John Alexander Glennie

John Alexander Nixon

John Alexander Sinton

Commentary: Edmund Alexander Parkes, John Snow and the miasma controversy.

The advancement of scientific knowledge has often been characterized by controversy, but perhaps none has been more vehement than the conflict between supporters of the rival 'miasma' and 'contagion' theories of disease transmission. During the 19th century , a series of cholera pandemics originated in India and the second of these, which reached Britain in 1831, intensified the debate. 1 At th...

John Alexander Sinton, V.C., F.R.S. Soldier, doctor and scientist.

already in print about a spirochaete isolated from a case of sandfly fever. FIG 1. John Alexander Sinton, v.c-, How right he was when two years later O.B.E., M.D. (honoris causa). D.S.C., F.RS., D.T.M. the virus aetiology of sandfly fever was Brigadier Indian Medical Service established. Some years before I had heard 2nd December, 1884 25th March, 1956 about John Sinton's bravery. In 1929 and 1...

Alexander the Great, Prester John, Strabo of Amasia, and Wonders of the East

In her article "Alexander the Great, Prester John, Strabo of Amasia, and Wonders of the East" I-Chun Wang analyses the wonders referred to the realm of Prester John and the imagination of India as exemplified in the pseudo-letter of Alexander the Great. The pseudo letters attributed to Prester John and Alexander demonstrate imagination and identity construction. Throughout history, terra incogn...