comprehensive idea of his methods and his clinical attitudes is presented by dealing at length with the regimen of health prescribed for John Hamilton, archbishop of St. Andrews. In spite of its brief compass, this book is a mine of instruction and is to be highly commended. M. Fierz' modesty, expressed in the foreword, is also something to be admired. The social history of medicine is the idea...

These essays prefigure many of Ryle's later ideas on "social medicine". For Ryle, the biomedical sciences had narrowed the scope ofmedicine in an era when it most needed to expand its horizons, epistemology, and aims. He was later to recruit the methods of the modern social sciences to enhance his idea of clinical practice as the natural history of disease in order to place it on a preventive b...

khānsār was one of the principal cities of isfahan district in qajar era. the city is mentioned repeatedly in historical texts and visited frequently by european travelers khānsār was celebrated in qajar era for presence of significant cultural and artistic figures in the city as well as production of various commercial products. the remnants of commercial monuments such as qajar bazar or kārva...