Dr John Dennis Duncanson, O.B.E.

Dr Dennis Wright

Dr Dennis Walter Wright M.B. ChB (Bristol) 1952 A.F.O.M. RCP (Lond) 1978 Dr Dennis Wright, who died on 6th August 1988 in Ham Green hospital at the age of 61, played a large part in the work of the hospital and in the Avon branch of the British Red Cross Society. He qualified in 1952 in Bristol. As a resident he worked at Southmead Hospital in general medicine, in obstetrics under Professor Len...

Dr. John Lindesay Pearce

Dr. John Thompson

Dr John Rae

recognition is made also of Bright's discoveries in liver disease and neurology. But the reader gains little understanding of Bright's work in the context of changing ideas of disease, chemistry, and medical investigation of the first half of the nineteenth century. We do not learn enough about what, if any, skills and ideas Bright brought back from his European excursions. It is when discussin...

Dr. John Walton, Yale 1720 *

Among the rare books in the Sterling Memorial Library is a small volume which has been entirely overlooked by medical historians and yet should be of some interest because it is the first medical publication by a graduate of Yale. Otherwise the book has little to commend it, for it contains no original case descriptions, no startling discoveries, no experimental observations. Indeed, it is mere...