This is a major contribution to the expanding field of the history of alternative medicine in Germany. Martin Dinges, historian and archivist of the Homeopathy Archives of the Robert Bosch Institute for the History of Medicine, demands a new approach towards the history of homeopathy in order to overcome the traditional interest, which concentrated mainly on Samuel Hahnemann and the effect of c...

I will first introduce the concept of “cognitive-type” cortical microcircuit exemplified by the prefrontal cortex. Since mental disorders primarily implicate cognitive-type brain systems such as the prefrontal cortex, rather than early sensory systems, progress in this area holds the promise for a new approach to psychiatric diagnosis and treatment. I will review experimental and computational ...

The most famous epistemic paradox is Fitch’s paradox. In it, Frederic Fitch offered a counterexample to the Principle of Knowability (PK), namely, that any true proposition can be known. His example is the proposition that some proposition is true but not known. This proposition is not paradoxical or contradictory in itself, but contradicts (PK), which many have found appealing. What is really ...

In my dissertation, I offer a new reading of Thomas Reid's philosophy of mind, in which I bring attention to his so far overlooked view that we can entertain a singular thought about an individual substance – we can think directly about a particular object. What emerges is a picture of Reid's theory as psychologically sophisticated, anticipating some very recent and influential views in empiric...

Percutaneous nephrostomy has revolutionized urologic practice. Goodwin, Casey, and Woolf’s landmark report in 1955l described percutaneous trocar nephrostomy for temporary drainage of hydronephrosis in 16 patients. Following a twenty-five year period of relative dormancy, percutaneous access to the upper urinary tract became a fundamental diagnostic and therapeutic tool. The literature contains...

M alaria parasites can hijack red blood cells and escape immune defenses, producing a disease that causes tremendous rates of childhood mortality and disability, especially in Africa. Many medicines developed against malaria have lost efficacy, because the parasites evolve and gain resistance. Thomas E. Wellems, chief of the Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research in the Division of Intramura...

If Thomas Lodge, the doctor and poet, appears to have been somewhat quarrelsome and definitely litigious as his years increased, he came by those qualities honestly. His father was a merchant of consequence, having been successively Warden and Master of the Company of Grocers and Alderman, Sheriff, and Lord Mayor of the City of London. He was also, and this is more important, a man given to spe...