The researches of Ehrlich and his coworkers during the past decade, which led to the discovery of salvarsan, have created a new procedure in the search for remedies for the control of infectious diseases. The discovery of this drug was the result of a logically conducted development of the chemistry of organic arsenic compounds in the directions indicated by their biological properties. This ne...

BACKGROUND The healing knowledge of a Sami (Saami) hunter and reindeer herder was surveyed as a window into the concepts of health, healing, and disease in early twentieth-century Sapmi (Northern Sweden). The two books of Johan Turi (1854-1936)--An Account of the Sami (1910) and Lappish Texts (1918-19) were examined to determine the varieties of recorded zootherapeutic, mineral, chemical, and e...

This paper looks at the stressors prominent in the workplace at the end of the 20th century--increases in workload, falls in social support, uncertainty and violence. It considers some of the pressures that have created these stressors and some of the interventions used to combat them; for example, better teamworking, different management style, an emphasis on quality, a more accurate analysis ...

The hepatotoxic effects of conventional drugs are well recognised, but herbal medicines are often assumed to be harmless and are advertised as such. The error of this assumption has recently received attention in the press,' but we think that doctors are not sufficiently aware of the potential toxicity of herbal medicines. We report on four women, three from Edinburgh and one from Tyneside, who...