An Eighth-century Inscribed Cross-slab in Dull, Perthshire

Investigating the Structure and Organization of Hospitals in Islamic Civilization (From the middle of the second century to the middle of the eighth century AH)

Muslims learned how to build a hospital using the experiences of physicians from other nations, especially Iranians, by modeling at Jundishapur Hospital, and this way set up many hospitals. In addition to building a variety of hospitals, Muslims created efficient structures and organized them based on bosses, deputies, stewards, supervisors, nurses, and the like, who served in different parts o...

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Dull Wire Curette

Since the discovery by Recamier in 18501 of the presence of "intrauterine fungosities" as a cause of metrorrhagia, and his recommendation of the curette with subacute edges known by his name for their removal, the majority of gynecological text-books have mentioned these growths and their operative treatment. Only in Meigs (1851), Churchill (1857), and Hewitt (1872) do I find no reference to th...

An Area Inequality for Ellipses Inscribed in Quadrilaterals

If E is any ellipse inscribed in a convex quadrilateral, D – , then we prove that Area (E) Area(D – ) π 4 , and equality holds if and only if D – is a parallelogram and E is tangent to the sides of D – at the midpoints. We also prove that the foci of the unique ellipse of maximal area inscribed in a parallelogram, D – , lie on the orthogonal least squares line for the vertices of D – . This doe...

the implied reader in 18th century literary criticism

this thesis is going to delineate the concept of the reader as implied in 18th century literary theory; based on the study of the major reader oriented elements of criticism of the age-taste, the sublime, and aesthetic pleasure-its aim is to explain what sott of reader is implied and what kind of response on the part of the reader is proposed in 18th century english literary theory and aestheti...