Barton reviews a book based on extensive medical/historical detective work which suggests that the King suffered from a rare physical illness which baffled his doctors and made his later life a misery. a common cause of discoloration of urine is inges-tion of rhubarb and senna, drugs frequently administered to George III during his illness. A rare cause is porphyria. A common form of 'madness' ...

of provident contributions, in which it has invited the co-operation of the Hospital Saturday Fund. The Fund is also preparing a general scheme for a combined appeal. These new tasks have led to a reorganisation, whereby the new numerous functions of the Fund will be allotted to Committees, the chairmen of which will meet regularly on the Committee of Management. Since January 1, the duties hit...

BACKGROUND The emergence of drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis has become a global public health problem. Polyherbal medicines offer great hope for developing alternative drugs for the treatment of tuberculosis. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the anti-tubercular activity of polyherbal medicines used for the treatment of tuberculosis. METHODS The remedies were screened against Mycob...

Plato in Theory of Philosopher-King believes that all of the members of ideal city-state, whether ruler or citizens, will attain happiness if the philosopher is the ruler. But there are paradoxes in the theory and the bases of the happiness are unstable too. In other words, Plato in his theory presents hierarchical dualities (Intelligible/Visible world, Episteme/ Doxa,True/ Untrue Or Shadow, …)...

King, M., Viney, R., Pickard, A., Rowen, D., Aaronson, N., Brazier, J., Cella, D., Costa, D., Fayers, P., Kemmler, G., Mercieca-Bebber, R., et al (2018). Australian Utility Weights for the EORTC QLU-C10D, a Multi-Attribute Utility Instrument Derived from the Cancer-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire, EORTC QLQ-C30. PharmacoEconomics, 36, 225-238. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40273-01...

1 Our ability to make sense of information on the potential intentions and dispositions of others is of 2 paramount importance for understanding their communicative intent, and for judging what an 3 appropriate reaction might be. Thus anything that impinges on this ability has the potential to cause 4 significant social impairment, and compromise an individual’s level of functioning. Both bipol...

When people think of ancient Egypt, they tend to think of temples and tombs decorated with hieroglyphs and of rich and powerful rulers controlling all aspects of the lives of their subjects. Since the draft manuscript that I have been checking this year included the letter P, and since the letter P includes a word for king, I thought it might be interesting to think about the phrases and titles...