Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson (1828-1905): a pioneer in electrophysiology.

The first graduates in 1910.

The Medical School in Singapore was founded on 3 July 1905 and named the Straits and Federated Malay States Government Medical School. There were 23 students in the first enrollment; 16 students attended the full course, while 7 attended a 2-year course for hospital assistants. The pioneer group of 7 that graduated in May 1910 (the Magnificent Seven) consisted of Drs Chen Su Lan, Edwin Willibor...

Should all patients with heart block receive biventricular pacing? All heart block patients with a pacemaker indication should receive biventricular pacing: one move, double the gains?

Dr. Burdon Sanderson on Pyæmia

The following most remarkable account of one of Dr. Burdon Sanderson's important experiments on the subject of pyaemia is taken from the British Medical Journal:?" Dr. Sanderson then proceeded to exhibit a dog, into the abdominal cavity of which six drops of a pysemic transudation liquid had been injected three hours before. The animal was in a state of profound collapse, accompanied with vomit...

Doctors in Parliament

Eleven medical men, or at least eleven men holding medical qualifications, sat in the House of Commons in the Parliament of 1900-1905. They comprised three Unionists, Sir Robert Finlay, Sir John Batty Tnke, and Dr. Rntherfoord Harris; four Liberals, Sir Walter Foster, Dr. Farquharson, Dr. Price, and Dr. Hutchinson ; and three Nationalists, Drs. Macdonnell, Ambrose, and Thompson; while the eleve...

Is there a significant transmural gradient in repolarization time in the intact heart?: Repolarization Gradients in the Intact Heart.

In 1880, Burdon-Sanderson and Page recorded the ECG of the frog simultaneously with monophasic action potentials from the base and the apex of the left ventricle (LV).1 Part of the ventricular muscle was injured with a hot wire, and monophasic action potentials were recorded as the potential difference between the injured region and an uninjured area. The ECG was recorded with a capillary elect...