THOMAS PALMER, The admirable secrets ofphysick and chyrurgery, edited by Thomas Rogers Forbes, New Haven, Conn., and London, Yale University Press, 1984, 8vo, pp. x, 221, £25.00. One of the earliest documents of medical practice in the North American colonies is published here for the first time. This is a notebook, containing medical remedies, compiled in 1696 by Thomas Palmer (c. 1666-1743), ...

Pursuing happiness can paradoxically impair well-being. Here, the authors propose the potential downsides to pursuing happiness may be specific to individualistic cultures. In collectivistic (vs. individualistic) cultures, pursuing happiness may be more successful because happiness is viewed--and thus pursued--in relatively socially engaged ways. In 4 geographical regions that vary in level of ...

our youths. Our profession, an exacting and dangerous calling, possesses the confidence and affection of the nation. It is then surely our duty to advise and to secure a universal Cadet System in the Mother Country, not forgetting the Irish boys across the sea. Australasia has provided discipline, hygienic clothing, physical training, games and 10 days' annual holiday camp for all its boys. We ...

This is an admirable little monograph from an admirable series of little volumes. Not merely the layman, but also the medical man and the research worker will be interested in Dr Singers well written, carefully compiled and useful little book. Commencing with ancient days he reviews in turn Aristotle s viewswho regarded the heart as the seat of intelligence and the source of bodily heat; the vi...

ant, in an unusually non-technical way, defines happiness as getting what one wants.1 Also unusual in his ethical writings is a lack of discussion on happiness, since one typically thinks of ethics as being inextricably linked to happiness. Kant does not discuss happiness much because happiness is not the basis of his system of ethics, in contrast to most ethical theories which make happiness t...

Pursuing happiness can paradoxically impair well-being. Here, the authors propose the potential down-sides to pursuing happiness may be specific to individualistic cultures. In collectivistic (vs. individual-istic) cultures, pursuing happiness may be more successful because happiness is viewed—and thus pursued—in relatively socially engaged ways. In 4 geographical regions that vary in level of ...

This study set out to re-examine the predictors of self-reported trait happiness as measured by the Oxford Happiness Inventory (OHI) as well as the predictors of various happiness types proposed by Morris (2004). In all, 120 Cypriot participants completed the 4 questionnaires: OHI, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ), Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (TEIQue-SF), and Morris Multip...

Happiness is generally considered a source of good outcomes. Research has highlighted the ways in which happiness facilitates the pursuit of important goals, contributes to vital social bonds, broadens people's scope of attention, and increases well-being and psychological health. However, is happiness always a good thing? This review suggests that the pursuit and experience of happiness might ...

our problem in this article is ibn miskawayh’s analysis of the nature of happiness, and its methodology is descriptive- analytic. ibn miskawayh considers happiness as “good” and “perfection” with respect to their holders; so, he establishes some inseparability between happiness, and good and perfection. ibn miskawayh has two definitions for the concept of good. he divides this conception into s...