Poem: Life's fullness

Lifes preservative against self-killing

in the "index of botanical names", where the medieval Latin designations take you to the main dictionary, for example to the items satirion and testiculus leporis, under which the Middle English names are listed, in the case of satirion indiscriminately with other possible identifications, such as Arum and Endymion. Admittedly, the difficulties of identification are considerable-one reason bein...

Fullness of life

Indeed if there is a criticism of the new edition with its expanded information base, it is that it is becoming more readable and is in some danger of turning into a textbook. It is clearly acknowledged in the introduction that many of the protocols described should not be considered unique or exclusive. This point is reiterated on occasions in the text where specific therapies are noted to be ...

Life: A Poem

Hierarchies of Biocomplexity: modeling lifes energetic complexity

In this paper, a model for understanding the effects of selection using systems-level computational approaches is introduced. A number of concepts and principles essential for understanding the motivation for constructing the model will be introduced first. This will be followed by a description of parameters, measurements, and graphical representations used in the model. Four possible outcomes...

In the Fullness of Time

Lister had been interested in wound infection, or “hospital gangrene” as it was known then, for many years. When operating on tuberculous changes in the wrist, he noted good results when the wound did not become infected. On the other hand, when infection set in, he encountered a high incidence of gangrene and blood poisoning.1 In Lister’s time, wound infection was generally thought to arise fr...