John Work’s First Journal, 1823-1824

The practice of surgery in Leeds 1823-1824.

THIS PAPER is based on a leather-bound manuscript notebook found in the cellars of the Leeds Medical School a few years ago. It commences on 20 March 1823. No author's name is given but it would seem to be the notes of an apothecary. As Richard Farrer of Leeds was assistant apothecary at the General Infirmary at Leeds from March 1823 to July 1825, it seems probable that he wrote it. Farrer beca...

John von Neumann COLLECTED WORKS GENERAL EDITOR

Medicinal Plants Prescribed in the Hospital of the São Bento Monastery between 1823 and 1824 in Olinda – Northeastern Brazil

Given the high importance of historical documental sources to better understand the dynamics of current pharmacopoeias, this work investigated the prescription book of the hospital of São Bento Monastery in Olinda (Northeastern Brazil) written by the physician Joaquim Jerônimo Serpa for the years of 1823 and 1824. The main aims of the work were to identify the medicinal plants used in formulati...

Introduction to iron works...The John Beard Memorial Symposium.

The Department of Nutritional Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University hosted a symposium entitled "Iron Works…The John Beard Memorial Symposium" in University Park, PA, on November 2, 2009. This one-day scientific symposium was held in honor of the late John Beard and was organized by Jere Haas, Shannon Kelleher, Terry Etherton, James Connor, and Gordon Jensen. The goal of the symposium w...

Review of the Collected Works of John Tate

This is a review of Collected Works of John Tate. Parts I, II, edited by Barry Mazur and Jean-Pierre Serre. AmericanMathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 2016. For several decades it has been clear to the friends and colleagues of John Tate that a “Collected Works” was merited. The award of the Abel Prize to Tate in 2010 added impetus, and finally, in Tate’s ninety-second year we have...