Dr. Harry Bolus

Dr. Harry Burr Ferris

Obituary: Dr Max Harry Weil

some would say its father-fi gure. Dr Max Harry Weil (Figure 1) played such a major role in the development of intensive care medicine as we know it today, making numerous contributions that have shaped the way in which we approach and manage critically ill patients. Born in Switzerland, Dr Weil reached the US when he was just 10. He obtained his MD degree in New York in 1952, a PhD degree from...

The compleat challenger--Dr. Harry S. N. Greene.

Speaking for Dr. Greene's former students, I would like to extend our sympathy and warmest wishes to the Greene family. The essence of Harry Greene's life was a consistent search for what was true, real, and meaningful in life and science, with little concern for images. This led him to hold personal value standards that differed in some ways from those held by others. In his scale of values, h...

The Dirty Harry Problem

Policing constantly places its practitioners in situations in which good ends can be achieved by dirty means. When the ends to be achieved are urgent and unquestionably good and only a dirty means will work to achieve them, the policeman faces a genuine moral dilemma. A genuine moral dilemma is a situation from which one cannot emerge innocent no matter what one does-employ a dirty means, emplo...

Harry Beal Torrey , Matthew

I t is now 16 years since Nowikoff (1908) accelerated the division rate of Paramecium by adding thyroid gland to his cultures. Later , Shumway (1914) reached the same conclusion after a series of more critical and painstaking experiments, and in the following year Budington and Harvey (1915) showed tha t thyroids from various vertebrates would produce similar results. Still later, Shumway (1917...