Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings

"To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan" (Abraham Lincoln): the Department of Veterans Affairs polytrauma system of care.

The initiation of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan has resulted in a new cohort of active-duty service members and veterans seeking rehabilitation care through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Service members injured in combat most often sustain multiple injuries (polytrauma) and require a unique service delivery model to meet their needs. The VA recognized this need and responded wi...

George Herbert Mead and social reform: his work and writings.

Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624–1689): his Life and Original Writings

Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689): his Life and Original Writings, by KENNEH DEWHURST, London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1966, pp. viii, 180, illus., 35s. Thomas Sydenham was 'the greatest physician this country has ever produced', Dr. Dewhurst claims boldly (p. vii). Parliamentarian soldier, member of a family which had helped to run England for Oliver Cromwell, himself a radical Whig...

Missing Mr. Brown and Buying an Abraham Lincoln - Dark Entities and DBpedia

We argue for the need for the community to address the issue of “dark entities”, those domain entities for which a knowledge base has no information in the context of the entity linking task for building Event-Centric Knowledge Graphs. Through an analysis of a large (1,2 million article) automotive newswire corpus against DBpedia, we identify six classes of errors that lead to dark entities. Fi...

Sir William Osler: Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings

This book is a collection of abstracts of the world literature in surgery written by the abstract and news editor of the Journal of the International College of Surgeons. The volume is attractive in format and is easy to use. Complete references are listed at the end of each abstracted article, most of which were published in 1949. The papers were chosen on the basis of the unusual, the interes...