Herbert Hoover: Forgotten Progressive

forgotten aetiology of haemoptysis and rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis

A 76 year old white woman died from massive pulmonary haemorrhage nine days after she was admitted to Parkland Memorial Hospital for evaluation of haemoptysis and rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis. The differential diagnosis of haemoptysis with rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis is presented with particular emphasis on Wegener's granulomatosis and microscopic polyarteritis. Necropsy sh...

Herbert Thoms

The eventful chapters of contemporaneous medical history in Connecticut have not yet received the historian's scrutiny and are still only records scattered here and there in organization archives and miscellaneous correspondence. Many of us have been a part of these events and as participants are poorly qualified to place values on them. As in all history, one must await the developing vista of...

Reevaluating progressive eugenics: Herbert Spencer Jennings and the 1924 immigration legislation.

Bulgac-Kusnezov-Nosé-Hoover thermostats.

In this paper, we formulate Bulgac-Kusnezov constant temperature dynamics in phase space by means of non-Hamiltonian brackets. Two generalized versions of the dynamics are similarly defined, one where the Bulgac-Kusnezov demons are globally controlled by means of a single additional Nosé variable, and another where each demon is coupled to an independent Nosé-Hoover thermostat. Numerically stab...

Herbert Herbert: his corneal pits and scleral slits.

PURPOSE To evaluate the life and professional work of the English ophthalmologist Herbert Herbert (1865-1942). DESIGN Historical study. METHODS The main sources for this investigation are Herbert's approximately 65 published papers and 3 monographs. Other sources are contemporary publications by other ophthalmologists and secondary historical reviews of this period. Written communications w...