Mediating Disease Cultures

Mummies, disease and ancient cultures

AIDAN and EVE COCKBURN, Mummies, disease and ancient cultures, Cambridge University Press, 1980, 4to, pp. x, 340, illus., £25.00. Mummies are always of widespread interest. This has been intensified recently by a series of unwrappings of Egyptian mummies: in America by members of the Paleopathology Association, in England by the Manchester Mummy Research Team, and this year by Bristol Universit...

Mummies, disease and ancient cultures, 2nd ed

The first edition of Mummies, disease and ancient cultures was reviewed in Medical History in 1981 by my colleague Dr Simon Hillson, who called it "a fascinating book". This second edition is fundamentally revised and enlarged (by 62 pages), and brings in a new co-editor, in the person of the paleopathologist Theodore Reyman, the original joint-editor Aidan Cockburn having died as long ago as 1...

Endometrial Cultures in Acute Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to investigate the correlation of endometrial culture results with the clinical diagnosis of acute pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). METHODS A total of 130 patients admitted with the clinical diagnosis of acute PID were prospectively enrolled in this study. Endometrial cultures by transcervical aspirate currette were obtained from all patients. RES...

Caloric restriction as a mechanism mediating resistance to environmental disease.

It has been observed that susceptibility to many degenerative diseases increases concurrently with industrialization and rising living standards. Although epidemiologic studies suggest that specific environmental and dietary factors may be important, caloric intake alone (as reflected in body size) may account for much of the differential risk observed among diverse human populations. It has be...

Immune response of chickens to four lentogenic strains of Newcastle disease virus propagated in lamb kidney cell cultures