Appreciation: <i>Lankabhimanya</i> Sir Arthur C. Clarke

Dengue platelets meet Sir Arthur

Dengue is a viral disease spread by mosquitos. Although most commonly occurring in the tropics, there has been a worldwide increasing geographic expansion and the World Health Organization considers half the world at risk for infection (http://www. who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs117/en/). Severe dengue (previously known as dengue haemorrhagic fever) is relatively common (;500 000 cases each y...

Sir Arthur Macnalty, 1880–1969

Purkyn6's contribution to physiology. Relations of structure and function. Rise of experimental physiology and beginnings of physiological institutes. Further evolution of topics studied by Purkyne up to recent times. It is with great regret that we record the death of Sir Arthur MacNalty, at the age of 88, on 17 April 1969. Sir Arthur was for some years a member of this journal's Editorial Boa...

Sir Michael Drury: an appreciation.

Kt, oBe, frcP, frcGP, fracGP 1926–2014 Professor Sir Michael Drury, who died on 11 June, was a GP in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire for 38 years, the first professor of general practice at the University of Birmingham and President of the Royal College of General Practitioners from 1985–1988. He was a towering figure in general practice; unassuming, approachable, patient, a superb listener, unflapp...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930.

Sir Martin Roth FRS: an appreciation.

Since the mid-19th century central Europe had been the cradle of conceptual thinking had been the cradle of conceptual thinking in clinical psychiatry. Following the turbu-in clinical psychiatry. Following the turbulence and persecution in the 1920s and lence and persecution in the 1920s and 1930s some of a later generation of mid-1930s some of a later generation of mid-European psychiatrists e...