"Fascinating Voids: Alexander von Humboldt and the Myth of Chimborazo"

When Alexander von Humboldt reached the village of Calpi in the Andes on 22 June 1802, he was greeted with reverence and enthusiasm. Triumphal arches adorned with cotton, cloth, and silver decorated his path. The natives performed a dance in festive dress. A singer praised the explorer's expedition, which had departed three years earlier from the Spanish port of La Coruña. Like Odysseus on the isle of the Phaeacians, the traveler listened to a local rhapsodist singing about his heroic deeds. Before his adventure ended, it had already spun a popular myth. This episode, which Humboldt recorded in his diary, occurred at a significant moment. One day later, the “Second Discoverer of America” rose to even greater fame on an excursion marking in more ways than one the climax of his enterprise. Humboldt set out to climb Chimborazo (6,310 m/20,702 ft.), the mountain then thought to be the highest in the world. He was accompanied by the French botanist Aimé Bonpland (1773–1858) and the Creole nobleman and future activist Carlos Montúfar (1780–1816), as well as native guides and assistants. They climbed to heights never reached before, setting a new record and catapulting Humboldt to fame on both continents.

Ein Wort zur Zeit bei der ersten im neuen israelitischen Cultus-Tempel vorgenommenen Confirmation am 22. Juni 1858 durch Adolph Jellinek

Verf. von Isaak Grünberger

[Verordnung über Darlehen] : Fügen hierdurch zu wissen ... ; bey Aufnahme der Capitalien allerhand Wuchereyen getrieben ... und die darüber vorhin ergangene Verordnungen folgendermaßen zu erneuern und respective abzuändern ... Cassel den 15.ten October 1773

Sammelband: enthält 22 Hanauische Juden-Ordnungen; Exlibris von Gottlieb Schnapper-Arndt

Erläuterung der Verordg v. 1754 weg. der Juden-Contracten : So geschehen Hanau den 9. Decbr 1773

Von Gottes Gnaden, Wir Wilhelm Landgraf und Erbprinz zu Hessen, Fürst zu Hersfeld .... Thun hiermit kund ...

De la Condition politique et civile des juifs dans le Royaume de Pologne : examen critique d'un rapport adressé en l'année 1858 à l'Empereur Alexandre II, par le départememt de l'intérieur et des cultes du Royaume de Pologne ; texte précédé et suivi d'observations historiques, politiques et législatives

par Louis Lubliner

Bar-Mitzwa : 13e anniversaire d'Edmond Baron de Rothschild célébré au Grand Temple Israélite de Paris le samedi 24 Tischri 5619 (2. oct. 1858)

[Verf.: Léon Hollaénderski]

Paracetamol for perioperative analgesia. Old substance - new insights

Since paracetamol was first synthesized in 1878 it has become one of the most popular and widely used drugs for the first-line treatment of fever and pain. The reasons for this popularity are a wide variety of formulations, an assumed positive safety record and the wide availability as an over-the-counter drug. However, recently several studies questioned the positive risk-benefit ratio of paracetamol for postoperative pain by observing several possible adverse effects and limitations. The aim of the present review is to give an update of the recent literature on the efficacy of paracetamol for postoperative pain and on the value of the clinical relevance of different adverse effects of paracetamol. Finally, based on the current findings the authors try to assess the role of paracetamol for the treatment of postoperative pain.

Gehorsamster Bericht und Bitte : das Verhältnis der Mitglieder der Religionsgemeinschaft zur israelitischen Gemeinde betreffend ; an Hohen Senat der freien Stadt Frankfurt ; auf die hochverehrlichen Rathschlüsse vom 15. Januar und 13. April 1858

von Seiten des Vorstandes der israelitischen Gemeinde dahier

Ein ungedruckter Brief des Weltweisen, Moses Mendelssohn, vom 24. April 1773

Moses Mendelssohn