Your late distinguished President, Professor Corfield, my dear and honoured friend, invited me in January, 1903, to read a paper on typhoid fever to your illustrious Society, an invitation which I regarded as a high honour. I was the more willing to accept it as it offered me an opportunity of thanking English hygienists, medical officers and engineers, for all I have repeatedly learned from th...

1 Bioengineering Science Research Group, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, and Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, U.K. Division of Biomedical Engineering, Glasgow University, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK Laboratoire de Modélisation Mathématiques et Simulation Numérique, Faculté des Sciences, Université Badji-Mokhtar, BP 12, 23000 Annaba, Algeria Depar...

J Postgrad Med 2004;50:82-83 hristian Albert Theodor Billroth was the first of five sons born to Carl Theodor Billroth, a priest in the Lutheran church and his wife Johanna Christina. He was born on April 26, 1829, at Bergen, on the island of Rügen, Prussia. The family lived in Klosterstrasse, later renamed Billrothstrasse. Three years after Billroth's birth, the family moved from the fishing v...

The Army’s Professional Military Education (PME) is broken. The current focus and methodology of PME does not adequately prepare our officers to think critically. Though the education provided is, generally speaking, of a good standard it is not focused on the development of critical thinkers, as required by Congress and demanded by the armed forces’ likely future missions. PME spends too much ...

The article presents Professor Lech Mokrzecki who passed away in July 2021 and was an outstanding expert the history of education, science culture Old Polish period, a researcher Gdansk 16th–18th centuries, intellectual artistic Royal Prussia early maritime knowledge former Poland, as well pre- partition historiography teaching Poland other European countries. authors present his educational pr...

Provenance – an object’s history of ownership is a historically contingent concept and research practice that emerged in nineteenth-century Europe. In novel project examining the cases Beda Dudík (Moravia/Austria), Carl Schirren (Livonia/Russia), Franz Hipler (Warmia/East Prussia) ca. 1850–1900 I argue that, while art market nationalism are important, scholars representing regions with suppress...

The article is devoted to a peculiar episode of the struggle Lithuanians against policy persecution based on nationality which was pursued by Imperial Russia between 1864 and 1904. Its participants were representatives parts Lithuanian nation separated border Germany Russian Empire – Martynas Jankus (1858–1946), German citizen, East Prussia, owner printing office in Tilsit (Lith. Tilžė, current...