Literary festivals are an opportunity for authors and readers to mingle interact. Libraries that host literary connect book lovers writers in a very personal way, enabling libraries bask the glory of connection. They allow fans get close beloved writer, hear reading, maybe even signed. And like almost everything else during pandemic, they have had adapt or go into indefinite hiatus.

one hand, Wolff and Blumenbach attached vitalism to epigenesis. On the other hand, the Montpellier tradition developed the notion of the organism as a network of quasi-organisms in which living forces reside. The latter approach culminated in the work of Bichat, who, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, located vital properties in distinct tissues which he treated as bodily elements. Thi...

THis careful and detailed history of neuro-anatomical thinking sets present-day concepts in their historical context and fulfils a useful function. As one might expect from the title of the book, the subdivisions are anatomical and the author reviews descriptions of the basal ganglia and diencephalon, the 'olfactory brain' and the cerebral convolutions and fissures from the time of Galen to the...

All of the authors are recognized experts in their respective areas. The foreword by Robert Austrian, a pioneer in pneumococcal microbiology, disease description, and vaccine work, provides an interesting summary of the history of major discoveries in the field. While covering many areas of pneumococcal research, the book is not exhaustive; for example, issues specific to pneumococcal disease i...

Ltd. 1897. There is nothing very original in this small book, which is written^ " for the General Practitioner by a General Practi* tioner." It is illustrated by a large number of photographs 01 cases which have been under the author's care, but most 0 them are of little value in conveying information to the readerThe chapters on treatment are eminently practical and judiciousMechanical treatme...