Presidential Address: "James Matthews Duncan"

James Ewing society, 1940-1969. Presidential address.

On the Construction of the Cephalotribe

For several years past the cephalotribe has been attracting the attention of obstetricians, as the journals of medicine testify. Much ingenuity has been exerted in profoundly modifying its original construction by A. Baudelocque, nephew of the great accoucheur of the same name, and by other Parisians. These modifications, especially as made by British obstetricians, have appeared to me, on theo...

Does Presidential Rhetoric Matter? Priming and Presidential Approval

The public’s approval of the president plays a critical role in determining the president’s power and policy-making success. Scholars and pundits have thus devoted a large amount of attention to explaining the dynamics of presidential approval. Surprisingly, this work has overlooked one of the more important potential forces behind approval—that is, what the president himself says. In this arti...

Presidential Address: "Thoughts on the Life and Work of Sir James Young Simpson" *Read at a Meeting of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society, 11th November 1936.

Medicine and Its Practitioners during the Earlier Years of the History of Bath 1The Presidential Address at the meeting of the Bath and Bristol Branch of the British Medical Association, delivered at the Annual Meeting held in Bath, May 28th, 1913.