LETTER FROM MR. SIMPSON.

Rebuttal from David Simpson and Jurgen Claassen

We have read the point of view presented elegantly by Tzeng and Panerai (2018) with interest. We have to admit there is little hard evidence on which we can base our preference for enhanced blood pressure variability. The arguments against, however, are also not very strong. The argument is perhaps more strongly based on basic principles than solid evidence. We fully agree with Tzeng and Panera...

Steve Simpson

Steve Simpson was born and grew up in Australia. After completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Queensland, he travelled to London where he undertook his PhD on locust feeding physiology. Steve then spent 22 years in Oxford, fi rst in Experimental Psychology and then in the Department of Zoology and the Natural History Museum, before being enticed back to Australia in 2005. Toge...

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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...

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...