Prophetic Germs

Prophetic Medicine

It is well known that certain Islamic Jurists and Scholars like Imam Bukari, Imam Muslim, and Imam Tirmizi, did exhaustive research to collect the sayings and traditions of our beloved Prophet PBUH. They then presented their collected works as 'Al Hadith' of the Prophet to the populace. Not only were these authenticated, as to their degree of authenticity, but each of the witnesses, or the chai...

Germs and Ideas

illus., no price given. The author, to whom we are indebted for a most interesting history of Spanish obstetrics and several historical monographs, has focussed his interest on the 'enlightened' Ruiz de Luzuriagas, father and son, Basque physicians like the author. The father emerges as a great defender of smallpox inoculation, widely practised in Spain before Jenner's vaccination was universal...

Allergens, germs and asthma

OBJECTIVE To explore asthma pathogenesis using data from upper and lower airways. DATA SOURCE English-language papers on human asthma and nasal polyp subjects from 1990 onwards. STUDY SELECTION High-quality studies in established journals. RESULTS The recognition of its inflammatory nature led to a quantum leap in the understanding and treatment of asthma, with lives saved by inhaled cort...

Germs of Kloosterman Integrals

In an earlier paper we introduced the concept of Shalika germs for certain Kloosterman integrals. We compute explicitly the germs in the case of the group GL(3).

Listening for prophetic voices in medicine.