PETTENKOFERFATHER OF EXPERIMENTAL HYGIENE Max Von Pettenkoffer (1818-1901) studied at the University of Munich and obtained his M.D. He undertook postgraduate studies in chemistry at Wurzberg, where he identified hippuric acid in the urine and described a qualitative test for bile saltsthe Pettenkoffer’s test. In 1847, he was called to Munich, as Professor of medical chemistry, a newly created ...

On 3 November 1995, an international symposium sponsored by the Collegium Ramazzini is being held in Washington, DC. The title of the symposium is "Preventive Strategies for Living in a Chemical World" and is the second international symposium on this subject sponsored by the collegium; the first was held in Bologna, Italy, 10 years ago. Problems concerning the control of dangerous chemicals in...

1432 June 2015 Anesthesiology, V 122 • No 6 1432 AA working mother, Concerned for her only child, The precious child she fought hard to unnaturally conceive. The child has not been well. She places her child in my care. That child the autopsy report would eventually describe down to the fingernails. (“Short and clean”) The mother, standing in her tears, Robbed of motherhood by an unknown force ...

Thirty-six 1-year-old middle-class children with fathers who spent differential time with them at home were observed in two experimental contexts separated by 2 weeks. In the first, each infant was shown six to eight repetitions of three different nonsocial events followed by a change in the repeated standard. In the second, each infant experienced the unannounced entrances and departures of hi...