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" medical brethren who have fallen on difficult times, and ... their widows and orphans, so often left without even the necessities of life ". Dr Hunter referred to the great financial depression and how it has affected the medical fraternity. The fund distributed grants of £2267 [approx. £140 400 today] to 69 widows, 17 orphans and 8 doctors in Northern Ireland in the previous year. Each count...

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Thomas Buzzard (1831–1919) never attended medical school but was one of the last doctors to enter medicine through apprenticeship to a general practitioner. Appointed to the staff of the National Hospital for the Paralyzed and Epileptic in 1867, at the suggestion of Hughlings Jackson, Buzzard was one of that small group of physicians who helped ‘Queen Square’ acquire its international reputatio...

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Hitherto, morphological changes seen in mitochondria obtained from samples of skeletal muscle in a variety of neuromuscular disorders have not been correlated with functional abnormalities and so have not been considered significant for the pathogenesis of these conditions. But more recently, investigators from Cornell University have linked these same ultrastructural features to a primary bioc...