Swift's half-way house.

Swift's shifting satiric strategy in Gulliver's travels

Revisiting Castlio and Ferris-Swift's experiments on direct splenic stimulation in patients with acute infectious disease.

BACKGROUND In 1934, Yale Castlio, DO, and Louise Ferris-Swift, DO, published the results of a within-subjects experiment on direct splenic stimulation in patients with acute infectious disease (N=100). Their results, which used rudimentary statistical analyses, are still cited as evidence that osteopathic manipulative treatment augments immunity. OBJECTIVE To retest the validity of Castlio an...

خاندان اشعری و تأثیر آن بر سیر تحول مکتب حدیثی قم

In a historical survey of the traditionist [tradition-oriented] schools, sometimes we meet with certain houses which had substantial effect on the development of those schools, in a way that one cannot discuss those schools without considering the role and influence of those houses. In this respect the influence of the Asharite House on the traditionist school of Qom is so vast that one may s...

Swift and the physicians: aspects of satire and status.

GEORGE ELIOT wrote that "about the year 1829 the dark territories of pathology were a fine America for a spirited young adventurer." The adventurer was Lydgate, who had preferred Rasselas or Gulliver to the Bible or Bayle's dictionary until he discovered the medical profession, "the finest in the world, presenting the most perfect interchange between science and art, offering the most direct al...

Language and memory disorder in the case of Jonathan Swift: considerations on retrospective diagnosis.

The cause of behavioural changes described by Alzheimer for his original case, Auguste D., has been recently reconfirmed by histological examination. However, there has been active speculation regarding the cause of behavioural changes exhibited by the political satirist Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) during the final three years of his life for over 250 years. Swift's symptoms of cognitive changes...