The war of the Romans with King Pyrrhus Epirus was a kind borderline that conditionally divided history Roman republic into two main periods. Many modern researchers follow concept Greek historian Polybius, who considered expulsion king from Italy as start gradual establishment hegemony in Mediterranean. further expansion Rome, first to South Italy, and then outside – Sicily, accompanied by an ...

T he traditional medical diagnosis of disease requires observed anatomical or physiological abnormalities. Description of the disease's symptoms and signs follows naturally. Clinicians can then predict the anatomic diagnosis by recognizing these symptoms and signs in their patients. In the case of the functional disorders, such a process is impossible. Since there are no observed patho-physiolo...

N Engl J Med 2005;353:1387-94. Copyright © 2005 Massachusetts Medical Society. A 56-year-old man was referred to the transplantation infectious-disease clinic because of a low-grade fever and left axillary lymphadenopathy. The patient had received a cadaveric kidney transplant five years earlier for polycystic kidney disease. He had been in his usual state of health until three weeks before the...

The birth of the Degree in Dentistry in Italy has been very troubled, and only in 1980 saw its effective implementation. Very "instructive" in this regard is the history on the establishment in 1924 (the period of the seizure of power by Fascism) of a "National School of Dentistry" at the University of Rome, which was withdrawn after only ten months. The biggest supporter and proponent of the S...

In his 2011 autobiography, A Serendipitous Life [1] , Karl Rickels describes how in 2008 in Munich at the 50th anniversary of the Collegium Internationale NeuroPharmacologicum (CINP) he looked around at the President’s Dinner, ‘... a special event held in the Emperor’s Hall at the residence of Bavaria’s famous king. I saw only one person I remembered from the first congress in Rome. I had been ...

A 76-year-old Japanese woman contracted a Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB, Manila type) infection in Japan, despite never having traveled. However, her son was treated for TB in the Philippines 3 years before he stayed at her house. Spoligotyping allows us to identify the TB genotype and identify the route of infection.

N Engl J Med 2005;353:1387-94. Copyright © 2005 Massachusetts Medical Society. A 56-year-old man was referred to the transplantation infectious-disease clinic because of a low-grade fever and left axillary lymphadenopathy. The patient had received a cadaveric kidney transplant five years earlier for polycystic kidney disease. He had been in his usual state of health until three weeks before the...

Roman literature has, thus far, assumed a relatively modest place in the canon of literary jurisprudence. Yet it presents rich resource for scholars interested, not just law, but law today. This article will revisit Ovid’s Metamorphoses, text which has continued to fascinate since Renaissance. It suggest that Metamorphoses can be read as ‘casebook’ and more especially relating marriage sexualit...