The 'angle of Louis' is a well-known anatomical landmark. Formed by the junction between the manubrium and sternal body, it marks the level of the 2nd rib and defines the boundary between the superior and inferior mediastinum. Despite our familiarity with this angle, there remains confusion over the eponym. This is reflected by the variations of the name in the literature Louis, Ludovici, Ludov...

This essay historically explores philosophical views about the nature and significance of human sexuality, starting with the Ancient Greeks and ending with late 20th-century Western philosophy. Important figures from the history of philosophy (and theology) discussed include Sappho, Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Jerome, the Pelagians, St. Thomas Aquinas, Michel de Montaigne, Rene Descart...

We report the discovery of a third planetary mass companion to the G0 star HD 74156. High precision radial velocity measurements made with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope aided the detection of this object. The best fit triple Keplerian model to all the available velocity data yields an orbital period of 347 days and minimum mass of 0.4 MJup for the new planet. We determine revised orbital periods o...

Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) was born into an upper-middle-class family. He was a sickly child but it was only in April 1901 that bronchiectasis was diagnosed. This was a lifelong condition that influenced his choice of career but also his outlook as he was not expected to live long. Jaspers studied medicine in Berlin, Göttingen and Heidelberg. At Heidelberg, he came into contact with many of the l...

• Matthias Angstwurm, München • Erika Baum, Marburg • Pascal Berberat,München • Antje Bergmann, Dresden • Christine Beyeler, Bern • Silke Biller, Freiburg • Wolf Blaum, Berlin • Martin Boeker, Freiburg i. Br. • Jan Breckwoldt, Zürich • RainerBüscherEssen • Jean-Francois Chenot, Greifswald • Oliver Decker, Leipzig • Renate Deinzer, Gießen • Peter Dieter, Dresden • Jörg Eberhard, Hannover • Josef...

Kaspar Friedrich Wolff is the eponym of four anatomical structures related to the genitourinary system. The Wolffian tubules (aka Kobelt's tubules, named after the nineteenth-century German physician Georg Ludwig Kobelt) are the remnants of the Wolffian duct in the paroophoron, i.e., the broad ligament between the epoophoron and the uterus. The Wolffian body is a name alternatively used for the...

This article elaborates a claim, first introduced by Wilhelm Dilthey, that metaphysics represents an illusory flight from the tragedy of human finitude. Metaphysics, of which psychoanalytic metapsychologies are a form, transforms the unbearable fragility and transience of all things human into an enduring, permanent, changeless reality, an illusory world of eternal truths. Three "clinical cases...

Ganesaratnam K. Balendiran, Frank Schnütgen, Giovanna Scapin, Torsten Börchers, Ning Xhong, Kap Lim, Roseline Godbout, Friedrich Spener and James C. Sacchettini Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2128. Department of Biochemistry, University of Münster, Wilhelm Klemm-Straße 2, D-48149 Münster, Germany. present address: Institut de Genetique e...

a Friedger von Auer, Federal Ministry of Health; Johannes Blümel, Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Langen; Reinhard Burger, Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin; Anne Buschmann, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Insel Riems; Klaus Dietz, Department of Medical Biometry, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen; Margarethe Heiden, Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Langen; Walter E. Hitzler, Transfusion Centre, Johannes Gutenberg-Univer...

Das Kantorat verband als interdisziplinäres Amt seit dem Reformationsjahrhundert lange Zeit schulische, kirchliche und musikalische Funktionsräume. Die Untersuchung zeigt, dass vom des Subkantors an der Domlateinschule in Bremen aus die starre Amtshierarchie Bremer zweiten Hälfte 18. Jahrhunderts beginnend mit Johann Georg Benjamin Täntzer (1739- ca. 1765 Subkantor tätig) Bewegung gesetzt wurde...