The history of medicine has conventionally been studied by research into prose medical texts, which provide an index of the depth of the professional knowledge available to the contemporary physician, but examination of poetry gives a measure of the diffusion of this knowledge into the laity. William Harvey's monumental discovery of the circulation of the blood in 1628 is now acknowledged as a ...

Dr. Elisha Perkins' "metallic points to relieve pain"* began their career in Connecticut in 1795. During the following decade they were the subject of intense controversy both here and abroad. In the literature that sprang up about Perkinism there were two long, satirical poems: one lauded the "points," the other derided them. The laudatory poem was published in London in 1803 by Thomas Green F...

adaption of metaphor and allusion has been always considered as the most valuable literary representations and seved as an appropriate device for benchmarking versification potential in poets. as one of shiite poets, seyed hemyari who has devoted his verse for defense from al-ul-bayt (pbut) has benefitted successfully from rhetoric images in this field. despite of its simplicity and plainness i...

â â â  contemporary arabic poetry in khuzestan â  â  â  * gholamhosein karimifard â  malek kab omyr ** â  â  abstract â â â  khuzestan arabic poetry in contemporary age has continued its progress and dehiscence. in spite of following old poetry, it shows the changes and renewal in the form and poetical objects and style. this poetry has been influenced by contemporary arabic poetry and its poet...

This paper questions Hegel’s critique to the central place that Romantic authors Friedrich Schlegel andNovalis gave dimension of affection in their philosophical thinking, as well way theylink philosophy and poetry. The summit this affective poetical tendency Romantics is theso-called Sehnsucht – infinite longing or aspiration which Hegel criticizes a very truculentmanner. interest debate not l...

Abstract A close reading of two poetical sources provides new data on the reforms fiscal schedule Abbasid state in ninth century. This paper reconstructs calendrical complications those regions that followed Iranian administrative tradition and its solar calendar without intercalations. Two were issued under al-Mutawakkil al-Muʿtaḍid to correct these regions. panegyric by al-Buḥturī allows us c...