Wilder shores

A bedside conversation with Wilder Penfield.

1976, I served as an intern in internal medicine at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montréal, Quebec after graduating from Emory University School of Medicine. At that time, interns were still given their own on-call room. My pre-morning rounds ritual consisted of a maple donut and orange juice at the hospital coffee shop, while also devouring The Star, The Gazette and La Presse. Olympic fever w...

Uncountably Many Mildly Wild Non-wilder Arcs1

I. The basic example A0 (Figure 1). A regular normed projection of our basic example of a mildly wild non-Wilder arc is shown in Figure 1. (Using the methods of [4], one could easily give a precise description.) (A) Ao is not L.P.U. at p. The invariants of [7] will be used to show that the penetration index PiA0, p) of A0 at p is equal to 4. (For a definition of the penetration index see [l] an...

No specialty alone: the Wilder Penfield strategy.

Aliens on the shores

In the early 1980s, a biologist at the tropical aquarium in Stuttgart, Germany, noticed that the beautiful green alga Caulerpa taxifolia (Fig. 1) would make an ideal aquarium decoration. It does not wither, it is fast growing and it withstands cool temperatures. In the following years, many aquariums acquired Caulerpa plants from Stuttgart, among them the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, from wh...

The Chloride Excretion Test (cutler-wilder-power Test) in Asthenia.