Yu.E. Veltischev. An outstanding pediatrician ahead of his time

Malcolm MacLean, Jr.: Ahead of His Time and Ahead of Our Time

Sándor Ferenczi: Secret Rebel Ahead of His Time.

The Legacy of Sándor Ferenczi: From Ghost to Ancestor. Edited by Adrienne Harris and Steven Kuchuck, New York: Routledge, 2015. 300 pp.

The Semantics of yue ... yue in Mandarin Chinese: an implication for the argument structure of verbs

The key difference between the comparative correlative in (1) and the iterative comparative in (2) lies in that the first yue in (1) precedes a gradable adjective, duo ‘many’, whereas the first yue in (2) precedes a non-gradable verb, pao ‘to run’. (1) and (2) are truth-conditionally distinct: (2) expresses a necessarily temporal reading that (1) does not have. Given the scenario in (8), (1) is...

Erich Mühe and the Rejection of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy (1985): A Surgeon Ahead of His Time

During the early 1980s, news of Semm's laparoscopic appendectomy was rippling through German medical circles. Erich Mühe, fascinated by Semm's technique and spurred by successes of the Erlangen endoscopists, came up with the idea of laparoscopic removal of gallstones. In 1984, Mühe had already worked out the details of an operative laparoscope, the "Galloscope," and on September 12, 1985, he ca...

Ambroise Paré (1510 to 1590): a surgeon centuries ahead of his time.

In their extensive writings, Hippocrates and Celsus counseled physicians to be knowledgeable in both the medical and surgical management of patient recovery. However, their words fell by the wayside because cutting of the body was forbidden by the Roman Catholic Church. Furthermore, the contemporaneous Arabic medical teachings emphasized tradition and authority over observation and personal exp...