John Campbell Brown OBE (1947–2019)

Sir John Campbell Brown, K.C.B.

The last English mail lias confirmed a rumour, which has during the Inst few weeks been floating among us, namely, that the much esteemed and respected head of the Indian Medical Department is among those whom the Queen has delighted to honor on the occasion of lier 5Gth birth-day. Of tho long roll of distinguished names which the London Gazette of the 29th May published as recipients of royal ...

Molyneux’s Question and Cognitive Impenetrability by John Campbell

Professor John Edgar Morison OBE, MD, DSc, FRCOG, FRCPath (1912–2007)

Dr JE Morison, later to become Honorary Professor of Histopathology, died on 5 September, 2007 aged 95, after a short illness. To all his colleagues he was familiarly known as ‘John Edgar’. He gave outstanding service to the Ulster Medical Society, acting as editor of the Ulster Medical Journal for 32 years (1951-1984). Professor DAD Montgomery was his co-editor from 1975-1984. In his review of...

OBE: Outlier by Example

Outlier detection in large datasets is an important problem. There are several recent approaches that employ very reasonable definitions of an outlier. However, a fundamental issue is that the notion of which objects are outliers typically varies between users or, even, datasets. In this paper, we present a novel solution to this problem, by bringing users into the loop. Our OBE (Outlier By Exa...

Dr. John Brown and the account of Ailie's operation.

John Brown was born in Lanark, Scotland, on 22 September 1810 into a family which included several outstanding physicians. He pursued his medical studies at Edinburgh, where his preceptor was the illustrious James Syme. It appears that Syme had quarreled with Robert Liston, then a high priest in the British surgical hierarchy, and, as a consequence was denied the post of Chief Surgeon at the Ro...