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formation and solution of urinary calculi. Thus early he took up the study of a special subject, which was of great use to him in his subsequent career, and he attained considerable celebrity, when Civil Surgeon of Agra, as a lithotomist. But this was not the only branch in which he excelled ; for, in general surgery, he was well known to be a bold and skilful operator. When a young man, he pro...

Although I did not have the privilege of working with John Laragh in the laboratory or in the clinic, his visionary research has inspired me and many others interested in the problem of hypertension. John led the charge that opened up the modern phase of hypertension management in which physicians began to recognize the importance of tailoring therapy to the needs of the individual patient. He ...

Professor John Hilton j0u sudcten death on August 28th, 1943, of Professor Cou ton means a grievous loss to the National mitt0011 ^0r Cental Hygiene of whose Executive Comyea e? he had been a member since 1939. This was the f0r r ln, which Professor Hilton made a broadcast appeal Wii h lic financial support of the Council's work, for pCn the Association has reason to be especially grateful, rig...

Soon after I joined Nature as an assistant editor working for the biology team — responsible for picking biology papers for publication, as well as commissioning relevant reviews and advising the News and Views team and other editors on biology matters — I heard that the journal was planning to publish a special issue devoted to the latest developments in neuroscience. One would naturally imagi...

A History ofParasitology, by W. D. FOSTER, Edinburgh and London, E. & S. Livingstone, 1965, pp. vii, 202, 15 plates, 35s. Medical historians and parasitologists will welcome the appearance at last of a work devoted to the history of parasitology. Hitherto no modern study of this subject has been available with the exception of R. Hoeppli's Parasites and Parasitic Infections in early Medicine an...

recognition is made also of Bright's discoveries in liver disease and neurology. But the reader gains little understanding of Bright's work in the context of changing ideas of disease, chemistry, and medical investigation of the first half of the nineteenth century. We do not learn enough about what, if any, skills and ideas Bright brought back from his European excursions. It is when discussin...

My research is an investigation into the mathematical foundations of supersymmetry, especially the theories of superstrings and supergravity. Over the past 30 years, string theory and related ideas have proven to be connected to many beautiful notions in differential geometry, such as mirror symmetry [Kontsevich] and gerbes [Brylinski, Freed and Witten]. The overarching goal of my work is to ex...