Sir James W. Black, MD, FRS

Sir Nicholas Harold Ridley, Kt, MD, FRCS, FRS: contributions in addition to the intraocular lens.

Most obituaries are crafted to provide a brief biographical sketch of an individual, to list his or her accomplishments and honors, and to express gratitude to the deceased. In this memorial to Sir Harold as well as another obituary covering different facts of his life published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology, we have chosen a diverse course. Our purpose here is not only to honor him,...

Sir Walter James Buchanan

Sir James Mackenzie

Based on a Dissertation read before the Royal Medical Society on Friday, 21st October 1960 Picture, if you can. a dark grim valley of smoke and chimneys, outlined by a ring of light appearing over the hills. In the streets a clatter of horses' hooves and wooden clogs. In a dingy room the oft repeated scene of a girl in labour surrounded by old women in shawls. The ubiquitous, anxious husband is...

Sir Martin Roth FRS: an appreciation.

Since the mid-19th century central Europe had been the cradle of conceptual thinking had been the cradle of conceptual thinking in clinical psychiatry. Following the turbu-in clinical psychiatry. Following the turbulence and persecution in the 1920s and lence and persecution in the 1920s and 1930s some of a later generation of mid-1930s some of a later generation of mid-European psychiatrists e...

Sir James Lancaster the Explorer.

The developing role of the naval surgeon has been studied extensively throughout time and many characters and events are well known in popular history. Commodore George Anson’s scurvy riddled voyage in 1740, the unprecedented health amongst Captain Cook’s South Sea Crews and Lord Admiral Nelson’s variety of war injuries to name but a few. One character has been largely overlooked to date. His r...