James Wallace Mathews

Scientific knowledge and clinical authority in dentistry: James Sim Wallace and dental caries.

Once the germ theory had become generally accepted within medicine, the importance of experimental science to the improvement of medical practice could no longer be reasonably doubted. However, clinicians still sought to retain control of how knowledge that had originated in the laboratory was interpreted and applied within practical diagnostics and therapeutics. Thus how practitioners incorpor...

William Wallace (1791-1837).

Wallace and Darwin

term the common ancestral state of members of a group); morphology (arguing that the “natural inference of an unprejudiced person” is to recognize that homologous structures “are true records of the progress of the organic world); domestication (maintaining that divergent animal breeds constitute evidence of mutability, and offering thought experiments to show that there is no good reason to th...

Wallace as writer

But despite their differences each man deeply valued the other. Darwin persuaded the British government to award Wallace a pension for services to science. Wallace dedicated his book The Malay Archipelago to Darwin, “as a token of personal esteem and friendship but also to express my deep admiration for his genius and his works.” Wallace also called his 1889 collection of evolutionary essays Da...

Mathews Journal of Case Reports Hydranencephaly

Mathews Journal of Case Reports Hydranencephaly Mohammad Nawaz Nasery1, Farhad Farzam1, Hidayatullah Hamidi2, Jamshid Sadiqi2, Ahmad Reshad Faizi2, Fazel Rahman Faizi2, Marzia Mohammadi2 1Radiology department, Ali Abad Teaching Hospital, Kabul, Afghanistan. 2Radiology department, French Medical Institute for Children (FMIC), Kabul, Afghanistan. Corresponding Author: Mohammad Nawaz Nasery, Ali A...