His House

William Guybon Atherstone: his 8-day and 1600 km house call to Oudtshoorn in 1890.

William Guybon Atherstone: His 8-day and 1 600 km house call to Oudtshoorn in 1890 To the Editor: William Guybon Atherstone (1814 1898) became well known because for six decades he and his father, John Atherstone, practised medicine in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape during the turbulent Frontier Wars. When not attending patients, he pursued his interests in geology and botany. He is best known...

Samuel Johnson: his ills, his pills and his physician friends.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was one of the greatest men of his age. Although famed for his writings, especially his Dictionary and his folio on Shakespeare, he is remembered for his tavern conversations, his literary clubs and the great biography of his life by Boswell. He always enjoyed having physicians as his friends, and took a great interest in all branches of medicine. He would advise and ...

Nature of His potential in His electrogram.

Unipolar His bundle electrograms were recorded with the muscle preparation isolated from the rabbit or the dog heart at as various sites as possible on and near the A-V conduction system and changes in appearance time and configuration of the so-called His (H) potential were examined. When the exploring electrode was shifted from the coronary sinus orifice down to the transition between the A-V...

Homer, His Art and His World [Review]

Investigating Orosi* in Tabriz Qajar houses (Case studies: Mashrooteh House, Heydarzadeh House, Nikdel House)

Iranian architecture has beautiful embellishments that are made of different materials such as tiles, plaster, pottery, stone and wood. Although due to Iran’s hot and dry climate, wood embellishments are less being used, in some cases they have a special and unique place in Iranian architecture. Orosi windows are one of these embellishments which have a special place in various types of archite...