His career changed in March 1852 when he agreed to introduce a local Conservative
politician who was debating the prominent editor and Liberal politician Joseph Howe. The …

They called themselves the Sons of Liberty, at first clandestine cells of Colonial patriots
fighting taxation and tyranny by the British government, notably in battling the Stamp Act in …

Thomas King Chambers clearly intended to be a physician of note and at times indeed he
was mentioned in the same breath as Sir James Paget (1814–1899), Sir Henry Acland …

In the spring of 1866 the “cholera” steamship, SS England, left Queenstown on the southern
tip of Ireland, bound for New York with a full complement of immigrants, mostly German and …

A SPIRIT LIVES ON THE stormy petrel has folded his wings, the tireless warrior has laid
down his lance, a great man and true has gone to his rest, and we shall not know his like …

Those American colonists had repudiated King George the Third; the French had put an end
to their Sixteenth Louis, and thewearers of everv European crown felt uneasy about the …

Thomas James Walker was a surgeon and general practitioner who worked in the city of
Peterborough at a time when there were changes and innovations in the practice of …

Surgeon John Thomson (1847‐1909), a Scot who made his life's work in Queensland, was a
pioneer surgeon, radiologist and bacteriologist, and one of the founders of the St John …

It is well known that Thomas Dover's career was one of the most colourful and varied of any
British medical practitioner. He has been described erroneously as a" buccaneer",'a" …

Since John Simon's appointment in 1855 as Medical Officer to the General Board of Health
there has existed a post for a public health doctor within the British government. In this work …