Bernard Shaw’s Admirable Bashville: Playwright and Prizefighter

Joyce the Playwright

Johann Heinrich Lambert: An Admirable Applied Statistician

Johann Heinrich Lambert is best known for his work in physics. The law of Bouguer-Lambert-Beer on the absorbtion of light may be his most famous achievement. He is also well known in mathematics, for example for his proof of π and e being irrational numbers, for his work on non-additive probabilities and for his contribution to non-Euclidean geometry. He worked on numerous problems of natural s...

The admirable secrets of physick and chyrurgery

THOMAS PALMER, The admirable secrets ofphysick and chyrurgery, edited by Thomas Rogers Forbes, New Haven, Conn., and London, Yale University Press, 1984, 8vo, pp. x, 221, £25.00. One of the earliest documents of medical practice in the North American colonies is published here for the first time. This is a notebook, containing medical remedies, compiled in 1696 by Thomas Palmer (c. 1666-1743), ...

Bernard Wood

Photo: Courtesy of Bill Kimbel. The benefit could also apply to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). While the mechanism by which the gene therapy triggers these beneficial effects remains to be elucidated, this unexpected finding suggests that even gene therapy for rare specific gene defects may in some cases have broader applicability. Recent developments have broadened the scope of gene ther...

Claude Bernard and Experimental Medicine

Dr. Schiller similarly illuminates Claude Bernard's thought in each chapter which describes his outlook on such problems as: structure and function; the chemistry of Bernard's times; the problem of digestion; and in particular Bernard's own discovery of hepatic glycogenesis. In the last twenty years of his life Claude Bernard gave increasing thought to synthesizing the facts of physiology, i.e....