J. Crawford Adams (1913–2011)

Duodenal ulcer, hyperacidity and J C Adams.

Dr J C Adams (1871-1951), at the time of the award of his MD degree, 15 July 191 1. It was in 191 1 that Adams submitted his MD thesis to the Queen's University of Belfast. Regrettably, the original has now disappeared, but Baron was able to read it in 1969 and now tells us that Adams had carefully studied 20 patients with proven duodenal ulcer. Fourteen of these, including many with pyloric st...

And Nicholas Crawford

Recently, a random current representation for transverse field Ising models has been introduced in [15]. This representation is a space-time version of the classical random current representation exploited by Aizenman et. al. [1, 3, 4]. In this paper we formulate and prove corresponding space-time versions of the classical switching lemma and show how they generate various correlation inequalit...

Crawford Williamson Long *

I do not propose this evening to delve into the age-old argument concerning the discoverer of anesthesia. It is doubtful if any here assembled have, to any very great extent, witnessed surgery without anesthesia, yet only 100 years ago the screams of agony issuing from the operating room would have chilled the blood of the hardiest among us. The important point of this contribution is not which...

Applying Crawford and Ostrom’s Grammar

In 1995, Crawford and Ostrom proposed a grammatical syntax for examining institutional statements (i.e., rules, norms, and strategies) as part of the institutional analysis and development framework. This article constitutes the first attempt at applying the grammatical syntax to code institutional statements using two pieces of U.S. legislation. The authors illustrate how the grammatical synta...

Review of Emblems and Alchemy, by Alison Adams & Stanton J. Linden, eds