An Englishman abroad

An Englishman abroad: Charles Blagden's visit to Paris in 1783.

Once the preliminaries of peace had been signed in January 1783, after the war of American independence, exchanges between British and French men of science resumed their normal course. On a visit to Paris in 1783, the francophile Charles Blagden (with the encouragement of Joseph Banks) made a number of contacts that fostered relations between the Royal Society and the Académie royale des scien...

Alpha-chain disease in an Englishman.

Eighty cases of the gastro-intestinal form of alpha-chain disease had been reported up to the time of writing this communication (September 1975). All patients were non-Caucasians. This report presents a case of this in an Englishman who became ill whilst working the tropics. His clinical features and response to therapy were entirely in line with the other cases so far reported.

Alan Hall (1952-2015), an Englishman in New York.

Alan Hall died of a heart attack during his regular Sunday morning jog on May 3 in New York City, where he had lived with his wife Eileen. Alan’s untimely and unexpected death happened just a couple of weeks before his 63 birthday, which he would undoubtedly have celebrated with his two children and two young grandchildren. Before joining the Sloane Kettering Institute as chair of the cell biol...

Impressions on an elective abroad

Dear editors, " In the past, desperate conditions on another continent might cynically be written out of one's memory. The process of globalization has already made such an option impossible… There are no health sanctuaries… The separation between domestic and international health problems is no longer useful. " This is the second summer of my medical school years that I spent abroad to learn m...

Work Abroad