Tag: Fall 2016
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How to live like this
Tom JanissePortland, Oregon, USA “This is no way to live, Tom,”my father, Emile, said. I didn’t hear him sayhe was choosing to die,ready now, wanting to go,because I wanted him to live. He disguised his painin gentle relations. Tumor still lived in his thoracic spineafter extraction. Turning hurt,even transferring from bedin my arms to a…
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Philosophy of science and medicine series – VI: Islamic science
Philip LiebsonChicago, Illinois, United States The new science of the twelfth century was Arab in form but founded by the ancient Greeks. The Arabs preserved and transmitted a large body of Greek learning, and what content they added was perhaps less important than their change to the concept of why science ought to be studied.…
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The Siamese Expeditionary Force of World War I and the Spanish Flu
Khwanchai PhusrisomStephen MartinMahasarakham, Thailand The Siamese military presence In July 1918, 1284 Siamese volunteers arrived in Marseilles by ship1. Their air force personnel did not see action because their training had not been completed before the end of the war. The ground troops (Fig 1) had been trained, but being too few to form an…
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Cancer diagnosISIS
Clemens SchmittBerlin, Germany Sensing the first symptoms and signs of a potentially serious development, diagnosing a manifest malignant state, and determining the adequate treatment in order to eradicate the disease at its roots and ultimately eliminate “the last evil cell“—that is what cancer medicine is all about.1 It resembles in some ways the strategy required…
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Giulio Casserio’s anatomical atlas
Anna LantzStockholm, Sweden Giulio Casserio (c. 1552–1616) was an Italian anatomist active in Padua around the year 1600. He published several anatomical works, the finest being the Tabulae anatomicae LXXIIXX. This remained unknown until the German doctor Daniel Rindfleisch (aka Bucretius) had it printed posthumously in 1627 along with his own annotations. The beautiful illustrations…