Considerable confusion surrounds the use of the term surveillance in the context of public health but the principles underlying all uses are as old as epidemiology itself. William Farr has contributed more than anyone else to the development of these principles and to the demonstration of their value in practice on a large scale. This paper re-examines the basic tenets which guided him and the ...

ply of tropical afflictions; and they too were bitten by malariabearing mosquitoes. But the native population, having lived with the menace of malaria for a hundred generations, had inherited a modest measure of resistance to the disease; not so with the white slavers, their soldiers, missionaries or adventurers seeking precious metals. The medical literature of 1830 carried an article by a Fre...

ne of the four real attributes of the necessary being is divine knowledge, which enjoys special significance. reviewing various views in defining knowledge and giving the rational arguments as well as narrated proofs to establish divine knowledge , the present paper deals in detail with the objects and the how of divine knowledge. among different things that are the objects of divine knowledge,...

Lisa Farr is Founder, President and CEO of Occam Networks. Starting as a software engineer for N.E.T., she most recently worked as a Project Manager for Cadence Design Systems ́ Telecom/Datacom Design Center. Prior to that, she played a key role at StrataCom/Cisco, developing the company’s first voice/data integration product for Frame Relay and ATM networks, as well as in the development of Cis...