AT a public meeting of the Royal Medical Society at Paris, on the 13th of March 1783, the premium of 1200 livres offered by the fociety in 1778 for the beft difiertation on the treatment of hydrophobia, was divided between three of the candidates; one of theie, M. le Roux, furgeon-major to the General Hofpital at Dijon, whofe effay was fuppofed to have the moft merit, though not enough to entit...

TH E Royal College of Phyficians at Nancy have propofed the following prize questions : " i. What are the unwholefome proper" ties of fnow water, ice water, or the waters " of chalky and gypfeous foils ? What affinities " and diftinftions are there between thefe four " fpecies of water, relative to their chemical <c compofition and their dietetic effects ? What " is the reafon that all waters w...

TH E academy of fciences at Dijon hav? propofed the following fubjeft for a prizp of three hundred livres value : "To determine " with greater precifion than hath been hitherto done, the charafteriftic fymptoms of intermit" .tent fevers, and to point out in the cleareft " manner the circumftances in which febrifuge " remedies may be employed with advantage, kt and without danger to the Tick." T...

“Practice” has become a ubiquitous term in the history of science, and yet historians have not always reflected on its philosophical import and in particular on its potential connections with ethics. This essay draws on the work of the virtue ethicist Alasdair MacIntyre to develop a theory of “communal practices” and explore how such an approach can inform the history of science, including alle...

The examination of a practical issue with a web site has lead directly to the consideration of the need for, and impact of, an approach based on fundamental theories of “what is” to examine what information systems research is and the relations of the component areas of endeavour. This paper presents an examination of the use of the philosophical field of ontologies, and specifically the use of...