Dr. Otto William Samson

Dr. William Moodie

"The many generations of psychiatrists, psychologists and psychiatric social workers who passed through their training in child guidance under his directorship, have reason to remember his fatherly kindness and the steadfastness and good humour with which he watched over their professional development. He stood the brunt of the early days of struggle to win recognition for the value of child gu...

Dr William Craig

last, joined the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society in 1870, and throughout his long life never ceased to take an active interest in its doings. For thirty-five years he was the honorary and honoured Treasurer of the Society, and many of us know that it was entirely due to his enthusiasm and business ability that the Society was raised from the verge of bankruptcy to the flourishing condition in whi...

Dr. William Beaumont, a Sketch *

From the 19th to the 24th of August, 1929, the International Physiological Congress met in this country, at Boston, for the first time in its existence of forty years. On that occasion the American Committee had prepared for presentation to each member a medal and a volume. They desired to portray upon the medal the profile of the man who had carried out the most epoch-making researches in Phys...

Dr. Otto Heinrich Warburg—Survivor of Ethical Storms

Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883-1970; not to be confused with the Zionist of the same name) was a member of an illustrious Jewish family, known for some five centuries. From humble beginnings, the family became prominent in the world for their contributions to all aspects of society. The son of a German mother and a Jewish (converted) father, Otto H. Warburg became a major contributor to medical sc...

The Peregrinating Dr. William Tully, A.M., M.D. *