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Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:20:01 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5103207&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F3%2F138%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5103207 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5103207 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5103206&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F3%2F137%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5103206 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5103206 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5103205&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F3%2F132%3Frss%3D1 This is the biography of a deceased medical journal, the North American Medical and Surgical Journal, born in 1826 in Philadelphia. It was a publication of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Kappa Lambda Society. In the prospectus of the North American Medical and Surgical Journal the promoters observed that a well-conducted journal would achieve the object of elevating the medical profession to its legitimate rank which up to that time had been the recipient of low public opinion. The Journal hoped to inculcate ‘a higher standard of excellence not merely in the professional or ministrative but also in the ethical relations and duties of physicians’. After several successful and productive years it passed into history in October 1831, the victim of financial difficulty. (Source: J... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5103205 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5103205 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5103204&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F3%2F128%3Frss%3D1 Dr Zammit's experiments showed that brucellosis was transmitted by the milk of goats that did not show signs of infection or ill health. The British forces in Malta banned the use of goats' milk and brucellosis was eliminated in those forces. This research was published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society and earned him an Honorary DLitt from Oxford University and the Kingsley Medal of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. The King knighted him. He was the great Maltese polymath but there is a mystery concerning his name. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5103204 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5103204 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5103203&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F3%2F125%3Frss%3D1 Physicians have used fetal heart monitoring for 300 years but it has faced a revolution in the last 50 years after the incorporation of new devices and the discovery of the normal patterns of labour. Dr Caldeyro Barcia in Uruguay was one of the pioneers of the development of intrauterine pressure monitors and, with Dr Edward H Hon (1917–2007), he established the basis of modern electronic fetal heart monitoring which is still used in most labour and delivery rooms across the World. Nowadays medicine and technology advances so fast that devices created 10 years ago are considered old fashioned or obsolete. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5103203 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5103203 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5103202&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F3%2F124%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5103202 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5103202 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5103201&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F3%2F117%3Frss%3D1 We report also on his role during the Garibaldinian Campaign in 1866 and his work in Europe as a member of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5103201 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5103201 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5103200&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F3%2F116%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5103200 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5103200 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5103199&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F3%2F111%3Frss%3D1 Since the Victoria Cross was introduced in January 1856 by Queen Victoria to reward acts of valour in the face of the enemy, initially during the Crimean War, over 1350 medals have been awarded. Of these, three were awarded to medical officers who had previously gained the Licentiate Diploma of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (LRCS Edin) – Valentine Munbee McMaster on 25 September 1857, Henry Thomas Sylvester on 20 November 1857 (although the acts of valour for which he was awarded his VC occurred on two occasions in September 1855) and Campbell Mellis (or Millis) Douglas on 7 May 1867. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5103199 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5103199 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5103198&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F3%2F110%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5103198 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5103198 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5103197&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F3%2F105%3Frss%3D1 Dr Marjory Warren was a remarkable, formidable physician who reversed the neglect of chronic sick patients and brought their treatment into the modern era. She advocated the creation of the specialty of geriatric medicine with units based in district general hospitals, and that medical students and nurses should be taught about the diseases of old age. She treated the whole patient, applied advances in medicine and therapeutics, devised new techniques and equipment to assist disabled elderly stroke and amputee patients, and made great improvements in the ward environment. She emphasized the importance of the patient's social background, and electrified both staff and patients with her drive and enthusiasm. Many patients were treated successfully and discharged. Bed requirements were reduce... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5103197 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5103197 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5103196&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F3%2F95%3Frss%3D1 The Declaration of Independence had 56 signers, four of whom were physicians. The constitutional convention in 1787 had 55 delegates and 39 of them signed the Constitution. Three of these delegates were physicians and two signed the document. The Bill of Rights was a product of the first Federal Congress and three of its members were physicians. This paper presents a biographic outline of these physicians and their contributions to society, within a context of contemporary medicine during the first 25 years of the USA. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5103196 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5103196 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5103195&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F3%2F94%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5103195 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5103195 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5103194&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F3%2F93%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5103194 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5103194 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4812748&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F2%2F92%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4812748 Mon, 09 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4812748 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4812747&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F2%2F91%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4812747 Mon, 09 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4812747 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4812746&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F2%2F90%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4812746 Mon, 09 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4812746 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4812745&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F2%2F89%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4812745 Mon, 09 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4812745 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4812744&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F2%2F84%3Frss%3D1 In May 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville in the American Civil War, Lieutenant General Thomas J ‘Stonewall’ Jackson received three gunshot wounds and subsequently underwent amputation of his left arm. Four days after his operation Jackson developed pneumonia and died three days later. Some modern physicians have challenged the diagnosis of pneumonia and have suggested other diseases as the being the likely cause of his death. Reviewing the accounts of Jackson's course of illness in the context of 19th-century medical knowledge supports the original diagnosis of pneumonia as the cause of his death. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4812744 Mon, 09 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4812744 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4812743&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F2%2F80%3Frss%3D1 Ekhtiyarat i Badi i (Badi i Selections) is a drug manual of traditional Persian medicine, well known in Farsi-speaking countries, the Middle East and India. The author was the greatest pharmacist-physician of the 13th-century Mongolian period in Persia. The unique style of writing, with authoritative and critical drug overviews, made his book an invaluable Farsi reference of traditional pharmacy for four centuries. In spite of adverse social and political circumstances in the Mongolian era, the book contributed to the reconstitution of Persian pharmacy and medicine, serving as a basic reference for the compilation of other drug manuals and scientific works for centuries after its introduction. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4812743 Mon, 09 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4812743 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4812742&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F2%2F73%3Frss%3D1 The 15th and 16th centuries saw a religious revival in Europe and an increased interest in church missions. With geographical discoveries supported by strong monarchies in Spain, Portugal and later France, Catholic missions and in particular the Society of Jesus resumed the spread of Christianity to China. Convinced that it was wise policy to address themselves to the most influential upper classes, the Jesuits under the leadership of Father Matteo Ricci became friendly with the aristocrats and the intelligentsia. The Jesuits introduced Western scientific ideas into China and even practised medicine. Between periods of adversity and persecutions, Chinese emperors who valued them for their scientific expertise generally tolerated their missionary activities. Any lasting influence on Chinese... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4812742 Mon, 09 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4812742 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4812741&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F2%2F72%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4812741 Mon, 09 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4812741 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4812740&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F2%2F70%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4812740 Mon, 09 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4812740 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4812739&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F2%2F69%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4812739 Mon, 09 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4812739 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4812738&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F2%2F63%3Frss%3D1 Giulio Cesare Aranzio in Italian (Julius Caesar Arantius in Latin) has not received full acclaim for his achievements in the field of anatomy and surgery that remain unknown to most physicians. His anatomical books Observationes Anatomicas, and De Humano Foetu Opusculum and surgical books De Tumoribus Secundum Locos Affectos and Hippocratis librum de vulneribus capitis commentarius brevis printed in Latin and additional existing literature on Aranzio from medical history books and journals were analysed extensively. Aranzio became Professor of Anatomy and Surgery at the University of Bologna in 1556. He established anatomy as a distinguished branch of medicine for the first time in medical history. Aranzio combined anatomy with a description of pathological processes. He discovered the &ls... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4812738 Mon, 09 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4812738 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4812737&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F2%2F56%3Frss%3D1 A family of Watkins doctors originating in the Northamptonshire town of Towcester included 13 doctors in seven generations during 250 years. In each generation there were between one and four doctors. Three doctors involved themselves actively in innovative yet controversial practises, described in their own writings and publications. Timothy Watkins' (1755–1834) own handwritten lecture notes describe the problems affecting an 18th-century man-midwife, while his accounts book provides insights into his lifestyle. The concept of the waterborne spread of cholera during the 1854 epidemic in Towcester is described by Robert Webb Watkins (1822–1901) during the same year as the observations made by John Snow (1813–58). John Webb Watkins (1833–1903) in his MD thesis (1856)... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4812737 Mon, 09 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4812737 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4812736&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F2%2F49%3Frss%3D1 George Cheyne was a well-known physician with a practice in Bath and London. He was a fat, jovial Scotsman weighing 32 stone at one time and with a great sense of humour who could be classed as one of the characters of the period. His health suffered seriously from eating and drinking too much in taverns with his ‘bottle companions’ when young, and he spent the rest of his life writing books for the public to help them avoid the problems he had experienced, with a particular emphasis on diet and nervous disorders. His book entitled An Essay on Health and Long Life had particular success. Although often lampooned, he had many famous patients including Beau Nash, Samuel Richardson, The Countess of Huntingdon and Catherine Walpole, the eldest daughter of the Prime Minister Robert ... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4812736 Mon, 09 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4812736 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4812735&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F2%2F47%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4812735 Mon, 09 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4812735 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4516942&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F1%2F44%3Frss%3D1 After the Greek Independence (1830), the first King, Otto from the Wittelsbach dynasty (Bayer), was married to Amelia from the House of Oldenburg (1836). Their failure to produce an heir to the throne, eagerly expected by the people, contributed much to their abdication in 1862, as an additional factor at the general, opposition to their way of governing. The responsibility for the couples sterility became a matter of political controversies among their families, their countries and the other European thrones after the unsuccessful medical diagnoses and treatments of the most eminent Greek and German physicians. This paper examines their failure to continue the throne, the medical circumstances, and the historical and political consequences. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4516942 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4516942 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4516941&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F1%2F38%3Frss%3D1 Vincenz Alexander Bochdalek was a skilful and modest anatomist and pathologist who studied and worked at Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague from the 1820s to the early 1870s. He was born on 11 February 1801 in Skripov (Austrian Silesia). In 1833 he defended his Thesis (A Guide to the Practical Dissection of the Human Brain), from the Faculty of Medicine in Prague. He worked there from 1831 as an Assistant at the Department of Anatomy and from 1837 as the first Pathological Prosector ever in the General Hospital in Prague. In 1840 he was promoted to the Associate Professorship of Pathological Anatomy and in 1845 was appointed Professor of General, Comparative and Surgical Anatomy and Head of the Department of Anatomy. His life's work contributed substantially to the birth and rise of th... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4516941 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4516941 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4516940&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F1%2F34%3Frss%3D1 Alfred Fleisch was a Swiss physiologist who invented several medical devices, among them a device for measuring airflow known as Fleischs's pneumotachometre. The airflow measurers – transducers – are still well known and are used all over the world in different varieties of spirograph. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4516940 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4516940 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4516939&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F1%2F33%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4516939 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4516939 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4516938&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F1%2F32%3Frss%3D1 Alois Alzheimer is known for his seminal work in recognizing a form of presenile dementia. His early interests were natural history and botany. He started his medical education in Berlin and attended the universities of Wurzburg and Tübingen. Nissl and Alzheimer worked together on extensive investigation of the pathology of the nervous system, especially the anatomy of the cerebral cortex. In 1902 Emil Kraepelin invited Alzheimer to work with him in the university psychiatric clinic in Heidelberg. In 1903 both moved to work in the university psychiatric clinic in Munich. It was during these years that Alzheimer described the Alzheimer's disease. He also described brain changes in arteriosclerosis, loss of nerve cells in Huntington's disease in the corpus striatum and brain changes in ... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4516938 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4516938 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4516937&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F1%2F31%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4516937 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4516937 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4516936&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F1%2F26%3Frss%3D1 The correspondence between Dr Knud Krabbe in Denmark and Dr Henry Alsop Riley in the USA, archived at Columbia University, provides valuable insight into the friendship that arose between these two early leaders in neurology who lived on opposite sides of the Atlantic. Comprised of 15 surviving letters, the correspondence began in 1929 but primarily spanned the period from 1954 to 1959 and during that time showed a very familiar tone between the two men. Their correspondence is not only about work but the range of topics evidences the warmth that evolved between the two men. Their friendship likely originated at the International Neurological Congresses (INCs), which occurred every four years. This paper serves to bring this correspondence, previously not well known, into the historical li... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4516936 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4516936 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4516935&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F1%2F21%3Frss%3D1 Michael Woodruff performed the first successful renal transplant in the UK and described the technique of joining the ureter of the transplant to the bladder. He contributed to all aspects of transplantation biology and was responsible for the design of the first purpose-built transplant unit in the world. As a Japanese prisoner of war at Changi in Singapore, Michael Woodruff studied the effects of malnutrition and devised a machine for extracting vitamins and trace elements from grass. After the war he demonstrated that the anterior chamber of the eye was an immunologically privileged site. He was the first person to describe ‘adaptation’. He showed that antilymphocytic serum was effective as an immunosuppressive agent for homografts. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4516935 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4516935 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4516934&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F1%2F17%3Frss%3D1 The famous painting by Hans Holbein, celebrating the 1540 union of the Barbers and the Surgeons to form the Company of Barber-Surgeons, is well known. The work commemorates a milestone in the history of English surgery, but it is also important in another context. Group portraits of professionals were virtually unknown in England at this time, in contrast to portrayals of royalty or aristocratic families. This seems to be the earliest depiction of a group of eminent medical men with the King; the Holbein painting is unique in this respect. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4516934 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4516934 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4516933&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F1%2F15%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4516933 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4516933 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4516932&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F1%2F14%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4516932 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4516932 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4516931&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F1%2F10%3Frss%3D1 Sir Geoffrey Marshall was a remarkable, hard-working man who helped in the development of anaesthesia and respiratory medicine. Both were in someway helped by his military experiences in World War I, first when working on an ambulance barge and then in the Casualty Clearing Stations researching the increasing problem of surgical shock. Among a multitude of high-ranking medical posts he also acted as Physician to King George VI and Sir Winston Churchill when they developed respiratory conditions. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4516931 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4516931 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4516930&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F1%2F9%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4516930 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4516930 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4516929&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F1%2F5%3Frss%3D1 After graduation at Trinity College Dublin in 1814 Archibald Billing, who was born in County Dublin, settled in London. His Dublin MD (1818) was incorporated at Oxford and he taught at the London Hospital where, when appointed Senior Physician in 1822, he introduced teaching at the patients' bedsides. He ceased to lecture in 1836 when he was invited to become a member of the Senate of the University of London. He published papers on a variety of clinical subjects but is remembered for First Principles of Medicine (1831) that went through six editions. His friends among the operatic artists included Niccolo Paganini, and The Science of Jems, Jewels, Coins and Medals (1867) was the work of a connoisseur. He lived in retirement for many years before he died at the age of 90 at 34 Park Lane, L... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4516929 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4516929 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4516928&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F1%2F4%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4516928 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4516928 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4516927&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F1%2F2%3Frss%3D1 Silvanus Bevan was born in Swansea, South Wales, moved to London where he trained as an apothecary, and then in 1715 opened a business at Plough Court off Lombard Street in London. As a committed Quaker he was renowned for honesty and fair-trading and consequently he prospered. In the 1730s he took his brother Timothy as a partner. Silvanus Bevan had practised medicine at his Plough Court pharmacy and, with the arrival of his brother became less involved in pharmacy and increasingly interested in medicine. In 1725 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. Within the family the pharmacy at Plough Court continued to prosper and became the forerunner of the pharmaceutical company Allen and Hanbury. Marriage into other Quaker families linked Silvanus Bevan with the banking firm Barclays. (Sourc... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4516927 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4516927 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4516926&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F19%2F1%2F1%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4516926 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4516926 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4167655&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F4%2F218%3Frss%3D1 An account of three doctors whose deaths while saving lives in danger are recorded on an unusual memorial in London. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4167655 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4167655 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4167654&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F4%2F217%3Frss%3D1 (No summary is available for this citation) (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4167654 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4167654 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4167653&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F4%2F216%3Frss%3D1 (No summary is available for this citation) (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4167653 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4167653 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4167652&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F4%2F215%3Frss%3D1 (No summary is available for this citation) (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4167652 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4167652 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4167651&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F4%2F211%3Frss%3D1 References to headache in Jane Austen's works, both fictional and non-fictional, and in biographical works undertaken by Austen family members have been collated. These multiple references suggest that Jane Austen used headache as a narrative device to reflect not only physiological bodily processes but also psychological states, possibly based on her own experience of headache and that of female relations and acquaintances. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4167651 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4167651 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4167650&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F4%2F205%3Frss%3D1 Alice Batt while working as a VAD1 nurse in 1918 during World War I was awarded the Albert Medal.2 She was also awarded the British Red Cross Society Special Service Cross in 1919 for ‘exceptionally meritorious service’ and earlier, in 1915, had been awarded the Royal Humane Society Medal for saving a girl from drowning in the sea. This account is based on her own wartime diary, published privately by a family member, Arthur Batt. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4167650 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4167650 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4167649&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F4%2F198%3Frss%3D1 John George Adami (1862–1926) qualified in medicine at Manchester and in 1892 was appointed professor of pathology at McGill University. At the invitation of the Royal College of Physicians (in London) he delivered the Croonian Lectures in 1917. He chose the title ‘Adaptation and disease; the contribution of medical research to the study of evolution’. Adami believed that medical work had brought to light important facts about heredity that had not been communicated adequately to biological scientists. He used the lectures to describe this work, placing particular emphasis on his contention that acquired characters are inherited. At this time the medical audience at Adami's lectures would have been generally sympathetic to the idea that acquired characters can be inherite... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4167649 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4167649 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4167648&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F4%2F194%3Frss%3D1 James Blundell was an obstetrician, surgeon, physiologist and teacher. He is best known as the first to perform a successful human-to-human blood transfusion. However, he can also be accredited for significant advances in surgery and obstetrics. After a distinguished career at The United Hospitals of St Thomas and Guy's, he retired early and ended his years in relative obscurity. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4167648 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4167648 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4167647&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F4%2F186%3Frss%3D1 In 1914 Victor Horsley, 56 years old, pioneer neurosurgeon, politician and ardent supporter of the temperance movement volunteered for active service. After a brief period in France he was posted to the Middle East, initially to Egypt and then to Mesopotamia. There he witnessed the horrors of that campaign. His attempts to alleviate the appalling conditions to which the wounded were subjected took toll of his own health and the official cause of his death in 1916 at Amara was heat stroke. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4167647 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4167647 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4167646&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F4%2F183%3Frss%3D1 (No summary is available for this citation) (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4167646 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4167646 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4167645&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F4%2F182%3Frss%3D1 (No summary is available for this citation) (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4167645 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4167645 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4167644&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F4%2F181%3Frss%3D1 This is a shortened account of the bitter experiences of American prisoners of the British during the war of 1812–14 as seen through the eyes of a young New Englander who kept a diary of events in various prisons on both sides of the Atlantic. Resentment against the delay in release from captivity at Dartmoor prison boiled over in April 1815 and an attempt at mass escape resulted in many casualties. These were admirably dealt with by Surgeon George Magrath (1775–1857) who had been Flag Medical Officer to Nelson in the Mediterranean. His skill and humanity to the American prisoners at Dartmoor earned their deep respect. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4167644 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4167644 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4167643&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F4%2F177%3Frss%3D1 The Bo (meaning ‘ox’ in the Venetian dialect) is the historic seat of the University of Padua, founded in 1222. A full-length portrait of Thomas Linacre stands in its prestigious Sala dei Quaranta (Hall of the Forty), so called because of the portraits of forty great foreign scholars of the University, painted by Giacomo dal Forno in 1942. Thomas Linacre came to Italy in 1485, following an embassy by Henry VII to the Vatican. Linacre visited Bologna, Florence, Rome, Venice, Vicenza and Padua, where he took his degree in medicine in 1496 with great distinction. During his stay in Italy he met illustrious humanists and physicians, including Poliziano, Hermolaus Barbarus and Aldus Manutius Romanus, and Nicolaus Leonicenus who further stimulated him to the translation of classic wo... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4167643 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4167643 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4167642&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F4%2F175%3Frss%3D1 (No summary is available for this citation) (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4167642 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4167642 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3907349&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F3%2F174%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3907349 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:35:22 +0100 3907349 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3907348&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F3%2F165%3Frss%3D1 Constantine Rafinesque, a French émigré to America in the early 19th century, was a forerunner of Charles Darwin and a zealous field naturalist who identified thousands of new species of plants and animals. His career was controversial in part because of his unfocused ambition to gain scientific recognition. In his later years he published in many areas apart from biology. His polymathic life ended in 1840 with his death (aged 57) from stomach cancer. In 1826 he had developed an illness he thought was consumption and which he believed was cured by a herbal mixture he devised. It may have contained one or more species of ferns related to one now known to induce human gastric carcinoma. Rafinesque's self-medication may have led to his death years later. (Source: Journal of Medi... 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They developed an interest in radiology of the gastrointestinal tract through which they maintained a long association. Sir Arthur Hurst, after qualifying in Oxford in 1904, became a renowned physician at Guy's Hospital, London, and founder of what was to become the British Society of Gastroenterology. Dr Alfred Barclay qualified in Cambridge in 1904 and subsequently became the first Consultant Radiologist in Manchester and doyen of gastrointestinal radiology. He moved to Cambridge in 1928 to sustain the DMRE course. In 1937 he was invited to join the Nuffield Institute of Medical Research in Oxford at an age when many would have considered retiring. In 1939 Hurst also returned to ... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3907345 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:35:21 +0100 3907345 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3907344&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F3%2F150%3Frss%3D1 Edward Mellanby used the experimental method to investigate medical problems. In 1918, working at King's College for Women, London, he provided conclusive evidence that rickets is a dietary deficiency disease due to lack of a fat-soluble vitamin [D]. In Sheffield he demonstrated that cereals, in an unbalanced diet, produced rickets due to the phytic acid content reducing the availability of calcium. Mellanby became Secretary of the Medical Research Council (1933–49) but continued his research by working at weekends. In the 1930s he campaigned for the results of nutritional research to be used for the benefit of public health. During World War II he acted as a scientific adviser to the War Cabinet and had a strong influence on the food policy which maintained successfully the nutritio... 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As a surgeon in the American Continental Army he honed not only his surgical but also his teaching skills by providing continuing medical education to his colleagues in Boston's military hospital. Warren became a driving force in post-war Boston medicine. His organizational talents, zeal for science and vision for Massachusetts medicine led to the creation of Harvard Medical School. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3907340 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:35:21 +0100 3907340 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3907339&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F3%2F133%3Frss%3D1 Gandhi visited London on several occasions. During two of these visits, when he was a law student from 1888 and again in 1914, he met Thomas Richard Allinson, a controversial doctor whose name was erased from the Medical Register in 1892. While in London studying for the bar, Gandhi was influenced in his search for a suitable vegetarian diet by the writings and personal support of Allinson. Although disagreeing profoundly with Allinson's views on birth control, he spoke up in defence of his right to hold them – probably the first time Gandhi challenged authority and an occasion which shows him as a tongue-tied young man but even then having a personal moral code that gives insight into the character of the future Mahatma. On Gandhi's further visit to England in 1914 Allinson, althoug... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3907339 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:35:21 +0100 3907339 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3907338&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F3%2F132%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3907338 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:35:21 +0100 3907338 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3907337&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F3%2F127%3Frss%3D1 Golitsynsky Hospital is one of the oldest Moscow clinics founded by the Russian Aristocrat Count Golitsyn in 1802. A prominent Russian surgeon and Professor at Moscow University, Efrem Mukhin became the first senior medical doctor at this hospital and played a crucial role in its development. Six hundred and eighty-eight operations were performed at Golitsynsky Hospital between 1802 and 1807 including obstetric, gynaecological, eye and ear interventions. Mukhin performed 444 operations himself. The hospital continued functioning when Napoleon's troops occupied Moscow in September 1812. The French surgeons D Larrey, Degenet and De la Fliz worked there during this period, assisted by their Russian pupils A Migachev and V Sherbakov. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3907337 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:35:21 +0100 3907337 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3907336&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F3%2F126%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3907336 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:35:21 +0100 3907336 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3907335&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F3%2F124%3Frss%3D1 The portrait of the London and Horncastle Physician Edward Harrison, painted and displayed in 1823, was editorially criticized by one of the medical journals of the time. After Harrison died the portrait remained in the family estate until 1938, after which it was presented to the National Gallery of Ireland. The image of Dr Harrison had never been displayed in any of his medical writings, nor in any other medical historical works, until 2008. This paper provides some history of the criticism of the portrait, similar to the historical vignette of the portraiture of William Harvey and outlines the detective work to track down the location of the portrait. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3907335 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:35:21 +0100 3907335 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3907334&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F3%2F123%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3907334 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:35:21 +0100 3907334 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3625261&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F2%2F122%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3625261 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:40:55 +0100 3625261 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3625260&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F2%2F115%3Frss%3D1 Joseph Haydn was a central figure in the development and growth of the European classical musical tradition in its transition from the Baroque period. John Hunter as the Founder of Scientific Surgery was a dominant figure in 18th-century British medical science. Anne Hunter née Home (1742–1821) was in her own right a figure of some eminence in the literary circles of 18th-century London. Attracted to the burgeoning medical and musical scenes of London, John Hunter married Anne Home and became a famous surgeon; Haydn became acquainted with the Hunters. The people, the opportunities and the circumstances had coincided. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3625260 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:40:55 +0100 3625260 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3625259&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F2%2F114%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3625259 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:40:55 +0100 3625259 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3625258&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F2%2F108%3Frss%3D1 In 1720 Catherine Walpole the 16-year-old eldest daughter of Robert Walpole, later to become Prime Minister, became very ill. She was unable to eat, fainted, took fits frequently, and had a persistent pain and swelling in her side. Sir Hans Sloane, the Walpole's doctor, referred her to Dr Cheyne in Bath because he specialized in dietary problems and nervous diseases. Cheyne kept in regular touch with Sir Hans by letter and this correspondence tells the story of Catherine's treatment from her first referral to Cheyne to her death in 1722. The contents and purposes of treatments he used are identifiable in dispensatories of the period. The letters reflect Cheyne's medical skills and knowledge as well as his sympathetic personality. Catherine's family loyalties, personal concerns and personal... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3625258 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:40:55 +0100 3625258 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3625257&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F2%2F107%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3625257 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:40:55 +0100 3625257 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3625256&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F2%2F102%3Frss%3D1 The political upheaval in Germany in 1933 and subsequent movement of medical scholars with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation allowed Manchester to benefit from the arrival of Dr Walter Deutsch, later known as Dr Walter Dale. His research background enabled him to develop a radiobiochemistry laboratory at the Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute where he became a world authority on the effects of X-rays on enzymes and also the protective effect of additional solutes. In 1959 he initiated and then edited the International Journal of Radiation Biology. By the time of his retirement in 1962 the strength of his research resulted in his laboratory being recognized by the Medical Research Council. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3625256 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:40:55 +0100 3625256 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3625255&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F2%2F99%3Frss%3D1 From the second half of the 18th century, Japanese physicians incorporated concepts of European medicine in their publications. Dutch physicians had a pivotal role in this process, facilitated by their trade relations in Deshima, near Nagasaki. This paper focuses on the influence of later Dutch editions (probably the 1765 edition) of Hendrik van Deventer's pioneer work Nieuw Ligt (a New Light) on Japanese obstetrics, especially on Katakura Kakuryo's publication in 1799 of Sanka Hatsumo (Enlightenment of Obstetrics). (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3625255 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:40:55 +0100 3625255 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3625254&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F2%2F98%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3625254 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:40:55 +0100 3625254 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3625253&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F2%2F88%3Frss%3D1 The science of immunology emerged in the last of the 19th and the first of the 20th century. Substantial progress in physics, chemistry and microbiology was essential for its development. Indeed, microorganisms became one of the principal investigative tools of the major founders of that science – Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, Ilya Ilich Metchnikoff, Paul Ehrlich and Jules Bordet. It is pertinent that these pioneering scientists were born when questioning and exploration were encouraged because of the legacies of the previous century of enlightenment. Mentors greatly aided their development. Their discoveries were shaped by their individual personalities. In turn they developed other contributors to the nascent field. Their discoveries included the types of leukocytes, the roles of neu... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3625253 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:40:55 +0100 3625253 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3625252&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F2%2F81%3Frss%3D1 Charles Langmaid graduated in medicine from the University of Wales in the summer of 1935. Eighteen months later, with the encouragement of Professor Lambert Rogers, Charles decided to embark on a shorter version of what today would be regarded as a ‘gap year’ by securing a short-term commission as a ship's surgeon, a not uncommon venture for those on the threshold of a medical career. Charles' three-month journey on MV Glengarry to the Far East was recorded meticulously in the form of a diary. While it is clear that Charles's clinical skills were not fully tested during the voyage, he considered the trip ‘a most interesting and relaxing experience’ that undoubtedly got his distinguished surgical career off to an invigorating start. (Source: Journal of Medical Biogr... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3625252 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:40:55 +0100 3625252 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3625251&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F2%2F80-b%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3625251 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:40:55 +0100 3625251 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3625250&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F2%2F80-a%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3625250 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:40:55 +0100 3625250 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3625249&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F2%2F77%3Frss%3D1 John Wolfe graduated MD from Glasgow University in 1856. He founded the Glasgow Ophthalmic Institution in 1868 and he ran this for a quarter of a century. In 1875 he published the technique of full-thickness skin grafting in the British Medical Journal. In the last decades of the 19th century he gained wide experience in soft-tissue transplants. Generally unknown was Wolfe's earlier appointment as military surgeon to Garibaldi's army. An original and unpublished letter related to his Italian experience gives evidence of the colourful personality of this Hungarian-born Scottish-trained surgeon. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3625249 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:40:55 +0100 3625249 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3625248&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F2%2F76%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3625248 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:40:55 +0100 3625248 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3625247&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F2%2F72%3Frss%3D1 Heribert Schmidt, a German doctor, was an expert on Chinese medicine and acupuncture. He was renowned in both clinical practice and research on acupuncture in Germany and European countries. In March 1954 he visited Hong Kong and the visit attracted much attention and sparked discussions on the value of Chinese medicine. This paper aims to analyse the speech made by Heribert Schmidt during his visit to Hong Kong and also the follow-up discussions about scientification of Chinese medicine after his speech. The situation in which Chinese medical staff were pushed to the periphery in Hong Kong since the 1950s is also discussed. This should help us better to understand how practitioners of Chinese medicine in Hong Kong and Mainland China reacted to Heribert Schmidt's speech. (Source: Journal o... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3625247 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:40:55 +0100 3625247 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3625246&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F2%2F71%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3625246 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:40:55 +0100 3625246 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3625245&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F2%2F64%3Frss%3D1 Isambard Owen, born in Chepstow to a Welsh father, studied at Cambridge and St George's Hospital where he qualified in 1875 and was later physician and Dean. In 1904 he moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne as Principal of Armstrong College. He left in 1909 to become Bristol University's Vice-Chancellor, retiring in 1921. Although not resident in Wales he was an ardent Welshman. After joining the Cymmrodorion Society in 1877 he became involved in the struggle to improve primary and secondary education in Wales, partly by promoting use of the Welsh language in schools. His main contribution to Welsh academic life was in the foundation of the University of Wales and, later, of the medical school in Cardiff. He wrote the University's Charter and from 1895 until 1910 was its Senior Deputy Chancellor &n... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3625245 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:40:55 +0100 3625245 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3625244&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F2%2F63%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3625244 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:40:55 +0100 3625244 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3338087&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F1%2F61-b%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3338087 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:51:03 +0100 3338087 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3338086&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F1%2F61-a%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3338086 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:51:03 +0100 3338086 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3338085&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F1%2F57%3Frss%3D1 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 have been different if Joyce's visual problems had begun in the second rather than the first half of 20th century? (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3338085 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:51:03 +0100 3338085 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3338084&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F1%2F49%3Frss%3D1 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) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3338084 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:51:03 +0100 3338084 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3338083&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F1%2F44%3Frss%3D1 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, along with most of the biography of Pask. However, some extreme physiological experiments, again with Pask as the test subject and which probably were not conducted at Farnbo... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3338083 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:51:03 +0100 3338083 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3338082&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F1%2F43%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3338082 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:51:03 +0100 3338082 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3338081&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F1%2F41%3Frss%3D1 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) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3338081 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:51:03 +0100 3338081 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3338080&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F1%2F40%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3338080 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:51:03 +0100 3338080 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3338079&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F1%2F38%3Frss%3D1 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) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3338079 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:51:03 +0100 3338079 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3338078&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F1%2F37%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3338078 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:51:03 +0100 3338078 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3338077&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F1%2F35%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3338077 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:51:03 +0100 3338077 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3338076&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F1%2F34%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3338076 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:51:03 +0100 3338076 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3338075&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F1%2F27%3Frss%3D1 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 motives, he became a ringleader in a plot to smuggle fugitives from Nazi-occupied Europe across a pro-Axis Spain to safety. When the Gestapo was closing in on him, he was ... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3338075 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:51:03 +0100 3338075 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3338074&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F1%2F24%3Frss%3D1 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) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3338074 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:51:03 +0100 3338074 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3338073&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F1%2F23%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3338073 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:51:03 +0100 3338073 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3338072&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F1%2F19%3Frss%3D1 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) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3338072 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:51:03 +0100 3338072 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3338071&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F1%2F18%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3338071 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:51:03 +0100 3338071 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3338070&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F1%2F15%3Frss%3D1 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 his tendency to flit from one thing to another as opposed to consolidating his efforts in a single task as Osler did in writing his Principles and Practice of Medicine. (S... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3338070 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:51:03 +0100 3338070 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3338069&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F1%2F14%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3338069 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:51:03 +0100 3338069 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3338068&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F1%2F10%3Frss%3D1 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 charitable work remembered. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3338068 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:51:03 +0100 3338068 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3338067&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F1%2F9%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3338067 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:51:03 +0100 3338067 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3338066&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F1%2F2%3Frss%3D1 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 of fidelity to trust, empathy and honesty. He made every effort to keep a low public profile in order to minimize envy and intrusion into his private life. His success in... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3338066 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:51:03 +0100 3338066 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3338065&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F18%2F1%2F1%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3338065 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:51:03 +0100 3338065 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3114921&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F4%2F247%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3114921 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:38:13 +0100 3114921 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3114920&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F4%2F246-b%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3114920 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:38:13 +0100 3114920 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3114919&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F4%2F246-a%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3114919 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:38:13 +0100 3114919 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3114918&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F4%2F244%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3114918 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:38:13 +0100 3114918 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3114917&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F4%2F241%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3114917 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:38:13 +0100 3114917 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3114916&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F4%2F235%3Frss%3D1 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) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3114916 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:38:13 +0100 3114916 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3114915&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F4%2F234%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3114915 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:38:13 +0100 3114915 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3114914&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F4%2F231%3Frss%3D1 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 royal patient's well-documented but little discussed illness. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3114914 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:38:13 +0100 3114914 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3114913&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F4%2F225%3Frss%3D1 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 Pathologists and to Renshaw being elected one of the Founding Fellows. He also developed a special expertise in forensic pathology which he pioneered in northwest England. His la... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3114913 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:38:13 +0100 3114913 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3114912&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F4%2F217%3Frss%3D1 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 that period he also discovered anaphylatoxin, conglutinin, and the cause of whooping cough (Bordetella pertussis). After World War I he found how thrombin forms, how pla... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3114912 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:38:13 +0100 3114912 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3114911&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F4%2F216%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3114911 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:38:13 +0100 3114911 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3114910&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F4%2F214%3Frss%3D1 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) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3114910 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:38:13 +0100 3114910 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3114909&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F4%2F213%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3114909 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:38:13 +0100 3114909 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3114908&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F4%2F210%3Frss%3D1 In 1862 Jean Martin Charcot was appointed Physician at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, and simultaneously John Hughlings Jackson was appointed as assistant physician at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, Queen Square, London. Both men made significant contributions to the development of neurology, many of which remain important to contemporary neurologists. The achievements and the work of Charcot and Hughlings Jackson are considered in the light of their respective localities and medical education, and the structure of hospital institutions and political allegiances are compared in the late 19th century in France and Britain. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3114908 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:38:13 +0100 3114908 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3114907&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F4%2F209%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3114907 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:38:13 +0100 3114907 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3114906&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F4%2F208%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3114906 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:38:13 +0100 3114906 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3114905&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F4%2F206%3Frss%3D1 Born and raised in the Orkney Islands, Dr John Rae joined the Hudson's Bay Company and rose to be Chief Factor. Unusually tough and intelligent, he explored much of northern Canada, mapping the north eastern shore and finding controversial evidence of the lost Franklin expedition of 1845. A talented botanist, geologist, anthropologist and cartographer, he was northern Canada's most distinguished explorer. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3114905 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:38:13 +0100 3114905 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3114904&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F4%2F202%3Frss%3D1 Sarcophilia, a neologism for an attachment to human remains, is set in a review of the history of the disposal of the dead. The ancient practice of cremation was relaunched late in the 19th century by the urological surgeon cum social reformer Sir Henry Thompson. He was stimulated by Edwin Chadwick and Charles Dickens, and by Charles Darwin's observations on the earthworm. Sarcophilia is the reason for the controversial Human Tissue Act of 2004. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3114904 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:38:13 +0100 3114904 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3114903&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F4%2F201%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3114903 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:38:13 +0100 3114903 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3114902&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F4%2F199%3Frss%3D1 London in the first half of the 19th century was a centre of scientific and medical interest. For example, the Royal Society, the Linnean Society, the Geological Society, the Chemical Society and the Royal Astronomical Society were all centred on Burlington House and, not far away, in Berner's Street was the Medical and Chirurgical Society, which in 1834 became the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society and later the Royal Society of Medicine. It was also in this period that Edward Meryon became a member of the latter society and subsequently a Council Member, Librarian and Vice-President. His research led to the clear identification for the first time of the disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy and he published his results in the Transactions of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in ... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3114902 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:38:13 +0100 3114902 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3114901&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F4%2F198%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3114901 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:38:13 +0100 3114901 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3114900&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F4%2F195%3Frss%3D1 The paper places the first Charles Darwin in his family context: the eldest son of Dr Erasmus Darwin and Mary Howard. Mention is made of Charles's upbringing and education, with illustrative material taken from his father's writings and from Anna Seward's Memoirs of the Life of Dr Darwin (1804). The part played by Dr Andrew Duncan of the Edinburgh Medical School is established. The award to Charles in March 1778 of the first medal by the Aesculapian Society of Edinburgh is described. The involvement of Dr William Cullen and Dr Joseph Black in the treatment of Charles's fatal infection is evidenced from Erasmus' letters. Attention is given to ‘An Elegy on the much-lamented death of a most ingenious young gentleman who lately died in the College at Edinburgh where he was a student&rsqu... Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3114900 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:38:13 +0100 3114900 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3114899&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F4%2F189%3Frss%3D1 Giuseppe Pasta was a pioneer of psychological support in physical disease. Born in Bergamo, Italy, he was a cousin of the physician Andrea Pasta who was a pupil of Giovanni Battista Morgagni. Giuseppe's cultural and clinical resources were the teachings of Francesco Redi's medical school in Tuscany. This paper discusses the courage and philosophical tolerance of disease and the etiquette of the physician. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3114899 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:38:13 +0100 3114899 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3114898&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F4%2F187%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3114898 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:38:13 +0100 3114898 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2757478&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F3%2F186%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2757478 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2757478 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2757477&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F3%2F185-b%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2757477 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2757477 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2757476&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F3%2F185-a%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2757476 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2757476 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2757475&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F3%2F184%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2757475 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2757475 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2757474&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F3%2F179%3Frss%3D1 Bertolt Brecht was one of the most important dramatists of the 20th century. At the start of his career he studied literature but switched from the humanities to medicine. This paper discusses reasons for this switch, the influence of his medical experiences on his poetic work and why he eventually abandoned his medical career. His political development towards Marxism is described and a short sketch of his theory of theatre is given. He is considered the most important German-speaking dramatist of the 20th century. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2757474 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2757474 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2757473&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F3%2F178%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2757473 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2757473 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2757472&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F3%2F177%3Frss%3D1 Leonard Craske (1878–1950), born and raised in London, England, spent two years as a medical student at St Thomas' Hospital Medical School. Following this, he worked as an actor and studied drawing and sculpting. After emigrating to the USA and settling in Boston, he became an accomplished sculptor, creating the well-known Fishermen's Memorial in Gloucester, Massachusetts, the work for which he is best remembered. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2757472 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2757472 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2757471&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F3%2F176%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2757471 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2757471 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2757470&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F3%2F174%3Frss%3D1 The objectives of the expedition were to explore the plains of North America along the 49th parallel of latitude, the recently agreed boundary between the USA and Canada, and investigate passes through the Rocky Mountains for possible railway passage. Hector's contribution was immense, his dedication and endurance contributing in large measure to the success of the venture. (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2757470 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2757470 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2757469&cid=s_37238_163_f&fid=37238&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjmb.rsmjournals.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fshort%2F17%2F3%2F173%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Medical Biography) Journal of Medical Biography journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2757469 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2757469