Rashmi Venkatesh, Palak H. Shah, Chandramani B. More, Deepa J. Patil
{"title":"Insight into history of Areca nut and oral submucous fibrosis: a narrative review","authors":"Rashmi Venkatesh, Palak H. Shah, Chandramani B. More, Deepa J. Patil","doi":"10.1007/s43539-022-00036-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43539-022-00036-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Oral Submucous Fibrosis (OSF) is an age old disease. It is even mentioned by Suśruta, one of the earliest surgeons of the recorded history (600 BCE) in his book in <i>Suśrutasaṃhitā</i>. OSF is Areca nut (<i>Areca Catechu Linn</i>.) habit associated disease and more prevalent in countries where the use of this nut is high. In Southeast Asian countries it is widely used due to their high cultural beliefs. The pathogenesis of this age old irreversible disease is very complex, that none of the treatment modalities till date has provided satisfactory results. In this article, insight to Areca nut native, cultivation and cultural aspects, the psychology behind its use in various cultures and review of current medical literature is attempted to trace back the history of OSF.\u0000</p>","PeriodicalId":43899,"journal":{"name":"INDIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138539521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rashmi Venkatesh, Palak H. Shah, Chandramani B. More, Deepa J. Patil
{"title":"Insight into history of Areca nut and oral submucous fibrosis: a narrative review","authors":"Rashmi Venkatesh, Palak H. Shah, Chandramani B. More, Deepa J. Patil","doi":"10.1007/s43539-022-00036-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43539-022-00036-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Oral Submucous Fibrosis (OSF) is an age old disease. It is even mentioned by Suśruta, one of the earliest surgeons of the recorded history (600 BCE) in his book in <i>Suśrutasaṃhitā</i>. OSF is Areca nut (<i>Areca Catechu Linn</i>.) habit associated disease and more prevalent in countries where the use of this nut is high. In Southeast Asian countries it is widely used due to their high cultural beliefs. The pathogenesis of this age old irreversible disease is very complex, that none of the treatment modalities till date has provided satisfactory results. In this article, insight to Areca nut native, cultivation and cultural aspects, the psychology behind its use in various cultures and review of current medical literature is attempted to trace back the history of OSF.\u0000</p>","PeriodicalId":43899,"journal":{"name":"INDIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138539501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On some analogies of modern science with Plato’s science in Timaeus and on Plato’s influence on Kepler and Ptolemy","authors":"Francesco Giacomo","doi":"10.1007/s43539-022-00031-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43539-022-00031-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43899,"journal":{"name":"INDIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52829701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Astronomical clues in unicorn iconography of the Harappan civilization","authors":"P. M. Dolas","doi":"10.1007/s43539-022-00030-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43539-022-00030-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43899,"journal":{"name":"INDIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52829580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Essays in History of Sciences in India: Agriculture, Medicine, Alchemical and Chemical Practices by Mira Roy, Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar, 38, Bidhan Sarani, Kolkata, 2019, xxvii + 830 pp, Price–Rs. 2500/-","authors":"Bijoya Goswami","doi":"10.1007/s43539-022-00035-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43539-022-00035-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43899,"journal":{"name":"INDIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138539500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Essays in History of Sciences in India: Agriculture, Medicine, Alchemical and Chemical Practices by Mira Roy, Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar, 38, Bidhan Sarani, Kolkata, 2019, xxvii + 830 pp, Price–Rs. 2500/-","authors":"Bijoya Goswami","doi":"10.1007/s43539-022-00035-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43539-022-00035-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43899,"journal":{"name":"INDIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138539520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jagadis Bose’s panvitalism as intellectual history","authors":"Subrata Dasgupta","doi":"10.1007/s43539-022-00032-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43539-022-00032-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>No aspect of Jagadis Chandra Bose’s science is more enigmatic than his concern with the relationship between the living and nonliving, explored from 1900 through 1902. Elsewhere this writer called this the ‘middle Bose’ period since it separated Bose the physicist (1894–1900) from Bose the plant physiologist (1903 and after). The essence of his insight developed in this brief period was formerly termed by this writer the ‘Boseian thesis’ and summarized as ‘There is no discontinuity between the living and nonliving’. However, a more nuanced examination of three key texts published by Bose in this period, along with supplemental archival documents reveals that his articulation of the relationship between the living and nonliving evolved in subtle and daring ways culminating in an expression of the doctrine of <i>panvitalism</i>. This doctrine—that life pervades all matter—is an <i>idea</i> about the natural world. Thus, examining Bose’s panvitalism takes us into the realm of <i>intellectual history</i>: the close study of the <i>meaning</i> of Bose’s <i>texts</i> in order to understand his <i>intention</i> in exploring the relationship of the living and nonliving, the <i>context</i> of his investigation and its relation to the texts, and <i>how</i> he arrived at his panvitalist doctrine. The intellectual history of Bose’s panvitalism is the subject of this paper.</p>","PeriodicalId":43899,"journal":{"name":"INDIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138539535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jagadis Bose’s panvitalism as intellectual history","authors":"Subrata Dasgupta","doi":"10.1007/s43539-022-00032-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43539-022-00032-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>No aspect of Jagadis Chandra Bose’s science is more enigmatic than his concern with the relationship between the living and nonliving, explored from 1900 through 1902. Elsewhere this writer called this the ‘middle Bose’ period since it separated Bose the physicist (1894–1900) from Bose the plant physiologist (1903 and after). The essence of his insight developed in this brief period was formerly termed by this writer the ‘Boseian thesis’ and summarized as ‘There is no discontinuity between the living and nonliving’. However, a more nuanced examination of three key texts published by Bose in this period, along with supplemental archival documents reveals that his articulation of the relationship between the living and nonliving evolved in subtle and daring ways culminating in an expression of the doctrine of <i>panvitalism</i>. This doctrine—that life pervades all matter—is an <i>idea</i> about the natural world. Thus, examining Bose’s panvitalism takes us into the realm of <i>intellectual history</i>: the close study of the <i>meaning</i> of Bose’s <i>texts</i> in order to understand his <i>intention</i> in exploring the relationship of the living and nonliving, the <i>context</i> of his investigation and its relation to the texts, and <i>how</i> he arrived at his panvitalist doctrine. The intellectual history of Bose’s panvitalism is the subject of this paper.</p>","PeriodicalId":43899,"journal":{"name":"INDIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138539518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transit of sun through the seasonal nakṣatra cycle in the Vṛddha-Gārgīya Jyotiṣa","authors":"R. Iyengar, Sunder Chakravarty","doi":"10.1007/s43539-021-00018-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43539-021-00018-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43899,"journal":{"name":"INDIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52828886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microstructural analysis and characterization of lime mortar of seventeenth century Raigad hill fort from western India","authors":"M. Singh, Rajendra Yadav","doi":"10.1007/s43539-021-00023-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43539-021-00023-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43899,"journal":{"name":"INDIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52829426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}