THE MEDICAL DIRECTORY FOR 1901.

The Medical Directory for 1873

Thacker's Medical Directory, 1914

The new edition of this useful Directory is an improvement on the 1st Edition. It is divided into several parts. An introduction of 136 pages deals with the regulations for entrance to the I.M.S. and Ii.A.M.C. and for medical degrees at British and Indian Universities. Much of this information may not be needed by the practitioner but it is information not easily obtainable elsewhere and will b...

The 1901 St Louis incident: the first modern medical disaster.

On October 19, 1901, Dr R.C. Harris, a St Louis physician, attended to a young girl named Bessie Baker who was suffering from advanced diphtheria. As was his routine, he injected diphtheria antitoxin into the child and, as a preventive, her 2 younger siblings and concluded that “she would soon be entirely well.” But 4 days later he was called back to the Bakers’ home to a terrifying discovery:

Design and Implementation of a Web directory for Medical Education (WDME): a Tool to Facilitate Research in Medical Education

Introduction: Access to the medical education resources on the web is one of current challenges for researchers and medical science educators. The purpose of current project was to design and implement a comprehensive and specific subject/web directory of medical education. Methods: First, the categories to be incorporated in the directory were defined through reviewing related directories an...

The Medical Year Book and Classified Directory, 1925

This little handbook contains a wonderful digest of information. It is edited by Mr. C. R. Hewitt, late Librarian of the Royal Society of Medicine, and Assistant Librarian, Royal College of Surgeons. Practically speaking, it is a medical " Whitaker's Almanac," replete with useful and miscellaneous information with regard to the medical profession in England, and a book of reference essential in...