Fifty Years of Public Work of Sir Henry Cole

Dr. Robert Henry Cole

Autonomic neurotransmission: 60 years since sir Henry Dale.

In the early twentieth century, Sir Henry Dale and others described brilliant studies of autonomic neurotransmission utilizing acetylcholine and noradrenaline. However, within the past 60 years, new discoveries have changed our understanding of the organization of the autonomic nervous system, including the structure and function of the nonsynaptic autonomic neuroeffector junction, the multipli...

Sir Arthur Lewis and Development Economics – Fifty Years On 1 Opening Remarks by ECCB Governor Sir

Sir Arthur Lewis received his Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on and abiding interest in economic development. His work coincided with and inspired some of the most insightful work on development in the 1950s when, with the wave of decolonisation (referred to by Samuel Huntington as the second wave of democratisation), there was an intellectual and political imperative to address the econ...

Sir Henry Thompson's Stricture of Urethra

Fifty years of tachycardia.

In 1943 an otherwise healthy girl aged 3 developed measles encephalitis with an accompanying mild left hemiparesis. At this time a persistent tachycardia of 140 beats per minute was noted, and she was referred to Sir John Parkinson at the National Heart Hospital. He made a diagnosis of atrial tachycardia. A trial of digoxin and quinidine proved ineffective, but she remained symptomatically well...