Isolation of endophytic streptomyces strains from surface-sterilized roots.

When the roots of 28 plant species were surface sterilized and incubated on agar medium, endophytic actinomycetes in the root cortex were observed by direct microscopic observation and pure culture techniques.

[The psychosocial protection of the terminal patient]. / La difesa psico-sociale del paziente terminale.

The growing question of terminal patients has imposed on facts for technical and logistical reasons the creation of some "Palliative Care Units". We add here psychosociological motivations for making therm more and better: terminal patient today must be sheltered against repression now weighing on Thanatos, just as once children had to be sheltered against repression then weighing on Eros. This is an institutional defensive front that we must adapt each time to the direction of the attack.

[Epidemiology of drug addiction and historical cycles of other psychic disorders]. / Epidemiologia della tossicodipendenza e cicli storici di altri disturbi psichici.

Through observation of the late complete cycle of diffusion of Great Hysteria we may get a confrontation with the present epidemiological diffusion of drug dependence. Of the different cycles is here showed a structural analysis, based on the hypothesis of alternated repression of Eros and Thanatos, with the respective returns of the sexual and aggressive repressed instincts.