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PubMed1999

Holding emotional and linguistic rulers up to the poetry of Robert Frost.

The words in a large and representative sample of Robert Frost's poetry were compared with information in several data bases which provided estimates of the poetry's pleasantness, arousal, emotionality, imagery, and linguistic complexity. Findings confirmed that Frost's poetry was linguistically simple and emotionally restrained in comparison to that of his cohort. They also highlighted the increasing variability in Frost's poetry across time and its decreasing imagery. Frost's poetry was more restrained than that of his male cohort but similar to the poetry of his female cohort in its linguistic simplicity. Frost's acknowledged death poems were in fact quite pleasant and passive in emotional tone.

Arousal↗
PubMed1982

Bronchial asthma in the medical literature of Greek antiquity.

The actual term asthma is a Greek word that is derived from the verb aazein, meaning to exhale with open mouth, to pant. The expression asthma appeared for the first time in the Iliad, with the meaning of a short-drawn breath, but the earliest text where the word is found as a medical term is the Corpus Hippocraticum. However it is difficult to determine whether in referring to "asthma," Hippocrates and his school (460-360 B.C.) meant an autonomous clinical entity or simply a symptom. The best clinical description of asthma in later antiquity is offered by the master clinician, Aretaeus of Cappadocia (1st century A.D.). The numerous mentions of "asthma" in the extensive writings of Galen (130-200 A.D.) appear to be in general agreement with the Hippocratic texts and to some extent with the statements of Aretaeus.

Adult↗
PubMed1996

Rheumatoid arthritis in an Icelandic textbook from 1782.

In 1782, Jón Pétursson, a district physician in Northern Iceland, published a textbook on arthritis and its remedies intended for common use. Working within a very simple diagnostic system, essentially comprising osteoarthritis (arthritis fixa) and inflammatory arthritis (arthritis vaga), he describes arthritis vaga as a common, chronic, symmetric, destructive, inflammatory polyarthritis, sometimes with systemic manifestations. It affected people of all ages with a peak incidence around forty, and had a female preponderance. The last observation is of particular interest as he knew he was contradicting all the available literature. Contemporary descriptions of Jón Pétursson suggest that he may have had rheumatoid arthritis himself which would explain his excellent description of this disease.

Arthritis, Rheumatoid↗
PubMed1991

C. R. Henderson: farm boy, athlete, and scientist.

Charles R. Henderson was proud to be a product of a farm in Page County, Iowa. He was a one man track team in Coin, Iowa, and a brilliant student. He became a world class competitor in track at Iowa State College and, at the same time, compiled a top academic record. His early experiences set the stage for the exceptional contributions of his animal breeding career, which did not begin until he was nearly 40 yr of age, but which spanned 40 yr when he was the acknowledged leader in development of statistical methodology applied to animal breeding. His career goals were to find the best possible ways to analyze data and to provide the best genetic evaluations to the livestock industry. If the best could not be done because of computational limitations, then he would pragmatically work to find the best way that was possible. Only his interest in Cornell hockey overshadowed his enjoyment in listening to classical music. He was an avid sports fan, especially for the St. Louis Cardinals or any midwestern team against the New York Yankees. Midwestern trips during the weeks when the Drake Relays were held were as often as possible. Henderson's acknowledged scientific hero was Jay L. Lush, with whom he studied during his Ph.D. program at Iowa State College and with whom he shared similar talents and the intuition that made both of them leaders in the field of animal breeding.

Breeding↗
PubMed1994

Evolution of the Journal of Neurosurgery.

The Journal of Neurosurgery, begun in 1944, has successfully fulfilled the purposes of its founders. During the 50 years of its existence it has remained pre-eminent in its field, while evolving in presentation, size, and content in response to the needs of succeeding generations of neurosurgeons and allied specialists. This article draws from the memories of many people, from the minutes of meetings of the Editorial Board, and from reports of successive editors, and touches on some of the knotty problems faced by those dedicated individuals.

History, 20th Century↗
PubMed2005

[Moyse Charas, an apothecary, a physician, as well as the author of "Pharmacopée royale galénique et chymique". The study of his dynasty].

New research works conducted at the Archives nationales led to the discovery of numerous documents related to Moyse Charas's progeny and made it possible to complete former studies. Presently the filiation of this famous family of Parisians apothecaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is well established. A family tree has been drawn up.

France↗
PubMed1997

[The "Limophōros": Polybius III, 87, 2].

The word "limophōros", a hapax legomenon appearing in Polybius' Histories, does not mean scurvy, but rather scabies. Polybius created the word to describe an illness he believed was derived from a nutritional deficit, but can really only be seen as an attempt to describe an illness the etiology of which he was wholly unfamiliar.

Deficiency Diseases↗
PubMed1996

[The reasons for a fleeting resurrection: the natural historical method in the work of K. W. Stark (1787-1845) and F. Jahn (1804-1859)].

This work analyses the methodological proposals of two German doctors in the first half of the XIX century, traditionally linked to the so-called "Naturalistic School". It aims especially to evaluate the importance given by each to the "Naturalistic method" applied to the classification of these diseases, taking into account the fact that both defended an ontologistic or "parasitic" conception of the same. This study illustrates how this undertaking responds to the challenge, expounded by the followers of Schelling's Naturphilosophie, of converting medicine into a natural science. Likewise, this undertaking was doomed to failure due to the existing contradiction between the utilization to the classificatory method, characteristic of eighteenth century Natural History, and the need for a physiological foundation of nosology, more in accordance with the nascent Biology, which will greatly reduce the epistemological soundness of the concept of morbid species. This very imbalance will be revealed, in the strictly medical aspect, in the doubts when giving epistemological priority to physiology or to the clinical observation.

Germany↗
PubMed2002

[The "Hospital Real de San Josef de los Naturales" and the rheumatic conditions found in New Spain during the 16th century].

The rheumatic conditions found in New Spain during the sixteenth century were not different from those seen in Mexico in present times. We present the humoral conceptions on which medical theory was based in those times, and the contributions made by Alonso López de Hinojosos during his practice in the Hospital Real de San Josef de los Naturales, in Mexico City. Among them were the clinical distinction between gout and rheumatoid arthritis more than one hundred years before Sydenham, and the identification of arthritis and ocular involvement associated with a contagious disease more than three hundred years before Reiter. We conclude that the analysis of ancient medical traditions is an interesting and fruitful enterprise.

History, 16th Century↗