was a great opium-eater and gunja-smoker. On his return home he took about 5 grs. of opium on an empty stomach, and afterwards partook of a hearty meal of bread and dhal. The next day his bowels were constipated and with difficulty he evacuated a small hard lump of faeces. Since then he has had no action from the bowels, though he strained a good deal. He was always accustomed to have his bowel...

during the medieval iranian history, many of courtiers were aware of medicine. by the thirteenth and fourteenth century, under mongol yoke, a lot of minorities emancipated of abasid caliphate ties and could perform his religious deed. because of his jewish affiliation, rashid al-dincould join as an apothecary in the mongolian circles. large though mongol numbers were, they employed iranian sage...

Expanding on current advancements in divorce and dispute resolution research, an integrative, and process-oriented model is presented. The primary purpose is to investigate how pre-trajectory, trajectory, and arrangement factors are related to post-divorce personal wellbeing. To this end, questionnaire-data were collected in two sessions from a representative sample of Flemish divorcing persons...

Mr. Keetley's work on orthopaedic surgery has appeared at a time when many such books have been published. He tells us, however, that he planned the work twenty years ago, and that though he recognises that now there is no great want for such a book, he still thinks that his observations in orthopaedic surgery, extending over a period of more than twenty years, should now be published. And clea...