Aconite (Aconitum napellus) was one of the most notorious, poisonous plants in ancient world. Its dangerous, lethal power – present leaves, roots, stem, and tuber well known to Greeks Romans from earliest times. Evidence this phenomenon is not only archaeological findings, but also many writings biographies, poems, legal codes, etc. However, precise detailed accounts come treatises written by b...

Basal cell carcinoma of the breast is a rare type of skin cancer. A probable case reported c.650AD is described with very similar localized symptoms. Understanding its emergence and evolution could improve diagnosis and treatment.

While conventional treatment of penile cancer consists of total penile amputation and bilateral lymphadenectomy, recently a more conservative strategy comprising penile-preserving surgery and selective lymphadenectomy has been applied in order to preserve the penis and to minimize unnecessary inguinal lymphadenectomy. A thorough literature survey was performed to see what was already known of t...

Amphioctopus aegina is an important fishery resource in the coastal waters of China. In present study, genetic diversity and population structure among four populations A. throughout its distributional range China were assessed using mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase 1 (COI) sequences. The results revealed a generally low (Hd: 0.2842–0.6670; Pi: 0.0007–0.0015) populations. neighbor-joining (NJ) ...

In this note we shall present a very short proof of the existence of Green's function for Laplace's equation for any domain with sufficiently smooth boundary in any number of independent variables. The proof is based on the continuous dependence of solutions of Laplace's equation on their boundary values. It is a modification of a proof given by Paul Garabedian, see [l]; the difference between ...

My colleague Fridolf Kudlien in his recent paper "Empticius servus __ .n (Historia 35 [1986] p. 248) has remarked on the fact that in the ancient slave-market youth was at a premium. He points out that the manganes applied vegetable salves to arrest puberty and quotes Pliny N.H. XXI 170. The growth of pubic hair was arrested (N.H. XXX 41). The following Greeklarallels attest to the widespread b...