Sir Harry Jephcott

Sir Harry Platt: 100 not out.

One ofthe proud claims ofSir Harry Platt, Britain's first orthopaedic professor, who is 100 this month, is that he won the Ashes for England in 1932. He was summoned to Old Trafford from his popular Tuesday afternoon teaching session at Ancoats Hospital. At the cricket ground the north was playing the south in a selection match and Harold Larwood was having trouble with his knee. Sir Harry exam...

Yes Sir, no Sir, not much difference Sir.

OBJECTIVE To assess whether making the sender's knighthood explicit in a series of letters would have any detectable effect on the response. DESIGN A random sequence was generated by flipping a coin to determine whether a letter would have 'Sir Iain Chalmers' or 'Iain Chalmers' typed under the signature. This sequence was prepared independently of the preparation of an alphabetic list of the ...

The Dirty Harry Problem

Policing constantly places its practitioners in situations in which good ends can be achieved by dirty means. When the ends to be achieved are urgent and unquestionably good and only a dirty means will work to achieve them, the policeman faces a genuine moral dilemma. A genuine moral dilemma is a situation from which one cannot emerge innocent no matter what one does-employ a dirty means, emplo...

Harry Beal Torrey , Matthew

I t is now 16 years since Nowikoff (1908) accelerated the division rate of Paramecium by adding thyroid gland to his cultures. Later , Shumway (1914) reached the same conclusion after a series of more critical and painstaking experiments, and in the following year Budington and Harvey (1915) showed tha t thyroids from various vertebrates would produce similar results. Still later, Shumway (1917...

Harry S.N. Greene, M.D.