The accompanying return shows that, out of 2,140 Medical Officers who entered the service between 1764 and 1838,.or during a period of 74 years, 890 had already died, making a percentage of 41*8 for all the Presidencies. 38*5 had died in Bengal, 46-0 per cent, in Madras, and 43'4 per cent, in Bombay. 715 remained, whilst only 276 had retired. Besides these, 92 had resigned, and 66 had been eith...

BACKGROUND A complete pathological response occurs in 10-30 per cent of patients with locally advanced rectal cancer undergoing neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (CRT). The standard of care has been radical surgery with high morbidity risks and the challenges of stomata despite the favourable prognosis. This review assessed minimalist approaches (transanal excision or observation alone) to tumours ...

A new pycnogonid species of the genus Pycnogonum is described from Flemish Cap (Northwest Atlantic Ocean) at 1453-1462 m depth. Pycnogonum bamberi sp. nov. is compared with its congeners, from which it can be distinguished by the combination of a glans-shaped proboscis, the low, transverse ridges that lie on the dorsodistal surfaces of the first coxae and femora of all legs and the distinctive ...

This paper discusses three problems concerning the Woodland Grayling, Hipparchia fagi Scopoli, 1763, with respect to identity and application of junior name Papilio hermione Linnaeus, 1764. In 1977, late Otakar Kudrna designated a specimen Rock alcyone [Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775, become lectotype – as result which supplanted senior epithet for this species. Because P. is nominal type sp...

Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) – one of the greatest mathematicians of the eighteenth century and of all times – often corresponded with a friend of his, Christian Goldbach (1690–1764), an amateur and poly-math who lived and worked in Russia, just like Euler himself. In a letter written in June 1742, Goldbach made a conjecture – that is, an educated guess – on prime numbers: Es scheinet wenigstens,...