operate himself, and gave me in London in the summer of 1914, a detailed and accurate description of his flap. In the autumn of 1914, I gave this flap a fair and full trial. The conclusions I came to were not favourable. The other flaps described in my article I tried 3rears ago. We have now before us a " new operation " described by Major Corry in the December number of the I. M. G. From this ...

The formation of granules in leptospirae was noticed many years ago, but there is still no agreement as to their biological sigificance. Some authors are inclined to interpret them as products of disintegration of dead or degenerated organisms (Marchoux and Couvy, 1913; Gonder and Gross, 1919; Uhlenhuth and Fromme, 1930) while others consider that they play a definite role in the life-cycle of ...

The harvestman genus Bonea Roewer, 1914 and its type species B. sarasinoruni Roewer, 1914 are redescribed based on the type material. In addition, two new species of Bonea from Hainan Island, China, are described and illustrated: B. zhui sp. nov. and B. tridigitata sp. nov. A new species of Lonianius Roewer, 1923 from Yunnan Province, China, is also described and illustrated: L. bulbosus sp. no...

E Kendal l was b o r n o n 8 t h M a r c h 1886 in South Norwalk, Connecticut, USA. Kendall obtained the degrees of Bachelor of Science in 1908, Master of Science in 1909, and Ph. D. in Chemistry in 1910. From 1910-1911 he worked as a research chemist with Parke Davis where his main task was to isolate thyroid hormones.1 He continued to work on thyroid harmones till 1914 while working at St. Lu...

Progamotaenia capricorniensis sp. nov. (Cestoda: Anoplocephalidae) is described from the wallabies Macropus dorsalis (Gray, 1837) and Petrogale assimilis Ramsay, 1877 from Queensland, Australia. The new species is characterised by a fimbriated velum composed of 26-32 digitiform to triangular projections on each side of the proglottis, paired uteri and 140-190 testes distributed in a single band...

By December 1914, overwhelming numbers of soldiers with infected musculoskeletal wounds had filled hospitals in France and Britain. Frequently initial management had been inadequate. In 1915, patients with orthopaedic wounds were segregated for the first time when Robert Jones established an experimental orthopaedic unit in Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool. In 1916 he opened the first of 17 orthop...

SUMMARY Since the proposition of the social integration theory by Émile Durkheim, macro-sociological changes have been speculated to affect suicide rates. This study investigates the effect of the First World War on Irish suicide rates. We applied an interrupted time series design of 1864-1921 annual Irish suicide rates. The 1864-1913 suicide rates exhibited a slow-rising trend with a sharp dec...

While the horrors of trench warfare on Western Front in Belgium and France are part European cultural memory, to some degree much more extensive mobile Eastern 1914–1918 conflict has become forgotten front (Die vergessene Front). Although for just over eleven months 1914/15, central a major front, 1000 km long which three million people died ran through middle what is now Poland, number reasons...

Se ha analizado estadísticamente la serie secular de precipitación anual del observatorio Fabra Barcelona (1914-2020), así como las cuatro subperiodos (1914-1930, 1931-1960, 1961-1990, 1991-2020). La completa no presenta tendencia significativa, siendo, además, parecidos los valores parámetros estadísticos tres subperíodos 30 años. Las distribuciones probabilidad Log-normal y Log-gamma 2 paráme...

A survey of gastrointestinal helminth communities of Gallotia caesaris caesaris (Lehrs, 1914) and G. c. gomerae (Boettger and MUller, 1914), from the islands of El Hierro and La Gomera, respectively, in the Canary Archipelago, Spain, was conducted to determine the prevalence, intensity, and diversity of intestinal parasites of these lacertid lizards. Larval forms of cestodes, nematodes, and aca...