Dr. G. H. Francis

Dr. Francis Alexander Carron Scrimger.

helps. The November 11th ceremonies that occur all around the world challenge us to examine our present against the sacrifices and struggles of the past. My grandfather, Dr. Francis Alexander Carron Scrimger, served as a surgeon on the front lines in the 1st World War and received a Victoria Cross at the 2nd battle of Ypres. Throughout my growing up I always marvelled at this fact, even as I st...

The Late Dr. Francis Warner

The recent death of Dr. Warner in his eightieth year, is an event which must command the sympathy and regret of the readers of Mental Welfare. For many years past he had been retired from active work, but in the l'atter part of last century his name was one of the best known among those working in the field to which this journal is devoted. He was, indeed, a leader in the way in which he approa...

Dr. Francis on the Variolation of Cows

Kasan, in Russia, in 183G, and, two or three years later, Dr. Ceely, of Aylesbury, have satisfactorily proved it. It would seem, says Dr. Aitken. of Netley, referring to these results in his "Science and Practice of Medicine," that the "constitution of the cow has the power of assimilating, of modifying, and of mitigating the human variolous virus, and of stamping it with the properties of the ...

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...

Francis H. C. Crick (1916-2004).