When the great influenza epidemic struck Philadelphia in 1918, the author was just starting his third year at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. After a single lecture on influenza, classes for the third and fourth year students were suspended while he and his mates manned an emergency hospital, in which they worked under little or no medical supervision and in the presence of a...

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The nutritional composition of different acorn species (Q. pyrenaica, Q. robur, and ilex) harvested in Peneda-Gerês Park, Braga (north Portugal) was determined after being dehulled by methods (manually, thermally scalding with boiling water, drying at 30 °C). Ash protein contents remained unaltered, but the fat carbohydrate increased and/or decreased depending on dehulling method Quercus spp. t...

The fresh leaves and stems of Ilex paraguariensis (Aquifoliaceae) (green maté) are industrialized to prepare the commercial product named “yerba mate” used in South America as a tea-like beverage. It is exported to the US, Europe and Asia as vegetal drug or extracts used in complementary and alternative medicine and in formulations for functional foods. The aims of this study were: a) to evalua...