George Morton Kessler

Samuel George Morton: Empiricist of Polygeny

The Mismeasure of Science: Stephen Jay Gould versus Samuel George Morton on Skulls and Bias

1 Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, 2 Paleoanthropology Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America, 3 Department of Anthropology, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, California, United States of America, 4 Department of Anthropology and Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pe...

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The use of dental implants to assist in the treatment of partial and complete edentulism is well documented. Most of the implant literature, however, reports results associated with implant survival and success when there has been adherence to rigid placement and loading protocols. Conventionally, these protocols call for the undisturbed healing of the implant—3 months in the mandible and 4 to ...

Richard Morton (1637-1698).

RICHARD MORTON, the first physician since Galen to envisage a concept of the unity of tuberculosis and the first physician ever to state that tubercles are always present in its pulmonary form, was born in the county of Suffolk and baptised on 30 July 1637 in the parish of Ribbesford, Worcestershire, where his father, Robert Morton, was minister of Bewdley Chapel from 1635 to 1646. Richard Mort...

History and evolution of the Kessler repair.

The "grasping technique" described by Isidor Kessler and Fuad Nissim in 1969 is a popular method of flexor tendon repair. Different authors have modified this technique to the point where the so-called "modified Kessler technique" bears little resemblance to the original description. This article sheds light on the life and contributions of Isidor Kessler, and examines the evolution of the Kess...