Patience, a West Midland Poem of the Fourteenth Century

Mortality in fourteenth-century Exeter.

For many years, pioneer work has begun to uncover the history of mortality in England during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, before the Black Death. Nearly a hundred years ago, Creighton collected chronicle references to outbreaks of disease and mortality in his History ofepidemics in England.' In 1948 and 1966, J. C. Russell analysed the inquisitions post mortem to reveal patter...

6 Logic in the Latin West in the Fourteenth Century – Stephen Read

The main advances in logical investigations in the thirteenth century in the Latin West were concentrated at the Universities of Paris and Oxford. There were other universities and studia generalia, such as Cambridge, Erfurt and elsewhere, where logic was taught, and on which both Oxford and Paris depended for their students, and to which they despatched many of their masters after their studie...

Doctor versus patient: two fourteenth-century lawsuits.

Tim medieval medical practitioner, like his fellows in every age, was vulnerable to accusations of negligence. The least fortunate, or perhaps the most negligent, might find themselves liable to public prosecution," despite some recognition that treatment was hazardous anyway.2 More commonly, the doctor might face a private lawsuit by a dissatisfied patient; a cursory glance through Talbot and ...

Critique of Poetry/ The Discourse of Chaos in The Realm of The Unhearing: A Criticism of Fourteenth Hijri-Century Earache based on a Postmodern Reading, Mahshad Shahbazi

Mobile cardiac unit. Experience from a West Midland town.

The successful operation of coronary care units resulting in early detection and control of lifethreatening post-infarction arrhythmias has so far produced a gratifying and instructive impact on the management of acute myocardial infarction. The first few hours after an attack are, however, the most critical. Yater et al. (I948) showed that 60 per cent of the deaths from coronary heart disease ...