Birthplace of Ismaeil Jorjani, a renowned Iranian physician: Jorjan (near the present-day Gonbad-e Kavus) or Urgench (in the present-day Uzbekistan)

The Present Day Treatment

In the last three or four years the treatment of diabetes has been greatly simplified, and the introduction of insulin has enabled the general practitioner to treat diabetes with a considerable degree of success. Yet there still appears to exist some confusion as to the indications and contraindications for certain well established therapeutic measures in the management of diabetes. It is the p...

Present-day Psychology

PRESENT-DAY PSYCHOLOGY. A. A. Roback, Editor, with the collaboration of forty experts in the variouis fields. New York, Philosophical Library. 1955. xiv, 995 pp. $12.00. In this volume an attempt is made to survey the entire field of contemporary psychology, incltudinig not only the traditional topics of academlic psychological interest, such as perception, cognition, attention, emotionl, etc.,...

Present-day Cluster Formation

A review is presented of some of the observed features of cluster formation in our Galaxy and in external galaxies. Evidence is summarized suggesting that star clusters form only in the densest parts of large star-forming complexes, and that the molecular clumps in which they form are compressed in part by the effects of earlier star formation. The formation of massive globular-like clusters ap...

Croup-present day concept.

Present-Day Deductive Planning

What does deductive planning really mean? Surprisingly, this question recently came up at the International Workshop on De-ductive Approaches to Plan Generation and Plan Recognition 7]. It turned out during the discussion that there are two diierent points of view. One|apparently more widespread among the American planning community|tends to use deductive for all approaches which are based on s...

the story of stoechas: from antiquity to the present day

the information about herbs’ medicinal properties is ample in traditional manuscripts, some of which are of value even in modern medicine. however, it is not usually easy to put it into practice. identifying traditional herbs and determining their scientific names are very challenging, calling for many ethnopharmacological studies. one significant herb in traditional medicine is stoechas. its m...