Correspondence to Wolfgang Wagner; Wolfgang. Wagner@ apa. at It is always tempting to probe the unknown. And as we only know the present, most of our mysteries belong to the past and, quite naturally, to the future. No wonder that some pathologists or specialists in forensic medicine undertake quite some efforts to clarify the course of disease or the cause of death of famous people of the past...

Particular interest to those who arie teachers of patho.?f?y and medicine. The possibilities of such a museum Is unlimited and it may be made the centre of teaching !n a medical school. The underlying idea is to illusrate in graphic form, for the students, the principle of he correlation of the gross and microscopic lesions Vlth the clinical findings and x-ray picture. The original history and ...

Henry Schliemann's reputation as an archeologist, a linquist, a financial genius and a scholar is seldom recognized by Americans. His discovery of the ruins of Troy changed Homeric myths and legends into history and made him the founder of Aegean archeology. Recent popular books on Schliemann sketchily describe him otologic problems which eventually led to his death of an otogenic brain abscess...

We present a molecular theory to study the adsorption of different species within pH-sensitive hydrogel nanofilms. The theoretical framework allows for a molecular-level description of all the components of the system, and it explicitly accounts for the acid-base equilibrium. We concentrate on the adsorption of hexahistidine, one of the most widely used tags in bio-related systems, particularly...

OR ONE UNLEARNED in anatomy, and h aving "small Latin and less Greek," it seems presumptuous to speak here of Andreas Vesalius and his Fabrca, or, indeed, of John _ 1 Oporinus the printer and his edition of that great work, for he, too, was a scholar of no mean parts. If I speak with caution of the author-and, indeed, in view of those who also speak here today I have little right to speak at al...

V inci, a small town near Florence, Italy, dates back to Roman times, when it was inhabited by the Etruscans. " But this town is even more renowned for having given its name to the famous Leonardo da Vinci, who, in any discipline of science and art he dedicated himself to, surpassed all his contemporaries " wrote Emanuele Repetti in his geographic dictionary of Tuscany (1). In the modern sense,...

Christian Andreas Doppler is renowned primarily for his revolutionary theory of the Doppler effect, which has deeply influenced many areas of modern science and technology, including medicine. His work has laid the foundations for modern ultrasonography and his ideas are still inspiring discoveries more than a hundred years after his death. Doppler may well earn the title of Homo Universalis fo...