ROGER ROLLS, with photographs by CLIVE QUINNELL, The hospital of the nation. The story ofspa medicine and the Mineral Water Hospital ofBath, Bath, Bird Publications, 1988, 4to, pp. x, 181, illus., £18.50. In a relatively slim text-but one quite sumptuously illustrated, with both old prints and modern photographs-Roger Rolls has attempted to unite at least three separate and substantial books: a...

This paper presents the analysis of ki and -c particles. We’ve chosen these particles (-c and ki) because they are widely used and very often occur together (-c ki). Also, they are constituents of some other particles (kidec). It was interesting to find what semantic features they have-the same or different. Both of them are often used to express the emphasis of a phrase or a word they are atta...

There exist eight conjunctions in Georgian used to express semantic or pragmatic contrast, which constitute an implicational hierarchy: aramed > oγond > tumca > magram > k'i//k'idev > xolo > tu > da. The given string is organized in such a way that the skill of conjunctions to express contrasting bindings is decreasing from the left to the right. On the basis of functional-semantic analysis of ...

The emergence of pathogenic bacteria resistant to most, if not all, currently available antimicrobial agents has become a critical problem in modern medicine, particularly because of the concomitant increase in immunosuppressed patients. The concern that humankind is reentering the “preantibiotics” era has become very real, and the development of alternative antiinfection modalities has become ...

For all the obvious hazards and problems of using such a compilation, it is an extraordinary resource. It should surely provide the basis for a much-needed prosopography of the medical trade in the pre-reform era. The sheer proliferation ofnumbers (there are clearly well over 35,000 medical practitioners, in the narrow sense, listed here) provides ample confirmation of the arguments, recently a...

Two Georgian students describe their experiences from a Hungarian Erasmus stay.

Charles Locock and his times CHARLES later Sir Charles Locock (1799-1875), the son of a Northampton physician, aspired early to his father's profession. His wish, however, was soon to combine this conventional aspiration with the incipient specialist's role that, in bare outline, was taking shape in the 1820s and 1830s.' Buttressing this view of Locock, and spanning more than two decades of his...

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2010: 36(2) Society prostitution Logic, science and a whole new range of philosophies arrived in Great Britain alongside George I who ascended the throne in 1714. There were more than 50 Catholics who had a greater right to the throne than George, but Britain would not tolerate another Catholic – however close to the throne. The non-English-speaking German w...

The railway is an important sector of the economy Georgia. Despite its small share in gross domestic product country, role socio-economic development country large. "Georgian Railway" only operator company mainly provides services related to cargo transportation and transports various types from Central Asia Black Sea. Georgian Railways also passenger transport. has a vertically integrated busi...

K. Gambashidze1, I. Pantsulaia2, M. Iobadze2, T. Azaladze1, A. Azaladze1, K. Kalandarishvili3, P. Khorava4, E. Jaiani5, B. Lasareishvili5, M. Tediashvili5 Pathophysiology, Tbilisi State Medical University, Tbilisi, GEORGIA Immunology, Tbilisi State Medical University, Tbilisi, GEORGIA Clinical Anatomy, Tbilisi State Medical University, Tbilisi, GEORGIA Surgery, Georgian National Cancer Center, ...