the zoroastrian persian calendar in a medieval hebrew treatise on the jewish calendar by abraham bar ḥiyya

A medieval Hebrew treatise on obstetrics.

Recent years have shown an increasing interest in the history ofmedicine. This is no longer a distant, estranged branch ofstudy, reserved for a handful ofspecialists, but an important part of the framework encompassing the study of the past. An especially vital facet ofthis discipline is the history ofwomen's medicine, from which much can be learned concerning the ways in which our forebears vi...

The Calendar Native Speaker

to the 2000-2001 academic year! I am pleased to announce that we have finally organized a Web site for the Labs. Please check it out. The URL is: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/lla. We are interested in your comments, criticisms and suggestions. A Web site is always a work in progress, but that is especially the case for ours this year. Our primary goal is to create a site that is useful for th...

An unknown Hebrew medical alchemist: a medieval treatise on the quinta essentia.

INTRODUCTION AMONG the many Latin writings published under the name of Ramon Lull (c. 1235-c. 1316), the famous Majorcan Christian mystic, philosopher, and missionary, styled doctor illuminatus and sacer doctor, there are several that deal with the fabulous quinta essentia, the purest of essences, which was supposed to have the power to rejuvenate the old and to cure all kinds of diseases, incl...

The Ambient Calendar

It is becoming difficult to convey information from an everincreasing number of digital sources to users in a condensed and meaningful way. This growth has particularly occurred with peripheral information sources. These are of general interest to users, but do no require or typically command constant focus or attention. Examples include weather, stock data, blogs, and calendars. Ambient Displa...

Conference Calendar

Conference Calendar

Human Genomics and Genetics KEY — Genome sequence variation and the inherited basis of common disease and complex traits, January 8–13