Material wealth without virtue, that is, spiritual wealth, is a loser. Well-being, as the possession of goods, not an end in itself for our life, but rather means by which we can also help fellow men. The writings Holy Fathers are rich references about equality people. Wealth depicted bad thing itself. It possible to be and still remain good Christian, both materially spiritually rich. Those wh...

Cataract is known to be more common in India than it is in the industrialised world, but there is little evidence to show whether people emigrating from India will continue to have a high incidence of the disease. Data have been collected from the outpatient clinics of a hospital in Leicester, England, that suggest that for people aged over 45 the demand incidence of cataract is more than five ...

chapters. In a special examination, Seidler shows that the attitude of the German Society of Paediatrics to their Jewish members was characterized by increasing discrimination. Persecutions and assassinations now replaced humiliation and withdrawal of medical licences. Many physicians were able to emigrate in time, others felt desperate and committed suicide. At least seventy-one paediatricians...

Identity And Language Of Moldovan Mothers Emigrated To Italy. The present study investigates family-related language practices of mothers emigrated to Italy, through a semi-structured interview. date, few studies have considered linguistic choices in relation educational and identity aspects this population. Ten woman been interviewed. Results from thematic analysis on the collected interviews ...

A 25-year-old healthy Hispanic male agricultural laborer presented to the emergency department with six weeks of a painless raised lesion on the proximal thumb with occasional drainage of fluid, without history of injury. Over the next several weeks, he developed painless subcutaneous nodules proximally. He denied any systemic symptoms. The patient emigrated from Mexico two years earlier, but h...

ONE of the most interesting figures in the annals of Jewish medical history is Tobias Cohn (1652-1729), sometimes called Kohn or Katz. His claim to immortality cannot be based on any originality as a thinker or innovator but is simply due to the breadth of his knowledge reflected in his encyclopaedic work entitled Ma 'aseh Tobiyyah, written in Hebrew and first published in Venice in 1708. A cop...

Louis A. Duhring, M.D., Pathfinder for Dermatology, by LAWRENCE CHARLES PARISH, Springfield, Illinois, C. C. Thomas, 1967, pp. xviii, 137, illus., $4.40. Duhring was one of the few American physicians of his time to become well known in Europe. His textbook on diseases of the skin (1877) appeared in an Italian edition (1882) and in a French also (1883); a little later there were Russian and Chi...

Providing culturally and linguistically appropriate home healthcare and hospice care to patients who have emigrated from the African continent can be a challenge. This article reviews Web sites that provide introductions to some of the predominant cultures in Africa. Web sites providing patient education material in 13 African languages are also discussed.