Ferdinand Tessendorff (1879–1924) and his Hieracium collection

The lesser-known Mendel: his experiments on Hieracium.

The year 2006 is the 140th anniversary of Mendel’s pathbreaking article. It is appropriate that a journal devoted to genetics begin the year with an article about Mendel and his work. Much has been written about his deep insights and the failure of the biological community to recognize his work. Here, on this anniversary, instead of extolling his success, we present a scholarly account of Mende...

Henry Wellcome. The man, his collection and his legacy

studies, that "illness" as well as "disease" should be understood, and this within a holistic perspective of all the forms of therapy available within the "health care system" of a culture. Yet the empirical research embodied in this book is fascinating and important. Over the better part of a decade, Dr. Kleinman did field-work in Taiwan, investigating, from the point of view of the patient as...

Ferdinand Sauerbruch: Pioneer Thoracic Surgeon.

Ferdinand Von Hebra--Founder of Classical Dermatology.

T e r e w e r e m a n y i n f l u e n c e s responsible for the glories of NeoViennese medicine . Ferdinand Von Hebra (1816-1880) is considered as the founder of classical dermatology. Hebra was born in Moravia, and received his medical degree from University of Vienna. He was appointed in Josef Skoda’s chest clinic at the Allgemeines Krankenhause. Skoda, seeing his interest in diseases of skin...

Ferdinand Hasbrouck's Nitrous Oxide Caper--Which One?