Prof. John Perry, F.R.S

John Perry (1929-1985) and the origins of the John Perry Prize.

John Benjamins Publishing Company Perry, Wittgenstein's Builders, and Metasemantics*

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Sir John Tomes FRS, Fellows of the Royal Society, and dental reform in the nineteenth century.

In this paper Sir John Tomes HonFRCS LDS FRS (1815-95), surgeon-dentist, is presented as the agent through whose membership of the Royal Society the previously disorganized profession of dentistry shared in the process of reform and scientific progress that engaged the medical profession in the second half of the nineteenth century. The study identifies 70 of the Fellows of the Royal Society wh...

Authors' reply to Perry.

We thank Perry for raising the interesting difference between research trials where both patients and staff are blinded to whether the tablet is really a statin and everyday practice where patients and doctors know whether a statin is being taken. 2 In the blinded trials, there are indeed reports of symptoms, but (in the published data) these are equivalent between statin and placebo. In everyd...