Dr William Jonathan Abel

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...

EROS CORAZZA, WILLIAM FISH and JONATHAN GORVETT

Whilst it may seem strange to ask to whom “I” refers, we show that there are occasions when it is not always obvious. In demonstrating this we challenge Kaplan’s assumption that the utterer, agent and referent of “I” are always the same person. We begin by presenting what we regard to be the received view about indexical reference popularized by David Kaplan in his influential 1972 “Demonstrati...

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...

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