Charles Darwin's long-term illness has been the subject of much speculation. His numerous symptoms have led to conclusions that his illness was essentially psychogenic in nature. These diagnoses have never been fully convincing, however, particularly in regard to the proposed underlying psychological background causes of the illness. Similarly, two proposed somatic causes of illness, Chagas dis...

Interview of Charles Bigelow by Yue Wang, conducted in 2012. Y: In this interview we are very lucky to have Charles Bigelow with us. Professor Bigelow is a type historian, educator, and designer. With his design partner, Kris Holmes, he created the Lucida family of fonts used in the human-computer interfaces of Apple Macintosh OS X, Microsoft Windows, Bell Labs Plan 9, the Java Developer Kit, a...

As Irvine Loudon has remarked, many Georgian doctors made more money from their non-medical activities than from medicine. In Robert Darwin's case, it was from the changing world of canals, roads and loans for capital enterprises. It was not until his second year at the University of Edinburgh that Charles Darwin became aware that his father was rich and that he need not depend upon medicine fo...

David Charles Rayner, a former president of the Medical Chirurgical Society, died in a Clifton Nursing Home on the 21st October, 1945. lie was a student of the Bristol Medical School, qualifying M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., in 1892. He obtained the F.R.C.S. in 1896, became an original Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1929, and received the Ch.M. degree from Bristol Univ...