G01 Mozart's Maladies

Monsoon maladies.

The advent of monsoon in India provides a welcome relief from the dry hot summer and brings waves of life to parched landscapes across the country, but the cooling showers also bring along a lot of diseases. Infectious diseases like Dengue fever, Chikungunya, Hantaviruses, Nipah virus, Chandipura virus, Malaria and the novel H1N1 influenza virus had emerged or re-emerged as major public health ...

Minor Maladies

Misinterpreter of Maladies !

Sir, Jhumpa Lahiri is a freelance journalist whose collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction this year (2000). One of her stories, The Treatment of Bibi Haldar, presents a 29 year old woman who suffers from episodes of convulsions. The clinical description suggests a diagnosis of epilepsy for several reasons. The convulsions appeared to hav...

Maladies des femmes

The author has a good prospect of achieving his aim of reaching and informing the general reader. The book has less to offer the scholar, since it does not aspire to be a history of Roman medicine and bypasses questions that interest the professionals, beginning with the crucial preliminary problems of how Roman was Roman medicine, and where key figures like Galen and Soranus (both Greeks) belo...

Mycotoxins: of molds and maladies.