Pariosternarchus amazonensis, new genus and species, is described from the Amazon river of Brazil and Peru. It is unique among apteronotids in possessing a wide head that is flattened on its entire ventral surface, and in possessing highly expanded mandibular laterosensory canals. The phylogenetic position of Pariosternarchus is hypothesized by inclusion in a previously published data matrix of...

During recent years more and more cases of lymphopathia venereum (lymphogranuloma inguinale) are being diagnosed as the clinical features and tests are better understood. If left untreated, or even in treated cases, the disease can result in much suffering and disfiguring due to scarring. Of the local method of treatment chief reliance has been placed on the time-honoured belladonna and ichthyo...