Dr Rajnish Juneja – A light burnt bright

Dr Richard Bright (1789—1858)

atomizing of medicine into a series of separate problems, in which, as Jacopo frequently showed, equally opposed positions could be maintained with equal success. His successors faced with this impasse reverted to an ever closer scrutiny of the logical methods involved in reaching these conclusions. Dr Ottoson's conclusion goes far towards explaining the appeal in the sixteenth century of the c...

Dr. Richard Bright and Lake Balaton.

(Isca Silurum), the base of the Second Augustan Legion (legio II Augusta), was discovered an amphora, which had contained Aminean wine, a high quality Italian white wine that kept well.27 Celsus prescribes two uses for this wine. Firstly, as a cure for diarrhoea one should eat half a pound of bread soaked in neat Aminean wine, then something roasted (particularly poultry), then drink the Aminea...

Bright Storage of Light

Bright light for nonseasonal depression?

A 58-year-old man’s condition was stable on a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) after 3 major depressive episodes in 10 years. He disliked the idea of taking a drug for a long time and at one point took himself off the SSRI and started taking St. John’s wort. However, the reappearance of symptoms of depression soon led him to go back on the SSRI. As discussed in previous columns, on...

Bright Light from Dark Matter