With great interest, I read Kompanje’s (2006) clinical case report about a remarkable penis-shortening device invented in 1593 by the surgeon Hildanus. With this letter, I want to point your readers to an even older description of a similar device—not by a medical scholar, but by the great Persian humanist, philosopher, and poet Jalal-ud-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207–1273). In his poem, ‘‘The Importa...

this paper examines the nature of language in the works of mawlana jalal al-din rumi and consists of three sections: language and reality in rumi; the complex view of language in fihi ma fihi (the discourses of rumi); and, poetry and mysticism in rumi. the paper discusses three main topics: rumi's ambivalent attitude to language, which is seen as both a means of conveying truth and guidanc...

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Daisuke Tanaka, Tomoko Shima, Junko Isobe, Masanori Watahiki*, Masakado Matsumoto, Miyoko Endoh, Rumi Okuno, Kikuyo Ogata and Yoshiyuki Nagai Department of Bacteriology, Toyama Institute of Health, Toyama 939-0363; Department of Microbiology, Aichi Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Nagoya 462-8576; Department of Microbiology, Tokyo Metropolitan Public Health Research Institute, Tokyo 169-...