Background: Wart is a common skin disease, and 8% of patients referred to dermatologists suffer from warts. Objective: To compare the efficacy of intralesional injections of bleomycin with normal saline in treatment of common resistant warts on palms and dorsum of hands. Patients & Methods: This study was a double blind, randomized, controlled clinical trial on 34 patients with common war...

Poor preservation of plant macroremains in the acid soils of southern subtropical China has hampered understanding of prehistoric diets in the region and of the spread of domesticated rice southwards from the Yangtze River region. According to records in ancient books and archaeological discoveries from historical sites, it is presumed that roots and tubers were the staple plant foods in this r...

Palms are a natural resource that has been abundantly used by Amerindians for centuries. Only a few palm domestications have been reported in the American tropics, where there is great diversity of the Arecaceae family. We report the results of a survey combining ethnobotanical and ecological methods to study the past and present management and distribution of palms by the Asháninka indigenous ...

Members of the Old World hispine tribe, Coelaenomenoderini, are documented on host plants of Arecaceae, Cyperaceae, and Zingiberales. A few species are renowned pests of oil palm, especially in Africa. The host plants and natural history of Javeta pallida Baly, 1858, the only Indian species of the tribe, is reported for the first time. These beetles can densely infest indigenous wild date palms...

BACKGROUND The ability to reliably recognize and classify a range of skin signs and symptoms remains a necessary skill across most clinical disciplines but one that is traditionally mastered via nonsystematic experience over long periods. OBJECTIVE We investigated whether online Perceptual and Adaptive Learning Modules (PALMs) could efficiently train preclerkship medical students to identify ...

Introduction: Hyperkeratotic, fi ssure-prone, infi ltrated lesions over the palms and soles is a very common skin condition. These conditions, do not always present with typical manifestations, such as classical skin lesions and nail changes and therefore known clinical features about these diseases might not be helpful in diagnosis. Thus this study was conducted to study the clinical and histo...

Plastid DNA sequences evolve slowly in palms but show that the family is monophyletic and highly divergent relative to other major monocot clades. It is therefore difficult to place the root within the palms because faster evolving, length-variable sequences cannot be aligned with outgroup monocots, and length-conserved regions have been thought to give too few characters to resolve basal nodes...

observed, is undoubtedly noticed in connection with other diseases, such as dyspepsia,' produced especially by excessive acidity of the stomach, fever, cholera and phthisis, etc. But it is more commonly noticed in connection with heartburn. The extent of burning sensation varies as Assistant-Surgeon T. M. Shah describes. It is sometimes slight?only a hot sensation in the soles of the feet and p...

Sir,?I have perused the remarks on Ignipedites by SurgeonMajor B. Evans in the Indian Medical Gazette of August last with great interest. I made the following notes four years back when I was in the Northern Concan. " Ignipedites : Cases of burning sensation of the hands and feet have not unfrequently come under my observation. This burning pain is noticed sometimes in connection with other dis...