soldiers, Marines, and sailors were able to receive the best medical care. But with flu vaccines yet to be invented, the only effective weapon doctors had against the spread of infectious diseases was the quarantine. Unfortunately, with
A colleague of mine, Dr. Robert Brent, talks about medicine—as an excuse from living. I said that correctly and did not mean—an excuse for living. This profession, of which I am so proud, and you are about to enter, is seductive and potentially consuming—an insatiable mistress or lov...
The crimson and gold banners at the back of the crowd are inscribed with the names of the various “fronts” in the Red Army’s campaign against the Wehrmacht. Photo: Roman Goncharenko/Deutsche Welle For the first half of the day, at least, things seemed relatively calm. Your ...
6. I spent many hours studying those prescriptions, spotting tiny differences between each visit: three extra grams of this, a little bit less of that. I memorized the names of the usual ingredients: gold and silver flower, fish grass, grand yellow, ruby sky. They read like a poem. 34....
( get it.. both names start with an A, and both of our 2ndchildren are girls, AND they are 16 months apart in age). We both became grandmothers for the first time together (2 days apart). I remember being really mad (I think I was 12 or 13 yrs old) at her because I wanted ...
These are not Shannon’s proprietary names (some are from Pure West Compassion Club, an alternative healthcare facility in Holland, Michigan)—but those will come in time. His company LightSky Farms (LSF) fully intends to develop strains that fit the particular chemical and organoleptic profile ...
and sterile suburban tracts on the other. But these romantic perceptions, along with place names drawn from pre-urban farms, farmers markets and street festivals, were brought into being by the migrants themselves. “Boerum Hill, for example, was a name invented in the 1960s and 1970s to de...
We have become very familiar with terms like xenophobia, sexism, and racism. We know what those words mean. And while we have not successfully eradicated such things from society, we have identified these problems enough to give them names. There is another term that we as a society must br...
a personal tragedy which might have inspiredHamlet –according to the Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt,the names were interchangeable at the time. Fellow playwright Ben Jonson also lost a son to plague and afterwards wrote the deeply affecting poem:On my First Sonne,an elegy for a seven year...
“Your Godchild is a girl too, I believe,” said Euphrosyne to Ianthe [Fairies are privileged, you know, to have romantic names] “what do you think of bestowing upon her?”“Why,” answered Ianthe, “the old story, I suppose–BEAUTY: at least such was my intention, but if you can...