Scholars have also posited renaissances after the tenth century during the reign of the Komnenes in the eleventh and twelfth centuries and under the Palaiologans in the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

In general, compounds having a brenzcatechin moiety were found to be active, but also cytotoxic against host cells due to oxidation and formation of a highly reactive Michael system, whereas analogue compounds without the 3,4-dihydroxy substitution at the phenyl ring (e.g. compound 1 ) were still active but less toxic.

She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.

Feed a cold, starve a fever. There is a deal of wisdom in the first part of this advice. A person with a catarrh should take an abundance of light nutritious food, and some light wine, but avoid spirits, and above all tobacco.