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Title: Moral aspects of mental illness Abstract: The conduct of a mentally ill person may sometimes resemble the actions of the evildoer. The resemblance, however, is only a superficial one. The motivation behind the acts of the mental patient is beyond his control and sometimes contrary to his will, and, therefore, his actions are devoid of moral responsibility. Sometimes such behaviour is the initial overt manifestation of the underlying mental illness. For instance, an old man of hitherto irreproachable character was brought for treatment after he had been found making sexual advances to a little girl. This was the first inclination of an incipient senile dementia.

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Title: The birth of medical chemistry Abstract: Up to nearly the middle of the sixteenth century men studied chemistry for personal gain, striving with patience, perseverance and zeal, first after the discovery of a substance that would change all metals into gold, the "philosopher's stone", and later after the discovery of a medicine that would cure all diseases, the "elixir vitae". From the thirteenth century to the time of Paracelsus, who died in 1511, the aim of the alchemist, or the chemist of that period, was the transmutation of the common metals into gold and the preparation of a universal elixir. Disappointment and failure could not damp his ardour, nor could poverty force him from the pursuit of his illusory objects.

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Title: T. B. Toll Abstract: "Official list of infectious diseases notified during week ending 22nd January last includes four new cases of pulmonary tuberculosis, and three deaths from the same disease." "Week after week we read similar distressful news about the tragic progress of this insidious disease amidst the population of our islands.

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Title: Epilepsy in children Abstract: No doctor can be in practice for long before meeting with cases of convulsions in infants or young children. It is, of course, common knowledge that these have a special tendency to convulsions although the reason is obscure. Some' authors have attributed this tendency of the lack of a properly developed myelin sheath in the brain tissue, others to greater permeability of the infantile cerebral capillaries leading, under appropriate conditions such as fever, to cerebral edema. As the child grows this predisposition to convulsions appears to wane and is exceptional after the third year of life.

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