SIXTH RICHARD SELIGMAN MEMORIAL LECTURE ‘TECHNICAL PROGRESS IN BREWING’

The Stribeck memorial lecture

Stribeck’s publications ‘Kugellager für beliebige Belastungen’ and ‘Die wesentlichen Eigenschaften der Gleitund Rollenlager’ were remarkable for their time. Many of the findings were revolutionary and are still considered quite modern. The method used by Stribeck to calculate load distribution between the balls within a ball bearing is still used today, otherwise, a full finite element analysis...

The sixth K Prathap Memorial Lecture. Forensic medicine: the changing roles for the challenges ahead.

President of the Malaysian Society of Pathologists, Professor Looi Lai-Meng, honoured guests, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen. In Rome, medico-legal interest dated from 600 B.C., from the time of Numa Pompilus. The bodies of women who had died in confinement had to be immediately opened to save the babies; this was the beginning of the Caesarean section. Whe~l Julius Caesar (100 44 B.C.) was m...

The Thirty-Sixth Long Fox Memorial Lecture: Some Aspects of Hospital Economy

In 1894, when the British Medical Association held its Animal Meeting in this city, the Presidential Address was entitled : "On the Medical Man and the State." There is hardly a hint in that address of the commercial relations which now bind our profession to the State, there is no hint that up to that time the State had done ailything for the medical profession, but most of the address dwells ...

15th Sukaman Memorial Lecture

The J point is defi ned as the junction of the end of the QRS complex and the onset of the ST segment. The ST segment is between the J point and the onset of the T wave. If the J point is elevated or depressed with reference to the isoelectric line, which is defi ned as the baseline formed by the TP segment, the ST segment is diagnosed to be elevated or depressed respectively (Fig 1). During si...

The Twenty-Sixth Long Fox Memorial Lecture: The Debt of Western Medicine to the East