Medicine: general issues

A book previously published within the framework of the Ecological Studies Series, entitled "e;Physical Aspects of Soil Water and Salts in Ecosystems"e; included awidespectrum of research papers devoted to new findings in the field of soil-plant-water relationships.

The use of the compressed air-driven turbine for the activation of surgical burs and saws as developed by Dr.

Nach dem ersten Epontol-Symposium 1964 in Frankfurt, auf dem die pharmakologischen Grundlagen und die ersten klinischen Beobachtungen berichtet wurden, erschien es sinnvoll, jetzt weitere Ergebnisse zusammen­ fassend zu besprechen und zu diskutieren.

At the end of the last century and the beginning of this century, the prob- lems of immunity in lower vertebrates and the influence of environmental temperature attracted attention for the first time (ERNST, 1890; WIDAL and SICARD, 1897; METCHNIKOFF, 1901).

The papers collected in this book were given and discussed at the symposium on "e;Soil water physics and technology"e;, which was held in Rehovot, Israel, from August 19th-September 4th, 1971.

The past decade has seen a remarkable increase in the use of electron microscopy as a researm tool in biology and medicine.

It is now generally accepted for a variety of reasons - morphological as well as physiologica- that the visual systems of arthropods provide a suitable model for the study of information proces- sing in neuronal networks.

This volume contains the proceedings of a Symposium held at the University of Kiel, Germany, from 31 March to 6 April, 1971.

progress and happiness - however these terms may be understood in detail - as a significant and constitutive element of scientific inquiry.

Influenza continues to be one of the major epidemic diseases of man and is, in fact, his only remaining pandemic disease (BEVERIDGE, 1969).

The waterproof sensory sheet covering the mammalian body has a rich afferent innervation which provides an abundance of complex information for use by the central nervous system often in conjunction with information from receptors in the joints.

nerve; subsequently, however, they concluded that the recordings had been from aberrant cells of the cochlear nucleus lying central to the glial margin of the VIII nerve (GALAMBOS and DAVIS, 1948).

In spite of ingenious experiments, imaginative theories, and unshakable faith in supreme forces, there is no way to know how life began.

Sea urchin eggs are objects of wonder for the student who sees them for the first time under the microscope.

The details of the receptor mechanism are not yet fully understood for any sensory system.

The originality of this volume is to reveal to the reader the fascination of some unfamiliar sensory organs that are sometimes ignored and often misunderstood.

Prominent progress in molecular biology was only made when it became possible to separate functionally distinct molecules by taking advantage of their biophysical properties.

Pollen transmits the male genetic material in sexual reproduction of all higher plants.

In the previous study (Part I) a description was given of the ultrastructural changes occurring during indirect Wallerian degeneration in the intramedullary root fibre region of the kitten hypoglossal nerve.

Plans for an International Symposium on the Early Life History of Fish were first discussed in 1967 at the F.

In the preface to Volume 1 of the 'Annals of Life Insurance Medicine' Dr.

Zum dritten Mal liegt hiermit der Sonderband des Chirurgischen Forums für experimentelle und klinische Forschung vor, dessen Auswahl (77 von 185 Einsendungen) der Forum-Kommission der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie (Zusammensetzung Heft 3/1973 der Mitteilungen) zu danken ist.