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Daily Archives: July 2, 2015
Reporting on the Summer Garden
The garden flowers beautifully but the weeds rampage luxuriantly. Continue reading
A Footnote to Frankenstein: Paracelsus and his Introduction of Laudanum to Western Medicine
In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, Victor is set on his scientific quest to create new life in part by reading the words of Paraselsus, whose full name was Philip Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim (d. 1541). He rebelled against common ideas … Continue reading
Cooling off in the Rhein
For our vacation (and husband’s work), we traveled to Switzerland. The first part of the stay was in Grindelwald and the second part in Basel. Basel (and Europe) is suffering in a heat wave with temperatures about 100 F or … Continue reading