Sex, religion and a towering treatise on anatomy

A Treatise on Practical Anatomy

This book has been written especially for students of anatomy and surgery, and the aim of the author has been to arrange the subject so as to make it equally serviceable as a text-book and a dissector. There are now so many wellestablished text-books on anatomy that an author in bringing forward a new work on the subject ought either to show some new arrangement of material, or else to illustra...

"Good sex" and religion: a feminist overview.

This article presents an overview of both the processes and the results of an international, interdisciplinary, and interreligious feminist study of "good sex" that resulted in a volume by the same name. We argue that religion (including its secular equivalent, i.e., global capitalism) remains a powerfully influential cultural force that shapes people's lives, in general, and sanctifies their b...

A Treatise on Plague

son, m it.c.s.i. London : Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ld., 1901. Price 7s. Gd. It is somewhat remarkable that, though five years have now passed since the present pandemic of plague first made its appearance at Bombay, no book on the subject lias hitherto appeared based upon Indian experience. Reports written by medical officers, civilians, and even military officers we have had in abundance, but ...

A Treatise on Mortgages

A Treatise on Treatment

I.M.s. (retd.). The writer says he has "elaborately followed those methods of treatment to which general consent or weighty testimony has given a standard place." The first chapter begins well with an account of fever, and the problems of immunity. The chapter on tubercle is full of information and is less a string of prescriptions than many others are. We note even here the love of new drugs w...