James Hinton

Death of Surgeon-Major Hinton

March, 1813, over two years before Waterloo, the son of a hanker in Portsmouth. He took the M. R. C. diploma in 1835; got his commission as Assistant Surgeon, Bengal, on 14th January, 1839 ; became Surgeon 31st December, 1852 ; Surgeon-Major 14th December, 1859; and retired from the service on 7th March, 1868, after nearly twenty years' service in India. He was serving in India at the time of t...

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a chair, he was the very picture of dejection. His small head was hanging, an obstreperous tuft of the coarse, sandy hair standing defiantly upright on the crown of it; his complexion was sallow and pasty, and not in any way enhanced by a sparse scattering of tiny yellow freckles, plainly visible at close view; his generous mouth drooped, like his head, the lips pale, but firmly closed. In his ...

Selection of a reference lot of Mueller-Hinton agar.

A collaborative study was undertaken to evaluate the performance of currently marketed Mueller-Hinton agars from seven manufacturers by replicate disk diffusion tests with standard quality control strains. Identification of the manufacturers was concealed, and the resulting data were evaluated for the selection of a physical reagent standard against which the performance of future production lo...

The Accidental Orthodoxy of Drs. Mueller and Hinton

Three-quarters of a century ago, two investigators at Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health, J. Howard Mueller and Jane Hinton, published a succinct research note addressing a vexing problem in the diagnostic laboratory: a stable serum-free bacteriologic media that supported the growth of two otherwise very fastidious bacteria, the meningococcus and the gonococcus (Mueller and Hint...

James Taylor