Territory, Rajputana, came to the hospital, suffering from abscess of the liver. Previous history.? Last winter (1896) he suffered from acute lobar pneumonia, and lias been suffering from chronic dysentery and malarial fever of an intermittent kind for the last three months. He complained of pain in the hepatic area. Present condition?I. General.? Very weak and prostrate (typhoid condition) ; c...

As early as 1896, Marfan's syndrome had become a disease entity of interest to the clinician (Marfan, 1896) and, following the description of Erdheim in 1930 (Erdheim, 1930), it became important for the pathologist. Several reports followed relating cardiovascular pathology to Marfan's syndrome (Baer, Taussig, and Oppenheimer, 1943; Schorr, Braun, and Wildman, 1951 ; Sloper and Storey, 1953; Ma...

Neopilina zografi, originally described as belonging to the Gastropoda by Dautzenberg and Fischer (1896), is shown to be the first named of ali Recent Monoplacophora. It is known from fQur shells in the bathyal zone of the Azores (1385-1600 m) and represents the first record of the class in the Northern Atlantic. Oceanol. Acta, 1983, 6, 2, 117-118. RÉSUMÉ Présence de monoplacophores dans l'Atla...

Increased atmospheric CO2 may affect the physiological response of natural trees to drought. We examined radial growth rates developed from five western juniper chronologies to determine if post-drought growth responses have changed. Using prior year October to current year June precipitation from 1896-1998, we identified drought recovery years as having standardized scores (z-scores) > 0 and p...

On December 28, 1895, Wilhelm Roentgen presented his classic written preliminary communication regarding x-rays to the president of the Physical Medical Society of Wurzburg, Germany, and 9 days later his discovery was announced to the world. Despite a lack of modern communication methods, within months of Roentgen’s discovery, human radiographs were being produced in Australia by individual sci...

Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine developed an anticholera vaccine at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, in 1892. From the results of field trials in India from 1893 to 1896, he has been credited as having carried out the first effective prophylactic vaccination for a bacterial disease in man. When the plague pandemic reached Bombay, Haffkine became bacteriologist to the Government of (British) India (1896...

The results of the study of many specimens preserved in different European museums are reported. The tribe Terpnistrini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878 is resurrected. The distribution of the following species is enhanced: Pardalotaasymmetrica Karsch, 1896, Diogenadenticulata Chopard, 1954, Diogenafausta (Burmeister, 1838), Plangiopsisadeps Karsch, 1896, Poreuomenasanghensis Massa, 2013 and Tylopsi...

The issue of anthropogenic climate change and the way media is handling communicating it paramount importance. As early as 1896, Svante Arrhenius recognized global warmin...

Since its inception in 1896, cardiac surgery has evolved into a very successful speciality with the creation of new treatment options for previously untreatable diseases. The establishment of these new treatments drove the invention and development of new technology (e.g. the heart–lung machine), novel surgical materials and devices (e.g. suture material, grafts, mechanical and biological valve...