Altar

Altar and Table: A phenomenology of the surgeon-priest

I will never forget the first night I stood alone beside the operating table as the only surgeon in the room. I was beginning my fourth year of residency. Two patients from the same car wreck arrived simultaneously. Both were unstable. Both required urgent laparotomy. The sickest patient went to OR 9 with the attending surgeon. The other patient went with me to OR 6. The preliminaries were the ...

Pseudepigraphic writings: Letters—Embassy—Speech from the Altar—Decree

HIPPOCRATES, Pseudepigraphic writings: Letters-Embassy-Speech from the AltarDecree, ed. and transl. with an Introduction by Wesley D. Smith, Studies in Ancient Medicine 2, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1990, pp. x, 133 (90-04-09290-0). In The Hippocratic Tradition (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979) Wesley D. Smith investigated the origin both of our image of Hippocrates, Father of Medicine, and of...

Murine "model" monotheism: an iconoclast at the altar of mouse.

Mehrabbori (altar shape plaster cutting) in Timurid miniatures

Iranian miniature paintings very well reflect the structure and decorations of Iranian monuments. Therefore, they are good secondary sources to refer to and compensate for the lack of information in the study of Iranian architecture. In the present article, the plaster ornaments (stuccowork) that are reflected in Behzad’s and Mirak’s paintings—two famous painters of the Herat school of painting...

Effects of mixed organic solvents on neuromotor functions among workers in Buddhist altar manufacturing factories.

To clarify the neuromotor effects of long-term exposure to mixed organic solvents, postural sway and tremor were measured in 62 solvent workers of four Buddhist altar manufacturing factories who had worked for 1-46 (mean 12) yr. By using the passive gas sampler, 8-h time-weighted average concentrations in the workers were estimated to be 0.02-8.7 ppm for toluene, 0.02-7.7 ppm for xylene, 0.02-5...