Sophia Jex-Blake 1840-1912

Sophia Jex-Blake: a woman pioneer in nineteenth-century medical reform

SHIRLEY ROBERTS, Sophia Jex-Blake: a wvoman pioneer in nineteenth-century medical reform, Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 1993, pp. x, 207, illus., £40.00 (0-415-08753-8). Sophia Jex-Blake's battle for women to train as doctors at Edinburgh University has been told in various books about women's struggle for medical education and formed the ...

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Her Contemporaries

1OI)AV, in most countries in the world, there are women practising medicine; I think I am correct in saying that they specialise in every branch; opportunities vary in different countries and even in different parts of the same country. In Australia there is a Flying Doctor Service, carried on by two women who are in general practice; they cover thousandls of miles and deal with all types of em...

Sophia Antipolis

Randolph Blake

which enables researchers to examine the contents of hundreds of bamboo crates packed with dinosaur bones that have remained unopened since they were brought by ship almost a century ago. Specimens such as a finely written 16th century log book and museum director Reinhold Lienfelder’s personal favourite, a sea-foamcoloured cabinet full of rare corals, have been restored. And items with a darke...

SOPHIA in Enterprise Track

W3C collection contains documents of different types. In our experiments we used only two document types: www and lists. Examples of www documents are drafts and final versions of official W3C documents, slides from presentations given by W3C members and so on. Documents of lists type are e-mails. We split www documents into parts, based on 1000 word long segments and considered every part as a...