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Temperance took on many meanings in 19th century
The 18th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1919. The American public tolerated it, in a manner of speaking, for about 14 years and...
Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 07/25/06 by Stanley M. Aronson The Providence Journal · More from publication -
Words of Hematology, The
Hematology required the Invention of the clinical microscope to achieve its status as a major subspecialty of internal medicine. Therefore most of...
Medicine and Health Rhode Island, 07/01/06 by Aronson, Stanley M · More from publication -
Temper My Spirits, Oh Lord
The 18th Amendment of the United States Constitution was ratified in 1919. The American public tolerated it, in a manner of speaking, for about 14...
Medicine and Health Rhode Island, 07/01/06 by Aronson, Stanley M · More from publication -
Nantucket Native American Sickness of 1763-1764, The
In 1763-1764, an epidemic ravaged the Native American population of Nantucket, an island 40 kilometers off the Atlantic coast of Massachusetts. Of...
Medicine and Health Rhode Island, 07/01/06 by Feller, Alexander A; Lepore, Timothy J; Aronson, Stanley M; Feller, Edward R · More from publication -
Science, reality deal harshly with claims of eugenicists
Few remember the name of Carrie Buck, a citizen of Virginia who died in anonymity in 1983. Yet her name and the legally sanctioned travails she...
Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 06/26/06 by Stanley M. Aronson The Providence Journal · More from publication -
Right of the State To Sterilize, The
Few now remember the name of Carrie Buck, a citizen of Virginia who died in anonymity in 1983. Yet her name, and the legally sanctioned travails...
Medicine and Health Rhode Island, 06/01/06 by Aronson, Stanley M · More from publication -
Those Visceral Words
The anatomical contents of the abdominal cavity [sometimes referred to colloquially as the guts, from an old German word meaning a channel as in...
Medicine and Health Rhode Island, 06/01/06 by Aronson, Stanley M · More from publication -
A Chestful of Words
HEART DISEASE, and particularly ischemic or occlusive cardiovascular disease, is the dominant medical disability ofWestern civilization. An...
Medicine and Health Rhode Island, 05/01/06 by Aronson, Stanley M · More from publication -
May Sheep Safely Graze?
MARCH 12, 2004: An otherwise healthy 51 year-old woman, living in a rural, upstate New York community, visited her physician because of an isolated...
Medicine and Health Rhode Island, 05/01/06 by Aronson, Stanley M · More from publication -
A SKELETAL ETYMOLOGY, PART II
The word, vertebra, is derived from the Latin, vertere, meaning to rotate or turn, as in words such as vertigo or retroversion. It was the French...
Medicine and Health Rhode Island, 04/01/06 by Aronson, Stanley M · More from publication
