Obituary: John Harold West MBE

Obituary: John Michael Thresh – On lifelong war with plant viruses.

Mike came from a farming background in the north of England and spent much of his childhood on the family farm during World War II (1939– 1945). This was before the days of full mechanisations and he can claim to have ploughed with horses and harvested cereals for threshing by steam power. His mother harboured ideas of having a "blood and guts" veterinarian in the family but a career in agricul...

Obituary - John Payne (Jack) Woodall, Co-founder of ProMED-mail

Pan African Medical Journal. 2016; 25:123 doi:10.11604/pamj.2016.25.123.11053 This article is available online at: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/25/123/full/ © Raoul Kamadjeu et al. The Pan African Medical Journal ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/...

Obituary: Professor John Henry, MBBS, FRCP, FFAEM (1939–2007)

John Henry was educated at St Joseph’s Academy at Blackheath in London and qualified MBBS from King’s College Hospital, London in 1965. He obtained the MRCP (UK) Diploma in 1974 and was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1986. He was appointed as Consultant Physician to the Poisons Unit at Guy’s Hospital in 1982 and continued in that role until he became P...

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Paper medicine man. John Gregory Bourke and his American West

Bucke, at the London Asylum in Canada, embraces such an entity is more questionable. S.E.D. Shortt's monograph has certainly taken a bold leap, incorporating a general review of the development of Victorian medical psychology with a detailed analysis of data from an Ontario asylum and its keeper, but the result is top-heavy and awkward. The enterprise parallels one of Bucke's, his all-explanato...