute to him here. Born in 1918, he entered medical school in Marseille in 1941 but his studies were interrupted by the Second World ...

Contact lens pioneer, Penrhyn Thomas, died on 2 May 2010, while living independently at the age of 91 years in Menai, Sydney, with his wife Trish. He was among the first contact lens practitioners in Australia and perhaps foremost in encouraging optometrists to fit contact lenses as a routine part of optometric practice. He was a driving force in the development of corneal lenses. Pen Thomas wa...

Paul was just 15 when he met Michener (Mich), who was curator of Lepidoptera at the American Museum of Natural History. He seemed to be very old to Paul (Mich was 29) and Paul thought even then that Mich was a great scientist (he was right). Mich was doing research on the taxonomy of butterflies and moths because he couldn’t find employment working with bees, his first and last love. Berry only...

Influenza is Italian for "influence", Latin: influentia. It used to be thought that the disease was caused by a bad influence from the heavens. Influenza was called a virus long, long before it was proven to be one. In 2005, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine estimated that a recurrence of the 1918 influenza epidemic could kill between 180 million and 360 million people worldwide...

We present the history of fourth order metric theories of gravitation from its beginning in 1918 until 1988.

MASSACHUSETTS ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS LEAGUE Fourth Annual Meeting, Boston, April 11, 1918. Introductory Remarks by the President. By Vincent Y. Bowditch, M.D., Boston 847 Adequate Community Organization for Health Educational Woks. By Mary A, Abel, Framingham, Mass. 850 Relative Values in Anti-Tuberculosis Work. By Professor C. M. Billiard, Boston 853 Annual Report of the Massachusetts Anti-Tubercul...

OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiological and social impact of the flu pandemic of 1918-1919 in 41 municipalities of Boyacá, Colombia. METHODOLOGY Descriptive, analytical-empiric, historic study with an epidemiological focus. The volume and structure of the population is established and determines the mortality rates for the variables of time, person and place. RESULTS The pandemic began in...