Because this website is still in its initial phase of development, and I am still experimenting with the type of content we’re going to have and how I’m going to organize it, I have not yet committed to a fixed navigational structure which can be easily embodied in a navigation menu (typically formatted as a vertical or horizontal bar of links, at the top/bottom/side of a Web page, whereby visitors access the main website sections). This kind of navigation menu provides a quick visual overview of the contents of a website, without which it is easy to lose our bearings in multidimensional cyberspace.

I have always assumed that visitors would move through the Roses website using the context-sensitive links provided on each page, combined with frequent queries to our local search engine, the index for which is updated every time I post any new content to this website. (In contrast, Google has been crawling and indexing this website in piecemeal fashion since February 2011, and still hasn’t covered all of its original content, let alone everything which I’ve posted recently. This means that search engine results pages [SERPs] returned by Google and the other big commercial search engines are incomplete and unreliable descriptions of what’s available on the Internet, as well as being rigged. For more on this, see our FYI page on Search Engine Shenanigans.)

In addition to hand-crafting a variety of context-sensitive text links for every Roses Web page — I call this artisanal linking (as distinguished from the sort of Big Data-driven automated linking done by artificial intelligence) — I have followed design conventions in adding image-based navigational aids. Website sections and content categories (“historical,” “FYI,” “sitemap,” etc.) are identified in the banner graphic at the top of most pages, and clicking/tapping on a banner graphic will automatically take you to the Roses home page, as will clicking/tapping on any of the rose graphics used as ornamental tail-pieces throughout the site.

Nevertheless, this method of local website navigation becomes cumbersome once a website has more than about 5 pages. With a complex, unconventional website such as Roses (as of February 2018, comprising 64 distinct HTML pages, some of which contain well over 300KB of ASCII text), visitors end up unable to see the forest for the trees, without global website navigation aids such as a simple sitemap. Hoping to provide a useful overview of website resources, I decided to add this Table of Contents page (first posted on 5/20/2013), which gives an annotated list of all primary content pages at Roses.

(N O T E : “Under Construction” pages, such as John Aubrey’s Pennsylvania Connection and The End Justifies the Means? A Short History of Early-Modern Animal Abuse, plus other Web pages oriented to administrivia, such as the URL redirect for our FYI page on Conversations About a Wiser Use of Our Health Care Dollars & Resources, are not included in this Table of Contents.)

Dates are included for the initial publication of each page, and for substantive revisions which affect the content (I do not usually record updates made to a page’s code, design, etc.).

Primary content pages come in two formats: regularly-sized main pages, such as our FYI page on The Growing Body of Evidence Connecting Cancers to the Modern Retail Economy, and reduced-size pages designed to open in a small, floating second window, such as the illustrated webessay introducing Mary Trye (fl. 1662–75). These second-window pages function like appendices or magazine sidebars, and are sized so that they can be stacked and opened alongside the main page they complement on devices with large screens (e.g., desktop and laptop computers). Such juxtapositions are especially useful when doing scholarly research, and when reading digital editions such as Thomas Tryon’s The Planter’s Speech to his Neighbours & Country-Men of Pennsylvania, East & West-Jersey ... (1684), where you can float the editor’s introduction on top of the calling page containing Tryon’s primary text (if your computer has JavaScript enabled). I have also used floating second-window files to group all hover notes used on a Web page in a separate, stand-alone file, to adjust for possible display and print problems with DHTML hover-box (sometimes known as “pop-up”) technology, as explained in our FYI page on A Note about this Website’s Use of Hover Boxes.

In addition to navigating this site using the following Table of Contents, I recommend that you make frequent use of our local search tool, in combination with your browser’s Find command.

H I N T :   Most search engines — including our local KSearch engine — will position you at the top of a Web page, rather than at the keyword(s) you searched on. To quickly locate your search terms within a single HTML page, use your browser’s Find command.
   For example, for computers running under a Windows operating system:
•  type Ctrl+F to open a special Find box
•  then type your search term(s) in the browser’s Find box
•  then use the Next (or down arrowhead) and Previous (or up arrowhead) buttons near the Find box to jump to each occurrence of the search term/phrase on a page. (In some browsers, F3 works as a keyboard shortcut for the Next button.)

And if you find yourself visiting the same page more than once, I recommend that you use your browser’s Reload current page button — typically, an icon featuring a broken circle, with arrowhead on one end (for some computers, use the keyboard shortcuts, Ctrl+R and F5 or Command-R; or right-click for a context-sensitive menu with the Reload this page button/command). This will ensure that your browser accesses the server — rather than your computer’s cache — to retrieve the requested Web page, and you will know that what you’re seeing is the most-recently updated content available. (This is especially pertinent to those FYI pages which have a media-links section, with unannounced revisions, including new links to older material I’ve found that won’t appear at the top of the list.) The dates at the bottom of a page allow you to track whether there have been changes to content (revisions) and/or code (updates) since your last visit.

PLEASE NOTE: I don’t record all content changes made to Roses website pages in our announcements blog: only those which I want to single out for some reason. Nor do I have any plans to add a subscriber-list feature which would allow you to easily track website edits & updates (I’m just one person, and I already have more than enough to do as it is! ;-).

I may encourage subscribers to sign up with us at some point in the future, once the website has matured more.

In the meantime, please use the following sitemap (which I promise to keep updated) and our KSearch query box (at the top and/or bottom of all regularly-sized main Web pages) in order to move around Roses and find what you’re looking for.

Roses website pages

WHAT’S BLOOMING news page (for Roses announcements and updates)
First Published: 14 May 2012. | Revised: 27 May 2019.
With 6 sidebars (each designed to open in a small, floating second window):

Illustrated webessay on Thomas Tryon’s A Dialogue Between an East-Indian Brackmanny or Heathen-Philosopher, and a French Gentleman Concerning the Present Affairs of Europe (1683), a 17th-century work of social criticism and comparative religion (Hinduism and Christianity); includes cross-cultural antique treatments for breast & gynecological diseases, along with the duchess of Newcastle’s comparison of cancers and fistulas in 1668 [second-window aside 1]
First Published: 9 May 2014. | Revised: 27 May 2019.
Brief introduction to classical rhetoric’s concept of kairos — a Greek word “with no single or precise equivalent in any other language” [second-window aside 2]
First Published: 30 September 2014. | Revised: 27 May 2019.
HTML transcription of the newsmagazine article, “Rape and the Reservation: A Legal Maze Allows Sexual Predators to Attack American Indian Women with Impunity,” by Kari Lydersen, as published in the November/December 2007 issue of ColorLines [second-window aside 3]
First Published: 24 November 2014. | Revised: 27 May 2019.

Brief introduction to the famous Jacobean inventor and “projector,” Cornelis Drebbel (1572–1633) — with inventions ranging the gamut from a perpetual-motion machine “representing the motion of the Heavens about the fixed earth,” air conditioning, an incubator, the thermometer, “an instrument to sink ships,” the first microscope, and several different types of camera, to the first sea-worthy submarine, which in 1620 traveled down the Thames from Westminster to Greenwich under the surface of the water, with an 8-person crew and 12 passengers kept alive by Drebbel’s mysterious on-board manufacture of breathable air, 150 years before the “discovery” of oxygen in the early 1770s [second-window aside 4]
First Published: 15 March 2015. | Revised: 27 May 2019.
HTML transcription of a magazine article about the smell of ovarian cancer, “Returning the Favor: Who’s Really Saving Who?” by Kelli Harmon, as published in the January/February 2014 issue of Best Friends Magazine, the official publication of Best Friends Animal Society [second-window aside 5]
First Published: 4 July 2016. | Revised: 27 May 2019.
for end-notes: clusters all of the Web page’s hover notes on a separate HTML page [second-window aside (notes)]
First Published: August 2013. | Revised: 27 May 2019.

HOME page for Roses website
First Published: January 2011. | Revised: 27 May 2019.

SUPPORT US page (for making TLS/SSL-secured donations to Roses, with information about why I have chosen to make Roses a new kind of for-profit organization)
First Published: January 2011. | Revised: 27 May 2019.

E-publications (unique digital editions relating to the history of medicine & the history of health care in the Americas)

Medical Case Study: A 17th-century surgeon describes excising a French woman’s noli me tangere (touch-me-not) — a deadly cancer affecting the nose, mouth and/or throat — in June of 1684, and reports on his autopsy of the area after her death circa year-end 1686. Published in a 1697 issue of the oldest continuous scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Illustrated HTML transcript.
First Published: 21 January 2016. | Revised: 27 May 2019.

for end-notes: clusters all of the e-publication’s hover notes on a separate HTML page [second-window aside (notes)]
First Published: 21 January 2016. | Revised: 27 May 2019.

Medical Case Study: A 17th-century surgeon describes a 64-year-old French woman’s bout with colon cancer, 1689–1691, and his autopsy of her diseased intestines. Published in a 1697 issue of the oldest continuous scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Illustrated HTML transcript.
First Published: 21 January 2016. | Revised: 27 May 2019.

for end-notes: clusters all of the e-publication’s hover notes on a separate HTML page [second-window aside (notes)]
First Published: 21 January 2016. | Revised: 27 May 2019.

Medical Case Study: A 17th-century surgeon’s description of his father’s cancer, which began with a small bruise to the cheekbone, and metastasized to the brain, killing him c.1682. Published in a 1702 issue of the oldest continuous scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Illustrated HTML transcript.
First Published: 30 December 2015. | Revised: 27 May 2019.

for end-notes: clusters all of the e-publication’s hover notes on a separate HTML page [second-window aside (notes)]
First Published: 30 December 2015. | Revised: 27 May 2019.

The first debate over gun control — as a public health issue — in America: Thomas Tryon’s The Planter’s Speech to his Neighbours & Country-Men of Pennsylvania, East & West-Jersey ... (1684). Illustrated HTML transcript.
First Published: May 2014. | Revised: 1 June 2020.

Illustrated Editor’s Introduction for Tryon’s The Planter’s Speech, with annotated list of works cited, designed to open in a small, floating second window [second-window aside Intro]
First Published: 9 May 2014. | Revised (and enlarged, with new content added to the start of Section 2, the close of Section 3, and to Section 5): 2 July 2020.
for end-notes: clusters all of the hover notes for the Editor’s Introduction on a separate HTML page [second-window aside Intro(notes)]
First Published: 9 May 2014. | Revised: 27 May 2019.
HTML transcription of John Ogilby’s glowing description of Anglo-Algonquian relations in North Carolina during the 1660s–1670s, excerpted from his America (1st issue, 1670–1) — in his American atlas, published almost a century after Thomas Hariot’s Virginia (1588–9), Ogilby reinscribes Hariot-White-de Bry’s presentation of regional Native Americans as festive and “merry” partners in trade and commerce, plus fleshes out the stereotype of the “noble savage” (popularized in the humanist ethnographic tradition of Montaigne) with British detail [second-window aside Intro_NC-Anglo-Indian-union]
First Published: 27 February 2018. | Revised: 27 May 2019.
HTML transcription of John Ogilby’s glowing description of 1660s–1670s New Jersey as the idyllic locality for a working-class pursuit of happiness, excerpted from his America (1st issue, 1670–1) [second-window aside Intro_NJ-as-paradise]
First Published: 27 February 2018. | Revised: 1 June 2020.
HTML transcription of Thomas Stanley’s 17th-century commentary on the Pythagorean practice of “Medicine by Musick” (1st edn., 1660) [second-window aside Intro_Pythagorean-music-therapy]
First Published: 11 June 2018. | Revised: 27 May 2019.
for end-notes: clusters all of the hover notes for the aside on “The Pythagorean Practice of ‘Medicine by Musick’” on a separate HTML page [second-window aside Intro_Pythagorean-music-therapy(notes)]
First Published: 17 July 2016. | Revised: 27 May 2019.
HTML transcription of “A Perfect Description of an Indian Squa, in all her Bravery; with a Poem Not Improperly Conferr’d upon Her,” from John Josselyn’s New-Englands Rarities Discovered ... (1st edn., 1672) — an unusual piece celebrating the beauty and wit of American women of color over that of their white European counterparts [second-window aside Intro_women-of-color]
First Published: 17 July 2016. | Revised: 27 May 2019.
HTML transcription of “Of Gentlewomen that Are Sent to Board Schools,” from Margaret Cavendish’s The Worlds Olio (1st edn., 1655) — a self-consciously elitist, 17th-century protofeminist challenge to “Man’s Prerogative” of education [second-window aside Intro_educating-women]
First Published: 13 July 2018. | Revised: 27 May 2019.

The first protest against slavery printed in America: George Keith’s An Exhortation & Caution to Friends Concerning Buying or Keeping of Negroes (New York, 1693). Illustrated HTML transcript.
First Published: May 2014. | Revised: 27 May 2019.

Illustrated Editor’s Introduction for Keith’s Exhortation, with list of works cited, designed to open in a small, floating second window [second-window aside Intro]
First Published: 9 May 2014. | Revised: 27 May 2019.

Two excerpts from Ludwik Fleck’s Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact (“interpretive” Eng. trans., 1979; original German edn., 1935). Illustrated HTML transcript.
First Published: December 2013. | Revised: 27 May 2019.

for end-notes: clusters all of the e-publication’s hover notes on a separate HTML page [second-window aside (notes)]
First Published: December 2013. | Revised: 27 May 2019.
Illustrated Editor’s Introduction for this e-publication, with annotated list of works cited, designed to open in a small, floating second window [second-window aside Intro]
First Published: 5 December 2013. | Revised: 27 May 2019.
for pop-ups: clusters all of the Introduction’s hover notes on a separate HTML page [second-window aside Intro(notes)]
First Published: December 2013. | Revised: 27 May 2019.

Pages in our FYI (For Your Information) series

our FYI page on the subject of Cancer and Modern Consumerism, where you can learn more about the growing body of evidence connecting cancers to the modern retail economy (and what we can do about it, as buyers & sellers), with annotated list of media links
First Published: May 2012. | Revised: 27 May 2019.
With 6 sidebars (each designed to open in a small, floating second window):

HTML transcription of an opinion piece, “Chemical-Free Nonsense,” by Deborah Blum (Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer and author of The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York), as published in the 1/22/2012 issue of the Los Angeles Times [second-window aside 1]
First Published: 7 January 2014. | Revised: 27 May 2019.
illustrated HTML transcription of an article explaining about the “very difficult science” behind cancer clusters, with advice about the right kinds of questions to ask, “Interpreting Statistics,” by Dan Wartenberg, as published in a 1986 issue of Science for the People magazine, when Wartenberg was a research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health [second-window aside 2]
First Published: 4 March 2015. | Revised: 27 May 2019.
illustrated HTML transcription of a CSPI Nutrition Action cover story on the trials & tribulations of epidemiological research, “Non-Trivial Pursuits: Playing the Research Game,” by Bonnie Liebman, Director of Nutrition at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, as published in the October 1994 issue of that organization’s healthletter; includes a mock board-game where “you, the ambitious scientist, attempt to unequivocally prove your theory of diet and disease” [second-window aside 3]
First Published: 4 March 2015. | Revised: 27 May 2019.

webessay introducing Henry Stubbe (1632–1676) — polymath physician with an American connection, radical Independent & republican polemicist, author of one of the earliest appreciations in English of Islam, and the first writer on climate change to be published (1667) in a scientific journal; includes a new section on early-modern women’s blackface: 17th-century investigations of blackness, pitting new theories of black & white as interchangeable colors against proverbial wisdom characterizing black & white as fixed binary opposites (separate and unequal) [second-window aside 4]
First Published: 14 April 2016. | Revised: 27 May 2019.

illustrated webessay introducing Mary Trye (fl. 1662–75) — chemical physician, medical reformer, and early promoter of evidence-based health interventions [second-window aside 5]
First Published: 14 April 2016. | Revised: 27 May 2019.

for end-notes: clusters all of the Web page’s hover notes on a separate HTML page [second-window aside (notes)]
First Published: May 2012. | Revised: 27 May 2019.

our FYI page on Conversations About a Wiser Use of Our Health Care Dollars & Resources, which offers a unique historical perspective on rising health care costs and the role of phronesis (practical wisdom) in a revitalized, virtue-based ethic for medicine, with an extensive list of annotated links to media coverage of the debate over Obamacare (aka the Affordable Care Act) vs. Trumpcare, and health care reform in the U.S.
First Published: May 2013. | Revised: 27 May 2019.
With 9 sidebars — each designed to open in a small, floating second window — on related topics in the history of medicine:

Joan Baptista van Helmont’s revived Hippocratism in the 17th century; J. B. van Helmont was one of the first to argue that cancers arise from developmental defects in our own bodies, transforming normal tissues into tumors: “Good doth bring forth Evil by accident, and doth oft-times proceed from our own vital powers” [second-window aside 1]
First Published: May 2013. | Revised: 27 May 2019.
some of the Complexities and contradictions inherent in any revived Hippocratism today [second-window aside 2]
First Published: May 2013. | Revised: 27 May 2019.
the 17th-century medical establishment: an article from Chambers’ Cyclopaedia (1728) giving the history of the Royal College of Physicians of London [second-window aside 3]
First Published: July 2013. | Revised: 27 May 2019.
the 17th-century dispensatory: two articles from Chambers’ Cyclopaedia (1728) giving the history of the modern formulary, plus illustrations and notes on the first editions of the Pharmacopoeia Londinensis (which included 2 treatments for cancer), compiled by the Royal College of Physicians of London (1618), translated and revised by Nicholas Culpeper (1649, rev. 1653), and printed in North America (1720) [second-window aside 4]
First Published: July 2013. | Revised: 27 May 2019.
the longstanding rivalry between the doctors and the druggists in Western medicine [second-window aside 5]
First Published: October 2013. | Revised: 27 May 2019.
evolving codes of honor and gallantry during the early-modern period and the 17th-century debate over character [second-window aside 6]
First Published: November 2013. | Revised: 27 May 2019.
some misconceptions about how science works, excerpted from Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method, by Henry H. Bauer, emeritus professor of chemistry and science studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University [second-window aside 7]
First Published: November 2013. | Revised: 27 May 2019.
precepts relating to the rule and government of peoples in the early-modern welfare state, excerpted from Books 1 and 4 of Giovanni Botero’s treatise on statecraft, Della Ragion di Stato Libri Dieci (Venice, 1589; rev. 1598) [second-window aside 8]
First Published: 13 September 2017. | Revised: 27 May 2019.
for pop-ups: clusters all of the Web page’s hover notes on a separate HTML page [second-window aside (notes)]
First Published: May 2013. | Revised: 27 May 2019.

NOTE: As of 10/7/2017, the burgeoning media links section of our FYI page on “Conversations About a Wiser Use of Our Health Care Dollars & Resources” merits a caution to visitors. I have designed the page to load quickly, but the file’s increasing size (670KB and counting! ;-) will eventually result in noticeably longer load times than I typically accept. Nonetheless, I have chosen not to break it into multiple, smaller files because it’s easiest to browse and search the links when they’re clustered in one file, which you only need to download once. Some day, we will reach a tipping point (when enough website visitors complain about load times) and I will be forced to make different trade-offs. But we have a ways to go yet, before we end up pushing the limits of everyone’s patience....

our FYI page on Protecting Yourself against Medical Identity Theft
First Published: November 2012. | Revised: 27 May 2019.

our FYI page on California’s Internet Sales Tax, and the ongoing battle with online retailers such as Amazon.com over tax reform, with annotated list of media links
First Published: July 2011. | Revised: 17 July 2019.
With 1 sidebar (designed to open in a small, floating second window):

for end-notes: clusters all of the Web page’s hover notes on a separate HTML page [second-window aside (notes)]
First Published: May 2012. | Revised: 27 May 2019.

our FYI page on Powell’s City of Books Partner Program Update, terminating their California-based partner accounts (as of 8/29/2012)
First Published: August 2011. | Revised: 27 May 2019.

our FYI page on this website’s use of Hover Notes (sometimes known as “pop-ups”), which may not display properly, especially if you are using Google Chrome or Opera for Web browsing and/or viewing Roses Web pages on a mobile device
First Published: May 2012. | Revised: 27 May 2019.

Tribute Gifts pages

the Roses TRIBUTE GIFTS page (also a secure page, with SSL Certificate, for making donations to Roses)
First Published: January 2011. | Revised: 27 May 2019.
With 1 sidebar (designed to open in a small, floating second window):

for end-notes: clusters all of the Web page’s hover notes on a separate HTML page [second-window aside (notes)]
First Published: 11 January 2016. | Revised: 27 May 2019.

our GUIDELINES for creating Roses Tribute Gifts page (another secure page, with SSL Certificate, for making donations to Roses)
First Published: January 2011. | Revised: 27 May 2019.

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Table of Contents

Roses website pages

E-publications (unique digital editions relating to the history of medicine & the history of health care in the Americas)

Pages in our FYI (For Your Information) series

Tribute Gifts pages

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