We report the case of a one-day-old newborn infant, female, birth weight 1900 g, gestational age 36 weeks presenting with necrotizing fasciitis caused by E. coli and Morganella morganii. The newborn was allowed to fall into the toilet bowl during a domestic delivery. The initial lesion was observed at 24 hours of life on the left leg at the site of the venipuncture for the administration of hyp...

Despite the importance of housing in macroeconomic fluctuations, underscored by the Great Recession, there remains a dearth of information about housing markets prior to the 1980s, thus depriving social scientists of a wealth of case studies from which to draw insights. This paper constructs for the first time a housing price index for Dublin stretching back to 1900. Principal contributions of ...

D. DESSERTINE and 0. FAURE, Combattre la tuberculose, 1900-1940, Lyons, Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 1988, 8vo, pp. 244, illus., Fr. 110.00, (paperback). Recent French contributions to the history of tuberculosis have been impressive, often iconoclastic, and this volume is a valuable addition to the corpus. As Pierre Guillaume set out to destroy the Western myth of tuberculosis as the gentle...

Gustav Jacob Born was an experimental embryologist whose original work with amphibians [5] served as the platform for his wax-plate method [6] of embryo modeling, heteroblastic (different tissues) and xenoplastic (similar species) transplantation methods, environmental influences on sex ratio studies, and proposed function of the corpus luteum [7]. He was born 22 April 1851 in Kempen, Prussia, ...

A definitive history of geomagnetism is yet to be written, but brief accounts have appeared in various publications. The story up to 1940 has been summarized (Chapman and Bartels, pp. 898-936). Perhaps the most complete account is by David R. Barraclough (pp. 584-592). Brief accounts have also been given by Stuart Malin (in Jacobs, ed., Geomagnetism, 1: 1-50), and others (Multhauf and Good, pp....

This biographical sketch of R. Merle d’Aubigné corresponds to the historic text, The Classic: Functional Results of Hip Arthroplasty with Acrylic Prosthesis, available at DOI 10.1007/s11999-008-0572-1. Robert Merle d’Aubigné was born in 1900 in Neuilly, from a Huguenot family [9]. He had a classical education at the Lycée Pasteur [5] and at age 17 wanted to enlist in the tank corps, but with tw...

Private providers and commercial profit are features of today's Swedish welfare society, but the market was already an arena for production, distribution, consumption such services by early twentieth century. One private-sector institutions offering well-to-do parents residential care their children during restricted periods Barnpensionat (children's boarding houses or child hotels). Since thes...

Between 1900 and 1930 typhoid fever other waterborne diseases were largely eradicated from U.S. cities. This achievement required a mix of technological, scientific, economic, bureaucratic innovations. article examines how the interaction those forces influenced water sanitary infrastructure provision during 19th early 20th centuries. I document sharp link between investments declines in diseas...

Infectious disease earlier in life had a scarring effect on older age mortality among those reaching middle age around 1900, with the strongest negative effect on survival of having grown up in a large city. The effect of reduced early life and young adult infectious disease rates accounts for 13% of the 21 percentage point increase in survival rates among 50-64 year old males in the twentieth ...