William Blake and His Poem “London”

William Henry: His Achievements and His Law

Henry is a well-known name to all students of physical chemistry. Despite physical handicaps resulting from a childhood accident, he went on to a brilliant career in chemistry and medicine. The extensive and careful measurements that he made of the solubility of gases have given us the law that carries his name. Not many are familiar with his work on the steam sterilization of fabrics and other...

Revelatory Words and Images: William Blake and the Artist's Book

2 3 Acknowledgements I would like to express my gratitude to the many people who have helped me with this project. First, many thanks to my thesis advisor, Alison Hickey, whose patience and guidance gave the essay shape when I couldn't think of any. Thank you to James Noggle and Sarah Wall-Randell, my thesis committee members, who inspired me with wonderful ideas, and to Joy Renjilian-Burgy, my...

William Blake in the 1960s: Counterculture and Radical Reception

William Heberden the elder (1710-1801): aspects of his London practice.

Although William Heberden was one ofthe most distinguished clinicians ofhis day, no attempt has previously been made to bring together the available material, scattered in various published works and unpublished MSS, which could throw light on his London practice. I attempt in this article to find some answers to three groups of questions: first, what were the factors that Heberden had to weigh...

Sir William Osler and his Welsh connections.

to Canada with his young bride, Ellen Free Pickton. She was a native of London, but bore a distinguished Welsh name. William was the youngest of their family of nine, and was born in the parsonage at Bond Head in Tecumseth County in the backwoods of Upper Canada. Uncle Edward was the eldest of the nine children of Grandfather Osler. He was a favourite uncle, of whom WO wrote 'we cherished an am...