Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici

ANNALES POLONICI MATHEMATICI XII (1962) An inequality for the maximum of trigonometric polynomials

Provincial Medical Journals *Paper read before the History of Medicine Section of the British Medical Association at the Centenary Meeting in London, 1932.

In the provincial towns of England purely local medical journals have not been either numerous or successful. The history of Scottish and Irish medical journalism is outside my province ; but it should be recalled that in 1774 a Society of Physicians in Edinburgh started the Medical and Philosophical Commentaries modelled on the Commentarii de rebus in scientia naturali et medicina gestis that ...

Herbals: The Connection Between Horticulture and Medicine

The prehistoric discovery that certain plants cause harm and others have curative powers is the origin of the healing professions and its practitioners (priest, physician, and apothecary), as well as professions devoted to plants (botany and horticulture). The description of plants and their properties and virtues (termed herbals in the 16th century) became an invaluable resource for the physic...

[William Heberden (1710-1801)].

Este artículo puede ser consultado en versión completa en http:// www.medigraphic.com/actaortopedica William Heberden (Figura 1) nació en Londres en 1710, su padre era mesonero, sus primeros estudios los realizó en la escuela de gramática de la parroquia de St. Saviour en Southwark, una institución de la Reina Elizabeth que impartía educación gratuita. El director de esa escuela recomendó a sus...

EMANI - Leader and Follower for the WDML

The rapidly growing activities in electronic publishing lead to the request to develop global repositories, which care about three fundamental activities: to collect and store the electronic material currently available, to pursue projects for solving the long-term archiving problem for this material with the ambition to preserve the content in readable form for future generations, and to captu...