PROFESSOR OWEN'S LECTURES.

Surgery at Yale in 1843: Professor Jonathan Knight's lectures.

ing from the part a portion of its fluids, and consequently lessening the pain and tension" [20]. Cooper wrote, "the indication for bleeding is a hard pulse. In this state of the pulse the diameter of the vessel is diminished, yet the action is exceedingly strong, and each pulsation feels like the vibration of a wire: whenever, therefore, you find this description of pulse, you will be justifie...

Lectures

Conflicts of Interest: Owens’ Response

In the November 2003 issue of EHP, Liu et al. (2003) concluded that " relatively low concentrations of gaseous air pollutants are associated with adverse effects on birth outcomes. " Although this may be true from a purely statistical sense, there appear to be limitations of this research that suggest cautious interpretation of the findings. Liu et al. (2003) evaluated individual-level birth ce...

Andrew Owens and Simon Kendall Vassilios

Plenary Lectures