WILLIAM CULLEN

William Cullen: A Psychological Study

15th of April, 1710. Of liis boyhood little is known, save that he was a lad of lively manner, uncommon quickness of apprehension, anrl great retentiveness of memory. From this text the psychologist seeks to ascertain in what manner grew an intellectual superiority which placed its possessor among the giants of medical science, and in what that intellectual superiority chiefly consisted. The su...

Philosophical chemistry in the Scottish Enlightenment. The doctrines and discoveries of William Cullen and Joseph Black

W. S. CRAIG, History of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Oxford, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1976, 4to, pp. xxix, 1125, illus., £35.00. An immense amount of labour was spent on this book by the late Professor W. S. Craig, and it is tragic that he did not live to see the finished product. It will, however, serve to commemorate the College's forthcoming tercentenary. Since its...

The Medical Consultation Letters of Dr William Cullen: the launch of a digital edition.

Cullen, a Cautionary Tale

Some ideas return after the briefest of exiles: reductionism is back in vogue. Existential questions - about who we are, about our origins and future, about what is valuable - no longer require difficult soul searching, especially when straightforward answers are expected from the neurosciences. History is being rewritten with the brain as its centrepiece; the search for great men and big ideas...

Art.-Cullen (J)

The vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) produces a compensatory eye movement of equal and opposite amplitude to the motion of the head. This reflex effectively stabilizes the visual world on the retina for the wide range of head motions that are generated during daily activities1,2. However, primates can also voluntarily redirect their visual axes to new targets in their environment. Under natural co...