Dr W J A Payne: an appreciation

Dr J. W. Ballantyne

Some letters from Cardinal Newman to Dr. J. W. Ogle.

RECENTLY IN the Autograph Letters Collection of the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine there were found six letters written by Cardinal Newman to a Dr. Ogle. They date from 7 November 1884 to 12 August 1887. Newman died in 1890 at the age of eighty-nine, so that these letters come from the last period of his life when, having been created Cardinal by Pope Leo XIII in 1879, he was liv...

An appreciation of Dr Michael Moore, Editor, BJC, 1979-1988

Now that the transition to the new editorial team of the BJC is complete, it is appropriate to pay tribute to the now ex-editor, Michael Moore. Michael left the Paterson Institute, where he had been head of the immunology group for 15 years, to take up a post in industry in July 1988. I do not recall it now, but he says that, when he told me that he wished to resign as editor, I responded by sa...

Dr. Butler revisited: appreciation and comments.

aegrum: "Have burdened the sick man." 442, line 6. The right reading is "Impotencye." 442, line 14. The quotation reads: Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum. Grata superveniet quae non sperabitur hora. Believe that every day which has shone on you has been your last. Each hour will then come as a pleasure through being unexpected. The source is Horace Epistles 1.4.14, and is appropriate ad...

Ectopia of the Macula * by Ian W . Payne And

ECTOPIA of the macula is a striking clinical condition but has been infrequently described, only fourteen cases having been reported: Kruger (1913), Triebenstein (1919), Beselin (1924, 1925), Bielschowsky (1930), Stein (1931), Friedman (1942), Cohen and Weisberg (1950), and Trevor-Roper (1952). Fuchs (1921) described a further eight specimens in which the diagnosis was made histologically after...