Mrs. B., wife of a sergeant of the 1st Royal Welch Fusiliers, aged 32, and the mother of two children, was admitted into the Military Family Hospital, Quetta, on the 22nd September, 1928 complaining of headache, anorexia, and lethargy, which had started on the 6th September, 1928. She never took her temperature at home but thought she got a slight pyrexia at some time daily. She presented a dul...

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John Forbes Nash Jr. was born in Bluefield, West Virginia, on June 13, 1928 and was named after his father, who was an electrical engineer. His mother, Margaret Virginia (née Martin), was a school teacher before her marriage, teaching English and sometimes Latin. After attending the standard schools in Bluefield, Nash entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh (now Carnegie Mell...

Joseph Jumentié (1879-1928), through his clinical skill and expertise in anatomical pathology, enhanced the prestige of the master neurologists he studied under- Jules Dejerine, Augusta Dejerine-Klumpke and Joseph Babiński -and their fame overshadowed the crucial support that Jumentié provided them. Following a remarkable doctoral thesis in 1911, which defined the semiology of tumors in the cer...

One of the first eager readers of Steinitz’s paper was Emmy Noether. At the time when the paper appeared she was still living in her hometown Erlangen, during what may be called the period of her apprenticeship, studying the highlights of contemporary mathematics of the time. Her guide and mentor in this period was Ernst Fischer. We can almost be sure that Steinitz’s paper was the object of ext...

Boll rot is a common term used to describe a variety of diseases that influence the appearance of the mature cotton boll, even though the causal agents may differ substantially from each other. Approximately 170 organisms are described as causing “boll rot” (Anonymous, 2001). Generally, the boll will not mature completely, or if it matures under an area of high humidity, fungal organisms may at...