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Since the first medical writings some medical doctors pointed out the past of medicine and wrote papers about the origin and evolution of medicine. The first trials of rational history were showed in this paper which attempted to compare the History of Medicine written by medical doctors and the History of Medicine written by a philosopher such as Plato.

Three entomological investigations have been carried out during the summers 1979, 1980 and 1982 in Ionian islands: Corfu, Cephalonia and Zante and in four Aegean Sea islands: the western Andros and Tinos (Cyclades) and eastern Samos and Ikaria. Systematic sampling with oiled paper traps produced 24 184 sandflies. Captures are analysed for each species.

In this paper are described 17 species of Monogenea Dactylogyridae, parasites of Cyprinidae from lake Mikri Prespa, in Greece: 14 species have been already reported in mediterranean region; 3 new species have been harvested on an endemic Barbus, B. cyclolepis prespensis, Dactylogyrus balkanicus n. sp., Dactylogyrus crivellius n. sp., Dactylogyrus prespensis n. sp. For these communities of Dactylogyrus, we discuss some problems of parasite specificity, speciation and biogeography. From the morphological types, we suggest for D. crivellius and D. prespensis an allopatric speciation and for D. balkanicus, a synxenic sympatric speciation.

Greece is member of the European Economic Community since 1981. This paper analyses the existing relationships between mortality rates and several indices of socio-economic development; these indices deal with the rythm of industrial development, the level of urbanization, the quality and quantity of individual consumption. These indices show marked differences within EEC. Among the factors studied, those related to nutrition show strong association with cancer and coronary mortality; the level of urbanization is associated with mortality from cardiovascular and acute respiratory causes. The employment and the BIP are directly associated with mortality from accident, intoxication and respiratory diseases.