Stuart Munro-Hay and Bent Juel-Jensen: Aksumite Coinage

Treatment of hay fever STUART

The range of treatments for hay fever available to the general practitioner has changed considerably in recent years. New antihistamines have addressed the problem of sedation and moved towards one daily dose; nasally applied corticosteroids avoid the need for systemic steroid therapy and its potential adverse effect; and regulatory decisions have set a trend away from immunotherapy in general ...

Hay Fever and Hay Asthma

Our knowledge of the pathology of hay fever, and of the neuroses that frequently complicate it, has of late years become more exact and scientific, and consequently the treatment of these affections has been placed on a more rational basis with great advantage to the sufferers. Most cases may be partially, and many completely relieved, while a fair proportion may be altogether cured ; it is imp...

Indefinite Composites and Word-coinage

Coinage, Debasements, and Gresham’s Laws

For hundreds of years, supplies of coins in Europe emerged, via a curious mechanism, from voluntary decisions of owners of old coins and bullion to exchange them at mints for new coins. Mints were sometimes private enterprises, licensed to produce on demand a list of coins whose design and neness was speciied by the sovereign. Citizens were free to take metal to the mint 1 to purchase newly min...

Stuart Pimm

environment for the Sussex Emerald here, but conservationists cannot guarantee the long-term future of the species, partly because it is not known what keeps the moths so closely linked to the power station. The significance of Dungeness will also be marked in other plans for later this year. The site is set to be the site of the reintroduction of a native species of bee. The shorthaired bumble...