A Medical Adventurer. Biographical Note on Sir James Wylie, Bart., M.D., 1758 to 1854

Sir James Wylie, the Russian McGrigor.

Sir James Paget's research into medical education.

Paget’s eponymous disease ensures that the name of Sir James Paget (1814–99) is known to all doctors and many patients. Specialists also know of Paget’s abscess, Paget’s disease of the nipple, Paget’s extramammary disease, Paget-von Schrötter syndrome, Paget’s recurrent desmoid tumour of the rectus sheath, Pagetoid epithelioma, juvenile Paget’s disease, and Paget’s quiet necrosis of bone, and t...

Biographical Feature: James Jorgensen, Ph.D.

In the words of Gary Doern, Ph.D., a colleague, collaborator, and friend, “Few people have made more significant and lasting contributions to the field of clinical microbiology than has Jim Jorgensen, not only as a dedicated practitioner but also as an extremely productive researcher, an uncommonly effective educator, a broad reaching author, and a lifelong advocate for the discipline.” Such se...

Sir Walter James Buchanan

Sir James Mackenzie

Based on a Dissertation read before the Royal Medical Society on Friday, 21st October 1960 Picture, if you can. a dark grim valley of smoke and chimneys, outlined by a ring of light appearing over the hills. In the streets a clatter of horses' hooves and wooden clogs. In a dingy room the oft repeated scene of a girl in labour surrounded by old women in shawls. The ubiquitous, anxious husband is...