: Blankets and Moccasins . Glendolin Damon Wagner, William A. Allen.

An unrecorded William Allen caricature?

A CARICATURE relating to the marriage of William Allen, F.R.S., (1770-1843) to Grizell Birkbeck, widow of Wilson Birkbeck, has recently come to light. It bears the title 'THE ATTRACTION OF GRAVITY !!!, the space being filled with a plough (Allen's pharmacy was in Plough Court, Lombard Street, London) and the subheading: 'Eye Natures walks shoot Folly as it flies'. This coloured engraving, by an...

A tale of three cities: the correspondence of William Sharpey and Allen Thomson, Medical History

nineteenth century as a Lehrbuch, then the preface and introduction were written by the physiologists of the Romantic period. This view leads to the provocative and, I think, convincing hypothesis that the transition from "Romantic" to "scientific" physiology was characterized more by continuity than by discontinuity. To substantiate her hypothesis, the author analyses several problems in the e...

Peter Allen Dysert II, MD: a conversation with the editor. Interview by William Clifford Roberts.

BUMC PROCEEDINGS 2003;16:85–103 Pete Dysert (Figure 1) was born in Dallas, Texas, on July 8, 1954. Growing up, he spent time in several Texas cities and also in New York City before settling in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he completed his sophomore through senior years of public high school. He then entered the University of Oklahoma (OU) in Norman on a scholastic scholarship. After 3 years in colle...

Dwight Damon, DDS, MSD.

Convexical Blankets