Gloucester Infirmary Petition

Petition 329

The tension between public health and individual rights raises key questions in the face of public health crises such as tuberculosis (TB) and Ebola: What are the circumstances that warrant the obligatory detention of individuals with an infectious disease as a measure of protecting the general public?1 What are the implications for the protection of privacy while managing and controlling the s...

Petition Drives —

DirectDemocracyP2P5 is an open source platform developed in JAVA and offering peer-to-peer and mobile ad hoc wireless communication capabilities. The platform offers an API supporting plugins, beside its main application: deliberative petition drives (aka citizens’ initiatives with integrated argumentation) [1]. An authentication-by-reputation technique based on digital signatures and peer revi...

Petition for Writ of Certiorari

Hadwen of Gloucester, Man, Medico, Martyr

A CRANK has been defined, probably by Bernard Shaw, champion of all cranks, as a person who holds and acts upon an opinion that is contrary to orthodox teaching, but it is claimed directly he has converted a sufficiently large number of his fellows to his point of view he ceases to be a crank. This is seldom true, as all worthy cranks have more than one arrow in their quiver. They have made the...

The Madras Eye Infirmary

it was transferred to Rundall's Road, Vepery. The reports submitted to the Directors were of so favourable a nature, as to induce the Court to continue to maintain the hospital, and in order that a suitable successor might be found, in the possible absence of Surgeon Richardson, Assistant-Surgeon T. M. Lane was appointed as an Assistant to Surgeon Richardson in October 1823. During the course o...