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Daniel Rutherford's inaugural dissertation

Daniel Rutherford's inaugural dissertation

Joseph Black's inaugural dissertation. II

Joseph Black's inaugural dissertation. II

Joseph Black's inaugural dissertation. I

Joseph Black's inaugural dissertation. I

JOHN ABERCROMBIE 1780–1844

John Abercrombie (1780-1844) was born at Aberdeen and was educated there in the public schools and at Marischal College; he went to Edinburgh for his medical training and received his degree in 1803. He first became interested in the mental side of medicine, and his inaugural dissertation was entitled De fatuite alpina. After a year at St. George's in London, he returned to Edinburgh, where he became attached to the public dispensary and established himself in practice. In both of these fields he became familiar with the life of the poor. He had an office in the poorer part of the town and he divided the district into sections and gave them over to his students, keeping the general supervision for himself. He was a sharp observer and kept records of all cases of interest. Many of these were elaborated into papers, which for the most part appeared in the

THE AMELIORATION OF MENTAL DISEASE BY INFLUENZA

That any somatic disease may influence any mental disease favorably is a matter of great theoretical and practical importance. The malarial treatment of paresis is a concrete example of its clinical utilization. 1 But its theoretical implications extend far into the complicated questions of the interrelations of psychic and somatic disease and touch intimately on the important problem of reversibility. That it is a fact of repeated observation that somatic disease may favorably affect preexisting psychotic manifestations should not require much evidence here. Pinel 2 enumerates various disorders operating to produce a permanency of recovery. Jacobi 3 mentioned it in 1844. Koster 4 wrote an inaugural dissertation on it in 1848 at Bonn; and the literature contains fully two score contributions, case reports and discussions. Back of all this, of course, is the theory, presumably based on many observations, of traumatic or shock treatment. But the precise delimitation of the

Kant’s Inaugural Dissertation

Journal Article Some Recent Books Get access Kant's Inaugural Dissertation . Translated by Handyside John . Chicago , The Open Court Publishing Company , 1929 . Pp. xii + 85 . $2.00. The Monist, Volume 40, Issue 3, 1 July 1930, Page 480, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist193040328 Published: 23 December 2014

CORRELATIONS OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL PANCREATIC SECRETION

The relationship of the various structural elements of the pancreas has intrigued many investigators. Laguesse 1 evolved a remarkable theory of balancement, maintaining that acini are continuously transforming into islands and that these two structures hold each other in a balance according to functional needs. A large series of experiments was conducted after the discovery of the islands to see what would happen to the islands when the external secretion was obstructed. The literature up to 1909 is summarized in Moldenhauer's inaugural dissertation; 2 the more recent studies have been discussed critically in Herxheimer's monograph. 3 One group of investigators firmly believes in a limiting membrane and a complete independence of the islands from the rest of the pancreas. A large number of investigators claim possible transitions of acini into insular epithelium. Another small but authoritative group of investigators concedes the proliferation and transformation of duct epithelium into islands when

Kant’s Inaugural Dissertation and Early Writingson Space

Kant’s Inaugural Dissertation and Early Writingson Space

Treatment of pelveo-peritonitic adnextumors of puerperal and nonpuerperal origin with injections of turpentine or milk: Stegeman, H.: Inaugural Dissertation, Kiel, 1920

Treatment of pelveo-peritonitic adnextumors of puerperal and nonpuerperal origin with injections of turpentine or milk: Stegeman, H.: Inaugural Dissertation, Kiel, 1920

An Algebraical Identity

WITH reference to the letters in NATURE of June 9 and July 7 by Dr. G. B. Mathews, Dr. H. C. Pocklington, and the Rev. J. Cullen on the polynomials Y(x), Z(x) satisfying the identity may I point out that Y(x)2,- 2(-)(p-1) Z(x)2 = 4(x)2(x-1)are tabulated as far as p=101 in Dr. Hermann Teege' inaugural dissertation, “Ueber die ½(p−1) gliedrigen Gaussischen Perioden” (Kiel, Peters, 1900)? Connected with these polynomials there is a further point which, so far as I am aware, has not yet been settled. When x=1 and p1 (mod. 4), Y(x)=py, Z(x)=z, and py2z2=4.

Nuances in Plautine Metre

Readers of Phaedrus will have noticed that the rhythm of III. Ep. 34, Palam muttire plebeio piaculum est is unique. Nowhere else does he admit a molossus-word before the final metron of the iambic senarius, and he only admits it here because he is quoting a line from the Telephus of Ennius. Since a scholar whose opinion deserves respect proposes to introduce this rhythm into a reconstruction of a fragment of Laberius it seems worth while to examine its history in order to see how and why it was used, before it was finally banned. For Seneca, like Phaedrus, banns it entirely. The question has already been considered by Klotz, Grundzüge Altrömischer Metrik, pp. 324 sqq.; W. M. Lindsay, Captiui (large edition), p. 66; Havet, Métrique, 276 (though the treatment there is too short to be satisfactory); and by T. Hingst in his inaugural dissertation De Spondeis et Anapaestis in antepaenultimo pede uersuum generis duplicis Latinorum, Leipzig, 1904.

DYSTONIA LENTICULARIS (DYSTONIA MUSCULORUM DEFORMANS)

The condition generally recognized as dystonia musculorum deformans, a name given it by Oppenheim, is of special interest at this time in view of the recent significant researches concerning the functions of the basal ganglia, especially of the nucleus lenticularis. First separated as a clinical entity by Schwalbe1in a Berlin inaugural dissertation in 1908, given a definite nosologic classification by Oppenheim2in 1911, and since then the subject of a number of papers and reports, the syndrome, or disease as some would maintain, has recently (1919) received an admirable and comprehensive review at the hands of Kurt Mendel.3This last article renders it wholly superfluous to consider in detail the cases hitherto reported, thirty-three in number,4according to Mendel, which are abstracted with critical comment by him together with a minute discussion of the condition in its etiologic, symptomatologic and differential-diagnostic aspects. It is

On the absorption spectra and the ionisation potentials of calcium, strontium, and barium

In view of the probability that the ionisation potential of an element is connected by the quantum relation v = (1·5, S x h ) / e with the characteristic spectral frequency v = (1·5, S), it has become desirable to determine the value of this frequency for as many of the elements as possible. Its value, moreover, is best found by identifying the members of the series v = (1·5, S) — ( m , P) in a spectrum and then calculating the limiting frequency of the series. Dunz, in his Inaugural Dissertation, gives the wave-lengths of several members of the series v = (1·5, S) — ( m , P) for each of the elements mercury, zinc, and cadmium; and Lorenser, in his Inaugural Dissertation, gives the wave-lengths of a number of the members of the same series for magnesium, calcium, and strontium. Lorenser, however, while giving v = 5535·69 Å. U. as the wave-length of the first member of the series v = (1·5, S) — ( m , P), for barium, states that the remaining members of the series are not known. Starting at this point, we recently investigated the spectrum of barium, and, as a result, have identified and measured the wave-lengths of the first ten members of the above-mentioned series. The following paper gives a short account of the experiments which enabled us to make this advance.

Intensifying Similes in English: Inaugural Dissertation

Journal Article Intensifying Similes in English: Inaugural Dissertation Get access Notes and Queries, Volume s12-IV, Issue 87, December 1918, Page 342, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s12-IV.87.342d Published: 01 December 1918

Prof. Alfred Senier

PROF. ALFRED SENIER, who died on June 29 at Galway, was born at Burnley on January 24, 1853. His parents, about two years after his birth, emigrated to Wisconsin, where he deceived his early education. In due course he attended the Universities of Wisconsin and Michigan, and graduated as doctor of medicine of the latter in 1873. But his interest lay principally in the subject of chemistry, and, returning to England, he filled, under Prof. Attfield's direction, the posts of assistant and demonstrator in chemistry to the Pharmaceutical Society in London from 1874 to 1882, and, afterwards, for about three years, that of lecturer in chemistry in St. John's College, Battersea, of which the Rev. Canon Daniel was at that time principal. He then became a research student with Prof. von Hoffmann, and after a period of three years received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Berlin. His inaugural dissertation, “Ueber Cyanursaure, ihre Isomeren und Derivate,” on receiving this degree, was published. In 1890 he became locum tenens for Prof. Maxwell Simpson in Cork, and in 1891 he was appointed professor of chemistry and lecturer in medical jurisprudence in Queen's College, now University College, Galway.

Book Review: V. Old Testament: Artaxerxes III. Ochus and His Reign

Book Review: V. Old Testament: Artaxerxes III. Ochus and His Reign

Absorption Spectra of Ultra-violet Rays by Vapour and Liquids

IN connection with some letters recently published in NATURE (vol. lxxii. pp. 557, 630), the following note may perhaps have some interest. Researches on the above named subject have been made in the physical institute of the University of Erlangen. Dr. Pauer (Wied. Ann., lxi., p. 363, 1897) has determined for a great number of substances the position of the absorption bands, and Dr. Müller (Erlangen Inaugural Dissertation, 1903, Sitzungs berichte der physikalisch-medicinischen Societät in Erlangen, vol. xxxiv., p. 188, 1902) has tried to get some values of the absorption coefficients of vapours. By the researches of Friedrichs and Grebe, the results of Pauer have been in many respects amplified. Perhaps I may direct attention to the fact that Dr. Pauer found that the law of Kundt on the displacement of the absorption bands towards the red with increasing refraction index or dispersionis true when passing from the vapour to the liquid and then to the solutions in different media. His observations were made on benzol, toluol, the isomers of xylol and æthylbenzol, chlorobenzol, bromobenzol, iodobenzol, anilin, nitrobenzol, pyridine, bisulphide of carbon. Benzol and bisulphide of carbon were especially carefully treated by him.

Book Reviews

Book Reviews Get access Kant'S Inaugural Dissertation of 1770 . Translated into English by Eckoff William J. . Professor of Philosophy and Pedagogy in the University of Colorado. New York : Columbia College . May, 1894 . Price, 90 cents. Pp , 101 . The Monist, Volume 5, Issue 1, 1 October 1894, Page 152, https://doi.org/10.1093/monist/5.1.152 Published: 06 January 2015

Our Astronomical Column

THE GREAT COMET OF 1861.—The long series of observations of this splendid comet has been very ably discussed, with the view to the determination of the most probable orbit, by Heinrich Kreutz, a pupil of Prof. Schönfeld of Bonn, and the investigation is made the subject of an inaugural dissertation in July, 1880.

Our Astronomical Column

BRORSEN'S COMET IN 1842.—In September, 1846, it was pointed out by Mr. Hind (Astron. Nach. No. 582) that the comet of short-period discovered by Brorsen at Kiel on February 26 preceding must have approached very near to the planet Jupiter about May 20, 1842, possibly within 0.05 of the earth's mean distance, and it was surmised that an entire change of orbit might have been produced at that time. In 1857 D'Arrest examined this point more closely, applying the formulæ of the Mécanique Céleste to determine the elements priar to the encounter with the planet. His results were published in Astron. Nach. No. 1087. Adopting good elements for 1846, but without taking account of perturbations, since the comet left the sphere of activity of Jupiter after the near approach, he inferred that the closest proximity occurred May 20.6924 Berlin mean time, the distance between the two bodies being then 0.05112; that for April 19.5 the inclination of the comet's orbit was 40° 51′, or 10° greater than in 1846, and that the perihelion distance was greater than 1.5, instead of 0.65 at the time of Brorsen's discovery, and it was considered that the comet would not be visible when the radius-vector was much over unity; hence, perhaps, our ignorance of its existence before the year 1846. Thus the question has remained until within the last two years. Our object now is to record the results of a much more complete investigation of the effect of the comet's encounter with Jupiter, by Herr Harzer, forming the subject of an inaugural dissertation in the University of Leipsic in 1878. He adopts the definitive elements of Prof. Bruhns for 1846, with a small correction te the mean motion indicated by the observations at the comet's reappearance in 1868, and calculates backward with great care the perturbations of Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn to 1842, July 16.5, when the distance from Jupiter was 0.305; the total perturbations in the interval 1846, February 25.5 —1842, July 16.5 are as follows:—Mean anomaly, − 1° 58′ 32″.6; mean sidereal motion, + 4″.391; longitude of perihelion, + 9′ 52″.8; ascending node, + 24′ 35″.4; inclination, + 1° 48′ 31″.4; angle of eccentricity, + 56′ 30″.0. From the ecliptical co ordinates of the comet with respect to Jupiter at the latter date and the variations of these relative co-ordinates, the hyperbolic elements of the orbit about the planet are obtained and the perijove is found to have taken place May 27.28488 M.T. at Berlin, when the distance was 0.054714. The hyperbolic elements are assumed to 1842, April 7.5, when the distance between comet and planet was 0.30334, and the radius of the sphere of attraction 0.27149. The elements are then again referred to the sun, and thus the following figures defining the comet's orbit before this near approach to Jupiter, result:—