Glass Formulas: A Criticism.

Efficacy of commercial formulas in comparison with home-made formulas for enteral feeding: A critical review

Background: In several disease conditions, patients must inevitably be nourished by enteral feeding (EF). Though in many countries, commercial formulas are routinely used for EF, in Iran still home-made formulas are commonly employed as commercial formulas are not covered by insurance. This may pose patients to malnutrition and bring about further costs.  The aim of this study was to evalu...

Criticism of Benacerraf’s Criticism of Modern Eleatics

I analyze here Benacerraf’s criticism of Thomson arguments on the impossibility of ω-supertasks. Although Benacerraf’s criticism is well founded, his analysis of Thomson’s lamp is incomplete. In fact, it is possible to consider a new line of argument, which Benacerraf only incidentally considered, based on the functioning laws of the lamp. This argument leads to a contradictory result that comp...

The Art of Criticism? Criticism as Art!

Burkeian Criticism

In conclusion, we should like to add two admonitions. First, criticism is an art, not the raw tables or summaries of scholarship. The scholarship is a necessary prerequisite, and the formal reports, the compilations of the learned monograph, are essential to criticism. We have too much of unimaginative word counting, the pedestrian assemblage of arguments, the methodical and generalized comment...

Deaths under stovaine: a criticism.

I N the British Medical Journal, April 22, 1950, two deaths immediately following the injection of 2 ml. of Stovaine were reported (Walker and Mathews, 1950) from the department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College, Ibadan, Nigeria, West Africa. It is quite obvious that the deaths were directly due to the anaesthetic. In both cases death followed immediately on the administration o...