A Centenary Appreciation of Charlotte Brontë.

Gantt charts: A centenary appreciation

With the proliferation of microcomputer based project management packages Gantt charts have enjoyed a revival in their use. Although Henry L. Gantt is recognized as their developer their origins and provenance are less well known. Gantt was a close associate of Frederick W. Taylor and an advocate of Scientific Management. His paper describing the use of ‘‘graphics’’ for general production plann...

Sir Charles Sherrington's the integrative action of the nervous system: a centenary appreciation.

In 1906 Sir Charles Sherrington published The Integrative Action of the Nervous System, which was a collection of ten lectures delivered two years before at Yale University in the United States. In this monograph Sherrington summarized two decades of painstaking experimental observations and his incisive interpretation of them. It settled the then-current debate between the "Reticular Theory" v...

Tay-Sachs disease: a centenary.

Canine papillomavirus--A centenary review.

Allergen Immunotherapy: A Centenary Celebration

In 1911 and long before the availability of antiallergic drugs, Leonard Noon demonstrated that prophylactic subcutaneous inoculation with a grass pollen extract was effective in suppressing immediate conjunctival sensitivity to grass pollen.1 Noon’s coworker, John Freeman, continued to practice immunotherapy and in 1930 published the first rush immunotherapy protocol.2 William Frankland, a coll...