Kirsch, Thomas G. – Spirits and Letters

Thomas G. Pickering: friend, colleague and scientist.

We, in common with many others, realized that with his passing, an era in hypertension research had also ended, and that it would be remiss of us and of ‘Blood Pressure Monitoring’ on which he served with us as a senior editor for so many years, if we did not pay tribute to his remarkable achievements. We acknowledge it as a tribute to the friendship and respect that Tom inspired across the wor...

Some letters of Dr. Thomas Willis (1621-1675).

OCCASIONALLY DOCTORS' letters may be of more interest to medical historians than their published writings. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the elegance of a physician's literary style was often more highly regarded than the astuteness of his clinical observations or the efficacy of his treatment. Medical books tended to be inflated with dubious hypotheses and the few worthwhile reme...

Thomas Hermann , Andy Hunt , John G . Neuhoff

Michael Foster and Thomas Henry Huxley, Correspondence, Letters 330 through 363, 1865–1895

My dear Foster Do you want me to go to the Society of Authors Dinner? I am steward & have taken my ticket – but as I canot hear a word that is said & there will be nothing to look at, I would gladly be let off – If necessary I could make a point of catching a cold on the 30 . Is Mr Leach going to publish his lecture on “Hardy Climbers & Creepers” They are just the things I want to know about. W...

Michael Foster and Thomas Henry Huxley, Correspondence, Letters 234 through 264, 1865–1895

My dear Foster I am none the worse for the ice-cellar & shall be to the fore at the D Committee tomorrow. I will read the Report & sign it if need be – though there really must be some fresh arrangement. Of course I have entire confidence in your judgement about the examination, but I have a mortal horror of putting my name to things I do not know of my own knowledge. Did you read the three Bis...