In the last twenty years the consumption of olive oil has gone from being located in the Mediterranean Area to expanding around the world and considering today the olive oil as a product of global consumption . Doubtless, one of the pillars that has allowed the rapid expansion of its consumption is its rich composition in polyphenols, sterols and antioxidants that confer numerous benefits for h...

This book is highly interesting and instructive and comprises the Bradshaw Lecture delivered by the author at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in December 1920. Though written by an eminent surgeon both surgeons and physicians will doubtless immensely benefit by it. The author justly remarks " the patient is no longer to be regarded merely as the victim of some type of disease but as th...

Doubtless that Allah created man, vulnerable against vices and faults. By innate nature he is a sinner who commits sins involves in disobedience, this matter agreed upon by the sane prudent. Error, omission, forgetfulness, other shortcomings are compulsory ingredients of his personality. It evident uniqueness God Almighty with absolute perfection no parallel His creation. Sins have two departme...

at home, and was comfortably situated in every respect. Since the death of her parents, four years ago, she has had a good deal of work and worry. She enjoyed good health until May 1890, when she, for. the first time, became aware of the presence of a tumour in the left breast. After a day of hard work, which involved lifting heavy weights, she felt a sharp pain in the left breast. On examining...

1. By the bites of stegomyia mosquitoes carrying neurotropic yellow fever virus, encephalitis has been produced both in white mice and in rhesus monkeys. 2. The fixed neurotropic strain of virus cannot be maintained in the mosquito host as well as can the viscerotropic strains. This is doubtless attributable in part to a smaller amount of virus ingested, because of paucity in the blood stream o...

This commentary was written to generate ideas and provoke debate about priorities for rural health, in advance of the Australian National Rural Health Alliance 2009 conference. The conference will doubtless be packed with highlights as together we reflect on 20 years’ successes and failures in the rural and remote health sector under the conference theme: ‘ celebrating the sector’. Another key ...

A great deal has been written in support of the various theories propounded to account for the prevalence of stone in certain countries, and in certain parts of those countries; and it is doubtless proper that a paper on the subject of the modern methods of dealing with calculus in the bladder, should touch, however lightly, on the subject of its causation. The writer is much impressed with the...

of the tide than to anything else, I did so through the early days of August last. I was face to face with a patient suffering from what I feel I am quite justified in diagnosing as acute yellow atrophy of the liver. This opinion will doubtless direct my reader's attention to text-books and authorities upon this most important and enticing subject, and in conjunction with the descriptions of th...

IT is well for doctors as for all mankind to *pause occasionally in their pursuits and meditate upon the achievements of the past, the trends of the present, and aims for the future. It was doubtless with this purpose in mind that the founders of the Massachusetts Medical Society set apart an hour at each yearly meeting for an Annual Discourse. In attempting to prepare myself for the honorable ...

pages. But it has the grace of being light, wellwritten, and well-printed. Dr. Dennett's experience has been large, and he enters into the arena of infant literature with a book which will be of great use to the pediatrician as well as the general practitioner, for it is pre-eminently practical and deals with nearly every condition which one may meet with in temperate zones without hedging and ...