A note from history: microscopic contributions of pioneer pathologists.

A note from history: landmarks in history of cancer, part 4.

In the second half of the 19th century, most cancer patients were cared for by surgeons who exerted ascesis and limited their operations to 1 or 2 specific areas. To assist surgeons and other physicians in caring for their patients, pathologists described newly discovered entities, refined the microscopic classification of tumors, and introduced the grading of cancers. The discoveries of Rontge...

Towards Improving Hospital Managers’ Performance in Iran: History of a Pioneer Program Among EMRO Countries

The Peckham experiment.

[Editorial Note: The Pioneer Health Centre at Peckham (often called the Peckham Health Centre) has recently attracted a good deal of historical attention, including an article in this journal by Jane Lewis and Barbara Brookes (Med. Hist., 1983,27: 151-161). The author of the present article, Dr Kenneth Barlow, has long been associated with the Pioneer Health Centre Ltd, presently serving as its...

Circulation of antibiotics: an introduction.

The history of twentieth-century medical drugs is a research subject to which many contributions are currently being made from history of science, medicine and from history of industry 1. The historiography of antibiotics has in good part underlined the role of penicillin as the pioneer miracle since its creation in the 1940s. Penicillin became the emblematic wonder-drug of the post-WWII years ...

An Image Analysis-Based Methodology for Chromite Exploration through Opto-Geometric Parameters; a Case Study in Faryab Area, SE of Iran

Traditional methods of chromite exploration are mostly based on geophysical techniques and drilling operations. They are expensive and time-consuming. Furthermore, they suffer from several shortcomings such as lack of sufficient geophysical density contrast. In order to overcome these drawbacks, the current research work is carried out to introduce a novel, automatic and opto-geometric image an...