John Burroughs-Boy and Man.

John Charnley: the man and the hip

P. W. J. BARTRIP, Mirror ofmedicine: a history of the BMJ, London, British Medical Journal and Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1990, 8vo, pp. xiv, 338, illus., £35.00. The literature on the history of medical journalism (and it is best on the period before the founding of the British Medical Journal in 1840) consists mostly ofbibliographical materials, just establishing the record of publishing, or ba...

john steinbeck: friend of the american common man

in his last years of life americans had almost forgotton steinbeck, and those who had not, occasionally criticized him for supporting and praising the u. s. military intervention in the vietnam war. althought ateinbeck incorporates different themes into his works, each one bears many signs of his concern and sympathy for america and the american common people in particular. steinbecks to a god ...

The 'stiff man syndrome' in a boy.

In October, 1958, a Chinese boy, aged 7 years, was transferred to the Children's Unit with a diagnosis of recurrent tetanus. According to the mother, he had been ill intermittently since 1957 when he was first admitted to hospital complaining of stiffness of the body and inability to open his mouth. He apparently recovered from this illness, but was readmitted on two further occasions with simi...

Burroughs Truth Function Eyaluator

John Langdon Down: the man and the message.

John Langdon Down was the son of a village grocer. Born in Torpoint, Cornwall, in 1828, he was the 6th child of religious parents. He worked in the family business until he was 18 years old and he then qualified as a pharmacist before ultimately entering medical school at the London Hospital. He won numerous medals and prizes and immediately after taking his medical degree he was appointed medi...