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The patriarch of experimental pancreas research is REIGNIER DE
GRAAF (1641-1673). He carried out the first experiments with dogs
in order to ob tain fistular secretion (1664). But only few years
later, the just arisen interest in the physiology of the pancreas
was severely set back by remarks of CONRAD BRUNNER. In 1682,
BRUNNER expressed his belief that on the basis of experi ments he
had carried out the pancreas was a vitally unimportant organ. He
overlooked that after ligation of the main duct (discovered in the
turkey by HOFMAN in 1641 and in a human cadaver by WIRSUNG in
1642), in the dog an accessory duct (described by SANTORINI in
1724) usually maintains an adequate flow of secretion. EBERLE in
his monograph (1834) confirmed the emulsifying capacity of the
pancreatic juice which had already been suggested by SYLVIUS (FRAN
CISCUS DE LE BOE, 1614-1672) and he dealt with the essential
enzymatic functions of the pancreatic juice such as amylolysis,
lipolysis and proteolysis. Since HEIDENHAIN (1875), we know that
for example trypsin (largely isolated by KUHNE in 1867) is situated
in the acinar epithelial cells as zymogen in inactive form; it is
thought that the action of "acid" on the glandular tissue is needed
for inducing the "enzymatic activity." According to what we know
now about the central role of acidosis in the activation of zymogen
this topic is, of course, of topical interest."
Toxoplasmosis is a ubiquitous infection, contracted by at least a
third of the population in most areas of the globe. Clinical
disease arises rarely, usually unexpectedly, but sometimes with
disastrous effects on the patient. Humans, pets, farm and zoo
animals may contract toxoplasmosis, possibly involving any clinical
laboratory in its diagnosis. Pathologists must ponder the clinical
significance of a hyperplastic l. ymph node, a cyst found at
autopsy, or a serologic titer. Serving as scientific physicians,
pathologists are asked: How is toxoplasmosis diagnosed? 'What is
the treatment for ocular toxoplasmosis, for congenital infection,
or for toxoplasmosis in the immunologically compromised host? vVhy
does disease develop in as diverse areas as the eye, lymph nodes
and placenta? How is Toxoplasma transmitted? This review proposes
to survey recent advances, providing a scientific background to
diagnose and manage the clinical problems of toxoplasmosis. Reviews
are available which emphasize other aspects, such as serologic pro
cedures, resistance and immunity (REMINGTON, 1970), the clinical
syndromes (DESMONTS, '1969; FELDMAN, 1968) and comprehensive
presentations (JACOBS, 1967; FRENI{EL, '1970). Transmission and
Prevalence The recent discovery of the coccidian stages of
Toxoplasma in the cat intestine and the Toxoplasma oocyst excreted
in cat feces, considerably broadens our understanding of Toxoplasma
and its transmission (FRENKEL, DUBEY and MILLER, 1970)."
'How is the mind agitated and bewildered, at being thus, as it
were, placed on the borders of a new world!' - William Bartram
'Thus you see, dear sister, the manners of mankind do not differ so
widely as our voyage writers would have us believe.' - Mary Wortley
Montagu With widely varied motives - scientific curiosity,
commerce, colonization, diplomacy, exploration, and tourism -
British travellers fanned out to every corner of the world in the
period the Critical Review labelled the 'Age of Peregrination'. The
Empire, already established in the Caribbean and North America, was
expanding in India and Africa and founding new outposts in the
Pacific in the wake of Captain Cook's voyages. In letters,
journals, and books, travellers wrote at first-hand of exotic lands
and beautiful scenery, and encounters with strange peoples and
dangerous wildlife. They conducted philosophical and political
debates in print about slavery and the French Revolution, and their
writing often affords unexpected insights into the writers
themselves. This anthology brings together the best writing from
authors such as Daniel Defoe, Celia Fiennes, Mary Wollstonecraft,
Olaudah Equiano, Mungo Park, and many others, to provide a
comprehensive selection from this emerging literary genre. ABOUT
THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made
available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,
providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable
features, including expert introductions by leading authorities,
helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
further study, and much more.
Geography played a key role in Britain's long national debate over
slavery. Writers on both sides of the question represented the
sites of slavery - Africa, the Caribbean, and the British Isles -
as fully imagined places and the basis for a pro- or anti-slavery
political agenda. With the help of twenty-first-century theories of
space and place, Elizabeth A. Bohls examines the writings of
planters, slaves, soldiers, sailors, and travellers whose diverse
geographical and social locations inflect their representations of
slavery. She shows how these writers use discourses of aesthetics,
natural history, cultural geography, and gendered domesticity to
engage with the slavery debate. Six interlinked case studies,
including Scottish mercenary John Stedman and domestic slave Mary
Prince, examine the power of these discourses to represent the
places of slavery, setting slaves' narratives in dialogue with
pro-slavery texts, and highlighting in the latter previously
unnoticed traces of the enslaved.
Geography played a key role in Britain's long national debate over
slavery. Writers on both sides of the question represented the
sites of slavery - Africa, the Caribbean, and the British Isles -
as fully imagined places and the basis for a pro- or anti-slavery
political agenda. With the help of twenty-first-century theories of
space and place, Elizabeth A. Bohls examines the writings of
planters, slaves, soldiers, sailors, and travellers whose diverse
geographical and social locations inflect their representations of
slavery. She shows how these writers use discourses of aesthetics,
natural history, cultural geography, and gendered domesticity to
engage with the slavery debate. Six interlinked case studies,
including Scottish mercenary John Stedman and domestic slave Mary
Prince, examine the power of these discourses to represent the
places of slavery, setting slaves' narratives in dialogue with
pro-slavery texts, and highlighting in the latter previously
unnoticed traces of the enslaved.
British readers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
eagerly consumed books of travels in an age of imperial expansion
that was also the formative period of modern aesthetics. Beauty,
sublimity, sensuous surfaces, and scenic views became conventions
of travel writing as Britons applied familiar terms to unfamiliar
places around the globe. The social logic of aesthetics, argues
Elizabeth Bohls, constructed women, the laboring classes, and
non-Europeans as foils against which to define the "man of taste"
as an educated, property-owning gentleman. Women writers from Mary
Wortley Montagu to Mary Shelley resisted this exclusion from
gentlemanly privilege, and their writings re-examine and question
aesthetic conventions such as the concept of disinterested
contemplation, subtly but insistently exposing its vested
interests. Bohls's study expands our awareness of women's
intellectual presence in Romantic literature, and suggests
Romanticism's sources might be at the peripheries of empire rather
than at its center.
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