Medieval Bulgarian medicine from the iX-Xv c. was characterized by the low occurrence of medical services, by their inaccessibility, as well as by the widespread disappointment in learned physicians. This led to the search for alternative healing practices. different means and methods were developed for filling up the deficit of healthcare services: • Self-treatment and self-proclaimed healers,...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aei.2014.07.004 1474-0346/ 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +44 113 343 2113. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (A. McKay), [email protected] (S. Kundu). 1 Present address: School of Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan U...

The bouffia Bonneval at La Chapelle-aux-Saints is well known for the discovery of the first secure Neandertal burial in the early 20th century. However, the intentionality of the burial remains an issue of some debate. Here, we present the results of a 12-y fieldwork project, along with a taphonomic analysis of the human remains, designed to assess the funerary context of the La Chapelle-aux-Sa...

POSSIBLE CUES DRIVING CONTEXT-SPECIFIC ADAPTATION OF OPTOCOLLIC 1 REFLEX IN PIGEONS (Columba livia) 2 3 Henri Gioanni and Pierre-Paul Vidal 4 5 6 Centre d’étude de la Sensorimotricité (CeSEM), Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris 7 Cité, UMR-CNRS 8194, 45 rue des Saints-Pères, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France 8 9 10 Running head: Context-specific adaptation of the OCR 11 12 Contact informatio...

Despite its many strengths, the SAINTS (Squared-Autoregressive-Independent-Variable Nominal Term Structure) model of Constantinides (1992) cannot be directly compared with other popular term structure models such as Vasicek (1977) and Cox, Ingersoll and Ross (1985) mainly because the stochastic discount factor of the model is exogenously spec-iied. The primary motivation of this paper is to nd ...

The Christian miracle tales strongly support the identification of Sts. Cosmas and Damian as doctors. The most famous of the saints' posthumous miracles, is that of the Black Leg. The main source of this story is the Golden Legend by Jacobus da Varagine, collection of fanciful hagiographies compiled in the 13th century. Saints Cosmas and Damian miraculously transplanted the black leg of the Eth...

E PILEPSY, at least in its grand mal variety, presents so dramatic and, to the lay observer, so terrifying a spectacle that it is not strange that its victims readily resorted to supernatural aid for alleviation. Unlike so many other diseases it offers no external signs of its presence and the horrifying suddenness with which apparently healthy and normal people could be transformed into writhi...