A HOTTENTOT RAIN CEREMONY

Secret Ceremony

The willow as a Hottentot (Khoikhoi) remedy for rheumatic fever.

In 1764, Edmund Stone, a vicar in Chipping Norton, a small town in North Oxfordshire, England, reasoned that the bark of the common white willow tree (Salix alba vulgaris) might be a treatment for 'agues and intermitting disorders' (fevers): 1 'About six years ago, I accidentally tasted it, and was surprised by its extraordinary bitterness; which immediately raised me a suspicion of its having ...

The Hottentot Fig as a Possible Commercial Source of Tannin.

Domestic sources of drugs, always potentially iimportaiit, have increased significancoe in time of war when foreign markets are -unavailable or noniexistent. With this thought in mind, a preliminaryexaminationl was made of Mesenmbryanithem?,um edldi L., commonlly known as the Hottentot Fig, as a possible source of tannins. The great astringency of the sap which can be readily demonstrated by th...

The 2008 Anatomy Ceremony: Essays

When asked to relate my experience of anatomy to the first-year medical and physician associate students at Yale before the start of their own first dissection, I found no better words to share than those of my classmates. Why speak with only one tongue, I said, when you can draw on 99 others? Anatomical dissection elicits what our course director, Lawrence Rizzolo, has called a "diversity of e...

Ceremony Design and Analysis

The concept of ceremony is introduced as an extension of the concept of network protocol, with human nodes alongside computer nodes and with communication links that include UI, human-to-human communication and transfers of physical objects that carry data. What is out-of-band to a protocol is in-band to a ceremony, and therefore subject to design and analysis using variants of the same mature ...