LETTER FROM MR. CHARLES HAWKINS.

The virtues of the cortex in 1680: a letter from Charles Goodall to Mr. H.

CHARLES GOODALL (1642-1712) devoted his career to the affairs of the Royal College of Physicians of London and became its most articulate defender against attacks of seventeenth-century empirics and chemists.' In his The College of Physicians vindicated ...2 of 1676 he assailed the apothecary-empirics, particularly Adrian Huyberts for misrepresenting College licensing policies and the achieveme...

Charles Dickens' Consultation with Mr. Syme *The Life of Charles Dickens, by John Forster, page 417.

us believe) in any dialect in Scotland; in fact the tendency in all Scotch dialects is to pronounce it "jest." And as regards the alleged difference of opinion between Mr. Syme and Sir Henry Thompson, I heard Mr. Syme describe his interview with Dickens on the day it took place, and remember that he not only took a serious view of the condition of Dickens' foot, but also spoke of Sir Henry Thom...

The weak Hawkins-Simon Condition

A real square matrix satisfies the weak Hawkins-Simon condition if its leading principal minors are positive (the condition was first studied by the French mathematician Maurice Potron). Three characterizations are given. Simple sufficient conditions ensure that the condition holds after a suitable reordering of columns. A full characterization of this set of matrices should take into account t...

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Response to Mr. Lee's letter to the editor.

Mr Lee implies we did not thoroughly investigate his product. In fact, our article, “Evaluation of Commercially Available Traction Splints for Battlefield Use,” also cited Auerbach et al.’s 1984 research in which the RS was deemed superior to the Thomas splint. We also were aware of the advertised internal memoranda by combat medic instructors from the Army Medical Department Center & School in...