Joseph William Blythe

The Control of Communicable Diseases (Harvey & Blythe)

Philosophical chemistry in the Scottish Enlightenment. The doctrines and discoveries of William Cullen and Joseph Black

W. S. CRAIG, History of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Oxford, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1976, 4to, pp. xxix, 1125, illus., £35.00. An immense amount of labour was spent on this book by the late Professor W. S. Craig, and it is tragic that he did not live to see the finished product. It will, however, serve to commemorate the College's forthcoming tercentenary. Since its...

Evolution of catgut ligatures: the endeavours and success of Joseph Lister and William Macewen.

Lister's product was superior to Macewen's. Lister, however, had started bis experiments ,,'ith ligatures while Macewen was still a medical student and, to begin with at least, Macewen had simply followed bis master's lead. With bis continuing success with carbolic acid and the antiseptic method of wound healing, it must have seemed to Lister that, if he were to sterilize the material then in u...

Joseph

as good as his little sister Maria. He does nothing but play marbles. I can't even send him to the store because he never brings home what I tell him to." The general tenor of this dissertation was repeated every time I saw her in the future. I devoted my first lesson to letting Joseph read the story of The Little Red Hen, pp. 1-9, Winston Primer. He read with great difficulty, spelling the wor...

Joseph Kovac

The finite difference method represents a highly straightforward and logical approach to approximating continuous problems using discrete methods. At its heart is a simple idea: substitute finite, discrete differences for derivatives in some way appropriate for a given problem, make the time and space steps the right size, run the difference method, and get an approximation of the answer. Many ...