THOMAS LAWRENCE M.D., P.R.C.P. (1711–83)

Thomas Beddoes MD, 1760–1808

DOROTHY A. STANSFIELD, Thomas Beddoes MD, 1760-1808, Dordrecht, Reidel, 1984, 8vo, pp. xx, 306, Dfl.140.00/$54.00. Thomas Beddoes has been the subject of intermittent study, manifested through a succession of more or less specialized papers, mostly on his pneumatic studies. His political involvements have also been noticed, but usually in ways that do not reveal any substantial connexion betwee...

Thomas C. Hall, MD, FACP: in memoriam.

Thomas Christopher Hall, one of the founders of American medical oncology, teacher, and researcher, left this life in his ninety-third year. Tom was born in New York City, and had a difficult childhood growing up in the time of the Depression. Tom excelled academically, and his life changed dramatically when he was accepted as a student at Harvard College and then at Harvard Medical School. He ...

The Third David M Lawrence, MD, Chairman's Patient Safety Award.

The papers of Sir Thomas Barlow, BT, KCVO, FRS, PRCP (1845-1945).

Sir Thomas Barlow, specialist in childhood diseases and sometime physician to Queen Victoria, Edward VII and George V, was one of a remarkable group of doctors and medical scientists who trained at University College Hospital in the early 1870s. Qualifying in 1870, MD in 1874, his contemporaries included Rickman John Godlee (1849-1925), Alfred Pearce Gould (1852-1922), William Smith Greenfield ...

Thomas Earl Starzl, MD, PhD (1926–2017): Father of Transplantation

Thomas E. Starzl, MD, PhD, was known to most as the “Father of Transplantation”—he laid the groundwork for an entire new field of medicine. Throughout his career he continued to make among the most significant, landmark advancements, from technically describing and perfecting the many variations of liver surgery, including transplantation, to identifying better ways to control organ rejection, ...