Sir Henry R. Bishop

Sir Henry Hallett Dale and acetylcholine story.

Living organisms depend upon their nervous systems to provide integrated responses to environmental stresses. Due to Chiarles Sherrington we recognize that the key to understanding nervous integration resides not in the body of the cell or in its long filamentous axon, nor in the ionic slhifts involved in electrical propagation, but rather in the subtle events occurring at the gap between nerve...

Sir Henry Dale, The Great Investigator.

Sir Henry Dale, THe GreaT inveSTiGaTor Henry Dale (1875-1968), a Londoner by birth was one of the most productive scientists in contemporary England, and was endowed with extraordinary and active longevity. He completed his medical training from St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. After choosing to work in basic investigations, he joined the Physiology Department of University College and worked under ...

Sir Henry Thompson's Stricture of Urethra

Henry R. Viets, M.D

Viets was a well-known neurologist, medical historian, and for 36 years a lecturer at the Harvard Medical School. He specialized in the disease myasthenia gravis, and established the first clinic in the world for diagnosis and treatment of the disorder. At the Second International Symposium on Myasthenia Gravis in 1959, he received a bronze plaque commemorating his pioneering in the field. He w...

Autonomic neurotransmission: 60 years since sir Henry Dale.

In the early twentieth century, Sir Henry Dale and others described brilliant studies of autonomic neurotransmission utilizing acetylcholine and noradrenaline. However, within the past 60 years, new discoveries have changed our understanding of the organization of the autonomic nervous system, including the structure and function of the nonsynaptic autonomic neuroeffector junction, the multipli...