Cuttings from a Rock Garden: Plant Portraits and Other Essays

A Review on Garden Asparagus (Asparagus officinalis L.) as a Medicinal and Multipurpose Plant

Garden asparagus (Asparagus officinalis L.) is a perennial plant which belongs to the Asparagaceae family native to Asia, North Africa and Europe. This variety is an economically important crop with a high value in terms of food, drug activity and industry. Asparagus is rich in functional components such as Flavonoids, Saponin and Glutathione with high antioxidation activity. In comparison to 2...

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...

A Garden of Identities: Multiple Selves and Other Futures

I close my eyes and think of a future world. A visionary world, thirty, forty years from today. A world not of new humanity but a plethora of old and new humanities. A world where more than one of way of being human is not only the norm but is considered essential for the very survival of our species. This is the world as a garden. Gardens, by the very fact that they are gardens, consist of a m...

The medical dictator and other biographical essays