Scientific stories

Parisians' love for lemonade was spreading so quickly that by the time the plague surrounded the city, the business was apparently still in the hands of street vendors. Lemonade wasn't just popular - it was loved everywhere, and the traders supplied it to every corner of the city. Lemonin, found in lemons and other citrus fruits, is a natural insecticide and repellent. The lemonin-rich peel is the most effective part of the lemon. Human beings have invented insect control chemicals for centuries, and as a result, the U...

There is an opinion that the bubonic plague spreading in Europe was transmitted by flea bites. Today, many believe that fleas infected with Yersinia pestis, a plague bacteria, have arrived with sand lance - random passengers from the Far East. Once in Europe, the sand lance infected a strong and omnipresent population of European rats with its own fleas. Fleas, the vectors of the plague, were transported to cities with the rats, where they were parasitized on rats, people, and pets, killing them and returning to the rats...

This story is about the legendary and everybody's favorite beverage, which now exists in many variations. It has sour historical roots. We are talking about lemonade, which in the times of bubonic plague not only quenched thirst but also saved the whole city from attack. And lemonade also helped the medicine of that time unheard of! In 1668, after a decade of absence, the bubonic plague returned to France and the inhabitants of Paris were threatened. It was already known about the plague in Normandy and Picardia: it was in Sasson, Amiens...

Alois Alzheimer was born on June 14, 1864, in Marcbraite. From there, the Alzheimer's family moved to the Royal Humanist Gymnasium. Later, having chosen medicine as his path, the young Alois was a university student at medical universities in Aschaffenburg, Tuebingen, Berlin, and Würzburg (where he wrote his doctoral thesis and received his degree in 1887). His medical career began in 1888 as a resident physician at the Hospital for the Mentally ill and Epileptics in Frankfurt am Main. There he worked for seven years and was later appointed head physician...

Learned by myself - teach others In 1908, Alois Alzheimer was employed by the Psychiatric Institute as an associate professor and became the head of the anatomical laboratory at the clinic. There, in addition to his research work, he also trained students from various countries. The scientist spent a lot of time on discussions and explained to each of them the things that remained unclear, dealt with them in various clinical cases. Those who were present and able to observe his work as a teacher...