The Anatomist James Douglas (1675-1742): His Life and Scientific Work

Thomas Willis 1621–1675: his life and work

treatment on the agenda. Gradually state policies on facilities and prevention of alcohol problems emerged. The 1980s saw a federal plan put in operation, its focus, as elsewhere, primarily on illicit drugs, despite the much greater degree of social harm occasioned by alcohol consumption. Lewis's "lesson" for the future is an optimistic one. Drinking, he argues, like smoking, could follow the s...

James Parkinson: his life and times

GEORGE P. MILNE (ed.), Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society: a bicentennial history 1789-1989, Aberdeen University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xv, 313, illus., £17.00+£1.50 p&p from Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society, Medical Centre, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB9 2ZB. Readers who assume from the title that this is a structured history of Scotland's oldest Medico-Chirurgical Society will be sadly disappo...

Semmelweis: his Life and Work

Wildberger became a renowned local figure and received an honorary medical doctorate from Jena and many foreign honours. In later life he moved his institute to Forchheim, where he had the assistance of his medically-qualified son before the latter emigrated to America. His writings on the proper training of orthopaedic surgeons, with their insistence on early specialist education in methods an...

Leonhard Euler His Life, The Man, and His Work

On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of Euler’s birth (on April 15), an attempt is made to bring Euler’s genius to the attention of a broad segment of the educated public. The three stations of his life—Basel, St. Petersburg, and Berlin—are sketched and the principal works identified in more or less chronological order. To convey a flavor of his work and its impact on modern science, a sele...

John Schellman and his scientific work.