Medical

7th October 2007

"ever-welling monomanias": life with Asperger's syndrome

Via Scruffulans Hirsutus, a terribly well-written article from Tim Page in the October 7 New Yorker on life with Asperger's Syndrome. One thing I really like about the New Yorker is their refreshing use of the diaeresis.

10:53 am Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, Grammar, Medical, New Yorker, Tim Page

6th October 2007

Historical anatomy books online

Here, courtesy of the US National Library of Medicine in Bethesda MD. Fascinating stuff! Here's a plate from William Cheselden's 1733 Osteographia, or The anatomy of the bones:

4:42 pm Anatomy, Books, History, Medical

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.—St John of Patmos

And in these days of Lent they shall each receive a book from the library, which they shall read straight through from the beginning.—St Benedict of Nursia