An Assessment of American Portraiture before 20th Century

Thoracic Surgery Before the 20th Century

In this book entitled Thoracic Surgery Before the 20th Century, Dr. Lew A. Hochberg has pictured the development of this art during its hundreds of formative years. In most instances, the author has gone to original references and translations for the material to fill this volume of 858 pages. The reader is brought chronologically through the 18th century in the first 186 pages, the remainder o...

What was Glaucoma Called Before the 20th Century?

Glaucoma involves a characteristic optic neuropathy, often with elevated intraocular pressure. Before 1850, poor vision with a normal eye appearance, as occurs in primary open-angle glaucoma, was termed amaurosis, gutta serena, or black cataract. Few observers noted palpable hardness of the eye in amaurosis. On the other hand, angle-closure glaucoma can produce a green or gray pupil, and theref...

Missing Voices: An Analysis of the 20th century Spanish American Works in World Literature Anthologies

Into the 20th Century

At the beginning of the 20th century descendants of the early European settlers who first colonized the coasts of Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia were established throughout the region. Most all of the native people had been displaced. Cotton was king. The mature forests were being . the southern world, wavered and then toppled. Demand for the South’s cotton declined due to new competition...

Form in 20th Century Music

FORM. In the most general sense: shape (contour, the variation of some attribute of a thing in space or time), and structure (the disposition of parts, relations of part to part, and of part to whole). In music, shape is the result of changes in some attribute or parameter of sound, in time, while structure has to do with various relations between sounds and sound-configurations, at the same or...