The Death of His Husband

Husband 

She always brushed her hair back Sternly, twisting one small knot about the crown. He did not like the plain, broad brow. " I hate that tightness, " he would mutter to himself. But sometimes he would stoop to kiss her forehead And at midnight, hesitatingly, her lips, Surprised each time the way her arms would reach for him. When little Thomas had diphtheria at two, Her back was hourly bent abov...

Difficult moral questions: may a husband end all care of his permanently unconscious wife?

The hands of John Snow: clue to his untimely death?

The accomplishments of John Snow (1813-1858), physician-epidemiologist, inventor and anaesthetist to Queen Victoria, are well documented, but the causes of his untimely death at age 45 remain conjectural. Snow suffered a paralysing stroke while working on his magnum opus, On Chloroform and Other Anaesthetics, and died a few days later on 16 June 1858. Snow had a history of renal problems associ...

The Royal Tiger of Bengal: His Life and Death

Pr. Fayrer is known to be a keen and successful pursuer of '? large game," and his sporting instincts come to the surface when he writes, " far be it from me to suggest ought that might appear to involve danger to human life, but I must say that I should regard the complete extinction of tigers with a regret something akin to that, with which annihilation of the fox would be regarded in England...

The Myth of the "Battered Husband Syndrome"