Car," was a headline in a leading evening newspaper some little time ago ; and on another occasion: " Panel Doctor Charged with Grave Offence." I ask, in all seriousness, why " Panel " Doctor ? It is conceivable that the writers felt that what would be a scandal in the case of any medical man becomes a grave scandal when that medical man is part of a Public Service. That, of course, is true, bu...

In 1924 Easby-Grave 1 published the results of an investigation of 500 first grade children in Philadelphia. The object of her study was to determine standards for certain psychological tests at that age-grade level for purposes of clinical classification and diagnosis, and if possible by means of these tests, to throw new light on the problem of the first-grade child. The present study represe...

in this article, the low back vowel /a/ in word-final positions in eghlidian dialect, one of persian dialects, is studied. this vowel is represented phonetically as [a], [o] and [@] in different phonetic environments. therefore many words were collected via interviewing ten native speakers so that these different alternant forms can be accounted for appropriately. since one of the authors of th...

By Catherine Riggs and Charlotte Easby-Grave, Clinic Teacher, University of Pennsylvania "Our Lillian, she don't get on very well at school, so I bring her down here and maybe you can learn her something." Lillian, a large, sallow youngster of ten years, the cause of all the trouble, sat in the corner and smirked and giggled as she heard her name mentioned. '' But she ain't dumb,'' continued Mr...

The paper argues that grave re-use cannot be ethically evaluated simply by adverting to cognate issues, such as archeological and medical ethics, since grave re-use comprises a very specific type of disturbance. Whilst there is no general ethical prohibition against disturbing the dead, a more detailed analysis is required in the case of English Victorian ‘perpetuity graves’. It is argued that,...

The Natufians of the southern Levant (15,000-11,500 cal BP) underwent pronounced socioeconomic changes associated with the onset of sedentism and the shift from a foraging to farming lifestyle. Excavations at the 12,000-year-old Natufian cave site, Hilazon Tachtit (Israel), have revealed a grave that provides a rare opportunity to investigate the ideological shifts that must have accompanied th...