Dr. William Parrish 1915–1991

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...

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

Dr. William Wallace (1791-1837) of Dublin.

THE name William Wallace, M.D., M.R.I.A., of Dublin is inseparably associated with the use of potassium iodide in the treatment of syphilis. The reasons for his neglect by medical historians is, however, not surprising and for two reasons. Wallace lived at a time when the Dublin medical school was at its height and star-studded with such giants in the field of syphilology as Colles, Clutterbuck...