Musical Jottings, Useful and Humorous

Oriental Medicine—Stray Jottings

Miscellaneous Jottings from Daily Practice

2.?Treatment of fractured ribs. The usual practice in the Punjab hospitals and dispensaries is to apply a broad roller round the chest. I have seen sometimes great inconvenience to arise from the use of a bandage, pressing on both sides of the chest and limiting the free play of the lungs. In one case dyspnoea was very troublesome. Straps of sticking plaster applied on the whole of the injured ...

Quantifying Humorous Lexical Incongruity

Ophthalmological Jottings from a Leave Diary

thesis in India, and as it is now becoming more and more common for Indians to want glass eyes, and as I personally have had great difficulties in getting patients well fitted, I determined to see how the expert dealt with the matter. To this end I visited Mr. Taylor of New Oxford Street on three or four occasions. To those who watch skilled glass blowing for the first time it appears a perfect...

Opinion: What makes things humorous.

In a familiar parable, a group of blind men try to discern the shape of an elephant, but each man’s perspective differs depending on whether he’s touching the trunk, tusk, or tail (Fig. 1). After 2,500 years of studying humor, scientists similarly have differing perspectives on what makes things funny (1). We present three common perspectives on humor. Although each is insightful, no one perspe...