Václav BLAŽEK. Indo-European “Smith” and his Divine Colleagues, 2010

The study of the human remains from Nubia: the contribution of Grafton Elliot Smith and his colleagues to palaeopathology.

Human remains have excited the curiosity and interest of the general public for centuries but their systematic study, and that of the diseases whose marks they bear, has been erratic and most often a fringe activity of those whose professional interests were directed mainly elsewhere. The first palaeopathological report appears to have been that of Esper' who described a tumour in the femur of ...

Richard Smith Junior and His Times

c r.as to the means by which she obtained them and was answered very to?% . . . . ' Where we get them all?from the old ward ' I will leave it you to interpret the meaning of the phrase " intended for the common of the ward " and will continue to report that Richard Smith collected thg11^.0^ these documents and with great industry and diligence arranged Wh^Vn chronological order as the 15 Volume...

Indo-European Loanwords in Altaic

Homer Smith: his contribution to physiology.

F or three decades, from the mid1930s until his death in 1962, Homer Smith was the preeminent figure among those interested in the physiology of the kidney. His leadership reflected not only the seminal research contributions of Smith and his colleagues and the conceptual framework that he developed, but also the extraordinary lucidity that he brought to the exposition of work in renal physiolo...

Indo-European Practice and Historical Methodology

One element of the recent controversy over historical methodology set o by Greenberg (1987)'s classi cation of American Indian languages has been his reliance on super cial lexical resemblances, with no attempt to establish phonological correspondences and no evidence from submerged morphology. Proponents of this methodology argue (Greenberg 1949, 1987, 1990, 1991 Ruhlen 1987) that this is the ...