Dr. George Stewart Murchison Wilson

Letter from Dr. Kenneth Wilson

The conclusions reached in this review are based on incomplete data. In June 2002, the Melanoma Disease Site Group (DSG) sent me a draft manuscript of the above paper to review. I specifically recommended that the proposed guideline should reflect the fact that the E1684 trial is negative for overall survival benefit for high-dose interferon (HDIFN) at a median follow-up of 12.6 years (one-side...

Obituary of Dr. Angelo Di George

Obituary Dr. Angelo M. DiGeorge a world renowned physician and pediatric endocrinologist, died at age of 88 years, on October 11, 2009 of kidney failure at his home in Philadelphia. Dr. DiGeorge first gained international recognition in the mid-1960’s for his ground breaking discovery of a disorder characterized by congenital absence of the thymus and associated abnormalities. This birth defect...

Dr Robert George (Rob) Jones FRCPsych

Nutrition and Cancer: Dr. Douglas Wilson - Honoured

Historical, current and future aspects of the potential value of ‘phyto-oestrogens’ and lifestyle in lowering the risk of endocrine cancer, and high-lighting the crucial importance of global policy makers in providing the means for a healthier diet, is the purport of this paper. Early studies in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and S.W. Australia demonstrated the potential value of oestrogen-like dietary ...

Puritanism and medicine: the transatlantic medical family of Dr. Edmund Wilson the elder (1583–1633), Dr Edmund Wilson the younger (1617–1657), and Dr. Thomas Sheafe (1603–1657)

could easily have been used by a leech. Vitellius is akin to the famous Bury St Edmunds herbal, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 130, a volume known to have been stored in a cupboard or chest ("de armario"). The care with which Vitellius was produced is seen in the scribe's anticipation of pictures. He wrote "a shorthand visual sign" for the artist in the spaces he left for them. The two sig...