the city of Jessore, with a population of about 6,000 people, 10 deaths occurred daily. No other epidemic, it is stated, tf 5"^p\ | occurred in the city up to 1865, in which year there was a I great outbreak in all the adjoining districts, which was believed to have originated in Jessore. It appears that the inhabitants consider an outbreak of fever in September, October and November of each ye...

To show the reader how the mid-19th century colonials and Canadians deployed their "imaginary of human beings in virtual time and space," Curtis provides detailed examinations of five different census enumerations: 1841/2, 1847/8, 1850/1/2, 1860/1, and 1865/71. As these dates suggest, the taking of the census may have been a single-day event but the making of the census took months and years to...

“The stability of the internal environment is the condition that life should be free and independent. . . So, far from the higher animal being indifferent to the external world, it is on the contrary in a precise and informed relation with it, in such a way that its equilibrium results from a continuous and delicate compensation, established as by the most sensitive of balances.” Claude Bernard...

From the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610-0245, Nemours Children’s Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida 32207, Ahmanson Department of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90048-1865, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Robert-Rössle-Sraße 10, D-13125 Berlin, Germany, and I...

A new polyether antibiotic, abierixin, was found in the mycelium of a culture broth of nigericin-producing Streptomyces albus NRRL B-1865. Abierixin was extracted with organic solvents and purified by column chromatography and HPLC. The structure of abierixin was determined by FAB/MS/MS and CI/MS/MS and 1H and 13C NMR spectrometries. Abierixin exhibited weak antimicrobial and ionophorous activi...

Researcher with the Coordinating Group on Sociodiversity in Health at Leônidas e Maria Deane Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Manaus Rua Teresina 476 69057-070 Adrianópolis — AM [email protected] SANTOS, F. V. dos: “Gold earrings, calico skirts”: images of women and their role in the project to civilize the Amazon, as observed by Elizabeth Agassiz in Viagem ao Brasil: 1865-1866. História, Ciências,...