Both eminent and neglected

Eminent venereologists 2. Benjamin Bell.

The late 18th century was a time ofsexual latitude, and genital discharge and ulceration following "impure coition" were common. Gonorrhoea virulenta and Lues venerea (syphilis) were recognised clinically, but they were thought to be the same disease. The natural history of syphilis itself was poorly understood, and little was known about other causes of genital ulceration. Surgeons, physicians...

Marginal Cost Pricing and Eminent Domain

There are three separate strands of literature in economics that are related to the efficiency of takings under eminent domain: one addresses the question of optimal compensation for properties that are taken, the second inquires how governments might learn the values of properties that they consider taking, while the third analyzes solutions to the problem of land assembly. This essay reviews ...

The Frontier of Eminent Domain

Christopher Wolfe : That Eminent Tribunal

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Eminent venereologists 5: Carl Credé.

Carl Siegmund Franz Crede (fig 1) was born in Berlin in 1819 where his father, who was a French immigrant, held a senior appointment in the Ministry of Health and Education. After attending the Friedrich-Wilhelm Gymnasium, Crede studied medicine at the University of Berlin. He spent a semester at Heidelberg, where he met the famous obstetrician Franz Naegele, and graduated in 1842, with a thesi...