Robert Hamilton Russell, surgeon, and Percy Grainger, musician: an intimate relationship

The surgeon and the musician.

These two quotations encapsulate my personal thinking about music. I cannot imagine my life without listening to music most of the time. Being both a surgeon and an amateur musician, I have been, for a long time, intrigued by the potential relations between medicine and music (Fig. 1). Indeed there have been in history, many famous people who were both musicians and physicians or surgeons [1]. ...

The Late Surgeon-General Robert Harvey, I.M.S.

physician. He was educated by private tuition and at Aberdeen and Glasgow Universities, and took the degrees (with honours) M.B. and C. M. in 1863, at the age of twenty-one. In 1883 he became M.D. (Aber.), M.R.C.P. (Lond.), in 1889, and F.R.C.P. in 189-i. He was also made an LL.D. of Aberdeen. Shortl}7 after his arrival in India Harvey saw his first field service in the Bhootan War of 1865-6, f...

Robert Milton Zollinger, M.D., teacher, surgeon, soldier, and farmer.

Helicobacter pylori and gastric acid: an intimate and reciprocal relationship

Helicobacter pylori (Hp) is the main cause of gastritis, peptic ulcer disease and gastric cancer. There are still unanswered questions related to the interaction between Hp and man, like what determines the susceptibility for the initial infection and the mechanisms for the carcinogenic effect. The initial infection seems to require a temporal gastric hypoacidity. For Hp to survive in the gastr...

By Robert Hamilton of the Bank ’ s Structural Economic

Real household consumption in the United Kingdom increased by about 4% during 2001. This was the sixth consecutive year of above-average growth—the longest above-trend period over the past five decades (see Chart 1). During the second half of the 1990s, consumer spending was boosted by robust growth in households' real disposable incomes, as well as strong gains in household wealth, particularl...