One hundred years ago this Sunday, on November th, , Bertrand Russell delivered the Inaugural Address to the Aristotelian Society’s thirty-fourth session – it was Russell’s second year as President. His lecture was entitled ‘On the Notion of Cause’, and as the Proceedings here note, a discussion followed in which a number of members took part. Outside the Aristotelian Society, the discussion co...

these efforts had attained. We found that?partly, no doubt, through the general amelioration of social conditions, but partly also, as there was good reason to believe, as the result of efforts specially directed towards the improvement of the public health?there had been, during the half-century under review, a marked decline of the death-rate, it having fallen from 23.1 per 1,000 inhabitants ...

our knowledge of disease, and especially of the particular class of disease which this society was founded to study. I fully recognise, therefore, that it is no slight honour to succeed those who have in the past shed lustre upon the society's proceedings, and I am none the less conscious how greatly it adds to the responsibilities of one who, by your favour, is called to the presidential chair...

That, ladies and gentlemen, is how the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (1) came to be. As Dr Bhatkar told you, that is why, if you put ‘Traditional Knowledge Digital Library’ into Google, you are now one of 30 million plus hits. That is the magnitude of the transformation that has taken place. What we have done is to take Ayurvedic text, Sanskrit text and converted them into English, codi...

The medical profession is called a brotherhood, and although the relationship of its members thus implied is not exactly true, yet I know no word which so fitly expresses the bond which there is among us. It is a very strong union, which begins to be formed in the dissecting-room, and grows closer as life advances. Among practitioners in large towns it shows itself in the formation of medical s...

In November 2006, the Second World Ayurveda Congress was held at the University of Pune, often known as the ‘Oxford of the East’. For the Congress to be held alongside the University’s hallowed halls speaks much for the progress, Ayurveda has made in recent decades, particularly as it was housed just behind the main University administration building, once the summer residence of British Vicero...

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without prior permission of the author(s). INTRODUCTION I have been researching the subject of quality management since 1981. During this time research funding to the order of £4.5m has been received to advance the subject of quality management. Arising from this and other non-funded research, 10 book...

this address, but I shall venture to lay before you some account of that progress, in so far as it has been identified with the development of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology in this kingdom; feeling sure of your interest in an endeavour to place on record, in this Jubilee year, some account of a movement which, whilst it has effected a saving of life, and a prevention of disease on a scal...

My first and pleasant duty on occupying this Chair is to thank you for the very great honour which you have conferred upon me by electing me your President. I can assure you I greatly appreciate it, and will do my utmost to carry out the duties which the office entails. But I am met at the very outset with the difficulty of giving an inaugural address which shall be worthy to take its place bes...