Laenniec had written his great work on Auscultation: a work the result of his own elaborate researches, and is the basis of our knowledge of disease of the lungs and heart in the living; even supplying the nomenclature for the pheniomena observed which is current to this day. As has been said of him: "He unlocked the secrets of the heart and lungs, and by his great researches made a thorough in...

The relationship between selected aspects of medical history and the risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs) was investigated using data from a hospital-based case-control study conducted in northern Italy on 177 cases of NHL and 561 controls in hospital for acute conditions, other than nonneoplastic or immunological. Among six viral diseases considered, only herpes zoster (shingles) had a relat...