The article introduces the concept of “explosive ideas”, along with an emphasis on diverse function three types “explosions” in mode meeting texts culture. author illustrates his practice reading, lecturing, and writing books basis five forms effect”, inscribed in: (a) new meanings well-known terms, destroying banality; (b) terms as “screens”, revealing otherwise invisible phenomena; (3) eye-op...

Sir Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, ed. by GEOFFREY KEYNES, London, Faber & Faber, 1968, pp. 416, illus., 50s. Sir Thomas Browne and Sir Geoffrey Keynes have this in common, that both were and are devoted to medicine and literature. However, Sir Geoffrey would seem to have the edge on Sir Thomas in that he is distinguished in both, whereas Sir Thomas's medical contributions were of no great i...

A description of the actual treatment of the insane in medieval Islamic society is a difficult task for three major reasons. First, the medical texts, especially the well-known treatise on insanity by Ishaq ibn 'Imran,2 give descriptions of various mental disturbances and their therapies; these accounts are, however, usually restricted to the Galenic tradition, are generally nonclinical, and do...