William S Greaves & Michael A K Halliday 
Intonation in the Grammar of English [PDF ebook] 

This volume centers on dreams in Greek medicine from the fifth-century B.C.E. Hippocratic Regimen down to the modern era. Medicine is here defined in a wider sense than just formal medical praxis, an …

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