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The journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 2005

Questions are not infrequently asked about the meaning of the motto displayed on the College Arms... more Questions are not infrequently asked about the meaning of the motto displayed on the College Arms. When a translation is offered--usually along the lines of 'It is forbidden to be cruel'--there is often puzzlement about why a College of Physicians should have chosen such a phrase to embody its aims and aspirations. In this essay I discuss the motto's relations to the couplet of Latin verse from which it derives and offer a possible explanation of how the misquotation--for such it is--that forms the motto may have come about. Then I say a little about the circumstances under which, some 2000 years ago, the Roman poet Ovid composed the poem which is its source. Finally, I show how consideration of an accurate text of Ovid's whole original couplet offers an interpretation of the motto that was apposite at the time of the College's foundation and is no less so more than three centuries later.

If looking for a ebook Third Symposium on Parkinson's Disease, held at the Royal College of S... more If looking for a ebook Third Symposium on Parkinson's Disease, held at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh on 20, 21 and 22 May 1968; by Edinburgh, 1968. 3d, Gillingham, F. J. ; Donaldson, Iain Malcolm Lane, ; Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Symposium on Parkinson's Disease in pdf format, then you've come to the correct site. We presented the complete option of this ebook in PDF, txt, doc, DjVu, ePub formats. You may read by Edinburgh, 1968. 3d, Gillingham, F. J. ; Donaldson, Iain Malcolm Lane, ; Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Symposium on Parkinson's Disease online Third Symposium on Parkinson's Disease, held at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh on 20, 21 and 22 May 1968; either load. Withal, on our website you may reading manuals and different artistic books online, or download theirs. We will draw your regard that our site does not store the eBook itself, but we provide url to the website wherever you may downloading or read on...

Neuroscience, 1989

Ahstraet-The responses of single units in tbe cerebellum, the vestibular nuclear complex and adja... more Ahstraet-The responses of single units in tbe cerebellum, the vestibular nuclear complex and adjacent regions of tbe brainstem and in tbt oculomotor nucleus were studied in dwrebrate, paralysed rainbow trout (Srtlmo g&&r&). Natural vestibular stimulation was provided by horizontal, sinusoidal oscillation of tbe fish and extraocular muscle agerents of the eye ipsilateral to the razording were activated either by passive eye-movement or by electrical stimulation of the trochlear (IV) nerve in the orbit. Unit responses to vestibular and/or orbital stimuli were examined in peristimulus-time histograms interleaved in time. In the cerebellum and brainstem, of I24 units exposed to both types of stimulus, 26 (21%) responded only to vestibular input, 26 (2 1%) were affected only by the orbital signal and 23 (18%) raoeived both signals. The remaining 49 units (39%) responded to mechanical stimulation of the head or body or to vibration; tbey were lahelied "polymodal" and discarded. The recording sites of 56 units were verified by histology; 30 were in the arehellum and 26 in tbc brainstem. Input from the eye muscles had excitatory or inhibitory effects upon the vestibular responses. Tbc effects of the orbital signal were usually phasic but rare tonic responses also occurred. About half (15 of 34) of the units which responded to passive

The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 2016

Opinions, advice and admonitions about human reproduction and its vicissitudes are to be found sc... more Opinions, advice and admonitions about human reproduction and its vicissitudes are to be found scattered through the medical writings of all ages. The attitude of the medical profession to these was far from consistent. There was sometimes acceptance that such expert opinion was important and that it was valuable-and there was the rub. Its value to those who needed the advice was not disputed-but it was also valuable as a source of income to medical professionals; too valuable, some felt, for it just to be given away by indiscriminate publication. It was not difficult to find reasons to maintain professional secrecy about the mysteries of reproduction; to the spectre of the danger to the public posed by exposing them to information they were not able to understand or use correctly-a well-worn argument for protection of the populace by maintaining secrecy-could be added appeals to decency and stern warnings that it would be outraged by making such matters public. One might say, for example, 'What responsible man would wish his wife, daughters or servants to be encouraged to contemplate, discuss andoh horror-to act upon such matters without his knowledge and approval?' These sentiments are common in, for example, the medical writings of the 16th century and have continued to be expressed in one form or another until the present. They were certainly still in the background in 18th century England.

Neuroscience, 1991

The localization of cell bodies and of the central terminal projections of extraocular muscle aff... more The localization of cell bodies and of the central terminal projections of extraocular muscle afferent neurons was examined in adult cats using transport of horseradish peroxidase. The results confirm that primary afferent cell somata subserving extraocular muscle proprioception are located within the medial portion of the ipsilateral trigeminal ganglion. Occasional labeling of cell bodies in the mesencephalic nucleus of the trigeminal nerve occurred only in association with evidence of spread of tracer beyond the eye muscles. These results, taken together with work of others, make it unlikely that the trigeminal mesencephalic nucleus participates significantly in eye muscle proprioception. The central projections of extraocular muscle afferent neurons were found consistently in a restricted area in the ventral portion of the pars interpolaris of the spinal trigeminal nucleus. This corresponds exactly with their site of termination in the monkey [Porter (1986) J. comp. Neurol. 247, 133-143]. Terminal labeling was restricted to this area in cases in which there was no evidence of spread of the tracer beyond the extraocular muscles. In contrast to previous findings in the monkey, the cat did not exhibit a second muscle afferent representation in the cuneate nucleus. Though it is known that extraocular muscle afferent signals interact with both retinal and vestibular signals, and thus probably are involved in both visual processing and oculomotor control, the details of their roles in these processes are not yet clear.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 2016

A chAllenge to gAlenic medicAl theory And prActice Galenic medicine still held sway in the 17th c... more A chAllenge to gAlenic medicAl theory And prActice Galenic medicine still held sway in the 17th century, sanctioned by authority, hallowed by centuries of practice and universally taught in the European Medical Schools. Galenic medicine provided a theoretical system to explain the origin of disease, and logical argument-Reason-deduced the required treatment. Disease was due to disturbance of the temperaments of the four humours and its cure had to be sought by rebalancing them, thus relieving the distemper. Since individuals differed in the natural balance of their humours, some being choleric, some melancholic and so on, the correct balance to be achieved for their cure also differed from one patient to the next-not because their diseases might differ but because they differed. Diseases were not different entities-indeed there was 'disease' rather than diseases; there were no varieties of sickness, only varieties of sick patients.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1983

lisher, that this is not a translation of a book published in Russian. Instead the book was prepa... more lisher, that this is not a translation of a book published in Russian. Instead the book was prepared with an English-reading audience in mind. This inference is borne out by the fact that approximately two-thirds of the references are to English language sources. The book was translated into English by V. V. Vavilova who has provided an excellent text with no trace of foreign idioms. The printing and binding meet the high standards that one is accustomed to finding in the Springer-Verlag technical books. •M. Brekhovskikh, Waves in Layered Media (Academic,