jSTazie Mattmood Sheik, aged 27, a resident of Hazrabatty in the Jessore District, came to the Jessore Charitable Dispensary, on the 29th of May, 1868, stating that he had got a piece of bamboo into his perinaeum two months before, that it had lodged, and wishing to have it extracted. The man was placed in the position for lithotomy, and his perinaeum. was carefully inspected and examined. No f...

It has brought out the evolution of mental institutions over time, and various authors’ depictions of the same. The author has chosen to start the narrative from 1868 (Hard Cash, by Charles Reade), and has traced the same till 1962 (One flew over the cuckoo’s nest, Ken Kesey) in the international arena. However, the review could have looked into works published beyond 1962. Further, there appea...

Following the Messina-Reggio Calabria earthquake (December 28, 1908) outstanding medical reports were published by Franz von Colmers (1875-1960), Antonino D'Antona (1842-1913), and Rocco Caminiti (1868-1940). The reports of D'Antona and Caminiti were heretofore neglected. Colmers, D'Antona and Caminiti described crush-syndrome. D'Antona who cured patients in shock also described two deaths due ...

In many parts of the world, and Japan was no exception, the 16th Century was a time of conflict and violence. In Japan, a number of feudal lords were embroiled in fierce battles for survival. The battles produced three victors who attempted, one after another, to unify Japan. The last of these was Ieyasu Tokugawa, who founded a “permanent” government which lasted for two and a half centuries be...

Tumor-to-tumor metastasis is a rare phenomenon. From our review of the international literature, around 150 cases have been reported since it was first documented by Campbel in 1868. Renal clear cell carcinoma is well known to be the most common recipient of tumor-to-tumor metastasis in all tumors. However, renal chromophobe cell carcinoma has not been reported to be a recipient. Here, we repor...

IN RAJPOOTANA IN 1868 & 1869* By E. T. LYONS, Surgeon, 28th Regiment, Punjab Infantry. Within the last decade, since the subject of the prevalence of relapsing fever has been discussed in India, writers, who deny the existence of the disease in this country, have referred to the circumstance that in recent times no epidemic of relapsing fever has been recorded as co-existing with the prevalence...

Toxomerus hauseri Mengual sp. n. and Toxomerus picudus Mengual sp. n. are described from Peru and Ecuador respectively. Toxomerus circumcintus (Enderlein, 1938) is treated as a valid species and not considered synonym of Toxomerus marginatus, and Toxomerus ovatus (Hull, 1942) is considered junior synonym of Toxomerus nitidus (Schiner, 1868). An identification key for the Toxomerus species with ...

Investigations were carried out to study the effect of organic farming with various sources of organic manures and their combinations on nitrogen use efficiency parameters of ADT 36 rice (Oryza sativa L.). The experiments were laid out in randomized block design (RBD) with fourteen treatments, comprising twelve treatment combinations of organic manures, one treatment with recommended dose of ch...