DOUGLAS SAXON COOMBS (1924–2016)

Dr. Carey Franklin Coombs

We have to record with the deepest regret the death of Dr. Carey Coombs. He passed away in the General Hospital on 9th December, after an illness of some five weeks' duration. It will be remembered that he was taken ill suddenly in the street at the beginning of November. Though he appeared to make favourable progress, it was realized by those in attendance that his condition was very grave and...

Carey Franklin Coombs 1879–1932

Carey Coombs was only 53 when he died in 1932. In the preceding 20 years he had won world-wide acclaim for his research and writings on rheumatic heart disease and had established himself amongst the best-known physicians in the provinces. In this he carried on a long tradition of famous Bristol medical men. He was universally liked and admired and would be more frequently quoted today had it n...

Anglo-saxon leechbooks.

Saxon: an Extensible Multimedia Annotator

This paper introduces Saxon, a rule based document annotator that is capable of processing and annotating several document formats and media, both within and across documents. Furthermore, Saxon is readily extensible to support other input formats due to both it’s flexible rule formalism and the modular plugin architecture of the Runes framework upon which it is built. In this paper we introduc...

Positive direct Coombs test induced by phenylhydrazine.