was brought to the Chaibassa Sadar Hospital by her husband and her mother on the 15th September, 1926, suffering from great distension of the abdomen. The abdomen was markedly tympanitic, and the bowels had not been opened for three days, 'but there were no other urgent symptoms. T he patient stated that eighteen days previously she had felt an unusual pain in the abdomen and had fainted; since...

Adolescent egocentrism can be divided into two separate forms: the imaginary audience and the personal fable. The first relates to the adolescent living life believing he is constantly being watched and judged by others, and that others are as concerned with his appearance and behaviour as he himself is.[1] The personal fable results in the adolescent perceiving himself as special and unique, b...

The Mental Capacity Act requires that where a person (P) lacks capacity to make a decision her wishes and feelings be taken into account when deciding what is in her best interests. This article considers how the Court of Protection evaluates evidence from P concerning her wishes and feelings. It finds that the Court ignores evidence regarding current wishes and fails to engage with more ambigu...

Background Breastfeeding aversion and agitation (BAA) while breastfeeding is anecdotally known to occur in some women who breastfeed while pregnant or those who tandem feed a newborn and a toddler. However, it is a little-researched area and the paucity of published literature around BAA reveals a significant gap in the literature. Materials and Methods This study presents the findings and re...

Peyronie's disease remains an under-reported and debilitating problem which can result in significant physical and psychological symptoms for some men. The classic symptom complex includes penile curvature, penile plaque, and penile pain. Men can also present with erectile dysfunction, penile instability, and penile shortening, alongside feelings of low mood/libido, dysmorphobia, and low self-e...

Rabiʿa al-Aʿdawiyya (717-801 A.D.) the first female Sufi in the Muslim world, who introduced the concept of ‘love’ into mysticism, was popular for her witticism, sharp reprimands of her contemporary male Sufis and her gender-bending practices. In ʿAttar’s Tadhkirat al-Awliya, Rabiʿa is portrayed as a challenger of the established gender norms of her day. Rabiʿa’s crossing of gender boundaries a...

time and perception are two major concerns of woolf in many of her novels and short stories. woolf as a modernist writer often tries in her fiction to find an epistemological solution to the problems of mortality and immortality, appearance and reality and diversity and unity and she succeeds, i think, by taking on a kind of perception that is intuitive and temporal. for her, true perception is...

yields to the advances of a man, to the inevitable biological process of pregnancy, or to inner feelings or urges she loses control. I do not think it is easy for a woman to talk about losing control, and certainly these feelings would not be elicited by questions delivered briskly as a patellar hammer eliciting tendon jerks. With skilled interviewing some of these women might talk about drop a...