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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (2): 13–24.
Published: 01 September 2009
.... A few days afterwards she died o f lockjaw This salve treatment, which may be traced back to thousands of years before Matilda Henry stepped on the nail that caused her demise, had a particular notoriety in early modern England.2The salve's various monikers included the weapon-salve cure, powder...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (2): 25–33.
Published: 01 September 2009
... ribbon."12 To illustrate the degree to which these externally applied orange preservatives were com mon, it is useful to paint the broader picture by turning to tw o related treatments that were popular for sim ilar reasons. I call them the onion-cure and the chicken-cure. Both the onion...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 22–29.
Published: 01 April 2023
... within the sphere of these pandemics. Pandemic’s 2013 rule book begins: “Do you have what it takes to save humanity? . . . You must work together, using individual strengths, to succeed. The clock is ticking as outbreaks and epidemics fuel the spreading plagues. Can you find all four cures in time...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (2): 35–47.
Published: 01 September 2009
... was the selling of remedies that promised to cure a great many ills.7 Scipione Mercurio, the Dominican friar and doctor, w riting in the early 1600s, describes charlatans and mountebanks as "trinket sellers, jesters, and generally anyone who from a bank in a square, on the ground or from a horse, sells medicines...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (2): 1–9.
Published: 01 September 2009
... Carter's Little Liver Pills, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root ("Kidney Liver & Bladder Cure and Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets (for "b ilious sym ptom s W hile several of these patent medicines had some real physiological effect, due to potent ingredients such as vegetable laxatives or a high alcohol content (more...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 200–213.
Published: 01 April 2020
... for a cure for his disease. He needs the help of the Cohiauno shaman, who knows the secrets of the yakruna plant. Theo must take Karamakate to a town where the yakruna grows. From that moment Theo will take part in an initiation ceremony (Ayahuasca) with Karamakate. They travel to different towns. In one...
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English Language Notes (2001) 38 (4): 19–33.
Published: 01 June 2001
... first use fully turn to a group of early m odern cultural texts, the medical treatises, which likewise center on the problem o f knowing bodies. (And a consideration of the medical texts is especially valid in connection with this play, which is at several turns con cerned with physicians and cures...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 April 2022
... to a disease model, the key feature of modern definitions of addiction. As the historian of science Roy M. MacLeod notes: “Not until the last half of the 19th century did the scientific appreciation of alcoholism become general. It was too easy to view alcoholism simply as immoral excess, its cure, simple...
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English Language Notes (2003) 41 (2): 36–43.
Published: 01 December 2003
... as typical of the sweetness and beauty of [. . .] attic poetry. 13 Of particular importance is the remedial quality of honey. Sweetness, in that sense, not only cures physical ailment, but metaphorically also remedies betrayal and corruption, and reinstates the nobility and sublimity of ancient strength...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 187–188.
Published: 01 April 2022
... in the world. For the first time, in uncountable years, humans, despite their “sophisticated biomedical infrastructures,” have found themselves at the mercy of a disease whose cure is not fully ascertained. 1 “Thinking through the Pandemic” explores the near-surreal experience of this pandemic. It has...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 164–182.
Published: 01 April 2022
... it as an individual and social problem to be solved—a disease to be cured—yet its history pushes against this single narrative trajectory. The earliest uses of the term in ancient Rome, in fact, contrast with the medical uses by modern researchers. The word addict has its origin in contract law, but these legal...
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English Language Notes (2004) 42 (2): 1–10.
Published: 01 December 2004
...: O r wash thee . . . to white. Richard Strier notes that this alternative is magical, calling it a hom eopathic alchemical cure. 18 Whatever one calls it, whether quick fix or hom eopathic cure, the speaker is substi tuting his own initiative for the stronger medicine required. D onne s...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (2): 139–146.
Published: 01 September 2012
... themes and sounds over and over again. It's a chapter that's legendarily associated w ith many m iracles curing of the sick, raising of the dead. Perhaps it is true that it contains the entire book, true that it contains even itself in its firs t line, in its first phrase, in its first letter.That first...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 177–190.
Published: 01 March 2010
... f m edia affects: the terrified laboratory technician w ho cautions the activists w ith skeleton details of the virus (its colo rfu l name; its transm ission thro u g h blood and saliva) com m ents that "in order to cure you m ust first understand." W hile im plying the pre-existence o f the virus...
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English Language Notes (2011) 49 (2): 193–196.
Published: 01 September 2011
.... Marcia Douglas grew up in Jamaica. She is the author of the novels Madam Fate (Soho Press, 1999 and Women's Press, 1999), Notes from a Writer's Book o f Cures and Spells (Peepal Tree Press, 2005), the forthcoming "House of Zion," as well as a poetry collection, Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (2): 163–175.
Published: 01 September 2010
... for a now anti-tragic discourse ("philosophy") that claims for itself a capacity to accomplish that which the tragic poets could not: a cure for the endless internal divisions, the contagious disease of stasis or "civil war," that plagues the soul o f the city.19 Naddaff even seems to suggest...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 86–98.
Published: 01 October 2019
... is that for Agnes there is no possibility of sanctuary” (326). For Agnes, returning home (from abnormality to normality, as the psychiatric narrative would have it) is not a cure but a repetition of trauma. Her domestic conundrum thus reflects her position as an IDP: she is internally displaced from her home...
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English Language Notes (2001) 38 (3): 89–93.
Published: 01 March 2001
... that emphasized its nature as an act o f the barbaric archaic som ething to be cured by social progress to mid-nineteenth-century charac terizations of infanticide as a symptom of the barbaric m od ern the failure of traditional structures to hold up against the onslaught of the new. The essay is far...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (2): 123–127.
Published: 01 September 2013
... models. W hat he offers instead is an alternative to im itation, the talking cure, psychoanaly sis. Analysis may exploit im itation (in the dynamics o f transference), but it is understanding as an act o f translation that is emancipatory, bringing our impulses into the am bit of con scious choice. W...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 1–8.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and aftereffect of traumatic experience but seldom offers anything in the way of a cure. In David Cronenberg’s 1979 film The Brood , it is not childhood trauma that births monsters but the therapeutic abreaction of childhood trauma accomplished under the supervision of a psychologist. In the horror text, once...
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