William Ricketts: Peacekeeper on the Town Frontier, 1896-1922

James William Kitching (1922-2003)

James William Kitching collected and studied fossils of dinosaurs and early humans [3] in the twentieth century. He worked at the Bernard Price Institute for Paleontological Research in South Africa. During the fifty-three years he worked at the institute, Kitching spent eighteen of those in the field uncovering fossils. Kitching recovered fossils of early human ancestors, later called Australo...

Publications of Dr. William Dameshek--1922-1947.

l)amcshek, \V.: Backache. Boston \l. &. S. J. 187: 830-834, 1922. The heart in hyperthyroidism. Boston M.& S.J. 190:487-497, 1924. -: Typhus fever-report of a case. Boston \l.& S. j. 193:260-262, 1925. -: The reticulated red cells-their clinical significance. Boston M.& S.J. 194:759-768, 1926. I)ana, H. \V., and -: Intermittent auricular ventricular block. Am.J.M.Sc. 171:485-489, 1926. -: Benze...

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

Gut Microbiota: The Brain Peacekeeper

Gut microbiota regulates intestinal and extraintestinal homeostasis. Accumulating evidence suggests that the gut microbiota may also regulate brain function and behavior. Results from animal models indicate that disturbances in the composition and functionality of some microbiota members are associated with neurophysiological disorders, strengthening the idea of a microbiota-gut-brain axis and ...

Frontier doctor: William Beaumont, America's first great medical scientist

that Gadamer associates with "health". Gaiger and Walker have translated Gadamer's critique of modem medicine in elegant and eminendly quotable language. Anyone interested in Gadamer, and anyone seeking quotable quotes from a famous and influential philosopher who is sceptical of the claims of modernism in medicine, would do well to peruse this book. Anyone interested in important new ideas abo...