Shushaku Endo (1923-1996): his tuberculosis and his writings

George Herbert Mead and social reform: his work and writings.

Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624–1689): his Life and Original Writings

Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689): his Life and Original Writings, by KENNEH DEWHURST, London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1966, pp. viii, 180, illus., 35s. Thomas Sydenham was 'the greatest physician this country has ever produced', Dr. Dewhurst claims boldly (p. vii). Parliamentarian soldier, member of a family which had helped to run England for Oliver Cromwell, himself a radical Whig...

Sir William Osler: Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings

This book is a collection of abstracts of the world literature in surgery written by the abstract and news editor of the Journal of the International College of Surgeons. The volume is attractive in format and is easy to use. Complete references are listed at the end of each abstracted article, most of which were published in 1949. The papers were chosen on the basis of the unusual, the interes...

William Ford Robertson (1867-1923): his study of neuroglia.

THE PRESENCE of a supporting tissue within the central nervous system was first demonstrated by Keuffel in 1811,1 when he showed a definite meshwork left in crosssections of spinal cord after the nervous tissue had been brushed out. He interpreted this as representing prolongations of the pia mater. Arnold in 18452 and Virchow3 in the following year both described a granular ground substance wh...

The Tuberculosis Officer and His Work

The tuberculosis officer is a comparative novelty. His. immediate action and eventual position in medicine are as yet uncertain, and if the following description of him is somewhat diagrammatic, the writer pleads these circumstances as his excuse. Two years' experience in city and county has indicated that the value of the tuberculosis officer's work will be in proportion to the extent to which...