to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. We cower under stars and stripes While horrors unfold and threaten the future Armies, governments, news hounds Chase their tails and the tales of violence, But the crucial culprit, collective fear, Pervades our lives. Fear that infectious disease of humans, With strains varied as the common cold, Has no ...

The operation of ovariotomy not long ago was looked upon as an unwarrantable proceeding; nor need it be wondered at when we know the terrible feelings of dread with which surgeons regarded interference with the peritonseum, and the extremely exaggerated fears they had of peritonitis. Bat within the last twenty years the labours of Mr Spencer Wells, Dr Thomas Keith, etc., in this country, and of...

It frequently has been observed that people discount future rewards relative to present rewards. However, the literature on intertemporal choices involving emotional upsets and losses is fraught with inconsistencies, with some studies finding similar discounting of gains and losses, and others reporting that participants elect to undergo negative experiences sooner rather than later. To help re...