Traditional medicine scientists believed that sleeping under the stars and moonlight is not healthy because it brings about nose bleeds and respiratory problems. In Avicenna's view, the spirit and its tendency to the light are introduced as main etiology, which cannot explain star light as a proper etiology. In modern knowledge, it seems cosmic rays that reach our planet's atmosphere by electro...

This little book gives a concise account of the curious and rather obscure affection known as Membranous Catarrh of the Intestines. The term colitis cannot be used for all cases, for though "colica mucosa" may be one of the signs of genuine enteritis, it may also occur without any anatomical lesion of the intestinal mucous membrane. Obstinate constipation is an important factor, but does not pl...

Silk cocoons, produced by Bombyx mori L. (Bombicidae) are used to treat heart palpitation, cough, asthma and catarrh. Phytochemical investigation of the cocoons led to the isolation of alkyl substituted dioxymethylene benzene derivatives and two citronellyl glucosides for the first time characterized as n-pentanyl-3,4-(dioxymethylene) benzene (1), n-pentanyl-2,3-dioxymethylene-4-hydroxybenzene ...

Rifleman Gokeu Rana, 42nd Gurkhas, oat. 17i?2, was admitted to hospital on 26th June 1893 with bronchial catarrh. During his service of two years lie had not coine sick to hospital, but stated that occasionally he had had trivial attacks of fever. He had lately returned from a signalling course at Calcutta, and in returning by the steamer had spent one night on shore at Gauhati (ankylostomiasis...