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Solanum dulcamara
No full textAmara-Dulcis Considering diverse shires in this nation give divers names of one and the same herb, and that common name which it bears in once ounty, is not known known in another; I shall take the pains to set down all the names that I know of each herb. Pardon me for setting that name first which is most common to myself; besides amara-dulcis, some call it morral, others bitter-sweet, some woody-nightshade, and others felon-wort. DESCRIPTION. It grows up with woody stalks even to a man's height, and sometimes higher: the leaves fall off at the approach of winter, and spring out of the same stark again at spring time; the bracnh in encompassed about with a whitish bark, and hath a peth in the middle of it; the main branch brncheth itself out into many small ones, with clasper, layinghold on what is next to them, as cines do; it bears many leaves, they grow in no order at all, or at leastwise in not vulgar order; the leaves are longith, thought somewhat broad and pointed at the ends; manz of them have two little leaves growing at the end of their goot taslk, some of them have but one, and some none; the leavesare of a pale green colour; the flowers are of a purple colour, or aof a perfect blue, lile a violets, and they stand many of them together in knots; the berries are green at the first, but when they are ripe, they are very red; if you tastte them, you shall find them just as the crabs which we in Sussex call bitter-sweet, viz. sweet at first, and bitter afterwards. PLACE. They grow commonly almost throughout England, especially in moist and shady places. TIME. The leaves shoot out about the latter end of March; if the temperature of the air be ordinary, it flowereth in July, and the seeds are ripe soon after, usually in the next month. GOVERNMENT AND VIRTUES. It is under the planet Mercury, and a notable herb of his also, if it be rightly gathered under his influence: It is excellent good to remove withcraft, both in men and beafts; as also all sudden diseases whatsoever. Being tied about the neck, it is one of the most admirable remedies for the vertigo, of dissiness in the head, and that is the reason (as Tragus saith) the people in Germany commonly hang it about their cattle's neck wehn they fear any such evil hath besided them. Courntry people commonly use to take the berries of it, and having bruised them, they apply them to felons, and thereby soon rid their fingers of such troublsome guests. We have now shewed you the the external use of the herb, we shall speak a word or two of the internal, and so conclude. Take notice, that it is a mercurial herb, and therefore of very subtle parts, as indeed all mercurial plants are; therefore take a pound of the wood and leaves together, bruise the wood, (which you may easily do, for it is not so hard as oak) then put it in a pot, and put to it three pints of white wine, put on the pot lid, and shut it close, then let it infuse hot over the gentle fire twelve hours, then strain it out, so you have a most excellent drink to open abstructions of the live and spleen, to help difficulty of breath, bruises, and falls, and congealed blood in any part of the body, to help the yellow jaundice, the dropsy, and black jaundice, and to cleanse women newly brought to bed. You may drink a quarter of a pint of the infusion every morning; it purgeth the body very gently, and not churlishly as some hold. And when you find good by this, remeber me.Published as part of Culpeper Nicholas, 1654, Amara-Dulcis, pp. 49-50 in Culpeper's English physician; and complete herbal., London :Printed by the author on pages 49-5
Best and nearest way to physick and chyrurgery
No full textTranslation of: Encheiridium anatomicum et pathologicumSignatures: A⠴ D-P⠴ T-Z⠴ 2A-2N⠴ 3A-3D²Includes index(on title page) 1 Describing all, and every of the bones of mans body, according to the antient method. 2 Describing the belly, and all its parts and bowels, with their respective diseases. 3 Describing the chest and all its parts and contents, with their respective diseases. 4 Describing the head, and face, with all their parts containing and contained, and their respective diseases. 6 [i.e. 5] Describing the limbs of the body, with the many regiments of muscles, and their diseases. 5 [i.e. 6] Containing a new description of the bones, by a method first invented by our author, handling all the diseases and symptomes of the said bone
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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No full textPhilastrogus = Robert Lilburne.A reply to Culpeper, Nicholas. An ephemeris for the year 1652.Annotation on Thomason copy: "March. 15. 1651".Reproduction of the original in the British Library.Wing (2nd ed.)ThomasonElectronic reproduction
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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