Avicenna

In The Birth-mark by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe, and William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily, all three plays end in murder. Hawthorne’s Aylmer murders his wife, Georgiana; in The Cask of Amontillado, Montresor murders the wine connoisseur Fortunato; and in A Rose for Emily, Emily murders her fiancée. All of the murders were motivated by one thing-Pride. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story The Birth-mark tells the story of the scientist Aylmer and his wife,…

1883 when he described the occurrence of a condition characterised by sudden onset in previously healthy young men, rapid progression to gangrene and absence of a definite cause, as quoted by Stephens et al.2 and Laor et al.3 the Persian physician Avicenna (980 - 1037) had earlier described the same condition in his book the Canon of Medicine, as quoted by Nathan.4 it is now known that Fournier’s gangrene is caused by acute infection of the tissues of the perineum, evolving in a sudden and…

Introduction The evolution of mankind from the medieval times to the current ‘science and technology age’ has allowed mankind to evolve and adapt to nature well. In fact, the advent of science has propelled mankind forward to where he is today, something that was considered unimaginable and unattainable hundreds and thousands of years back. Albert Einstein once said “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” So I question, what is Science? Before I develop my…