Notes on Juvenal I. 62 and VII. 114

Notes on Some Remedies. VII. Sulphonamides. III

6. Urinary tract infections.?In acute cystitis and pyelitis and in chronic infection due to coli bacilli sulphanilamide is adequate but sulphacetamide has been particularly recommended because of its high solubility in urine. Its sodium salt (albucid soluble) may be injected intravenously in 30 per cent solution. Sulphathiazole or sulphadiazine may be given in resistant cases. The average daily...

MS&E 111/ENGR 62: Supplementary Notes

Optimization permeates many (almost all) branches of human endeavor. Darwinian evolution optimizes a species for the “best traits” for survival. Firms optimize their supply chains. Fund managers optimize their portfolios. On a lighter note, personal dating sites try to find the “best match”, and advertisers on online sites try to show you the “best advertisement” based on your user profile. The...

Notes on Sandflies. Part I

I. Notes on Structured Programming

These notes have the status of "Letters written to myself": I wrote them down because, without doing so, I found myself repeating the same arguments over and over again. When reading what I had written, I was not always too satisfied. For one thing, I felt that they suffered from a marked verbosity. Yet I do not try to condense them (now), firstly because that would introduce another delay and ...

Politics and Invective in Persius and Juvenal

negative differentiation, that is, through the repeated assertions of what something is not. Satire repeatedly disavows other discourses: it is not poetry, or rhetoric, or philosophy, even if it parasitically sustains itself on them. Imperial satirists drew on a range of rhetorical resources: technical categories from treatises, actual orations, and the practice speeches of the declaimers. At t...