Lord Cooke and Cambridge

Robert V. Cooke

Mr. Robert Cooke formerly Senior Surgeon to the United Bristol Hospitals died on 17th January 1978 at the age of 75. He was born at Berkeley Gloucestershire and educated at the Grammar School at Lydney on the "Opposite side of the Severn Estuary. He entered the University of Bristol to study Chemistry but soon moved to the Faculty of Medicine and qualified in 1926. After house surgeon aPpointme...

Lord Lister

i hp; medical man who wishes to gain a clear idea of the broad foundations upon which modern medicine and surgery are based should read two great books which are almost twin classics; Rene Vallery Radot's Life of Pasteur" (English translation by Mrs. Devonshire), and Sir Rickman Godlee's "Lord Lister," the re-appearance of which in a third edition we cordially welcome. Both are finely written s...

Lord Memorial Prize Essay

. Although it may well be unreliable and illogical, is a well-known habit to form firm, lasting, and definite first impressions. That they are often ^accurate and always superficial is to be admitted, but nevertheless they frequently form the basis of our later estimations and prejudice our views for good or evil, the more so when the situation is a new one to us, or one whose arrival we have b...

346 Menz Lord

Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association Falls are common occurrences in the older population and account for considerable morbidity and mortality in this age group. Community-based studies suggest that approximately one-third of people over the age of 65 years will experience a fall within any given year.1-3 In many cases, the injuries sustained from these falls have a significant...

Lord Memorial Prize Essay