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Dr D Geraint repliesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Medical Biography - March 5, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Ellis, H. Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: journals

Was Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) treated with streptomycin?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Medical Biography - March 5, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Lomazow, S. Tags: Glimpses Source Type: journals

Uveitic secondary glaucoma: influence in James Joyce's (1882-1941) last worksEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
James Joyce, considered one of the pre-eminent novelists of the 20th century, attained international renown with his work Ulysses. Its lack of standard punctuation makes it difficult to read. An example would be the famous non-punctuated ‘Molly Bloom soliloquy’ in the last chapter of Ulysses. Why is Joyce considered so difficult to read? He wrote and proofread Ulysses and Finnegans wake, his last works, during his battle against glaucoma, when his vision was seriously blurred. The distracting and confusing diacritical marks might be explained by Joyce's reduced visual acuity. Could Ulysses and Finnegans wake ha...
Source: Journal of Medical Biography - March 5, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Ascaso, F. J, Bosch, J. Tags: Patients Source Type: journals

Did Evagrius Ponticus (AD 346-99) have obsessive-compulsive disorder?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Evagrius Ponticus was one of the most important and influential spiritual writers in the early Christian church. This author argues that he suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder: in particular, the demonic ‘thoughts’ which he repeatedly describes meet all the criteria for obsessions. If this is true, it offers a new perspective on the relation between pastoral theology and psychiatric disorders: the spiritual tradition which Evagrius helped found may, as a result, have tended to exacerbate such symptoms in others, but it also possessed the resources to address them in a practical way. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography)
Source: Journal of Medical Biography - March 5, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hill, J. Tags: Patients Source Type: journals

The big ideas of Edgar Alexander Pask (1912-66)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Edgar Pask worked before, during and after World War II with the anaesthetist Robert Macintosh. Both were ranking officers and engaged in work with the Royal Air Force Physiological Laboratories at Farnborough, then in the charge of Dr Bryan Matthews. Pask submitted as a Doctorate Thesis a compilation of much of the experimental work in which he was the main subject, most of the data being acquired while he was unconscious. Experiments in which the Farnborough Team were engaged form a central core to the Thesis and relate to the development of life jackets. The information is well known and has been widely publicized, alon...
Source: Journal of Medical Biography - March 5, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Conacher, I D Tags: Physiologists Source Type: journals

Captain George Thomas Smith-Clarke (1884-1960)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Medical Biography - March 5, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Padfield, A. Tags: Glimpses Source Type: journals

Evangelia Farmakidou (1890-1982): the first female Greek radiologistEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Evangelia (Lia) Farmakidou was the first female Greek radiologist. She was a distinguished physician with an open mind and depth of thought, multitalented, with integrity and an independent spirit. She was also one of the founding members of the Hellenic Radiological Society in 1933. She strived for the recognition of her chosen field in Greece as well as for the creation of the Radiology Department in the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography)
Source: Journal of Medical Biography - March 5, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Baltas, C. S, Balanika, A. P Tags: Radiologists Source Type: journals

Notes and JottingsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Journal of Medical Biography)
Source: Journal of Medical Biography - March 5, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Notes and Jottings Source Type: journals

Short biography of Louis Daniel Beauperthuy (1807-71): pioneer of microbiology and medical science in VenezuelaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Louis Daniel Beauperthuy was a pioneer of microbiology in Venezuela where he developed microscopic and clinical research together with academic and scientific observation related to leprosy and the role of insects in the transmission of febrile illnesses. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography)
Source: Journal of Medical Biography - March 5, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Godoy, G. A, Tarradath, E. Tags: Pathologists Source Type: journals

Paolo Assalini's artery forcepsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Journal of Medical Biography)
Source: Journal of Medical Biography - March 5, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kirkup, J. Tags: Who Made What? Source Type: journals

George Riddoch (1888-1947)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Medical Biography - March 5, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Storey, G. O Tags: Neurologists Source Type: journals

A medical tourist's visit to LondonEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Medical Biography - March 5, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: James, D G. Tags: Glimpses Source Type: journals

Eduardo Martinez Alonso (1903-72): gallant surgeon who undertook special operationsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Eduardo Martínez Alonso was of Spanish and Uruguyan extraction and was born in Vigo in Galicia in 1903. Due to his father's occupation, he was educated in the UK and qualified from the University of Liverpool. He returned to Madrid to practise and during the Civil War he found himself in the Republican zone where his connections with the Royal Family brought him under suspicion. Threatened with execution, he escaped to serve as a surgeon in the Nationalist Army. Being bilingual, he was medical adviser to the British Embassy during World War II; because of his allegiance to this country and acting from humanitarian m...
Source: Journal of Medical Biography - March 5, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Coni, N. Tags: Surgeons Source Type: journals

Esme Hadfield (1921-92) and the Wycombe woodworkersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paper reflects on the life and work of Esme Hadfield, an otolaryngologist based at Wycombe General Hospital and, in particular, on her discovery of the link between adenocarcinoma of the paranasal sinuses and wood dust exposure from those in the furniture industry. The paper also explores the woodworking industry that forms the backdrop to her discovery. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography)
Source: Journal of Medical Biography - March 5, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Whiteside, O J H, Corbridge, R J, Capper, J W R Tags: Surgeons Source Type: journals

Kartagener's syndromeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Journal of Medical Biography)
Source: Journal of Medical Biography - March 5, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: James, D G. Tags: Glimpses Source Type: journals

Sydney William Garne LDS RCS FRGS (1875-1946): founding president of the Ceylon Dental AssociationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paper follows the life of Sydney Garne, from qualification as a dentist in London through a short visit to South Africa, to a lifetime of professional service in Ceylon. There he was the first non-medically qualified dentist to enrol on the Dentists Register. Then he became the founder-President of the Ceylon Dental Association which he ensured was based on the British association. The responsibilities of that post remained on his shoulders for 10 years; all the time he ran a thriving practice and had a happy family life, including a stepson of whom he was proud. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography)
Source: Journal of Medical Biography - March 5, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Gelbier, S. Tags: Surgeons Source Type: journals

'The greatest Brahmin among them': William Osler's (1849-1919) perspective on Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-94)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Although North American physicians commonly identify William Osler as their best example of excellence in both medicine and the humanities, Osler himself held Oliver Wendell Holmes as the best example of such an avatar. Holmes made substantial contributions to medicine, including a landmark essay on the ‘Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever’, and was for a while the best-selling American author on both sides of the Atlantic. Holmes' lesser reputation today when compared with Osler's is best explained by his having fewer devoted protégées, his confining his adult life to Boston and its environs, and h...
Source: Journal of Medical Biography - March 5, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Bryan, C. S Tags: Physicians Source Type: journals

QuotesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Journal of Medical Biography)
Source: Journal of Medical Biography - March 5, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Quotes Source Type: journals

Victorian medical politics: the fate of Dr Alfred Stephens (1821-90)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Dr Alfred Stephens was the co-founder of the Liverpool Children's Infirmary. The institution was funded initially by Matthew Gregson (1800–76) and later by public subscription. Opened in 1851, it was the second Children's Hospital in England. Alfred Stephens was a general practitioner without higher qualifications. In due course he perceived that the free treatment of children at the Infirmary affected his income and he redirected patients to his practice. This led to confrontation with his colleagues and the Board of the Infirmary, and good relations were never restored. His name has not been commemorated nor his ch...
Source: Journal of Medical Biography - March 5, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Ward, O C Tags: Physicians Source Type: journals

ErratumEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Journal of Medical Biography)
Source: Journal of Medical Biography - March 5, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Erratum Source Type: journals

Sir William Knighton Bt MD GCH LRCP (1776-1836): courtier and confidante - testimony to physicianly virtues?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Sir William Knighton went from general practitioner in Devon to close friend and adviser of King George IV. He contributed remarkably to the stability of the Crown, bringing this dysfunctional King's finances under control and enabling the work of government requiring Royal decision-making to proceed much more effectively than it might otherwise have done. Inevitably he was involved in the making and breaking of ministries but appears to have done so with some reluctance. His detractors appear to have been motivated mainly by envy, fear of loss of patronage and social prejudice. His Royal career echoes physicianly virtues ...
Source: Journal of Medical Biography - March 5, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hoffbrand, B. I Tags: Physicians Source Type: journals

Towards a realistic approach to medical biographyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Medical Biography - March 5, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Frangos, C. C Tags: Editorial Source Type: journals

Conflict and compromise: Catholic and public hospital partnerships.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article analyzes the tensions and uneasy negotiations, based on a case study, that occurred among Catholic sisters, administrators, bishops, physicians, and the Vatican for more than seven years at a hospital in Austin, Texas. Here, the largest health care system in the city, which was Catholic, joined with the local public, tax-supported hospital that provided the majority of reproductive health care services in the region. A clash resulted over whether the hospital could continue providing sterilization and contraceptive services to its primarily poor patients. This article examines the fierce debates that occurred,...
Source: Nursing History Review - January 15, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Wall BM Tags: Nurs Hist Rev Source Type: journals

"Go to Ruth's House": the social activism of Ruth Lubic and the family health and birth center.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This case of the work of Ruth Watson Lubic, an internationally known nurse midwife and women's and children's health care activist, provides a modern-day example of the intersection of forceful individual personalities, nursing as a type of activism in itself, and grassroots and local actions that produce larger movement-based activist organizations. Her work as a nurse midwife, in partnership with other nurse midwives, physicians, and community members, illustrates how the efforts of individual actors at a grassroots community level can be as significant as larger traditionally situated activist movements on the lives...
Source: Nursing History Review - January 15, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Fairman J Tags: Nurs Hist Rev Source Type: journals

The place of religion as an interpretive tool in nursing history.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 20067095 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Nursing History Review)
Source: Nursing History Review - January 15, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Wall BM Tags: Nurs Hist Rev Source Type: journals

Nursing body and soul in the parish: Lutheran deaconess motherhouses in Germany and the United States.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article analyzes the conception and transformation of Protestant parish nursing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Germany and the United States, which developed very differently. In West Germany, parish nursing proved surprisingly resistant to modernization even in the face of upheavals of the 1960s, and in some places this traditional model survived as late as the 1980s and 1990s. In the United States, by contrast, an understanding of nursing rooted in the division of labor between care for body and care for soul had come to prevail by the 1920s and '30s, pushing out the German model of the parish deacones...
Source: Nursing History Review - January 15, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kreutzer S Tags: Nurs Hist Rev Source Type: journals

Looking closely: material and visual approaches to the nurse's uniform.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 20067098 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Nursing History Review)
Source: Nursing History Review - January 15, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Bates C Tags: Nurs Hist Rev Source Type: journals

Nurse Irene Shea studies the "Kenny method" of treatment of infantile paralysis, 1942-1943.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In the 1940s nurses in the United States set out to learn the Kenny method of treating polio patients, which relied on hot packs and muscle strengthening exercises instead of the standard system of prolonged immobilization. Named for Sister Elizabeth Kenny, an Australian nurse who based herself in Minnesota during the 1940s and early 1950s, and viewed with suspicion by many physicians, nurses, and physical therapists, the treatment nonetheless proved effective. It changed the practice of polio nursing and the experiences of patients in the years before vaccine prevention largely eliminated paralytic polio. PMID: 20...
Source: Nursing History Review - January 15, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Golden J, Rogers N Tags: Nurs Hist Rev Source Type: journals

Medical archives and MSS news, 2009.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Authors: PMID: 20047204 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Medical History)
Source: Medical History - January 1, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Med Hist Source Type: journals

"Outside the institute there is a desert": the tenuous trajectories of medical research in interwar Australia.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 20046262 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Medical History)
Source: Medical History - January 1, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hobbins PG Tags: Med Hist Source Type: journals

"Little, if at all, removed from the illiterate farrier or cow-leech": the English veterinary surgeon, c.1860-1885, and the campaign for veterinary reform.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 20046263 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Medical History)
Source: Medical History - January 1, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Woods A, Matthews S Tags: Med Hist Source Type: journals

"Strike out boldly for the prizes that are available to you": medical emigration from Ireland 1860-1905.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 20046264 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Medical History)
Source: Medical History - January 1, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Jones G Tags: Med Hist Source Type: journals

Empire and alternatives: Swietenia febrifuga and the Cinchona substitutes.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 20046265 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Medical History)
Source: Medical History - January 1, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Chakrabarti P Tags: Med Hist Source Type: journals

The mind and stomach at war: stress and abdominal illness in Britain c.1939-1945.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 20046266 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Medical History)
Source: Medical History - January 1, 2010 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Miller I Tags: Med Hist Source Type: journals

Monstrous births and medical networks: debates over forensic evidence, generation theory, and obstetrical authority in France, ca. 1780-1815.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In France between 1780 and 1815, doctors opened a broad correspondence with medical faculties and public officials about foetal anomalies ("monstrosities"). Institutional and legal reforms forced doctors to encounter monstrous births with greater frequency, and they responded by developing new ideas about heredity and embryology to explain malformations to public officials. Though doctors achieved consensus on pathogenesis, they struggled to apply these ideas in forensic cases, especially with doubtful sex. Medical networks simultaneously allowed doctors to explore obstetrical techniques, as licensing regulations force...
Source: Early Science and Medicine - December 25, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Quinlan SM Tags: Early Sci Med Source Type: journals

The mine and the furnace: Francis Bacon, Thomas Russell, and early Stuart mining culture.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Notwithstanding Francis Bacon's praise for the philosophical role of the mechanical arts, historians have often downplayed Bacon's connections with actual artisans and entrepreneurs. Addressing the specific context of mining culture, this study proposes a rather different picture. The analysis of a famous mining metaphor in The Advancement of Learning shows us how Bacon's project of reform of knowledge could find an apt correspondence in civic and entrepreneurial values of his time. Also, Bacon had interesting and so far unexplored links with the early modern English mining enterprises, like the Company of Mineral and ...
Source: Early Science and Medicine - December 25, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Pastorino C Tags: Early Sci Med Source Type: journals

Early modern green sickness and pre-Freudian hysteria.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In early modern medicine, both green sickness (or chlorosis) and hysteria were understood to be gendered diseases, diseases of women. Green sickness, a disease of young women, was considered so serious that John Graunt, the father of English statistics, thought that in his time dozens of women died of it in London every year. One of the symptoms of hysteria was that women fell unconscious. The force of etymology and medical tradition was so strong that in one instance the gender of the patient seems to have been changed by the recorder to make the case fit medical theory. PMID: 20027761 [PubMed - in process] (Sourc...
Source: Early Science and Medicine - December 25, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Schleiner W Tags: Early Sci Med Source Type: journals

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Source: Journal of Medical Biography - December 23, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Gibson, M. E, Dutta, A. Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: journals

George Guthrie. Soldier and Pioneer SurgeonEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Medical Biography - December 23, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Ellis, H. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Walking London's Medical HistoryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Journal of Medical Biography)
Source: Journal of Medical Biography - December 23, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Parsons, M. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

John Rae (1813-93), Kirkwall, OrkneyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Journal of Medical Biography)
Source: Journal of Medical Biography - December 23, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Scott, C J. Tags: Medical Memorials Source Type: journals

The Emperor Hadrian (fl. AD 117-138) and MedicineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Journal of Medical Biography)
Source: Journal of Medical Biography - December 23, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Cruse, A. Tags: Glimpses Source Type: journals

The untold neurological disease of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conventional wisdom suggests that Franklin Delano Roosevelt died on 12 April 1945 aged 63 from a massive cerebral haemorrhage attributable to uncontrolled hypertension and atherosclerosis. Evidence from numerous reliable sources is presented, based largely on a constellation of previously unrecognized neurological symptoms including seizures, encephalopathy and hemianopia, supporting a scenario that, while indeed he suffered from severe cardiovascular disease, Roosevelt died from melanoma with the terminal event attributable to a metastatic lesion in the brain. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography)
Source: Journal of Medical Biography - December 23, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Lomazow, S. Tags: Patients Source Type: journals

Notes and JottingsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Journal of Medical Biography)
Source: Journal of Medical Biography - December 23, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Notes and Jottings Source Type: journals

Did one ear infection in France change the history of Britain? The illness and death of Francis II (1544-60)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The middle ear has long been considered a continuum of the upper respiratory tract and modern physicians recognize the impact of upper respiratory tract pathology on the middle ear and are familiar with the possible neurosurgical complications of any resultant chronic or acute middle ear infection. In the 16th century, lack of this knowledge may have led to a sequence of events and one of the most important turning points for the British monarchy. This paper on the illness and death of King Francis II of France uncovers interesting aspects of ENT practice from the French Renaissance period and the intrigue surrounding this...
Source: Journal of Medical Biography - December 23, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Srouji, I. A. Tags: Patients Source Type: journals

Dr Arnold Renshaw (1885-1980): Manchester pathologist and forensic pathologist with a clinical interest in rheumatoid arthritisEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Dr Arnold Renshaw trained in both dentistry and medicine in Manchester, being actively involved in the University student organisations. He followed a career in pathology and bacteriology that was interrupted by serving in the RAMC during World War I. Bacteriological interest in the antiseptic properties of aniline dyes followed. His main interest, however, was in pathology where he was associated with the Pathology Society of Manchester for more than twenty years. He was also actively involved in the founding of the Association of Clinical Pathologists. The Association led to the formation of the Royal College of Patholog...
Source: Journal of Medical Biography - December 23, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Shreeve, D. R Tags: Pathologists Source Type: journals

Jules Bordet (1870-1961): a bridge between early and modern immunologyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Jules Bordet, a pioneering immunologist, lived until the dawn of molecular immunology. He was born in Belgium in 1870, obtained a medical degree in 1892, worked at l'Institut Pasteur in Paris from 1894 to 1901 and then established the Pasteur Institute of Brabant in Brussels. Before World War I, Bordet found that complement binds to antibody-antigen complexes regardless of the antigen or antibodies involved. Subsequently he developed the complement fixation test that was of diagnostic importance for several decades. For his research concerning complement he was awarded the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. During...
Source: Journal of Medical Biography - December 23, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Schmalstieg, F. C, Goldman, A. S Tags: Immunologists Source Type: journals

International Medical Congress, London 1881Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Journal of Medical Biography)
Source: Journal of Medical Biography - December 23, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: James, D G. Tags: Meetings Source Type: journals

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913): evolution and medicineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The theory we now know simply as ‘evolution’ was first presented to the scientific world one and a half centuries ago, on 1 July 1858, when the work of two men, Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Robert Darwin (1809–82), was jointly read at the Linnean Society. While Charles Darwin has rightly taken his place in history as one of the greatest scientists of all time, Alfred Russel Wallace has been largely forgotten outside of the scientific community. However, Wallace was a prolific researcher and writer with interests in a wide range of topics, from medicine to economics. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography)
Source: Journal of Medical Biography - December 23, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: O'Connell, H. P Tags: Physiologists Source Type: journals