David Hartley: Physician and Philosopher (1705–1757)

David Hartley on human nature

In each of the subjects under discussion there were intense efforts to determine chemically the active constituent of the medicine. It was success in this field, with the isolation of the alkaloidal constituents of opium, cinchona bark and nux vomica in the first decades of the nineteenth century, that supported the view that scientific pharmacology had its origins at that time. In this interes...

Maimonides (1138-1204): rabbi, physician and philosopher.

Where the philosopher finishes, the physician begins: medicine and the arts course in thirteenth-century Oxford.

In the thirteenth century the English universities were different from others, particularly those in the south of Europe, in two important ways: they taught more natural philosophy and less medicine. But the survival of students' notes from the second half of the century shows that in the formal course of lectures on natural philosophy attention was paid to medicine inside the arts course. The ...

David Skae: Resident Asylum Physician; Scientific General Practitioner of Insanity

David Skae was resident physician of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum (hereafter REA) from 1846 to 1872. Despite a pioneering article about him by Frank Fish, Skae remains a liminal figure in the history of psychiatry. He is usually seen as an asylum-based practical medical instructor of more important figures such as Thomas Clouston. Although he lectured on insanity in the Edinburgh extra-academical...

On the generalized Hartley and Hartley-Hilbert transformations

*Correspondence: [email protected] 2Department of Mathematics and Institute of Mathematical Research, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor 43400, Malaysia Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract In this paper, we extend Hartley and Hartley-Hilbert transformations (HT and HHT, respectively) to a certain space of tempered distribution...