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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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launch. 1. A type of flat-bottomed vessel with little
freeboard which was used as a
gunboat by some of the countries bordering the Mediterranean during the 18th and 19th centuries.
2. The largest ship's boat of a 19th- and early 20th-century
battleship and
battlecruiser, developed from the
longboat. They were 12 metres (39 ft) long, and pulled eighteen
oars, nine each side. They also had one mast with a
de Horsey rig, a
gaff-rigged loose-footed mainsail, and a
staysail, but were later fitted with a paraffin engine and a
propeller.
3. Generic name for the small boat with an inboard engine carried as a
tender by large
yachts, or used for pleasure on rivers.
4. When used as a verb it is the act of putting a vessel into the water. See also
launching.
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New neurology research from Columbus Children's Hospital discussed.
Newspaper article from: Biotech Week; 7/22/2009; 551 words
; "MORE THAN 1000 years ago, Rhazes practiced rudimentary neurology. This...world. Here, we discuss the life of Rhazes and provide perhaps the first English...early clinicians/scholars such as Rhazes on which we base our current medical...
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Susruta of ancient India.
Magazine article from: Indian Journal of Ophthalmology; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...fame spread to Arabia. Avicenna quoted him as "Scirak" and Rhazes, had earlier referred to him as "Scarak," and one of the...A.D. and was named Kitab-I-Susrud by Abillasiabil. Rhazes repeatedly quotes Susruta as the foremos
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A celebration of scent
Magazine article from: Middle East; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...of Arabia are a reminder of a glorious past. The great Arab and Persian philosophers and scientists - al Kindi, (800AD), Rhazes, (865AD) and Avicenna (980AD) - all wrote books on perfumery and distillation techniques, demonstrating for the first...
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The rise and fall of English coffee houses.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 2/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...England's rise to global greatness. The first documented mention of coffee comes in the 10th century, from an Arabian doctor Rhazes. Its original purpose was medicinal. Ethiopia was the centre for the spread of coffee throughout Arabia and Africa. It was...
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Vignette in medical history: The history of cholelithiasis
Magazine article from: The American Surgeon; 8/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...it was kosher to eat animals with smooth gallstones whereas those with sharp-edged stones were unfit for food (terefah). Rhazes (900 A.D.) and Avicenna (1000 A.D.) spoke of using gallstones of the ox to sharpen the vision.1-3 Ancient medical...
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Coffee: food or drug? (Column)
Magazine article from: Tea & Coffee Trade Journal; 8/1/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...United States Pharmacopeia and still occasionally prescribed. It is interesting to read a description of its medical action by Rhazes as one of the earliest writers on coffee: "It is hot and dry in the first degree but according to others cold in the first...
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Measles on the rebound.
Magazine article from: FDA Consumer; 10/1/1986; ; 700+ words
; ...children. Like many so-called "childhood" illnesses, measles isn't always taken as seriously as "adult" maladies. Even Rhazes, the 10th-century Persian doctor who penned a clinical description of the disease, gave it second billing to the more dreaded...
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Friend and Foe - Elixir of Life.(history of alcohol)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: World and I; 11/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...writings of Jabir ibn Hayyan (eighth century A.D.) and al-Rahzi (ninth century A.D.), known to the West as Geber and Rhazes, respectively. They were the most important scientists in the history of Islamic chemistry and chemical technology. Their...
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CONFLUENCE.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Midstream; 7/1/2001; ; 426 words
; ...taught logic when Frankish kings could barely write their names unrivaled were the gardens of Cordova the medicine of Hunayn, Rhazes, Avicenna and the black-flagged surgeons of Damascus steel Al-Saffah and Sheherazade shared the Baghdad nights blood mixed...
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In my view.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England); 8/2/2006; 700+ words
; ...din Al-Tusi, in the 13th Century compiled astronomical tables and proposed a model for the study of planetary motion. Rhazes, as he was known in the West, back in the 10th Century wrote about the role that psychosomatic medicine or self-suggestion...
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Rhazes
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Rhazes (Muslim philosopher and physician): see AL-RĀZĪ, ABŪ BAKR MUḤAMMAD .
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Rhasis (or Rhazes) (ca. 825-925)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Rhasis (or Rhazes) (ca. 825-925) Name given to the famous Arabian physician, chemist, and alchemist Abu Bekr Muhammed Ben Zakeriyah er...
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Boron (revised)
Book article from: Chemical Elements: From Carbon to Krypton
...is found in a book by Persian alchemist Rhazes (c. 865-c. 925). Alchemists studied...matter before modern chemistry was born. Rhazes classified minerals into six classes...originated as far back as the time of Rhazes as buraq (in Arabic) or burah (in Persian...
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Andreas Vesalius
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...still a student, was permitted to conduct public dissections. He also published a Paraphrase of the Ninth Book of Rhazes (Rhazes, also known as al-Rasi, was a Moslem physician of the early 10th century), in which he made a considerable effort...
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Measles
Book article from: World of Microbiology and Immunology
...was first described as a disease in ninth century when a Persian physician, Rhazes, was the first to differentiate between measles and smallpox . The physician Rhazes also made the observation that the fever accompanying the disease is a bodily...
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