During the early part of his career as an academic in 1660s Oxford, John Locke trained as a physician. Acquainted with some of the most brilliant researchers of his day— Robert Boyle, Thomas Willis, Richard Lower and Robert Hooke—and an active member of the scientific community, Locke was part of a generation that revolutionized natural philosophy. He never published a natural philosophical wor...

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...

School. Joining the Bristol Medical School in 1891, he qualified, in 1896, and following this held several resident appointments at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. He went into partnership with the late Dr. Irwin at Almondsbury, and, succeeding him, remained there in active practice until his death. MacWatters was of the best type of general practitioner, enthusiastic and thorough in his work, suc...

John Lisman had a passionate connection with life, art and science. He lived his life till the end with enthusiasm and energy, passing away on October 20, 2017. John said many times that he did not understand how people could retire from science—he personally would not know how to live without intellectually challenging himself every day. When he found out that he had cancer, and that his expec...

The impact of structural adjustment programme on the economic situation in many African countries can not be overemphasised. Over more than a decade of implementing neo-liberal economic policies by the Bretton Woods institution it is of great importance to document the lessons learnt. This paper explains how the expected effect of structural adjustment policies produced unintended effects which...

JOHN EvELYN has often been described as a virtuoso in the seventeenth-century meaning of that word, and if it be recalled that the Earl of Arundel, the greatest of the virtuosi was his patron, that Evelyn was a member of the Royal Society almost from its inception and a diligent attendant of its meetings, which at that time dealt with a wide variety of curiosa and technological as well as scien...

? deeply regret to record the death of Mr. John Harty at the age of 47, which occurred on March 10th. Mr. Harty was born in Ireland and received his medical education at Queen's College, Cork, and graduated M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O., in the ttoyal University of Ireland in 1902. After spending several years at Halifax in general practice he decided to specialise in car, nose and throat work, and studi...

In the study of work related diseases, John Corbett McDonald was a pioneering investigator, whose research and techniques in many ways defined occupational epidemiology. His best known role from the mid-1960s onwards—analysing the effects on health of different forms of asbestos—yielded controversy in a highly contentious field. An inspiration to epidemiologists worldwide, McDonald produced res...