Domitian, the last Flavian emperor, placed Germania at center of his foreign policy. His first military campaign was against Chatti, which comprised most dangerous armed forces among German tribes. After neutralizing them, Domitian had extended frontiers Roman Empire in Germania. He made administrative reforms for newly acquired territories, making presence long-lasting. also gradually expanded...

B orn Michelangelo Merisi, Caravaggio was later renamed after his hometown in northern Italy, a practice not unusual in his day. His father, an architect and majordomo to the Marquis of Caravaggio, died of the plague when the artist was still young, leaving him under the protection of the art-loving marquis. Like many children of his day, he learned early how to grind pigments for painting, and...

Tuberculosis (TB) is the oldest documented infectious disease. Fragments of the spinal column from Egyptian mummies from 2400 B.C. shows definite pathological signs of tubercular decay. The term phthisis (consumption) appears first in Greek literature. Hypocrates identified phthisis as the most widespread disease of the times around 460 B.C. Exact pathological and anatomical descriptions of the...

A 14-year-old boy was transferred from an outside hospital for evaluation of vomiting. He had been well until he traveled to India 3 weeks earlier. Upon return, he developed abdominal pain and recurrent episodes of nonbilious, nonbloody emesis. The day of admission, he ate a slice of pizza and then experienced numerous episodes of vomiting every 15 to 30 minutes. There had been minimal diarrhea...

Lord Mount-Edgcumbe as private surgeon. During these travels he saw some fighting in the Sicilian rebellion of 1847-48, and gained experience in the treatment of the wounded there; and again in the attack on Rome by the French troops under General Oudinot in 1849. In that year he also took the degree of M. D., Rome. On his return to England he resigned his naval commission, and shortly afterwar...