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hawkwing_lb) wrote2010-01-24 07:11 pm
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Books 2010: unmixed stools followed by dysentery are bad
Books 2010: 9
non-fiction
9. Hippocratic Writings, Penguin Classics, London, 1978. Trans. J. Chadwick, W.N. Mann, I.M. Lonie, and E.T. Witherington.
The ways in which this are informative about Greek medical thought in the fifth and fourth centuries BC are many. Nearly as many as the ways in which this is utterly horrifying. Be glad we live among modern medicine, my friends. Be very glad.
I found the translation somewhat annoying, in that specific medical terminology - such as epistaxis, which means nosebleed - is used without being footnoted or explained. As few students of the classics are well read on topics such as tenesmus, strangury, dysuria, dyspnoea, enteritis and so on, you might think the editor would have included a glossary. Alas not.
Good climbing day. Led the 6A on the roof, another 6A, and a 5. Topropped a 6A and a 6A+, and improved my project 6C: another two weeks, and I'll have done it without cheating, I think. (Not without stopping, but without cheating.) So it will have only taken three or four months.
I picked out another project 6C today, in anticipation, since the usual alternate was in use. It is an evil, evil grey route that combines balance, strength, fingerclings, and an evil overhang I have yet to reach.
Also topropped the slab 5, and did the one-handed (left-hand then right-hand) climbs of the 3. So all in all a good day. Although I still feel as though I could have climbed more: I don't feel as though you could wipe the floor with me.
Which is probably good, since I have to get up tomorrow.
non-fiction
9. Hippocratic Writings, Penguin Classics, London, 1978. Trans. J. Chadwick, W.N. Mann, I.M. Lonie, and E.T. Witherington.
The ways in which this are informative about Greek medical thought in the fifth and fourth centuries BC are many. Nearly as many as the ways in which this is utterly horrifying. Be glad we live among modern medicine, my friends. Be very glad.
I found the translation somewhat annoying, in that specific medical terminology - such as epistaxis, which means nosebleed - is used without being footnoted or explained. As few students of the classics are well read on topics such as tenesmus, strangury, dysuria, dyspnoea, enteritis and so on, you might think the editor would have included a glossary. Alas not.
Good climbing day. Led the 6A on the roof, another 6A, and a 5. Topropped a 6A and a 6A+, and improved my project 6C: another two weeks, and I'll have done it without cheating, I think. (Not without stopping, but without cheating.) So it will have only taken three or four months.
I picked out another project 6C today, in anticipation, since the usual alternate was in use. It is an evil, evil grey route that combines balance, strength, fingerclings, and an evil overhang I have yet to reach.
Also topropped the slab 5, and did the one-handed (left-hand then right-hand) climbs of the 3. So all in all a good day. Although I still feel as though I could have climbed more: I don't feel as though you could wipe the floor with me.
Which is probably good, since I have to get up tomorrow.