The work is well organised into three sections covering the first century, the period of scientific advance 1876-1946 and the period of explosive growth 1946-1976. In the first section there is a selective account of medical education and practice and of hygiene and hospitals and of the conflicts and stresses in a country where varied standards prevailed. In the period of scientific advance the...

PURPOSE To evaluate reasons for non-compliance with post-cataract surgical follow-up in rural China, and assess the impact of incentives on improving compliance. METHODS Patients having undergone cataract surgery more than 3 months previously at cataract surgery training hospitals in Guangdong were invited by telephone and advertisements to a hospital-based study examination, with compensatio...

materials and methods in the present study, authors have attempted to state the life and time of jorjani and his views by studying the history, old medical sources, and other provided recent medical literature in these fields. results the biography of hakim jorjani has been well reviewed and described precisely. conclusions based on our findings, it is clear that jorjani described and explained...

We present the first reconstruction of past flood events variability in Basque Country and Western Ebro Basin (Northern Spain) integrating instrumental hydrological datasets (last 20 years), documentary archives 700 years) Lake Arreo (655 m a.s.l.) sedimentary paleoflood record 1400 years). In this lake, allochthonous coarse fine detrital layers (CDL FDL respectively) intercalated within endoge...

The development of airflow limitation that occurs in 70-80% of people with asthma several minutes after vigorous exercise is known as exercise induced asthma. In most asthmatic patients the airflow obstruction is reversed spontaneously within 60 minutes. There are, however, asthmatic individuals who have more prolonged airways obstruction and who require bronchodilator treatment to recover pre-...

In the present paper the authors compared skeletal populations (2421 individuals) excavated from four cemeteries, namely Hajdúdorog-Gyúlás (10th century AD), Hajdidorog-Temetöhegy (11th century AD), Hajdúdorog-Katidülö (12th-13th century AD) and Hajdúdorog-Szálldáföld (12th-13th century AD) from a micro-region of Northern Hajdúság (located in the northern part of the Great Hungarian Plain in Hu...

The ancient literary tradition, together with piecemeal archaeological evidence, has conventionally served as a basis for investigating the origin of city Rome. This study aims to counterbalance earlier studies by using evidence main data examination, particularly new discoveries and scientific studies. record from early Rome shows that urbanization was gradual process taking place over several...

This paper addresses the historical documentation of tornadoes and the awareness of tornadic events in the area of the present Czech Republic throughout the last nine centuries. The oldest records of tornado occurrence in the region can be found in chronicles from the first half of the 12 century – the two most interesting of these are presented here in original Latin texts. Several other cases...