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Borreliae Part 1: Borrelia Lyme Group and Echidna-Reptile Group.
Biology (Basel)
October 2021
DSM-Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, 34149 Trieste, Italy.
Borreliae are divided into three groups, namely the Lyme group (LG), the Echidna-Reptile group (REPG) and the Relapsing Fever group (RFG). Currently, only Borrelia of the Lyme and RF groups (not all) cause infection in humans. Borreliae of the Echidna-Reptile group represent a new monophyletic group of spirochaetes, which infect amphibians and reptiles.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIsaac Newton's 'De gravitatione et aequipondio fluidorum': its purpose in historical context.
Ann Sci
April 2021
All Souls College, Oxford, UK.
Few texts in the history of science and philosophy have achieved the level of interpretative indeterminacy as a short manuscript tract by Isaac Newton, known as 'De gravitatione'. On the basis of some new evidence, this article argues that it is an introductory fragment of some lectures on hydrostatics delivered in the of spring 1671. Taking seriously the possibility of a pedagogical purpose, it is then argued that the famous digression on space, far from articulating a sophisticated metaphysics that may have owed something to Henry More, was a simple piece of mixed-mathematical prolegomena designed to facilitate the subsequent geometrical argumentation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[The worlds of gods in medicine].
Z Rheumatol
September 2017
Institut für Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin, Universitätsklinikum Köln, Joseph-Stelzmann-Straße 20, 50931, Köln, Deutschland.
Background: A number of designations for diseases, medicines and human body structures derive from classical mythology. To date, these eponyms have not been systematically investigated.
Objectives: This paper provides an overview of this fringe component of medical vocabulary, looks at the history of several terms and formulates hypotheses as to why such creative etymologies have come into being.
L.G. Ramensky (1884-1953) was an outstanding Soviet geobotanist of the first part of XX century.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEarly-modern Jesuit universities did not offer studies in medicine, and from 1586 onwards, the Jesuit Ratio studiorum prohibited digressions on medical topics in the Aristotelian curriculum. However, some sixteenth-century Jesuit text books used in philosophy classes provided detailed accounts on physiological issues such as sense perception and its organic location as discussed in Aristotle's De anima II, 7-11. This seeming contradiction needs to be explained.
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