The Divine Comedy begins with the middle-aged poet Dante wandering alone through a dark forest, having lost his way on the " true path. " Driven deeper by frightening creatures blocking his escape route, he spies a human form that reveals itself to be the ghostly embodiment of the great Roman poet Virgil. Virgil offers to serve as Dante's guide out of the dark forest to Heaven but warns him tha...

The life-experience shared by Dante and Forese thus assumes a metaphoric value in the Comedy that bears little relation to anything we know about the two men. Forese stands in Dante's personal lexicon for his own compromised historical identity, the fosti meco, equal io teco fui"-brought painfully into the present-"il memorar presente." Their life together represents everything the saved soul r...

mergency care is important to me for lots of reasons, but for one in particular: it's important to patients. We know that A&E services—and by implication all the components that make up the whole emergency care system—are among patients' top concerns. Within A&E I believe a critical concern for patients is how long they have to wait for clinical care, and I can't blame them. When you are in pai...

In A Lover's Complaint, Shakespeare registers concerns about a penitent's inability to overcome the effects of sin and emphasizes the importance of private or auricular confession. By representing what amounts to be the confession ofa 'fickle maid' (5) to a 'reverend man' (57), Shakespeare underscores the paradox of the Protestant confessional model: if a penitent can be forgiven of sins withou...

The lac Operon and are often only 1 or 2. This pointillist form of science writing has the same effect as its canvas counter-By Benno Mü ller-Hill. parts—it lends luminosity and coherence to the field of Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. (1996). 207 pp. $35.95. lac operon research as a whole by combining a set of short focused stories. These chapters often resemble a series of moral tales. They includ...

ETHAL MIDLINE granuloma and lymphomatoid L granulomatosis are related angiocentric, angiodestructive lymphoproliferative disorders that involve the upper and lower respiratory tracts, respectively. They are both characterized by a heterogeneous infiltrate composed of small lymphocytes, mononuclear phagocytes, plasma cells, occasional eosinophils, and variable numbers of large, atypical lymphoid...

The correspondence between Ronald Ross and Patrick Manson documents one of the legendary collaborations in the history of medicine and science in the nineteenth century. Their four-year collaboration (1894-1898) led to the discovery of the transmission of the plasmodia protozoa in the bite of the mosquito. With the advantage of a century of research, it is easy to look back on their achievement...

ETHAL MIDLINE granuloma and lymphomatoid L granulomatosis are related angiocentric, angiodestructive lymphoproliferative disorders that involve the upper and lower respiratory tracts, respectively. They are both characterized by a heterogeneous infiltrate composed of small lymphocytes, mononuclear phagocytes, plasma cells, occasional eosinophils, and variable numbers of large, atypical lymphoid...