The authors have analyzed the content of a selection of letters written by Dom Pedro II, the Emperor of Brazil, and sent to Doctor Charles Brown-Séquard, the famous neurologist, between 1876 and 1885. The content of those letters focuses mainly on his wife's, Princess Thereza Cristina, health issues and Dom Pedro's personal desire to foster the research into the physiological study of the nervo...

Anneke Zuiderwijk Natalie Helbig J. Ramón Gil-García Marijn Janssen Special Issue on Innovation through Open Data A Review of the State-of-the-Art and an Emerging Research Agenda: Guest Editors’ Introduction Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research ISSN 0718–1876 Electronic Version VOL 9 / ISSUE 2 / MAY 2014 / I-XIII © 2014 Universidad de Talca Chile This paper is availab...

By EUGENE STRANSKY, M.D., AND FLORENCIO N. QuINTos, M.D. H OOKWORM anemia has been known since the construction of the Gotthard tunnel in Switzerland in the years 1876-80. Perroncito’ observed that many Italian workers developed a severe and at times fatal anemia, with hookworm infestation. In the following decades hookworm anemia was called miner’s anemia because of its occurrence in deep humi...

Seeboo Laul, a tea-maker, aged 4U, native of .Nepaul, was admitted into the Government dispensary, Kurseong, 27th July 1876. He was brought from the Terai where he had been working for several years, during which time he had suffered much from intermittent fever. On admission the patient presented a very emaciated appearance. He complained of continual pain in the region of the bladder ; freque...