Wegener’s granulomatosis, first described by Friedrich Wegener in 1936, is a systemic vasculitis that characteristically causes necrotizing granulomas of the respiratory tract and necrotizing cresentic glomerulonephritis. This article describes the history and modern treatment of the disease in conjunction with a clinical case.

P. GEBAUER1,2, K.A. PASCHKE2 and K. ANGER3* Centro de Investigaciones I-MAR, Universidad de Los Lagos, Casilla 557 Puerto Montt, Chile Facultad de Pesquerías y Oceanografía, Universidad Austral de Chile, Casilla 1327, Puerto Montt, Chile Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, Stiftung Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polarund Meeresforschung, 27498 Helgoland, Germany Tel. +49 (4725) 819348; Fax +49 (4725) 8...

An important question that has always been debated in philosophy of science concerns the best account science. Ranging from multiple accounts, Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, and Imre Lakatos, etc., an argument how Lakatos’s Methodology Scientific Research Programmes (MSRP) is will be defended. In addition, scientific evidence explanation – featuring philosophers Peter Achinstein, Nancy Cartwright, P...