The medical career of Robert Seymour Bridges, FRCP (1844-1930): physician and Poet Laureate.

Harvey Washington Wiley (1844-1930): champion of the Pure Food and Drugs Act.

Robert Glynn (1719-1800), physician at Cambridge.

ROBERT GLYNN practised as a physician at Cambridge throughout the whole of the second half of the eighteenth century. The reputation of the university was then lower than at any time in its history and there were few students. Glynn was one of a small group of men who made an attempt to maintain the continuity of medical teaching at Cambridge. In his day he enjoyed an excellent reputation as a ...

Wordsworth, Presidential Address

to the Lake District and who, from the first flush of revolutionary fervour came to a dignified old age in Rydal, Westmorland as Queen Victoria's Poet Laureate, a Tory supporter, opponent of reform and adherent to the established church. There are several reasons for choosing this subject. I have heard some twenty Presidential Addresses to this Society, from Mr. Robert Cooke's 'Ship-Shape and B...

American Humor in Promoting the Talk over the Wall with a Focus on Robert Frost’s Poems

The Yankee is an American national phenomenon. He had leapt into national stature when slipped outside of his local character. A myth was woven around him and a cult of the Yankee developed by the permeation of the Yankee characteristics in many different characters who played tricks or told stories and entertained their audiences. The present article is an attempt to observe the Yankee myth, i...

Royal Brompton Grand Rounds Idiopathic diaphragmatic weakness

Case presented by: A Davison, FRCP, consultant physician at Southend General Hospital D Mulvey, FFARCS, clinical research fellow Chairman: M Green, FRCP, consultant physician Collator: D Currie, MRCP, senior registrar Discussion group: D M Denison, FRCP, consultant physician in respiratory physiology T Clark, FRCP, consultant physician in respiratory medicine K F Chung, MRCP, senior lecturer in...