CMAJ continues the series by Dr. Swintun on distinguished physicians who have
contributed to nonmedical science. Sponsors of the articles are Associated Medical …

John Snow (1813-1858) was a distinguished Victorian physician. He occupies a prominent
place in the history of medicine for he achieved an enduring reputation and greatness in an …

The practical utility of chemistry in medicine was already beginning to be recognized by
some physicians in the second half of the eighteenth century, and in 1770 the United …

SAUL BENISON j HEN George Rosen died on July 27 of this year (1977), in Oxford,
England, he left a singular legacy to both history and medicine. While these disciplines on …

Appropriate as a greeting to Henry Sigerist on his Sixtieth Birthday is an account of a
pioneer California scientist and physician, who made many notable contributions, but whose …

WHEN Dr. Benjamin Rush drafted the plan of a curriculum for Dickinson College in 1784. he
gave mathematics and natural philosophy equal rank with the classics and philosophy …

The Enigma of Semmelweis—an Interpretation Page 1 The Enigma of Semmelweis—an
Interpretation SHERWIN B. NULAND 'Genius was priceless, beneficent, divine, but also was …

SIR CHARLES SHERRINGTON'S pre-eminence as a neurophysiologist was manifest during
his lifetime by the honours bestowed upon him: a knighthood, the Order of Merit, and the …

The medical profession was responsible for the founding of the thr earliest American
chemical societies: the first, about which we know little that we cannot give it a name, in …

HREE rivers in England share the name, Avon. The East Avon passes Salisbury and flows
into the English Channel. The Upper Avon, immortalized by Shakespeare, flows by Stratford …