Henry Charlton Bastian was born in Truro, Cornwall. He graduated in 1861 at the University College, London, where he worked most of his life. He was one of the first neurologists appointed to the National Hospital, Queen Square. There, he conducted original investigations and pursued wide interests both in medical and biological sciences. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1868. In...

This article uses the mass-media career of the British psychiatrist David Stafford-Clark (1916-1999) as a case study in the exercise of cultural authority by celebrity medical professionals in post-war Britain. Stafford-Clark rose to prominence in the mass media, particularly through his presenting work on medical and related topics for BBC TV and Radio, and was in the vanguard of psychiatrists...

We were greatly saddened to hear the news of Professor Fereydoun Malekzadeh's death at age of 79 in September 9, 2012. Professor Malekzadeh was a distinguished and highly respected Iranian Microbiologist and a member of the editorial board of the Iranian Biomedical Journal since October 1997. He was born in 1933 in city of Tabriz in Province of Azarbaijan, Iran. After graduated from high school...

adi - ben - zaid al- ebadi is one of the well-known poets in jaheli age who lived in court of sasanied kings and heerem's kings who were appointed and backed up by them. as such his life was away from tribal war and bedouin life. he had a good command of both arabic and persian languages. this poet was court scribe and ambassador of anoshirvan to seizer and his poetry was different from ot...

Everyone agrees that going to school is an important occasion in a child's intellectual life, but not everyone yet realizes that it is an equally important emotional occasion?that, mdeed, it may be considered a final stage in the process of weaning about which Miss Hay-Shaw wrote in the August issue of Mental Health. The young child has to learn that he may not depend upon his mother for all hi...

there have been many differences on the subject of literacy or illiteracy of prophet muhammad (peace be upon him) for a long time. many have said that he was not able to read or write throughout his life. they ratiocinate depending on the words of (ommi) and (ommien) in holy quran, meaning illiterate in dictionaries, or the story of the treaty of hudaybiyya. this can be considered as an unaccep...

Mazaheri Sh1, Fazlian MM2, Hossein Zadeh A3 1. Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Faculty of medicine, Hamedan University of Medical Sciences 2. General practitioner, Specialty and Subspecialty Hospital of Besat, Hamedan University of Medical Sciences 3. General practitioner, Hamedan Health Center Abstract Background: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is one of the most common causes of chr...