Sir William Jones, language families, and Indo-European

Sir William Ramsay

Whither Sir William?

There are times when something is simply so familiar that we can no longer see it at all. It can be a story, or a concept, or even a flesh-and-blood person. Familiarity breeds not only contempt, but a kind of invisibility as well. For too many of us, such is the case with Sir William Osler. In his time (1849–1919), many considered him to be one of the greatest practitioners, teachers, and write...

Sir William Whitla

IT is written in the Bible that wve should take time "to praise famous men and our fathers that begat us." This year-the centenary year of the Ulster Medical Society-seemed an appropriate point of time for such remembrance and reflection. I chose, therefore, the name of one, William Whitla, a past President and benefactor of our Society, as the subject of my address. On 11th December, 1933, Sir...

William Llywelyn Parry-Jones

William Parry-Jones, who died in July at the age of sixty-two, was Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Glasgow and Honorary Consultant to both the Greater Glasgow Mental Health Services Trust and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill. A most distinguished clinician and teacher, Parry-Jones was also a productive and influential historian of psychiatry. His ...

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