BACKGROUND Little is known about the origin of methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, ecstasy). The most commonly repeated statement in the medical literature is that MDMA was synthesized by the German pharmaceutical company Merck in 1912 in order to develop an appetite suppressor. AIM To reconstruct the true story of the first known description of MDMA at Merck using the original documents. ...

A lexis Carrel, recipient of the 1912 Nobel Prize in Medicine, was born in a small townnear Lyon, France, on June 28, 1873. His father, a wealthy textile manufacturer, died when he was 5 years old. He was educated in Jesuit schools and entered medical school in 1890, at the age of 17. During the 1890s, Carrel interned at several hospitals near Lyon and was described as a “good but not brilliant...

Abe Mickal was born in Talia, Lebanon in 1912 and moved to the United States in 1920 to live in McComb, Mississippi. Among his accomplishments, he was an outstanding high school and college football player at Louisiana State University. He was named all-southeastern conference and second-team all-American in 1934. In 1967 he was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame. He was also elected ...

In this paper, the type material of all five Japanese Paracis species (P. ijimai (Kinoshita, 1909), P. miyajimai pustulata (Wright and Studer, 1889), spinifera (Nutting, 1912), squamata 1910)), two Placogorgia japonica 1912) placoderma Pseudothesea foliata Aurivillius, 1931, genus Paracis, orientalis (Ridley, 1882) are re-examined re-described. The sclerites different depicted using scanning el...

Two new species of Metapocyrtus Heller, 1912, subgenus Orthocyrtus 1912 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae, Pachyrhynchini) are described and illustrated from Mindanao Island, Philippines. The (Orthocyrtus) davaoensis sp. nov. hirakui Davao City Bukidnon, respectively. Brief bionomical notes phenotypic characters compared to their sympatric Entiminae counterparts also reported. discovery M. ...

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