Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Selections. Hiram Corson

The Canterbury Tales and cardiology.

Herrick revealed his broad interest in medicine in 1910 when he reported the "Peculiar Elongated and Sickle-Shaped Red Blood Corpuscles in a Case of Severe Anemia."3 He, therefore, earned for himself the distinction of recognizing and describing two clinically important disorders: obstruction of coronary arteries without sudden death and sickle cell disease. He showed us his love of history and...

"A Poet Ther Was": Chaucer's Voices in the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

Selections

It was not until the sixteenth century that dead bodies were submitted to medico-legal investigation. The horror which human dissections inspired in the ancients, and the religious awe with which they beheld the mortal wreck of their fellows, not only retarded the progress of anatomy and physiology, but excluded the light of medicine from the researches of the forum. The Jewish law, indeed, con...

On function spaces of Corson-compact spaces

We apply elementary substructures to characterize the space Cp(X) for Corsoncompact spaces. As a result, we prove that a compact space X is Corson-compact, if Cp(X) can be represented as a continuous image of a closed subspace of (Lτ ) × Z, where Z is compact and Lτ denotes the canonical Lindelöf space of cardinality τ with one non-isolated point. This answers a question of Archangelskij [2].

Repeated TALEs

Three recent papers, published just weeks apart, describe the use of fluorescent TALEs to tag specific DNA sequences in live cells and, in one case, also in fixed cells, the latter with potential clinical applications.