Dr. A. G. Mayor

Dr. A. M. G. Campbell

Dr. G. L. Foss

Dr. George Lush Foss who died on 11th February 1985 at the age of 76 years was not only a highly respected General Practitioner in Bristol but also a pioneer in the early days of Endocrinology and the problems of sub-fertility. Educated at Marlborough and Jesus College, Cambridge he did his clinical training in Bristol where his father was a general practitioner in St. George. On the very day t...

A mayor for London.

In May last year Londoners elected a mayor by direct vote for the first time. The mayor and the London Assembly, together forming the Greater London Authority (GLA), have an electorate of seven million people and command resources of almost 6 billion euros. Four appointed committees—the police authority, the fire and emergency planning authority, TraYc for London and the London Development Agen...

Mathias Mayor (1775–1847)

Steno's inability to explain an affair of the soul such as pain in terms of the impact of matter reveals the dualist split between science and religion which makes itself increasingly perceptible at the time and seems to have troubled him fundamentally. Had earlier scientific men such as Harvey and Van Helmont been perhaps happier in their monist view of the world and of the 'working-matter' in...

Portrait of Dr Michael G. Hanna, Jr

W hile a PhD candidate, doing my thesis at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Biology Division under Dr. Charles Congdon, my introduction to the immune response was studying graft vs. host (GVH) disease as a consequence of bone marrow transplantation in mice. The sequalae of GVH was impressive, and demonstrated the potential of negative clinical consequences of the immune system. The idea of ha...