During the second world war there were large changes in consumption of fats, fibre, and sugar in Britain. These changes matched recent recommendations made by the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy (COMA) with the object of reducing the incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD). It is widely believed that CHD mortality fell during the war. This paper re-examines CHD mortality among mid...

The Second World War brought much grief to the world. Roermond was at the forefront of the war for a period of five months. Before the war, in this part of The Netherlands, physicians were more attuned to scientific development taking place in Germany than in the United Kingdom. It wasn't until after the war that anesthesiology developed as a separate specialty. The impression that the hospital...

This article explores the themes of unity and disunity with regard to German and Jewish memories of Bukovina after the Second World War. Although one often reads in the literature that Bukovina was home to a large number of minorities, notably Jews and Germans, who lived together peacefully and harmoniously, I demonstrate the extent to which this ‘unity’ was challenged by the violent experience...

The historiography of penicillin has tended to overlook the importance of developing and disseminating know-how in fermentation technology. A focus on this directs attention to work before the war of a network in the US and Europe concerned with the production of organic acids, particularly gluconic and citric acids. At the heart of this network was the German-Czech Konrad Bernhauer. Other memb...

On January 7, 2007 Evgueni Yakovlevich Khruslov, a prominent mathematician, Academician of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, celebrated his 70th birthday. Evgueni Khruslov was born in Kharkov, Ukraine. In 1954 he graduated from a high school at a city’s suburb. When studying at the school, he preferred exact sciences, like physics and mathematics. However, at the time of graduation, h...

Except in so far as the occurrence of large-scale epidemics has provided opportunities for differential observation, there is available little well-accredited information concerning the liability of persons of non-European stock to diseases -not commonly current in their normal habitat or of the liability of persons of European stock to diseases prevalent in Africa, Asia, and Oceania. This is -...