the foundation of anatomy and medicine is based on the efforts of the daring and genius scholars, and those who had the intensity to change the situation. a professor at the university of padua, the belgian anatomist andreas vesalius is one of such great pioneers who, 502 years later, is still known as a great scholar and revolutionary anatomist. he wrote a book entitled “fabrica” in anatomy in...

In comparing genius to a pearl Lombroso sutmarised his beliefthat the cause of genius was a constitutional defect, a defect that commonly showed itselfas insanity in the genius or his family.' This "insanity" theory was supported by several later studies,24 but other studies supported an alternative theory (the "stud" theory) that genius represented the highest capacities ofthe race-a culminati...

These handsome volumes bring Keen's Surgery up to date and it may be said at once that they maintain the high standard of excellence that has always characterised Keen's previous productions. Keen appears to. have a genius for editing. His Surgery though written by 129 contributors gives the impression of being the work of a single brain. As the present volumes deal with the advances made in su...

In Pablo Picasso’s formative period in A Coruña (1891–1895), where he was born as an artist, the child and pre-adolescent who at that time signed himself as Pablo Ruiz, already knowing he was a genius, pursued an intense programme of creative activity while devoting himself to drawing and painting. Making use of his facility for reproducing the world around him in images, he also proved to be a...

Although genius has been defined in the dictionary as requiring an IQ above 140, this definition depends on an arbitrary methodological decision made by Lewis Terman for his longitudinal study of more than 1500 intellectually gifted children, a study that occupies four of the five volumes of Genetic Studies of Genius. Yet, only the second volume, by Catharine Cox, studied bona fide geniuses, by...

In discussing the results of my work on the CO2 produced by dogfish nerve Dr. Loeb pointed out the desirability of conducting similar studies on the sciatic nerve of the frog. The suggestion appealed to me and I resolved to undertake the work. I had of course not the remotest idea at the time of our conversation that the report of these studies would form a part of a memorial volume to Dr. Loeb...

sir,?uenius is the grip upon first principles. Surprise, therefore, is not awakened, when the modern methods of treating war wounds throw a fresh light upon the genius of the greatest of surgeons and a man with every element of genius, Lord Lister. Lister won his first success with his antiseptic system in 1868 and in 1870 the Franco-German war broke out. Preceding this war there had been the C...

Giacomo Puccini is one of the most renowned opera composers in world. He continued work Giuseppe Verdi. Italian composer was born Lucca, Grand Duchy Tuscany on December 22, 1858. In 1880, he entered Milan Conservatory, where studied with famous Ponchielli (1834–1886). began writing his last Turandot poor health. The pains throat were very painful and prolonged. showed symptoms cancer larynx and...

pushkin is an extraordinary phenomenon in russian and also the world literature with works on which the global ideas shine in. nobody is able, just like pushkin, to demonstrate a man of other nations and to speak on behalf of him so authentically.  his ability in describing iranian culture and also iranian genius poet, saadi, was so that prince shalikov, the publisher of “damskii zhurnal”, call...