Until recently the caddisfly fauna of Kosovo was poorly known, with only several records. During a two-year period of investigation (2009–2010) adult caddisflies were collected with ultraviolet light, aerial net and hand picking. The genus Micropterna Stein, 1873 is reported for the first time in Kosovo with four species: Micropterna caesareica Schmid, 1959, Micropterna fissa McLachlan, 1875, M...

*Professor of Medicine, T.N. Medical College (Retd.), Hon. Physician, Bhatia Hospital, Mumbai; **Consultant Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Andheri (West), Mumbai D Schweitzer was a French-German scholar, born in Kaysersberg, Alsace; a s ickly chi ld , in contrast to h is la ter extraordinary robustness. Without doubt, he was a great and multiface...

endeavored, in association with my friend Herr Oberstabsarzt Dr. Schroeter, to study bacteria with the aid of the more perfect optical systems now available to us. Since Schroeter left this plant physiological institute in the summer of 1870, I have carried on these studies alone. I have first attempted to discover the biological relationships of the bacteria as well as to arrive at a decision ...

Administration Report of the Calcutta Municipality for 1875. Report on the Calcutta Medical Institutions for the year 1875. By J. Fullarton Beatson, M.D., Surgeon-General, Indian Medical Department. Before considering the sickness and mortality in Calcutta and its institutions in 1875, it will perhaps be well to glance back at the figures of the mortality in previous years, given in the Adminis...

Remyelination failure plays an important role in the pathophysiology of multiple sclerosis, but the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms remain poorly understood. We now report actively demyelinating lesions in patients with multiple sclerosis are associated with increased glial expression of fibroblast growth factor 9 (FGF9), which we demonstrate inhibits myelination and remyelination ...

In recent years, three groups of non-cholera vibrio possessing antigenic factor(s) in common with 0 1 Vibrio cholerae have been isolated in Japan, i.e. Vibrio bioserogroup 1875 [1], Vibriofluvialis Kobe [2] and non-Ol V. cholerae bioserogroup Hakata [3]. Isolation and chemical as well as serological characterizations, in particular, compositional sugar analysis, of their lipopolysaccharides (LP...

OBJECTIVE To study the relative importance of various determinants of total and cause-specific infant and early childhood mortality rates and their decline in The Netherlands in the period 1875-1879 to 1895-1899. DATA AND METHODS Mortality and population data were derived from Statistics Netherlands for 16 towns and 11 rural areas. Mortality levels and their decline were estimated with a Pois...

A need has existed for the accurate identification of monofluoroacetate (MFA) poisoning in southern Africa. The development of a new method for the determination of MFA has made the analysis of a variety of biological samples (n = 50) feasible. The method has been used in the laboratory over 24 months. Monofluoroacetate was present in 66% of samples from cases of suspected poisoning, reflecting...

The article deals with the history of diagnostics in dermatovenerology on Medical Faculty in Prague from 1875 to 1910. Medical Reports of General Hospital in Prague from those years were used as the source of data. Three dermatologic and venereal diagnoses from years 1875, 1881, 1885, 1890, 1895, 1899, 1906 and 1910 were used for a statistic comparison. The article also contains short descripti...