Saint Francis and the Sultan

Edirne Sultan Bayezid II Hospital.

The health and education institutions that were established based on Foundation tradition starting from the Umayyad and Abbasid, and especially in the Seljuk and Ottoman periods in the Turkish-Islam civilization where the patients were treated without expecting anything in return and health information based on practice and observation were provided were named “Darüşşifa”. It is derived from wo...

Francis Barr

influenza programme chief, reported an increase in the number of cluster cases reported recently, with the biggest being a family of five cases. There have been seven cluster cases in Vietnam, all within single families, most recently in the northern province of Haiphong. No relative has been proved to have passed the disease to another in these cases but, Horby said, " the onset dates could be...

Francis Wolenski

Francis Bacon and the style of science

There is a very large literature on Bacon and his proposals for scientific enquiry, but so far no one has studied carefully his style of writing, his method of communicating upon which he laid so much emphasis. Professor Stephens here presents and analyses in four chapters the style that Bacon found appropriate for scholarly and scientific writing. First he deals with the problems facing Bacon,...

The Francis Gilman Blake Award

The terms of the award state that it will be given annually to the member of the faculty of the Yale University School of Medicine designated by the graduating class as the most outstanding teacher of the medical sciences. The first recipient is Dr. Gerald Klatskin, Associate Professor of Medicine, who was trained by Dr. Blake and, since the war, had been one of his associates in the Department...