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The fiction titled THE CANNULA FROM GOLGOTHA by R.B. Lawrence On the day of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, Marius Aura, a physician in the court of Herod Antipas, having been ordered to attend the corpses of the victims of that days executions mislaid and lost a surgical device known then and now as a cannula. The instrument had been playfully but surreptiously taken that day by a pair of young children who then brought it home to their father who prized and kept it as a secret family treasure. This novel tells how that ancient device ultimately appeared to play a role in the lives of some living in twentieth century America.
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Vol. for 1963 includes section Current Australian serials; a subject list.
List of members in each volume (except v. 6, new ser., v. 27)
Few other cities can compare with Rome's history of continuous habitation, nor with the survival of so many different epochs in its present. This volume explores how the city's past has shaped the way in which Rome has been built, rebuilt, represented and imagined throughout its history. An imaginative approach to the study of the urban and architectural make-up of Rome, this volume will be valuable not only for historians of art and architecture, but also for students of cultural history and film studies.