Sibley College Lectures.-1886-87

Green College Lectures Pharmacology : analysis and exploration

Professor Desmond Laurence describes the domain of pharmacology thus: pharmacology is about drugs and drugs are about sick people. This definition is attractive, but it obscures the problem faced by pharmacologists-the problem of identity. Clinical pharmacologists see themselves as physicians with a special interest, but no physician can avoid having a special interest in drugs. Nonclinical pha...

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Green College lectures: 1984. Medicine in the Third World.

The Third World, if we include China, has a population of three billion, which is three quarters of the world's population. If we use the Brandt Commission's distinction between north and south, the countries of the south are characterised by their relative economic weakness. They live on one fifth of the world's income and possess less than one tenth of the world's manufacturing capacity. Thei...

Op-gbev130144 1886..1901

Transposable elements (TEs) are a dominant feature of most flowering plant genomes. Together with other accepted facilitators of evolution, accumulating data indicate that TEs can explain much about their rapid evolution and diversification. Genome size in angiosperms is highly correlated with TE content and the overwhelming bulk (>80%) of large genomes can be composed of TEs. Among retro-TEs, ...

Edward Hindle, 1886-1973.