Charles E. Timberlake, 1935-2008

Charles Robert Richet (1850-1935): discoverer of anaphylaxis.

BACKGROUND Charles Robert Richet was born in 1850, the year Herman von Helmholtz of Germany invented the ophthalmoscope. Shaped by a father who was chairman of the Department of Surgery at the Paris Faculty of Medicine and a maternal grandfather who was a liberal journalist, Charles developed a lifelong love of learning Latin, sailing, politics, literature and the arts. To please his surgeon fa...

The Charles R. Ream, MD, award for excellence-2008.

As Editor-in-Chief of Current Therapeutic Research, I am pleased to announce the recipients of the ninth Charles R. Ream, MD, Award for Excellence. They are: Jin-Chun Shen, MD, Jian-Guo Xu, MD, Zhi-Qiang Zhou, MD, Hong-Jun Lie, PhD, and Jian-Jun Yang, MD, for their article entitled, “Effect of Equivalent Doses of Fentanyl, Sufentanil, and Remifentanil on the Incidence and Severity of Cough in P...

Einstein ’ s 1935 Derivation of E � mc 2

Einstein’s 1935 derivation of mass—energy equivalence is philosophically impor­ tant because it contains both a criticism of purported demonstrations that proceed by analogy and strong motivations for the definitions of the ‘new’ dynamical quantities (viz relativistic momentum, relativistic kinetic energy and relativistic energy). In this paper, I argue that Einstein’s criticism and insights ar...

Microbiol . and Charles P . Woloshuk Joseph E . Flaherty

The cerebral arterial supply . By Charles E Beevor

Dr Beevor has worked for 7 years on his studies aimed at elucidating the distribution of the arterial blood supply to the human brain, injecting nearly one hundred specimens of which 87 form the basis for his presidential address delivered to The Neurological Society of the United Kingdom on 21 February 1907. He has injected separately the posterior communicating and anterior choroidal ‘branche...