I thank Matt Newson for research assistance as a 2004 Summer Intern at the NLM. Also helpful in formulating my ideas for this introduction were the commentaries by Dorothy Porter, Patrice Pinell, Charles Rosenberg, Barbara Clow, John Parascandola, and Nikolai Krementsov at the “Cancer in the Twentieth Century” workshop held at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 15–17 Novembe...

autoerythrocyte sensitization syndrome cabs) is a rare purpuric disorder of women characterized by inflammatory and painful ecchymotic lesions unrelated to blood clotting or vascular abnormalities. gastrointestinal bleeding, hematuria, headache or syncopal attacks may also be observed. our patient is a 33-year-old woman presenting with recurrent severe painful ecchymotic lesions on both lower e...

klinefelter syndrome includes a group of chromosomal disorders with at least one  additional  x  chromosome  in  male  karyotype  (46,xy).  up  to  now, different dental manifestations such as taurodontism, congenital absence of permanent teeth, shovel incisors, occlusal anomalies and increased permanent tooth size have been reported. a case of klinefelter syndrome with very rare dental feature...

Sir,?I have read Dr. K. P. Kundu's article on 'Prawns as a possible vector of V. cholerce', published in the October 1938 issue of your Gazette, with keen interest. Heiberg (1935, 1936) as a rejoiner to the publication by Gardner and Venkatraman (1935) showed that the vibrios could be grouped into 6 by fermentation reaction of three sugars, mamose saccharose and arabinose, as Gardner and Venkat...

John Sarvey and his collaborators made major contributions to our understanding of the noradrenergic contribution to plasticity in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus. The present chapter considers, first, the conclusions reached using in vitro models, and is based primarily on the work of John Sarvey and his collaborators, and, then, describes in vivo data and the interrelationships between t...