Apollonius of Tyana, and Other Essays.

CONCEALMENT AND EXPOSURE And Other Essays

Essays on Hypochondriasis, and Other Nervous Affections

timents, and shews that the zeal of improvement may sometimes, even in the best concerns, be carried beyond the bounds of discretion, and that regulations and institutions, which we may think evil or unnecessary, may be both salutary and advisable. " The observance of fasts is a wholesome form of superstition. The omission of them in the Protestant calender, was, perhaps, as it relates to healt...

The medical dictator and other biographical essays

Essays on Hypochondriacal and Other Nervous Affections

even by the sternest stoic, or the most subtle metaphysician, has attained universal assent, rather as an article of sensation than of science ; as being the compulsion of experience, more than the result of enquiry. Some men may call in question the liberty of the human will ; and others may weave a fine spun chain of arguments against the existence of matter and the reality of an external wor...

The divine banquet of the brain and other essays

works of the most prominent authors such as: Zarrindast, Isma'fl Djurdjanr, MansUr b. Muhammad b. Ahmad, Hadji Zain al-Attar, and Muhammad Arzani. Appreciating this, Richter-Bernburg puts an intense effort into the analysis of the content of each manuscript, which, unusually for collections of Persian manuscripts, is not overshadowed by the beauty of the miniatures and illustrations. This enhan...