Appreciation: John Pemberton, 1912-2010

John Bartlett: appreciation & celebration.

When I was 6-years-old I wrote a letter to Roy Rogers, the cowboy star of movies and television, asserting that I was his biggest fan. That was the first and only fan letter I ever wrote. When I was invited to speak at a Festschrift for John Bartlett, I quickly replied, “I am much honored to be asked to be part of your proposed celebration of John. I can’t think of anyone in our discipline who ...

John Punnett Peters: An Appreciation

John Pemberton and the flax industry in Northern Ireland.

Ramazinni, in 1705,1 was probably the first to record a description of the condition, though the term 'byssinosis', from the Greek for flax or linen, was not applied to it until 1908.2 It was Richard Schilling, however, who, in two papers in 1956,1 established the importance ofbyssinosis as acommon disabling condition within the cotton industry,3 and his work led to the inclusion of the conditi...

The 2010 John M . Eisenberg

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Coronary Heart Disease and Heart Attacks, 1912–2010

This paper was originally written for a conference entitled ‘The Future of Medical History’. Now it ought to be clear – certainly to historians – that the future of anything is hard to predict; but at least in the short term, any future for medical history seems likely to include the history of disease, and the history of coronary heart disease (CHD) provides an excellent example of what the hi...