OSLER'S AUTOPSIES: THEIR NATURE AND UTILIZATION

Osler's autopsies: their nature and utilization.

SIR WILLIAM OSLE performed 786 autopsies while pathologist to the Montreal General Hospital from 1876 to 1884.1 This represents approximately one hundred autopsies a year, a respectable number for a working pathologist, but a large number for one who was also physician to the hospital, registrar for McGill Medical School, and actively engaged in teaching the Institutes of Medicine. In addition ...

Oceanic minerals: their origin, nature of their environment, and significance.

The chemical and isotopic compositions of oceanic biogenic and authigenic minerals contain invaluable information on the evolution of seawater, hence on the history of interaction between tectonics, climate, ocean circulation, and the evolution of life. Important advances and greater understanding of (a) key minor and trace element cycles with various residence times, (b) isotopic sources and s...

Mandatory autopsies and organ conscription.

Laws requiring autopsies have generated little controversy. Yet it is considered unconscionable to take organs without consent for transplantation. We think an organ draft is justified if mandatory autopsies are. We reject the following five attempts to show why a mandatory autopsy policy is legitimate, but organ conscription is not: (1) The social contract gives the state a greater duty to pro...

Indian Snake-Poisons, Their Nature and Effects

Indian Snake-poisons, their Nature and Effects By A. J. YVali, m. d. f Dond.), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England ; of the Medical Staff H. At.'s Indian Army* This work, which is dedicated to Sir Joseph Fayrer, is in many respects a distinct advance upon our knowledge of snake-poisons, and especially so in those chapters in which the characteristic physiological effects of the v...

Hurricanes: Catastrophic Effects and Their Physical Nature