With the death of A. W. Prichard, on January 13th, another old landmark of the medical profession in the West of England passed away. Born at the " Red Lodge," Park Row, Bristol, seventy-three years ago, he took a great deal of interest in this house, and during his life enriched its collection of old Bristol valuables by several gifts. He was the son of Augustin Prichard, a prominent surgeon o...

We describe Pad++, a zoomable graphical sketchpad that we are exploring as an alternative to traditional window and icon-based interfaces. We discuss the motivation for Pad++, describe the implementation, and present some of the differences between Pad++ and the standard Tk Canvas widget.

Este artículo puede ser consultado en versión completa en http:// www.medigraphic.com/actaortopedica William Heberden (Figura 1) nació en Londres en 1710, su padre era mesonero, sus primeros estudios los realizó en la escuela de gramática de la parroquia de St. Saviour en Southwark, una institución de la Reina Elizabeth que impartía educación gratuita. El director de esa escuela recomendó a sus...

Wiv regret to announce the death of Lieut-Colonel William Dunbar Sutherland, c.i.E., m.dv c.m., i.m.s., lately Editor of this Gazette, which took place at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Calcutta, on June 27th, 1920, after an operation for appendicitis, at the early age of fifty-three. William Dunbar Sutherland was born at Eucknow on the 13:th September, 1866. He was the son of Robert Sutherland,...

At the turn of the twentieth century, William Bateson [3] studied organismal variation and heredity of traits within the framework of evolutionary theory in England. Bateson applied Gregor Mendel's work to Charles Darwin [4]'s theory of evolution [5] and coined the term genetics for a new biological discipline. By studying variation and advocating Mendelian genetics, Bateson furthered the field...

IT is written in the Bible that wve should take time "to praise famous men and our fathers that begat us." This year-the centenary year of the Ulster Medical Society-seemed an appropriate point of time for such remembrance and reflection. I chose, therefore, the name of one, William Whitla, a past President and benefactor of our Society, as the subject of my address. On 11th December, 1933, Sir...

Franklin William Stahl studied DNA replication, bacteriophages, and genetic recombination in the US during the mid-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. With his colleague Matthew Meselson, Stahl performed an experiment called the Meselson-Stahl experiment, which provided evidence for a process called semi-conservative DNA replication. Semi-conservative replication is a process in which e...

Renowned physician and scientist William Harvey [4] is best known for his accurate description of how blood circulates through the body. While his published work on the circulation of blood is considered the most important of his academic life, Harvey also made significant contributions to embryology [5] with the publication of his book Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium [6] in 1651. In th...