Additional Reports on the Effects of a peculiar Regimen in Cases of Cancer, Scrofula, Consumption, Asthma, and. other Chronic Diseases. By William Lambe, M. D. 1 vol. 8vo. pp. 526. London, 1815. That death is the common lot of all mankind, cannot be denied ; but that its 'premature accession, by the long black catalogue of diseases, is owing to the tenderness, the luxury, and corruptions introd...

There is nothing which is more common than to hear people speak of possessing a knowledge of human nature. It is usual to signify by this a mere acquaintance with the vices of mankind, which does, indeed, form one part of this knowledge, but it is not all. What is called a knowledge of human nature is said to be acquired only by mixing with the world, which implies that a real intimacy with the...

Assortment size has been shown to influence whether consumers make a choice, but could it also influence what they choose? Five studies demonstrate that because choosing from larger assortments is often more difficult, it leads people to select options that are easier to justify. Virtues and utilitarian necessities are generally easier to justify than indulgences; consequently, choosing from la...

The University of Michigan Digital Library is a large scale confederation of software agents providing li brary content and services to users and each other within a distributed network environment Alloca tion of resources and activities to the various agents is determined through a market based negotiation process where agents tender o ers to buy or sell ser vices basic resources and other inf...

Performance tuning in the embedded systems domain poses a new set of challenges for software and hardware designers. Techniques proven to work for general purpose architectures can not always be directly applied to the signal processor environment. Program analysis tools have been shown to be invaluable in the analysis of general purpose microprocessors. We anticipate that similar tools will be...

Grid Com puting is a p latform f or coord inated r esource sharing and problem solving on a global scale among vir tual organizations. Grid uses Grid Services to access and use a set of Grid resources. Subsequently, these Grid Ser vices need to be discov ered, selected and invoked quickly and efficiently to s atisfy the needs of a demanding environment such as Grid. In this pap er, we introd uc...

More than 700 years ago, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) wrote an epic poem about a man's journey through the afterworlds of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. In his Divine Comedy, he catalogued the vices and virtues of people who had passed into those spiritual domains, in part to provide a valuable insight to us, the living. Dante described hell as a very unhappy and inhospitable place that had differe...

Apomorphine, now established as an efficacious therapy for refractory motor fluctuations in levodopa-treated Parkinson's disease, has a long and chequered history in medical and veterinary therapeutics. The preclinical in vivo pharmacological effects of apomorphine were first studied about 150 years ago following which the drug was introduced for the treatment of behavioural vices in domesticat...

Atlanto-axial and lower cervical subluxations are frequently present in rhematoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis. Vertebral erosions, particularly of the odontoid process, can often be demonstrated. Rheumatoid involvement of the occipito-atlanto-axial joints may cause a vertical translation of the cervical spine with respect to the skull; at times, this is associated with true basilar inv...

This article examines associations between fat bodies and reproductive dysfunction that were prevalent in medical, midwifery and other literature in early modern England. In a period when fertility and successful reproduction were regarded as hugely important for social, economic and political stability such associations further contributed to negative attitudes towards fat bodies that were fue...