Westminster Medical Society: Jan. 15, 1842

William Drennan, his medical life. Presidential address to Ulster Medical Society delivered on 15 October 1998.

Thomas Drennan was one of a number of dissenting ministers, educated in Glasgow, who formed a distinct group and through which political ideas were developed and articulated. Drennan was related by marriage to Francis Hutcheson and went in 1720 to assist him in a Dissenting school in Dublin. It was Hutcheson, who returned to Glasgow as Professor of Moral Philosophy, who was to provide the basis...

Westminster Hospital, 1716–1966

(i) Westminster Hospital, 1716-1966, by J. G. HUMBLE AND P. HANSELL, London, Pitman Medical Publishing Co., 1966, pp. x, 134, illus., 21s. (ii) Geschichte des Hospitals, Bd. 1: Westdeutschland von den Anfdngen bis 1850, by D. JETFER (Sudhoffs Archiv, Beiheft 5), Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1966, pp. viii, 270, 104 illus., DM. 66 or 74. These two books could hardly be more different. Dr. Hu...

Monday Jan 15, 8:30am Spins in Quantum Dots

The material systems include GaAs/AlGaAs semiconductor heterostructures, semiconducting nanowires and carbon nanotubes. These materials have their own advantages that can be employed to engineer a spin-friendly environment. These include fabrication and electrical-control issues as well as the strength of the hyperfine interaction (i.e. presence or absence of nuclear spins) and the spinorbit in...

Medical Society

Medical Society

With the publication of the January number of its transactions, the Poona Medical Society completes the first year of its existence. The interest taken in the Society by its members is manifested by the numbers who attend its meetings, of which there have been three during the last quarter. The following gentlemen have shown cases and contributed articles of interest at the meetings, viz., Lieu...