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Frank Gower Bergin

Frank Gower Bergin passed away in his sleep on October 25th, after a prolonged period of restricted activity due to cardiac weakness. His father and brother were at one time Directors of Muller's Orphanage; two brothers were doctors, and a sister was for a while Casualty Sister at the General Hospital. With the late James Taylor, he pioneered radiological services in Bristol, working for many y...

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George Marion Boswell, Jr., MD: a conversation with the editor. Interview by William Clifford Roberts.

BUMC PROCEEDINGS 2002;15:275–288 George Boswell (Figure 1) was born near Grand Prairie, Texas, on May 12, 1920. He grew up in Texas, primarily in the Dallas area (Figures 2 and 3). After finishing high school at age 15, he went to McMurry College for 2 years and then transferred to Texas Tech University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in journalism in 1940. The following year he entered ...

The Helmontian George Thomson and William Harvey: the revival and application of splenectomy to physiological research.

DURING THE last decade of Harvey's life, the medical theories of Joannes Baptista van Helmont came into prominence, following the posthumous edition of his collected works, Ortus medicinae (1648), edited by his son, Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont. This enigmatic and challenging collection of tracts revitalized opposition to Galenic medicine, reinforcing the influence of Harvey's work in physi...