Sabine MacCormack y los Andes

Los moriscos y la medicina

chapter. Chapters on human anatomy, physiology, and pathology with obstetrics and the whole area of gynaecology follow. Sexual relations are dealt with in chapters 6 and 7 and Maimonides' beautiful description of the relationship between a man and his wife is given in translation from the treatise on marriage Eeshuth (15:19 & 20) on p. 178. Death and Jewish customs observed in connexion with it...

Sir William MacCormack

The offer made by tlie President of the lloyal College of Surgeons to proceed to the Cape in the capacity of Consulting Surgeon has been accepted by Government with graceful alacrity; and, after a very hearty "send off" at Waterloo by the students of St. Thomas's Hospital and probably other schools, Sir William proceeded from Southampton by the Union liner Breton. He is to be associated in his ...

Medicina, ciencia y minorias marginadas: Los Moriscos

The Moriscos, the Mohanmedans turned "new Christians" of sixteenth-century Spain, were expelled from their homeland by royal decree in 1609. Dr. Garcia Ballester, in this thought-provoking study, shows how from an organized medical system with diplomas and licences, medicine among this oppressed and largely peasant minority came to be practised by unlicensed healers relying on traditional, ofte...

An Unconditionally Stable MacCormack Method

The back and forth error compensation and correction (BFECC) method advects the solution forward and then backward in time. The result is compared to the original data to estimate the error. Although inappropriate for parabolic and other nonreversible partial differential equations, it is useful for often troublesome advection terms. The error estimate is used to correct the data before advecti...

Sabine Makkes