Book Review: The Encyclopædia of General Practice

The British Encyclopædia of Medical Practice

This volume includes subjects from hyperchlorhydria to leucorrhcea. It would seem that the original estimate of eleven volumes was optimistic, as at volume VII we are not half-way through the alphabet.* This volume is by far the fattest so far issued, but the actual number of pages is not far above the average. There are an unusually large number of plates. The first chapter is by Professor Hen...

The British Encyclopædia of Medical Practice

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امروزه تصحیح همکلاسی در کلاسهای نگارش یکی از اجزاء لاینفک کلاسهای دانش آموز محور است. تاثیرات مفید تصحیح همکلاسی بر زبان آموزان، معلمان را متقاعد کرده است که علیرغم صرف زمان، انرژی و توان بسیار، از این شیوه ی آموزشی در کلاسهای آموزش نگارش بهره بگیرند. تحقیق حاضر بر آن است تا با مقایسه دو گروه از یادگیرندگان زبان انگلیسی، تاثیر تصحیح همکلاسی را بر توانایی نوشتاری آنها نشان دهد. 122 خانم زبان آمو...

The British Encyclopædia of Medical Practice: Medical Progress, 1951

THIS little book contains a miscellany of useful information on a great variety of subjects, all of which are of immediate interest to the practical clinical pathologist. It includes in its 382 pages, besides chapters on the major branches of clinical pathology (post-mortem technique and the preparation of histological sections, bacteriology, serology, haematology and biochemistry) sections on ...

Book Review Elizabethan London and Scientific Practice

The jewel house is a nuanced analysis of the community of gardeners, instrument makers, engineers, alchemists and mathematics teachers in Elizabethan London whose empirical practices, Harkness argues, ‘set the stage for the Scientific Revolution’ via the practice of what she terms vernacular ‘science’. Although her employment of the term ‘science’ may seem an anachronism, she demonstrates that ...