By Stephen R. Bown
Book Details:
ISBN: 0312313926
EAN: 9780312313920
ASIN: 0312313926
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Publication Date: 2005-08-01
Number of Pages: 272
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Synopsis from Amazon:
Scurvy took a bad toll within the Age of Sail, killing extra sailors than have been misplaced in all sea battles mixed. the specter of the ailment saved ships with reference to domestic and doomed these vessels that ventured too faraway from port. The willful lack of understanding of the royal scientific elite, who recommended ludicrous clinical theories in response to speculative study whereas ignoring the life-saving houses of citrus fruit, expense tens of hundreds of thousands of lives and changed the process many battles at sea. The treatment for scurvy ranks one of the maximum of human accomplishments, but its effect on historical past has, before, been mostly neglected.
From the earliest recorded visual appeal of the affliction within the 16th century, to the eighteenth century, the place a guy had merely part an opportunity of surviving the scourge, to the early 19th century, whilst the British conquered scurvy and effectively blockaded the French and defeated Napoleon, Scurvy is a scientific detective tale for the a while, the attention-grabbing real tale of the way James Lind (the surgeon), James cook dinner (the mariner), and Gilbert Blane (the gentleman) labored individually to cast off the scary illness.
Scurvy is an evocative trip again to the period of wood ships and sails, while the sickness infiltrated each element of seafaring lifestyles: press gangs "recruit" mariners at the method domestic from a past due evening on the pub; a bad voyage looking for riches ends with a hobbled fleet and part the staff heaved overboard; prepare dinner majestically travels the South Seas yet suffers an incredible destiny. Brimming with stories of ships, sailors, and baffling forms, Scurvy is an extraordinary mixture of compelling historical past and vintage event story.
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Author Name: Stephen R. Bown
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I am an award-winning writer of historic non-fiction with seven books to my credits (and the manuscript for my 8th publication is nearly complete). My publication Scurvy: How a general practitioner, a Mariner and a Gentleman Solved the best scientific secret of the Age of Sail used to be a global serious good fortune and used to be chosen as one of many Globe and Mail's best a hundred books of 2004. A such a lot Damnable Invention: Dynamite, Nitrates and the Making of the trendy global, used to be integrated within the medical American booklet membership, the historical past publication membership and the standard Paperback ebook membership in addition to being shortlisted for 2 awards. My subsequent publication, insanity, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver, was once shortlisted for the Canadian Authors' Association's Lela universal Award for Canadian background and gained the 2009 B.C. publication Prize Booksellers' selection Award.
After the book of service provider Kings: whilst businesses governed the area, I bought a cellphone name from the best Honourable Paul Martin, former major Minister of Canada, telling me how a lot he loved the e-book. He stayed up all evening analyzing it, yet he acknowledged the misplaced sleep used to be worthy it.
My most modern booklet is 1494: How a relatives Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the realm in part. It used to be published in August 2011 in Canada and may be published in February 2012 within the United States.
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on which I put up attention-grabbing ancient tidbits regarding my writing numerous occasions every week. I even have an writer site which has an entire record of stories: [url=http://www.stephenrbown.net]www.stephenrbown.netI dwell in a small city within the Rocky Mountains with my spouse Nicky and teenagers. whilst I'm no longer writing I'm often examining, mountain cycling, mountain climbing and camping out in the summertime, and downhill and pass state snowboarding within the winter.
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Bei diesen Techniken ist die Stabilisierung der Brust daher im Wesentlichen davon abhängig, dass die reduzierte Haut auf der verkleinerten Drüse als Büstenhalter agiert. Ob eine Resektion der Drüsensegmente erforderlich ist, hängt hauptsächlich von den Kriterien der Verfasser in Bezug auf die Gefäßversorgung der Restdrüse nach Erreichen einer befriedigenden konischen Form der Brust ab. Joseph (I, 1925) veröffentlichte eine MastomyopexieTechnik, bei der die supraareolare Haut entfernt wird, um den Warzenhof nach oben zu versetzen, einschließlich der Resektion eines medialen und lateralen Kegels über der Brustfalte mit Erhaltung eines breiten, dazwischen liegenden Stiels zur Ernährung des Warzenkomplexes.
Dieses Manöver ermöglicht auch die Bestimmung des neuen Apex des Warzenhofs und des Areals der Exzision der Epidermis. Die subareolare Haut wird längs des Brustmeridians gespalten, beidseitig unterminiert und der Drüsenexzess exzidiert. Die Hautresektion erfolgt mit Hilfe einer neuen Klemme. Die besten Ergebnisse (96 %) werden bei mittelgradiger Ptosis und Hypertrophie (im Mittel 230 gr Exzision) erzielt. Peixoto (1984 [203]) veröffentlichte eine vertikale, subareolare Technik mit kleiner transversaler Narbe in der Brustfalte, die von seiner Technik von 1980 abgleitet ist.
Bemerkenswert ist, dass die Versorgung der Restdrüse, wie auch bei Burian, durch die tiefen Gefäße gesichert ist. Hervorzuheben ist desgleichen, dass Maliniac bei geringeren Hypertrophien den Eingriff einzeitig mit Keilresektion im unteren Brustpol durchführt, besonders jedoch, dass die Mastopexie sowohl der oberen Peripherie der Drüse als auch im Bereich der Keilresektion mit frei transplantierten Dermisstreifen erfolgt, mit denen in Bezug auf die Pexie eine größere Sicherheit erzielt wird als mit resorbierbarem Material.