Considering that it is perhaps the most celebrated passage in the whole history of medical science, it is not surprising that the opening lines of chapter 8 of William Harvey's De motu cordis' have attracted a good deal of attention from scholars. It is in this passage, after all, that we get Harvey's own account ofthe sequence of his thoughts as he came upon the idea that the blood might have ...

In this paper we present the first results of a study that is carried out with the sound synthesis and musical creation environment GENESIS on self-sustained oscillating structures models. Based on the mass-interaction CORDIS-ANIMA physical modelling formalism, GENESIS has got the noteworthy property that it allows to work both on sound itself and on musical composition in a single coherent env...

and as such a procedure will not improve the situation, for constant dribbling will still go on, due to the absence of the sphincter. In such a case, the formation of a new urethra is another difficult problem. Cystitis and ascending infection have to be feared as well. It is reported that these children have grown up to adult lite, enjoying good health except for the nuisance caused by constan...