I used to read a lot of books. But then the Internet, and Facebook, and eBay took over, and these days I am lucky if I have time to read a magazine. I find that there are two great places for magazine reading—on an airplane, and at the hairdressers. From an experiential standpoint, these two… Continue reading And Always at My Back I Hear
The great Greek physician and teacher Hippocrates (460 BC-370 BC) described several kinds of cancer, referring to them with the Greek word "carcinos", meaning crab or crayfish. This name comes from the appearance of the cut surface of a solid malignant tumor, with the "veins stretched out on all sides as the animal the crab has its feet, whence it derives its name."