Thomas Dover: Physician and Merchant Adventurer

Thomas Dover and the South Sea Company.

It is well known that Thomas Dover's career was one of the most colourful and varied of any British medical practitioner. He has been described erroneously as a "buccaneer",' a "mountebank"2 and a "pirate on the Spanish Main" :" all these labels do him ill justice and ignore the temper of his times. More accurately, he should be regarded as a "physician and merchant adventurer",' although the f...

Physician Rating Websites: an Analysis of Physician Evaluation and Physician Perception

Background: The goal of this study was to evaluate current physician ratings websites (PRWs) to determine whichfactors correlated to higher physician scores and evaluate physician perspective of PRWs.Methods: This study evaluated two popular websites, Healthgrades.com and Vitals.com, to gather information onpracticing physician members of the American Shoulder and Elbow Society database. A surv...

Bicentenary of the birth of Thomas Young, M.D., F.R.S.

Thomas Young was a scientist, physician, physicist, mathematician, linguist, philosopher, and decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphics. He was born at Milverton, England, on June I3, I773, the eldest of ten children. The family was strictly Quaker and their meeting house was but a few feet to the rear of Young's birthplace (Fig. I), where his father conducted a business as cloth merchant and banker...

A Transmission Expansion Planning Model for Maximizing Merchant Investment

Some Famous Bristol Doctors

In 1696 an Act of Parliament established the Bristol Corporation of the Poor. This brought together the Poor Law arrangements of all the parishes in the City. It was hoped that-the inmates by their work would produce goods which would have a ready sale and thus defray the costs. For this purpose the Aldworth mansion was purchased from a group of merchants, one of whom was Edward Colston. This b...