Sir Toby Matthew and His “Fidus Achates” George Gage, 1607–1620

Sir George Campbell

trumpet of praise, and his enemies tried to give him a parting kick. We have nothing unkind to say of Sir George. True, lie once insulted the Calcutta doctors grievously by insinuating that they made false returns of their earnings. He was taken to book promptly and sharply on this account at the time. He was able to show that he was misled by statistics and made a frank and generous amende. Th...

Sir George Buchanan

George Buchanan was born in the year 1881 in Myddleton Square, Islington, where his father was in medical practice. He received his early education at University College School, and subsequently at the adjacent college. During this period he worked under T. H. Key and de Morgan; he acquired much fondness for classics, notably the English classics, and he was awarded medals in biology and chemis...

Sir George Pickering (1904-1982).

Sir George Baker and the Devonshire Colic

JOHN P1mLIPS was not a Devon man and the colic which he described with such evident personal feeling was not the Devonshire colic. In the eighteenth century the cider making counties of England were the shires of Devon, Hereford and Gloucester. Cider was being made in Devonshire in the thirteenth century. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, when Defoe visited the county he remarked on t...

Matthew Williams and his ketogenic diet

Matthew was nine months old when he had his first seizure – the most terrifying thing I had ever seen in my life and it was happening to my baby. I knew nothing about epilepsy apart from that people with epilepsy tookmedicine that stopped them having seizures – but this was definitely not the case for Matthew and my education into the world of epilepsy had now begun. The seizures kept on coming...