Will Pickles of Wensleydale. The Life of a Country Doctor. by JOHN PEMBERTON, London, Geoffrey Bles, 1970, pp. 224, illus., £2-50. Will Pickles (1885-1969) was a country general practitioner of Wensleydale, who made a positive contribution to epidemiology, defining the incubation periods of infectious fevers by a method which he described as 'the short and only possible contact'. He applied a s...

A TIMELESS PERSONALITY-A DELIGHTFUL MEMORY " In the Flood of life in the storm of deeds I surge and ebb, Weaving to and fro An eternal sea A changing weaving A glowing life I create at the whirring loom of time And work the deities' living garb " (Goethe in Faust) The subject of this eulogy was a towering colossus among Indian scientists, who pioneered the study of neurosciences in the subconti...

Will Pickles of Wensleydale. The Life of a Country Doctor. by JOHN PEMBERTON, London, Geoffrey Bles, 1970, pp. 224, illus., £2-50. Will Pickles (1885-1969) was a country general practitioner of Wensleydale, who made a positive contribution to epidemiology, defining the incubation periods of infectious fevers by a method which he described as 'the short and only possible contact'. He applied a s...

A young woman twenty-six weeks pregnant and dying from cancer lies heavily sedated and attached to a respirator. Is she competent to determine what life-prolonging measures should be taken, or to consent to an emergency cesarean section that may save her fetus but will probably shorten her life? A quadriplegic young man wishes to end his life and requests a court order granting immunity for the...

We argue that an expressivist interpretation of “The Will to Believe” provides a fruitful way of understanding this widely-read but perplexing document. James approaches questions about our intellectual obligations from two quite different standpoints. He first defends an expressivist interpretation of judgments of intellectual obligation; they are “only expressions of our passional life”. Only...

member of the teaching staff in yazd university. the musha'sha'ids'uprising in south region of mesopotamia and khoozestan was performed under the sayyid mohammad b.falah's leadership (died in 870 a.h.) and then shiite's centeral government under the centerality of hoveizeh was established. until now, we don,t have considerable works about sayyid mohammad b.falah's ...