Health and Physique through the Centuries

Vaccines Through Centuries: Major Cornerstones of Global Health

Multiple cornerstones have shaped the history of vaccines, which may contain live-attenuated viruses, inactivated organisms/viruses, inactivated toxins, or merely segments of the pathogen that could elicit an immune response. The story began with Hippocrates 400 B.C. with his description of mumps and diphtheria. No further discoveries were recorded until 1100 A.D. when the smallpox vaccine was ...

The University of Halle through the centuries.

Physique and physical health of female homosexuals.

As published studies of female homosexuality are often based on the intensive psychoanalytical study of a very few highly selected and atypical cases, a broadly-based investigation was made of over 100 lesbians who were not at the time psychiatric patients. In this paper, the physical characteristics and medical histories are presented and contrasted with those obtained from a control group of ...

The horse through fifty centuries of civilization

ANTHONY DENT (editor), The horse through fifty centuries of civilization, London, Phaidon Press, 1974, 4to, pp. 288, illus., £8.95. For more than five thousand years until about sixty years ago, the history of the horse was the history of man. Although the dog has been man's best animal friend, the horse has been much more a part of his civilization than any other of his domesticated animals. A...

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...