Death of Captain Cook

Captain of death: the story of tuberculosis

Yet another book for the general reader on the history of tuberculosis, by a retired professor of medicine. Admittedly, most of the others are elderly, but one even has almost exactly the same title-J Arthur Myers' Captain of all these men ofdeath (1977). The prospect is enough to make the professional historian of medicine sigh, and the opening chapters of this book, which recount evidence for...

Captain Cook , the Terrestrial Planet Finder and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Over two hundred years ago Capt. James Cook sailed upWhitsunday Passage, just a few miles where we now sit, on a voyage of astronomical observation and discovery that remains an inspiration to us all. Since the prospects of our visiting planets beyond our solar system are slim, we will have to content ourselves with searching for life using remote sensing, not sailing ships. Fortunately, a rece...

The ‘captain of the men of death’, Streptococcus pneumoniae, fights oxidative stress outside the ‘city wall’

» ...Saleh et al (2013) add new pieces to the CTM puzzle and uncover a novel antioxidant artillery of S. pneumoniae.« We have come a long way since Streptococcus pneumoniae was first isolated in 1880. Over the years, the ability to combat this gram‐positive bacterium branded ‘captain of the men of death’ by William Osler in 1918 has been greatly enhanced by the development of vaccines and antib...

Captain Thomas Dover

were disbanded because of hooliganism. They have been restarted in this century and take place on the first weekend in May. The games consisted of various contests at single stick (backsword), wrestling, running, jingling, Morris dancing, greyhound coursing and horse racing. It is said that Shakespeare, whose aunt Joan Arden lived at Barton on the Heath, attended the games and included scenes f...

Captain E. B. Hartnell