On the Lancashire Coal Field

Dust and fibrosis in the lungs of coal-workers from the Wigan area of Lancashire.

During the years 1953 to 1957 more than 1,000 lungs of coal-workers in the Wigan area were examined and compared with lungs from workers in South Wales. The Wigan lungs in general appeared to be less dusty and progressive massive fibrosis less frequent than in the South Wales lungs. Also, the more advanced cases of progressive massive fibrosis appeared to be of a silicotic type. Of these lungs,...

On Recent Typhus in Lancashire

commencement of the present distress. Since the great typhus epidemic in Lancashire at the time of the Irish famine, in 1847-48, there has been scarcely any of this disease in the cotton towns. Liverpool, indeed, resembles London, and has formerly exceeded London, in its disposition to epidemics of typhus; but in the cotton towns proper all the medical men who best knew typhus, through their ex...

The Taylors of Lancashire

JOHN L. WEST, The Taylors of Lancashire, Manchester, [the author], 1977, 8vo, pp. 134, illus., £1.50 + postage (paperback). (Obtainable from: 11 Half Edge Lane, Eccles, Manchester). An excellent account of a remarkable medical family, based on extensive research into manuscript and printed sources. It extended over six or seven generations, from James Taylor (1708/10-1777) of Whitworth to Herbe...

survey on the rule of the due & hindering relying on the sheikh ansaris ideas

قاعده مقتضی و مانع در متون فقهی کم و بیش مستند احکام قرار گرفته و مورد مناقشه فقهاء و اصولیین می باشد و مشهور معتقند مقتضی و مانع، قاعده نیست بلکه یکی از مسائل ذیل استصحاب است لذا نگارنده بر آن شد تا پیرامون این قاعده پژوهش جامعی انجام دهد. به عقیده ما مقتضی دارای حیثیت مستقلی است و هر گاه می گوییم مقتضی احراز شد یعنی با ماهیت مستقل خودش محرز گشته و قطعا اقتضاء خود را خواهد داشت مانند نکاح که ...

Syphilis in seventeenth century Lancashire.