Sir,?The present diet of the Tamils is not what is prescribed in their Ancient Medical Texts. These texts are written by Saints like Thiruvalluvar, Thirumular, Agastiar, etc., who are generally known as ' Siddar' in Tamil. Owing to foreign influence and influx of time, their diet has undergone several changes all for the worse. In this letter I don't propose to give you the full details of the ...

The role of information structure in determining the placement of pitch accent in English is often reduced to notions of Focus (e.g. Chomsky, 1971; Vallduvı́, 1990; Rooth, 1992; Roberts, 1996) and Givenness (e.g. Chafe, 1974; Schwarzschild, 1999; Féry & Samek-Lodovici, 2006; Selkirk, 2007). In question-answer pairs like the following,1 the default sentential stress pattern of English, where the ...

Non-structure preserving phonological processes are defined by the emergence of a segment which is assumed to be absent from the lexical inventory of the language in question and, hence not contrastive. A central tenet of Optimality Theory (OT; Prince & Smolensky 1993/2004, McCarthy & Prince 1993, 1995, 1999), the Richness of the Base Hypothesis (RotB; Prince & Smolensky 1993) states that lingu...

brings added value to the study of pain and suffering? For teachers like me who are planning to co-teach a course on religion and medicine, in my case to students from Harvard Medical School and from Harvard Divinity School, this collection is a step forward, but it would have been more helpful if it had set up an ongoing dialogue between its two parts, forcing scholars who are comfortable anal...

The genealogy of observation as a philosophical term goes back to the ancient Greek astronomical and medical traditions, and the revival of the concept in the Renaissance also happened in the astronomical and medical context. This essay focuses primarily on the medical genealogy of the concept of observation. In ancient Greek culture, an elaboration of the concept of observation (tērēsis) first...

the human knowledge on orthopedics traces back to dawn of the medical history. during the history of medicine, several scholars including persian scientists investigated orthopedics and contributed to its flowering. abu ali al-hussain ibn abdullah ibn-sina is a great persian physician whose opinions on various aspects of medicine, including the science of orthopedics, are so remarkable. in this...

Epilepsy and seizures have been described and treatment has been attempted for at least 4000 years. There are early accounts describing treatment of seizures in ancient Persia, India, and China. Treatments have ranged from drinking a gladiator’s blood in first century Rome to the modern era of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). Potassium bromide was first introduced as treatment for epilepsy in 1857. ...

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