Cosmic connections: James Croll's influence on his contemporaries and his successors

Morality and Literature (Charles Dickens and his English Contemporaries)

James Parkinson: his life and times

GEORGE P. MILNE (ed.), Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society: a bicentennial history 1789-1989, Aberdeen University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xv, 313, illus., £17.00+£1.50 p&p from Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society, Medical Centre, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB9 2ZB. Readers who assume from the title that this is a structured history of Scotland's oldest Medico-Chirurgical Society will be sadly disappo...

Geometry, Construction, and Intuition in Kant and His Successors

Oberndorfer and his successors: from carcinoid to neuroendocrine carcinoma.

The year 2007 the centenary of Siegfried Oberndorfer's seminal description of special tumors of the small intestine which he called "Karzinoide Tumoren" (carcinoids). Their endocrine nature was suggested by Pierre Masson in 1914. The work of Friedrich Feyrter and later Anthony Pearse established the concept of a diffuse endocrine cell system. They suggested that there is a family of endocrine c...

Sir William Osler and his Welsh connections.

to Canada with his young bride, Ellen Free Pickton. She was a native of London, but bore a distinguished Welsh name. William was the youngest of their family of nine, and was born in the parsonage at Bond Head in Tecumseth County in the backwoods of Upper Canada. Uncle Edward was the eldest of the nine children of Grandfather Osler. He was a favourite uncle, of whom WO wrote 'we cherished an am...