Viets was a well-known neurologist, medical historian, and for 36 years a lecturer at the Harvard Medical School. He specialized in the disease myasthenia gravis, and established the first clinic in the world for diagnosis and treatment of the disorder. At the Second International Symposium on Myasthenia Gravis in 1959, he received a bronze plaque commemorating his pioneering in the field. He w...

Henry Johansson (1929–2017), member of the board of the Upsala Medical Society for many years and a frequent contributor to this journal, has recently passed away. He studied medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and then had a broad surgical training at the county hospital in Norrk€ oping before he was employed at the Surgical Clinic at the University (Akademiska) Hospital in Uppsa...

W. H. Harsant, who died on 10th February, at his Clifton residence, in his eighty-third year, was born at Epsom, a?d educated at the City of London School. Entering Guys Hospital, he qualified as L.S.A. in 1873, the year following he took the M.R.C.S., and was appointed House Surged1 and afterwards Resident Obstetric Officer at Guy's. Leaving London, he was appointed House Surgeon at the Bristo...

The book begins with John Henry Biggart’s memories from his personal papers, meticulously dissected by his son, Denis (himself a Consultant Pathologist and academic in Queen’s University). For those interested in social history there are titbits of the times in which he lived from his birth in Belfast in 1905, to his school days, University days (with the remarkable pranks of yesteryear) to the...

It shows him in his Public Health Service uniform sometime after 1915, when he attained the rank of Assistant Surgeon General. Carter was a quarantine officer and a field epidemiologist, best known for his discovery in 1898 of the extrinsic incubation period of yellow fever. His discovery led directly to the historic finding by Reed, Carroll, Agra-monte, and Lazear in 1900 that mosquitoes are t...

The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Societies and Meetings: American Physiological Society: The Notre Dame Symposium on the Physics of the Henry Pickering Bowditch-Physiologist: PROUniverse and the Nature of Primordial Particles 487 FESSOR WALTER B. CANNON .....................471 Special Articles: Silas 'Weir Mitchell, 1829-1914: PROFEsoR A. J Immunization against Equine Encephalom...

This issue is dedicated to the memory of Henry Rouanet who passed away during the preparation of this collection of contributions to which he was invited to participate. Henry Rouanet, an engineer, mathematician and psychologist Directeur de Recherches at the CNRS was a pioneer of multidimensional statistics and of "geometrical data analysis". Historical texts of Henry Rouanet concerning the th...