John Punnett Peters: An Appreciation

John P. Peters and Nephrology.

John Punnett Peters, M.D., (18871955) can be said to have established the solid foundations ofmodem nephrology in an understanding of the chemistry of the body. The rebellious son of an Episcopal minister and noted Egyptologist, he was sent to a military preparatory school (Manlius) as a boy and then to Yale, where he majored in classics and won his varsity letter in diving. To earn money for h...

Hypertension due to ischemia of one kidney. A survey of twenty years' experience.

An invitation to speak at Yale University in commemoration of John Punnett Peters is a great honor and is accepted as a rare privilege. To a whole generation of Yale medical students and also to the medical profession at large, Dr. Peters epitomized the best of the scientific approach toward understanding and correction of disease, which is, after all, the procedure through which medical knowle...

As remembered by a son.

The Peters family is a Yale family, and Jack Peters' branch of the family extended to five generations at Yale when my third daughter, Barbara, received her M.D. degree, with honors, in 1979. We trace our origins back to when Andrew Peters came to America from England in 1702 and settled in Andover, Massachusetts. Our family's Yale connection goes back to Jack's grandfather, Thomas McClure Pete...

Immunostimulatory effect of the aqueous leaf extract of Phyllanthus niruri on the specific and nonspecific immune responses of Oreochromis mossambicus Peters

Plant derived immunostimulants are a promising alternative to chemotherapeutics and also perhaps vaccines. In the present study, we examined the immunostimulating properties of aqueous leaf extract of Phyllanthus niruri, an Indian traditional medicinal herb, on neutrophil activation and antibody response of Oreochromis mossambicus (Peters). Serial ten-fold diluted doses of P. niruri ranging fro...

Socioeconomic differences in severe back morbidity.