mas now confronting the medical establishment. I found the hard data necessary for the acceptance of the propositions propounded lacking. A reliance on anecdote and what seemed sparse or incomplete statistics was substituted. These may be sufficient for creating a climate, but are not a basis for rational understanding. Many of the statements and conclusions seemed based more on intuition, albe...

In the early 1990s, after more than three decades of studying algorithms within the framework of theoretical computer science, I shifted my focus to algorithmic problems arising in genomics. There is a fundamental difference between the views of algorithms in the two fields: in theoretical computer science the input-output behavior of an algorithm is rigorously specified in advance, whereas in ...

strains of nineteenth-century sectarian science. Although critical of orthodox science in this period, nonetheless they have implicitly drawn a model from late twentieth-century science-as a detached, professionalized undertaking-that was neither feasible nor relevant in this context. Most sectarians were practitioners rather than intellectual system-builders, and many sought fame, fortune and ...

Let us emancipate the student, and give him time and opportunity for the cultivation of his mind, so that in his pupilage he shall not be a puppet in the hands of others, but rather a self-relying and refl ective being. —Sir William Osler, Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings R ecent studies involving physicians in training have shown that excessive work hours are associated with a...

1. INTRODUCTION. It has become a truism, at least among statisticians, that while statistics is a mathematical science, it is not a subfield of mathematics. We even have apho-risms to express some ways in which our science differs from mathematics. George Box: " All models are wrong, but some are useful. " George Cobb: " In mathematics, context obscures structure. In data analysis, context prov...

C elsus may have described subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) when he wrote in A.D. 30, " The characteristic marks… are strong shivering, nervous relaxation, dimness of sight, delirium, vomiting together with a suppression of voice, besides these symptoms there is a violent pain chiefly about the temples or occiput ". 1 Hippocrates in Aphorisms on Apoplexy probably described a case: " When persons i...

Attention is also paid to the inheritance of humoral complexion and, to a lesser extent, of acquired characteristics, such as eloquence. Planetary influence too is given its due to account for exceptions and congenital defects. Any doubts about the influence of the planets are dispelled by reference to Alexander, who inherited his father's appearance and temperament following careful planning. ...

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of living your life so that others can receive your orders without being humiliated. grew up in Canberra in the 1920s and '30s, then, as now, a planned and favoured town awash with politics, politicians and public servants. Although interested in these dynamics, our caring, skilled family doctor was the person w...

Early modern maps were surrounded by and interspersed with texts of many kinds. The intimate relationship between cartographic image and geographical text in the map was due to the map’s mixed media structure and its early appearance in the context of history books, travel reports, or chorographic descriptions. Literature was based on other types of text. Epic, drama, and poetry were essentiall...

Objectives: According to Persian medicine (PM), the uterus is an important organ in women, responsible for purifying blood and nourishing fetus. Each has a specific temperament distinct from whole-body based on PM. Dystemperament occurs when body or Mizaj (Persian word temperament) deviates what considered normal, resulting malfunction. Many gynecological disorders described PM conventional med...