Imaginary Painting: "Dr. Thomas Garvin and His Wife"

Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624–1689): his Life and Original Writings

Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689): his Life and Original Writings, by KENNEH DEWHURST, London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1966, pp. viii, 180, illus., 35s. Thomas Sydenham was 'the greatest physician this country has ever produced', Dr. Dewhurst claims boldly (p. vii). Parliamentarian soldier, member of a family which had helped to run England for Oliver Cromwell, himself a radical Whig...

Granuloma inguinale in a Jamaican and his wife.

A Jamaican aged 28, who had been living in England with his wife for 22 months, attended the Special Clinic at St. Thomas's Hospital with a penile lesion which, he stated, had been present for about 6 weeks. There had been an extra-marital risk some 7 weeks previously. He gave a history of childhood yaws and his Wassermann reaction and Price's precipitation reaction were positive, the latter to...

The man who mistook his wife for a hat.

In this activity, you'll explore the different functions of the brain and how those functions sometimes go awry. You'll need your book to tackle these mind-bending neurological disorders. It immediately made me think of a patient of mine, the charming, intelligent, memoryless Jimmie G., who was admitted to our Home for the Aged near New York City early in 1975, with a cryptic transfer note sayi...

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Chattel

Men take a proprietary view of women’s sexuality and reproductive capacity. In this chapter, we (a) argue that sexually proprietary male psychologies are evolved solutions to the adaptive problems of male reproductive competition and potential misdirection of paternal investments in species with mistakable paternity; (b) describe the complex interrelated design of mating and paternal decision r...

Thomas' Family of Thue Equations Over Imaginary Quadratic Fields