Anaesthesia on the Western Front-Perspectives a Century Later

"The Operation", half a century later.

December 3, 1967. Exactly fifty years ago. The world was stunned by the news that the first successful heart transplantation had been performed at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, by a then little known surgeon, Christiaan Neethling Barnard. The heart of a young woman, Denise Darvall, who was overrun by a car in a city, was implanted in the chest of a 54-year old patient d...

All Quiet on the Far Western Front

This correspondent, having been released on parole after 37 years in the N.H.S. is reduced to enquiring from erstwhile colleagues as to what has happened on the health scene in Cornwall in the last few months. So far the answers have been identical "Nothing". "Nothing" includes the formal opening of the new operating theatre in Penzance with its immediate closure for relaying of the floor. One ...

Luciani's work on the cerebellum a century later.

In 1891, Luigi Luciani published his famous monograph on the cerebellum and formulated his triad of the cerebellar symptoms: atonia, asthenia and astasia, which explained all troubles provoked by cerebellar lesions; later he added a fourth sign, dysmetria. In spite of the fact that it was advanced in a pre-electrophysiological period, Luciani's interpretation of the cerebellar role in many moto...

Twentieth-century Perspectives on Culture

All Quiet on the Western Front – the Loss of Radical Islamic Feminism at the Hands of Euro-Islam

This paper contends that there has been a definitive and negative change in the trajectory of so-called Islamic feminism. This change has been effected in large part in the West , as part of the growing discourse of Euro-Islam, European Islam, indigenization of Islam, etc., a discourse that comes not from governments (though it is mirrored, applauded and rewarded by governments in the region) b...