Constitutional law-making process in Polish Commonwealth between the 16th-18th Centuries

Central asian MusliMs on tibetan buddhisM, 16th-18th Centuries

Japanese Acupuncture and Moxibustion in Europe from the 16th to 18th Centuries

Despite China's cultural impact on Japan, Japanese physicians used the medical knowledge they adopted from their great neighbor with surprising independence. Being more open to interactions with Westerners, even after the adoption of a semi-seclusion policy in 1639, Japan played a major role in the early transmission of knowledge of acupuncture and moxibustion to Europe. The first reports conce...

Terms for syphilis between the 16th and the 20th centuries.

A single cycle of rituximab for the treatment of severe pemphigus. Treatment of severe pemphigus with rituximab: report of 12 cases and a review of the literature. Clinical efficacy of different doses of ritux-imab in the treatment of pemphigus: a retrospective study of 27 patients. Rituximab for treatment-refractory pemphigus and pemphigoid: a case series of 17 patients. in autoim-mune bullous...

Constitutional Exclusion and Gender in Commonwealth Africa

Part I of this article briefly describes customary law and explores the effect of colonialism on legal pluralism and the region’s early post-colonial constitutions. Part II describes the structure and content of constitutional clauses that exclude personal law and customary law from constitutional non-discrimination protection. Part III briefly examines international and regional human rights l...

Alchemy and chemistry in the 16th and 17th centuries

identified as potassium nitrate) played a prominent part in the history of chemistry, as it stimulated experimental investigation of the vital component of air. This research programme was carried out in England in the second half of the seventeenth century, mostly by Robert Boyle and John Mayow. The latter's theory of nitro-aerial particles as the component of air necessary to combustion and r...