William Hewson (1739-74): the father of haematology

romantic education:reading william wordsworths the prelude in the light of the history of ideas

عصر روشنگری زمان شکل گیری ایده های مدرن تربیتی- آموزشی بود اما تاکید بیش از اندازه ی دوشاخه مهم فلسفی زمان یعنی عقل گرایی و حس گرایی بر دقت و وضوح، انسان عصر روشنگری را نسبت به دیگر تواناییهایش نابینا کرده و موجب به وجود آمدن افرادی تک بعدی شد که افتخارعقلانیتشان، تاکید شان بر تجربه فردی، به مبارزه طلبیدن منطق نیاکانشان وافسون زدایی شان از دنیا وتمام آنچه با حواس پنجگانه قابل درک نبوده و یا در ...

William Blair-Bell—father and founder

JOHN PEEL, William Blair-Bell-father andfounder, London, Royal College ofObstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1986, 8vo, pp. iii, 89, illus., £6.00 + £1 postage. It has been said that Blair-Bell (1871-1936) was the greatest gynaecologist ofthis century: that he laid the foundations of modem gynaecology, raising it from a branch of general surgery to a separate and important new discipline. His adm...

"The child is father of the man" (William Wordsworth, 1802).

The occurrence of atherosclerosis at an early age has long been the subject of curiosity and wonder. Isn't it remarkable that 65 of 140 combat soldiers who died as a result of injuries sustained in World War I had increased coronary atherosclerotic plaques at a mean age of 27.7 years (1)? How interesting is it that grossly visible lesions not causing obstruction were present in 35% of 300 Korea...

William Stewart Halsted (1852-1922): father of American surgery.

William H. Prusoff (1920–2011): Father of Antiviral Chemotherapy

Regarded as the father of antiviral chemotherapy, William H. Prusoff (Bill) passed away on April 3, 2011, in New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Prusoff spent most of his career studying analogs of thymidine, a nucleoside building block of DNA, with an eye toward developing therapeutic agents. By exploring analogs to thymidine for use as antiviral drugs, his research created a new scientific paradigm f...