The Maclagan family: six generations of service

The Maclagan family: six generations of service.

The Maclagans were a Scots family from humble origins who produced famous physicians and surgeons (two of them presidents of Royal Colleges), ministers of religion (including one archbishop and several missionaries), a director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, a famous anthropologist, many army officers, a leading Oxford historian, several town mayors and politicians. Their lasting legacies inc...

Autosomal dominant juvenile onset glaucoma affecting six generations in an Edinburgh family.

2 Diane Maclagan And

We develop a multigraded variant of Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity. Motivated by toric geometry, we work with modules over a polynomial ring graded by a finitely generated abelian group. As in the standard graded case, our definition of multigraded regularity involves the vanishing of graded components of local cohomol-ogy. We establish the key properties of regularity: its connection with the ...

Dr. Maclagan on Rheumatism

really such a thing at all as rheumatism in the tropics, or, for that matter, as near the tropics as 25? 25' N. I think that this is a point of considerable importance, as a very large number of cases come under notice complaining of rheumatism, if Europeans, or called rheumatism if the patient is a native, in which I am sure that this particular disease h is obsolutely nothing to do with the p...

Six generations of ill-used children in a Huntington's pedigree.

This Huntington's pedigree of six generations illustrates the interaction of environmental and genetic factors causing prolonged suffering to children reared in such families. This pedigree is representative of many others studied in depth involving at least 425 families. In general, children reared in these families later manifest subtle anti-social tendencies. Even when these children do not ...