Dr. Alfred Young, F.R.S

Visit of Dr. Alfred Blalock

gathering of doctors, students and nurses. Dr. Blalock is the third notable occupant of the Chair of Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. First was William Stewart Halstead, the centenary of whose birth, celebrated by the Royal Society of Medicine on May 20th, was the reason for Dr. Blalock's visit to England. The second was Dean Lewis, and he was succeeded by Dr. Blalock who came to Hopkins from...

The theory of natural selection of Alfred Russel Wallace FRS.

Wallace's 1858 paper 'On the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original type' is often thought to present a theory of natural selection identical with that of Darwin. Examination of Wallace's argument shows that it is different from Darwin's because Wallace thought that an inferior variety could coexist with a superior variety until environmental deterioration forced the ext...

Dr. Young, on Consumptive Diseases

[Dr Alfred Sindik: the life and work of the first epidemiology specialist in Croatia].

This article is dedicated to Alfred Sindik (1890-1976), the first Croat specialised in epidemiology. As a student he volunteered at the Institute of Hygiene in Zagreb in its early days. He took his degree from the University of Zagreb School of Medicine in 1929. For many years, he worked at the Institute of Epidemiology, of which ten as its director, having succeeded Dr Černozubov on this posit...

Dr Alfred Velpeau (1795-1867) of Tours: the umbilical cord and birth asphyxia.

The son of a village farrier near Tours, Velpeau rose from humble beginnings to become by dint of intelligence, hard work, and determination the leading surgeon of his day in Paris. As professor of clinical surgery in the university he was an admired and respected teacher. His writings covered most aspects of medicine, surgery, and obstetrics.