Word: arabian
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...severe censorship was clamped down on reports abroad of the disorder and only official dispatches reached Vichy, but they were sufficient to reveal the seriousness of the conflict and the Arabian influence in Syria...
...incidentally toned down some of the claims made for Italian doctors (Knopf, $8.50). Dr. Castiglioni's book is remarkable for his account of medical philosophies, his love for the art and literature of medicine, his flashes of Roman fire. The book is crammed with pictures from Chinese, Arabian and Egyptian texts, including many ingenious forms of primitive therapy (see cut). It records medical progress up to and including the discovery of the new sulfa-drugs. Among the important European physicians whom Dr. Castiglioni discusses...
...hatched not in the sultry courtyards of Mecca but in the chill, tile-floored galleries of the Wilhelmstrasse. . . . Germany's object was to start a guerrilla war behind Britain's back in Palestine and Egypt." Next day the Daily Express was curtly corrected by a Saudi Arabian official statement in London: "The man [Sherif Abdul Hamid] had no political party behind him. In fact, there was no attempt on the King's life at all because he lives at Riyadh while the would-be assassin never got beyond Mecca." Nevertheless, Abdul Hamid was jailed for life...
...Medieval Arabian physicians foreshadowed Boston's famed Dr. Stanley Cobb in believing that much of arthritis is psychological. In the 9th Century, the great physician Rhazes attended an emir who was so badly crippled that he could not walk. First Rhazes ordered the emir's best horse to be saddled and brought into the court yard. Rhazes gave the emir hot showers and a stiff drink. Then, brandishing a knife, he cursed his patient, threatened to kill him. Furious, the crippled man sprang to his feet. With his patient hot on his trail, the doctor leaped...
This conglomeration of fable, fantasy and monstrosity is British Producer Alexander Korda's biggest bid for the spectacle trade long ago relinquished by D. W. Griffith. Two million dollars and two years' tribulations were spent in his transposition of the Arabian Nights tales to the screen, during which the outbreak of war forced him to move production from his Denham studios near London to the United Artists lot in Hollywood at an added expense...