Fiqh Siyasah Nusantara Abad XVII-XIX

[Gout and kidney during XVII and XIX centuries].

The authors briefly describe the history of gout, mainly focusing their attention on the renal involvement. They report some works and theories on gout of great ancient physicians, such as Paracelsus, Sydenham, Boerhaave, Van Swieten and Morgagni.

Leticia Arroyo Abad

Using a new dataset, this paper presents new evidence on inequality in Latin America for the 19th century and studies the effects of factor endowments and trade on inequality. Recent research has highlighted the link between the colonial origins of inequality and its persistence in Latin America. We find that inequality varied substantially throughout the century a...

Reading Adab as Fiqh: al-Ǧa

1386 Xix

A dictionary’s macrostructure, nomenclature or lemma-sign list is, in simple terms, the inventory of all the headwords in that dictionary. Each of those lemma signs (headwords) is a canonical form, representing an entire paradigm of morphologically-related forms. The use of dictionary citation forms to group related forms is both a space-saving device that stems from the times of the paper dict...

Xvii. Neurology

Accommodation is most often seen in association with convergence, and it is well known that a variety of clues, particularly binocular fusion, drives convergence. Is there a monocular accommodation reflex, and if so, what is its stimulus? It is important to try to understand such a physiological error mechanism a widely distributed, unlearned, involuntary mechanism present in restricted monocul...