Dr. Willmer's second edition of this little book fulfills his stated purpose ... to correlate some of the numerous fragments of scattered data which have so far been obtained and to orientate them in such a way as to illustrate the more fundamental contributions which the method has made to physiological knowledge, and to show the manner in which a change of outlook has already been brought abo...

1916), believed that whitening of hair was related to pigment absorbed and carried away by phagocytes he observed in the vicinity of dystrophic hair follicles and called ‘pigmentophages’ [9] . In 1981, Guin et al. [10] reported a lady whose hair turned white over 3 months with hair thinning but no patches of alopecia. Immunofluorescence studies demonstrated immune deposits along the follicular ...

Dr. Earl Bond has earned the gratitude of a large number of readers on both sides of the Atlantic by producing this biography of Dr. Salmon. It is an unusually good book, as readable as a novel, dealing with well-selected material and in a very realistic xvay. It is perhaps natural that Dr. Bond should regard his task almost as the writing of a case history, and that makes it more interesting b...

With the beginning of the 19th century, England entered into a transitional period. Sociologists believe that in each era of transformation, the ruling class tries to establish its own values, but some resistance to these new values is inevitable. Thomas Hardy's novels in general, and Under the Greenwood Tree specifically, are no exception. Based on these notions, this paper tries to interpret ...

Thomas, Christie P., Scott Auerbach, John B. Stokes, and Kenneth A. Volk. 58 Heterogeneity in epithelial sodium channel a-subunit mRNA leads to distinct NH2-terminal variant proteins. Am. J. Physiol. 274 (Cell Physiol. 43): C1312–C1323, 1998.—The amiloride-sensitive epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) is composed of three subunits: a, b, and g. The human a-ENaC subunit is expressed as at least two...

were disbanded because of hooliganism. They have been restarted in this century and take place on the first weekend in May. The games consisted of various contests at single stick (backsword), wrestling, running, jingling, Morris dancing, greyhound coursing and horse racing. It is said that Shakespeare, whose aunt Joan Arden lived at Barton on the Heath, attended the games and included scenes f...