Medicine in Stamps R amón y Cajal remarked in his autobiography: " How many interesting facts fail to be converted into fertile discoveries because their first observers regard them as natural and ordinary things, unworthy of thought and analysis! " One cannot fault Cajal for his grandiloquence; his mind was so full of ingenuity and passion for his work that he could not have expressed himself ...

We maintain that the intelligence of the physician and particularly of the physician engaged in clinical research is above the average of that of the community from which he comes; quite often, nevertheless, when he is presented with the simplest statistical problem, his brain appears to become completely paralysed and he is so self-conscious of the limitations of his knowledge that not only do...

The humble aim of this Article is to provide a fresh analysis recent legislative and jurisprudential developments relating the so-called counterattack on love jihad through lens nationhood control conquest female body. This argues that instrumentalization Hindu woman’s marriage as territory for Hindutva prosperity serves cast out non-Hindu communities, notably Muslims, non-Indian, while further...

It is with admiration and fondness that we dedicate this special issue of ZooKeys to Professor Kumar Krishna, dean of Isoptera research. This collection of papers is a humble testament of appreciation by the various biologists who are dedicated to studying termites, insects that are popularly maligned but actually of profound behavioral and ecological importance. Kumar’s influence extends beyon...

ByJ. G. HUMBLE, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. T HE OCCURRENCE of petechial hemorrhages in the skin and mucous membranes is a well known sign in many hemorrhagic diseases and in other complaints. Little is known, however, of the mechanism by which they are produced or the exact segment of the vessel or vessels at fault. Histologic preparations show merely an exudation of red cells, sometimes of polymorphon...

ABSTRACT James Croll left school at the age of 13 years, yet while a janitor in Glasgow he published landmark paper on astronomically-related climate change, claimed as ‘the most important discovery paleoclimatology’, and which brought him to attention Charles Darwin, William Thomson John Tyndall, amongst others. By 1867 was persuaded become Secretary Accountant newly established Geological Sur...

as yet, no satisfactory data of this kind are procurable on a large scale." He elsewhere states his opinion that this is a very questionable source of information for various reasons; for example, because the memory is a frail and treacherous source of statistics, and, above all, because medical men " have an indisputable tendency, and an inalienable right, to say nothing of what looks like wan...