Georges Duby (1919-1996)

Edwin Clarke, MD, FRCP (1919-1996).

Balthasar - Georges Sage

Baltasar-George Sage (1740-1824), a conflictive chemist and mining engineer, and one of the last supporters of the phlogiston theory and the old chemical nomenclature, carried on a large number of metallurgical researches, discovered hypophosphoric acid and solid potassium ferrocyanide. His most achievement was the foundation of the School of Mines of Paris. LIFE AND CAREER In his biography Bal...

Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)

Georges Cuvier [4], baptized Georges Jean-Léopold Nicolas-Frédéric Cuvier, was a professor of anatomy at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France, through the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Scholars recognize Cuvier as a founder of modern comparative anatomy, and as an important contributor to vertebrate paleontology and geology. Cuvier studied the form and funct...

Op-brhe140373 1917..1919

In recent years the scientific community has shown renewed interest in DISH. The article by Yaniv et al. [1] in this issue of Rheumatology describes the natural evolution of DISH, providing important new insights into this condition. The article presents a study that used CT, a highly sensitive three-dimensional imaging modality for assessing new bone formation, to identify DISH patients and ex...

Madeleine Lemieux and Georges Bordage

Two approaches to the study of diagnostic thinking are compared, one mainly propositional, namely that of Pate1 and Groen (1986), the other mainly semantic, that of Lemieux and Bordage (1986). Pate1 and Groen analyzed the linear dimension of cardiologists’ discourses while solving a case of acute bacterial endocarditis, that is, the before and after propositional rules. A secondary analysis of ...