first time in almost two centuries, Gregory's lectures on medical ethics. McCullough has enhanced the value of these lectures by including previously unpublished student lecture notes. These notes permit us to chart the evolution of Gregory's ideas, and, indeed, the formation of core concepts of bioethics. Consider, for example, the evolution of what is probably the first use of the expression ...

Coccidioidomycosis was first discovered by a medical student in Argentina in 1892, and knowledge about the infection mostly arose from observations of clinicians and scientists in California, primarily at Stanford University Medical Center. Some discoveries came by chance. Many others arose from careful epidemiologic and clinical investigations in the San Joaquin Valley during the 1930s, when p...

H. W. SCHREIBER and G. CARSTENSEN (editors), Chirurgie im Wandel der Zeit 1945-1983, Berlin, Heidelberg, and New York, Springer-Verlag, 1983, 8vo, pp. xviii, 419, illus., $55.20/ DM.128.00 This heaavy hardback of 419 pages records the proceedings of the 100th Congress of the German Surgical Association founded in 1872 by the surgeons Billroth and von Langenbeck. In addition to the two editors, ...

On Jun. 17, 2008, the lipid research community lost a beloved friend and scholar, Roger A. Davis. Roger was a major contributor to our understanding of the regulation of lipoprotein production, bile acid metabolism, and atherosclerosis. Roger gravitated to science at an early age; he loved to tinker and felt that the truthfulness of science provided a refuge from the conflicting religious ortho...

The presence of trace quantities of odd-numbered iso and anteiwo branched-chain fatty acids in hydrogenated mutton fat has been established by the isolation of 13-methyltetradecanoic acid, (+ )-12-methyltetradecanoic acid, (+ )-14-methylhexadecanoic acid and 10-methyldodecanoic acid (Hansen, Shorland & Cooke, 1953, 1952, 1954a). In the present paper is reported the isolation from hydrogenated m...

End of war...Beginning of the investigation... On April 30, 1945, Hitler committed suicide. His body was burnt in a bomb crater in the garden of the Chancellery next to a hospital and amongst other corpses which were buried afterwards. Despite the investigation of British officer Trevor-Roper and despite being approached diplomatically, the Russians did not answer any questions concerning this ...

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In our previous paper (Karamchandani and Haider, 1945), certain measures were outlined to combat cerebro-spinal fever in this station. These proved to be effective and were applied in the central command. Only 10 cases occurred during the first seven months of 1945, but in all 13 cases were treated with sulphamezathine which was administered as follows :? Six grammes in 20 c.cm. were given by t...

The lesion in bone named non-osteogenic fibroma by Jaffe and Lichtenstein in 1942 and later-and more satisfactorily-renamed metaphysial fibrous defect by Hatcher in 1945, has been considered by various authors to be a benign tumour of bone (Jaffe and Lichtenstein I 942), the outcome of a circulatory disturbance (Hatcher 1945, Aegerter and Kirkpatrick 1958), a developmental defect (Cunningham an...

Streptomycin (Schatz, Bugie, and Waksman, 1944) has been shown to be efficacious in the treatment of infections due to gram-negative bacteria (Jones et al., 1944; Robinson et at., 1944; Heilman, 1945; Reimann et al., 1945). A determination of the activity of streptomycin against Hemophilus pertussis seemed desirable since there is need for an effective agent to be used in the therapy of whoopin...