2 1Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Hawaii, 2Research carried out during 1st year residency, Transitional Residency Program, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA Correspondence: Prof Tan Siang Yong, 2226 Liliha Street, Suite B-104, Honolulu, HI 96817, USA. [email protected] I am a firm believer in the theory that you can do or be anything that you wish in this world, within reason, i...

Priscilla Ann Schaffer died from complications of Parkinson's Disease on 18 November 2009. Priscilla was a colleague and a friend, as well as being a stellar member of the virology community. She was a longtime Journal of Virology reviewer, a member of the editorial board, and a frequent contributor. Her energy and enthusiasm for virology, her students, her colleagues, and life in general were ...

The histological pictures associated with acute renal failure following abortion, incompatible blood transfusion, crush injuries, severe trauma, blackwater fever, sulphonamide intoxication, and many other conditions including burns have been described by various writers (Bratton, 1941 ; Dunn, Gillespie, and Niven, 1941; Bywaters and Beall, 1941; Bywaters and Dible, 1942; Erb, Morgan, and Farmer...

Acetylcholine has been demonstrated to speed the heart of several of the decapod crustacea (Welsh, 1939 a and b; Davenport, Loomis and Opler, 1940 and Davenport, 1941), the grasshopper (Hamilton, 1939), and LiMulus (Garrey, 1941). Is this reaction, which may be indicative of a neurogenic heart, a general characteristic of the arthropods? The pharmacology of the heart of the cladoceran, Daphnia,...

A new synonym is proposed for Anthrenus Geoffroy, 1762 (= Neoanthrenus Armstrong, 1941 syn. n.) and the following species are transferred to Anthrenus (Nathrenus): Anthrenus (Nathrenus) armstrongielus replacement name for Neoanthrenus armstrongi Kalik, 1957; Anthrenus (Nathrenus) consobrinus (Hava), 2005 new combination; Anthrenus (Nathrenus) frater Arrow, 1915 return to former combination; Ant...

Structural and functional derangement of the liver has been noted in patients with hyperthyroidism(Cameron and Kurunaratne, 1935;Lichtman, 1953;Werner, 1955). Paul, in 1865, was the first to mention the association of hepatic cirrhosis and toxic thyroid disease. Jaundice was first mentioned by Haberson(1874). Kerr and Rusk, in 1922, reported acute yellow atrophy of the liver associated with hyp...

One of the absolute greats of primatology, Toshisada Nishida (March 3, 1941– June 7, 2011), recently passed away at the age of 70 (Figure 1). We have come such a long way in our knowledge of chimpanzees, and the discoveries have reached us in such a gradual and cumulative fashion, that it is easy to forget how little was known when Nishida set out for Africa to establish one of the first chimpa...

This is an account of my time as a resident student at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, from the summer of 1941 until I qualified in June 1942. The Hospital for Sick Children, founded by Dr Charles West in 1852, was the first children's hospital in the UK. During the second half of the 19th century children's hospitals were set up in other parts of London and in the major ci...

A new genus and three new species of milliped of the family Chelodesmidae are described. Relationships with the genus Leiomodesmus Loomis, 1938, and Granmadesmus Perez-Asso, 1990, from Cuba are defined, and also with Biaporus Loomis, 1941 and Synecheporus Loomis, 1941, from the Dominican Republic.