Henry-E.-Sigerist-Preis 1991

Henry E. Sigerist: Autobiographical Writings

Henry Sigerist (1891-1957) was a leading medical historian of his generation. Restless, energetic, brilliant, charming, the range of his talents equalled that of his interests. Sigerist was born in France of Swiss parents. He received in Zurich, London, Munich, and Leipzig formal education successively in oriental philology, medicine, and medical history and before the end of his career held ap...

Making medical history: the life and times of Henry E Sigerist

The distinguished medical historian, Henry E Sigerist, died in 1957. It has taken a further forty years for this first significant English-language study of his work to be produced. It is perhaps no coincidence that American historians of medicine have deferred action on this subject until after the collapse of the Soviet block and the demise of socialism as an effective political force. From t...

Introduction of Marilyn E. Scott as the Henry Baldwin Ward medalist for 1991.

Henry Ormerod

at the age of 68, belonged to a family of surgeons. He was educated at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and Medical School, and very soon after qualifying he settled at Westbury. Although his capacity for work was immense, yet in the early years of his practice he had more than one attack of haemoptysis, and it was his opinion that leading a country open-air life had been the means of warding off mo...

Henry Wellcome

fo'c'sle-study running his naval household with the aid of an Admiralty of natural history suppliers and breeders, as well as experts like Lyell, Hooker and the young Huxley in every port. Beatrice Webb once likened Herbert Spencer to a spider collecting facts on the theoretical web he was spinning; the image equally well suits Darwin. A pleasure to read, this exciting new biography deepens our...