Octoher 8, 1844

Nauvoo Expositor, June 7, 1844

W e give th is week to th e follow ing P ream ble, Resolu t ions and Affidavits, of the Seceders from the Chu rch at N au vo o.-T he r equ est i s compl i ed with on account o f their deemin g it very imp ortant t hat the pu bl ic sh ou ld k no w th e tr ue c au se of t heir diss entin g, as all manner of falsehood is spread abroad in rel ati on to th e sch ism in th e C hu rch . In our subsequ...

Thomas Charles Hope (1766-1844).

THE memory of the birth ofThomas Charles Hope, said to be one of the most popular teachers of science ever to have lived in Great Britain, seems to have been eclipsed by the birth, in the same year, of Dalton the famous philosopher, and Wollaston the genius of experiment and invention. Thomas Charles was born 21 July 1766, son of Dr. John Hope who was Professor of Botany in the University of Gl...

Biologie de Hyalomma dromedarii (Koch 1844)

Changing disease identities: cretinism, politics and surgery (1844-1892).

In 1883 the Swiss surgeon and later Nobel laureate Theodor Kocher (1841-1917) made a journey to the Valais and Bernese Oberland. The purpose of the expedition was to see cases of cretinism which occurred in this area. Earlier in the same year Kocher had noticed that he had inadvertently created "artificial cretins" by total ablation of the thyroid gland. His objective now was to see whether the...

Social change and scientific organization. The Royal Institution 1799–1844

Morris Berman has written an important book. Instead of writing the history of an institution to show how it promoted the growth of science, he has attempted to discover what sort of science an institution enshrined and what social interests this science furthered. The Royal Institution and the turn of the eighteenth/nineteenth century were an appropriate choice, since science and society were ...