Contributions of Louis Gross

Louis J . Gross , Scott M . Duke - Sylvester , and Mark Palmer

Neurosurgical contributions of Samuel D. Gross.

One of the most famous American Surgeons of the early 1800s was Samuel David Gross (1805-1884). His mastery of surgery was immortalized in Thomas Eakins' 1875 painting of Gross titled The Gross Clinic. Gross was a prolific surgeon and one of his textbooks, a System of Surgery, went through 6 editions. Not known to many is the fact that this book also covered neurosurgical diseases and technique...

A Life in Color: Louis Silverstein's Contributions to Color Displays

Dr. Louis D. Silverstein was a pioneer in the human factors of electronic color displays and a leader and innovator of flat-panel display technology. During his short but active career, he published over 130 journal articles, book chapters and technical papers and was awarded over 30 patents for innovations in liquid crystal displays and liquid-crystal-based image-capture devices. He received m...

The spirit of St Louis: the contributions of Lee N. Robins to North American psychiatric epidemiology.

This article takes up the history of North American psychiatric epidemiology with reference to production of knowledge concerning sociopathic or antisocial personality disorder and drug dependence, abuse, and/or addiction. These overlapping arenas provide a microcosm within which to explore the larger shift of postwar psychiatric epidemiology from community studies based on psychological scales...

Lxxii. the Effects of Vitamin-deficient Diets on the Adrenaline Equilibrium in the Body. by Louis Gross

IN 1919 McCarrison [1919] found that certain vitamin-deficient and otherwise unbalanced diets produced a marked increase in the size of the adrenal gland, which increase was associated with a larger store of adrenaline in the case of vitamin B deficiency. In fact he was at first inclined to believe that the appearance of oedema in the wet form of beriberi was to a large extent due to increased ...