The following note contains some lay reflections on the mass of medical material which may be found in collections of old family papers in Scotland. The Cromartie family papers, to which I have recently been given access, contain quite a lot of this sort of material. These papers were sorted into categories by William Fraser when he was working on the two-volume History of the Earls of Cromarti...

The works discussed in this article reflect tendencies contemporary French-language poetry that address ecological and existential crises. Prevalent a number of collections is decided interest exploration, memory, safeguarding our humanity.

The Image Analysis for Archival Discovery (Aida) project team is investigating the use of image analysis to identify poetic content in historic newspapers. The project seeks both to augment the study of literary history by drawing attention to the magnitude of poetry published in newspapers and by making the poetry more readily available for study, as well as to advance work on the use of digit...

Conveying scientific content with accuracy and fluency takes practice and requires deep understanding of the concepts being conveyed. This depth of knowledge comes from internalizing information and constructing it into a form that is unique and coherent to the individual. Often in science classrooms there is little or no opportunity for students to practice this type of thinking, activities th...

The history of medicine has conventionally been studied by research into prose medical texts, which provide an index of the depth of the professional knowledge available to the contemporary physician, but examination of poetry gives a measure of the diffusion of this knowledge into the laity. William Harvey's monumental discovery of the circulation of the blood in 1628 is now acknowledged as a ...

William Osler is quoted as saying, "Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life-the poetry of the commonplace, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs."(1) A family physician reflects how he continues to derive sustenance from having cared ...

The article discusses selected poetry by Darko Suvin against the background of his theoretical writings about science fiction, utopia and poetry. It argues that Suvin’s estranges ideological view present history as an inevitable reproduction injustice alienation. focus is on several poems included in collections Long March: Notes Way 1981–1984 (1987) Defined a Hollow: Essays Utopia, Science Fic...