Lewis Carroll's "Pillow Problems": On the 1993 Centenary

Clocking in Pillow Time without the Pillow

1512 normal enzyme. Then, they replaced the oxygen in question with a sulfur atom. The reaction didn’t work as well because, by the rules of chemistry, sulfur doesn’t like to bind to magnesium. But sulfur does like manganese and cadmium ions. So they replaced the magnesium with one of these other metal ions and measured the reaction. The researchers saw that these other metal ions restored (or ...

On the centenary of the term "hormone".

In June of 2005 the term hormone completed a life span of one century. The word that Ernest Henry Starling included in one of his four lectures to the Royal Society of Physicians of London, given in June 1905, definitively established the permanent representation in terminology for the products secreted by the endocrine glands. Various attempts by physicians and medical writers to replace the t...

[Reflections on the first centenary of Actas].

Lester Dragstedt Centenary Symposium. New Haven, Connecticut, October 1, 1993. Proceedings.

The Centenary Dinner

The Centenary Dinner of the Bristol MedicoChirurgical Society took place at the Esso Motor Hotel, Hambrook, on Friday, 26th April, 1974, and was attended by nearly one hundred and fifty members and guests. The Guest of Honour was Sir John Stallworthy, President of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Society's other guests were Lady Stallworthy, Councillor C. Hebblethwaite, Deputy Lord Mayor o...