John Skelton's Phyllyp Sparowe As Satire: A Revaluation

The Benefits of Psychological Surgery: John Scoffern's Satire on Isaac Baker Brown

In her study of mutilating surgical operations on women, Ann Dally drew attention to a pamphlet, The London Surgical Home, by John Scoffern, concerning the activities of the London obstetrician, Dr Isaac Baker Brown. As is now well known, Brown was the leader of a short-lived vogue for treating nervous diseases in women (especially epilepsy, catalepsy and hysteria), thought to be caused by ‘‘pe...

Retrospective revaluation as simple associative learning.

Backward blocking, unovershadowing, and backward conditioned inhibition are examples of retrospective revaluation phenomena that have been suggested to involve more than simple associative learning. Models of these phenomena have thus used additional concepts, for example, appealing to attentional effects or more elaborate learning mechanisms. The author shows that a suitable representation of ...

A memory-based account of retrospective revaluation.

We adapt an instance model of human memory, Minerva 2, to simulate retrospective revaluation. In the account, memory preserves the events of individual trials in separate traces. A probe presented to memory contacts all traces in parallel and causes each to become active. The information retrieved from memory is the sum of the activated traces. Learning is modelled as a process of cued-recall; ...

The Therīgāthā A Revaluation by Vijitha Rajapakse

A satire on the influenza of 1803.

ONE OF the coloured engraved satires in the Wellcome collection is An Address of thanks from the Faculty to the Right Hon.ble Mr. Influenzy for his kind visit to this country (Fig. 1). It was designed by Temple West, an amateur artist whose name appears on the cross-bar of the commode on which the figure of Influenzy is seated. The print was published by S. W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly on 20 April 1...