Professor Sir Charles Stuart-Harris.

Session II : Chairman : Sir Charles Stuart - Harris Viral and epidemiological findings in MRC / PHLS surveys of respiratory disease in hospital and general practice PAULINE

The results found and the laboratory methods used for the isolation of viruses and P haemolytic streptococci in two MRC/PHLS surveys of respiratory disease in patients in hospital and general practice are described. 717 viruses and 82 P haemolytic streptococci were isolated from 2418 children in hospital and 835 viuses and 435 srains of p haemolytic streptococci from patients seen in general pr...

A visit to Sir Charles Sherrington.

GOING through old papers recently I came upon some notes recording a visit I had paid to Sir Charles Sherrington on 7 August 1945 at the Hope Nursing Home in Cambridge where he then lived.' He was eighty-eight and already seriously crippled by arthritis but very alert in mind and ready to talk. Indeed he remained so until his death in 1952. The day before, I had been in London fox an interview ...

The poetry of Sir Charles Sherrington.

The title-poem in Sherrington’s The Assaying of Brabantius (1925) is a substantial piece taking up about three-sevenths of the volume. A third of the remaining poems ascertainably belong to the period of the First World War, but this visionary allegory with a quasi-mediaeval setting offers itself as a relatively early work. Its theme of the sinner redeemed by the innocent love for a boy (yet co...

Sir Charles Locock and potassium bromide.

On 12 May 1857, Edward Sieveking read a paper on epilepsy to the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in London. During the discussion that followed Sir Charles Locock, obstetrician to Queen Victoria, was reported to have commented that during the past 14 months he had used potassium bromide to successfully stop epileptic seizures in all but one of 14 or 15 women with 'hysterical' or catamenia...

Sir Charles Bell: The artist who went to the roots!