Precious Stones

Chalcedony and Childbirth: Precious and Semi-Precious Stones as Obstetrical Amulets **

It is also profitable to wear about them gemmes and precious stones, as the The custom of wearing or holding an amulet during pregnancy and childbirth is probably as ancient as the need for comfort and reassurance. For reasons not entirely clear, precious and semi-precious stones throughout recorded time have been considered to possess protective virtues."'8 The medical benefits ascribed to eac...

Europe's precious children.

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The precious necessity of compassion.

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Antipsychotic polypharmacy: squandering precious resources?

BRAINSTORMS is a monthly section of The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry aimed at providing updates of novel concepts emerging from the neurosciences that have relevance to the practicing psychiatrist. From the Neuroscience Education Institute in Carlsbad, Calif., and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego. Reprint requests to: Stephen M. Stahl, M.D., Ph.D., Editor...

Water--Our Most Precious Resource.