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...

William Parry-Jones, who died in July at the age of sixty-two, was Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Glasgow and Honorary Consultant to both the Greater Glasgow Mental Health Services Trust and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill. A most distinguished clinician and teacher, Parry-Jones was also a productive and influential historian of psychiatry. His ...

A connection between the separability and the countable chain condition of spaces with L-property (a topological space X has L-property if for every topological space Y , separately continuous function f : X ×Y →R and open set I ⊆R, the set f −1(I) is an Fσ-set) is studied. We show that every completely regular Baire space with the L-property and the countable chain condition is separable and c...

P ULMONARY ARTERY aneurysms are relatively rare lesions. One hundred and fifty-two cases have been found in world literature. The purpose of this communication is to review briefly available information on the subject and to report a case in which successful surgical treatment has been achieved. Boyd and MeGavack,' in 1939, reported 111 cases of pulmonary aneurysm proved at necropsy. In 1947, D...

I first saw William at the Saturday morning clinic when he came by appointment for a second examination. He is a commonplacelooking American boy with a pale freckled face, light tawny colored hair, dull blue eyes, and thick expressionless lips. His frontal regions are slightly depressed. Though he is thirteen years eight months of age, he looks about eleven, undersized and under weight. There w...

"The many generations of psychiatrists, psychologists and psychiatric social workers who passed through their training in child guidance under his directorship, have reason to remember his fatherly kindness and the steadfastness and good humour with which he watched over their professional development. He stood the brunt of the early days of struggle to win recognition for the value of child gu...

I am deeply honored by the Allan Award, for myself and for all my colleagues who have been involved in the often labyrinthine pathway of research that led initially from a freezer at the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, and culminated eventually in DNA fingerprinting. One of the great pleasures of science for me is the unexpected and serendipitous twists of fate that can shift the emphasis ...

The reception of Harvey's doctrines of the movement of the heart and of the circulation of blood was the result of a complex interaction of intellectual, political and social factors. As French's book shows, Harvey's views were not simply accepted or rejected; they were interpreted-and often misunderstood-in the light of different philosophical and religious ideas. In university faculties and c...