ON IODINE-SPIRIT CATGUT

Silk, Catgut, and Wound Infections *

Whether absorbable or non-absorbable suture material should be used in the repair of wounds has long been a highly controversial subject. Popular favor has swung from one extreme to the other repeatedly in the last century. Lord Lister was responsible for the initial popularity of catgut, just as Kocher was one of the first to abandon its use in favor of a non-absorbable material, i.e., silk. H...

Buried Silk, Catgut and Strabismus Sutures.

The spirit of Mexico: a decade on.

www.thelancet.com Published online November 16, 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61893-6 1 November, 2014, marks the 10th anniversary of the Mexico Ministerial Summit on Health Research, attended by 20 ministers of health and delegations from 51 countries. Convened by the Government of Mexico, the Global Forum for Health Research, and WHO, the Summit endorsed the role of knowledge f...

Nature and Spirit

Hegel's goal in his philosophy of subjective spirit is an empirically sensitive yet basically a priori science of mind. That sounds oxymoronic: How can a discipline be at once a priori and empirically sensitive? Here the elaborate structure of the Hegelian system serves a clear purpose. We have, first of all, the logic—the a priori element in all thought. The system's following two parts, the p...

The Spirit of Teaching