OBJECTIVE Catherine de Medici, queen consort of King Henry II of France, was a powerful woman at a time when power for her sex was determined by fecundity. A decade long history of infertility might have placed her at risk for condemnation, but her husband's known urologic abnormalities played in her favor. This presentation will address the penile deformity of her husband, Henry II, and how th...

The effect of heterogeneity on seawater intrusion is analyzed. Heterogeneity in hydraulic properties such as hydraulic conductivity is well known to significantly affect groundwater flow and solute transport. Yet, few studies [Mc Kribbin and O`Sullivan, 1980; Schincariol and Schwartz, 1990; Schincariol et al., 1997 and 1998; Simmons et al., 2001] have focused on evaluating the impact of heterog...

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Medieval institutions contain an important strain of spontaneous order, especially from the pre-Christian period. A series of irregular successions after the Norman conquest made royal charters increasingly important in establishing the sovereign’s legitimacy. Henry I’s coronation charter (1100) formed the basis of Henry II’s aggressive program of reform legislation, as well as for Magna Carta ...

Every student of local medical history realizes the great obligation he owes Doctor Henry Bronson. Our knowledge of the lives of our illustrious forebears and of local history in general would be limited and miscellaneous indeed had it not been for his painstaking research and scholarly writing which provided a record presented in orderly and artistic fashion. It is never possible to tell just ...

Viets was a well-known neurologist, medical historian, and for 36 years a lecturer at the Harvard Medical School. He specialized in the disease myasthenia gravis, and established the first clinic in the world for diagnosis and treatment of the disorder. At the Second International Symposium on Myasthenia Gravis in 1959, he received a bronze plaque commemorating his pioneering in the field. He w...