THE LATE DR. SNOW.

The case books of Dr. John Snow.

John Snow (1813-1858) was a distinguished Victorian physician. He occupies a prominent place in the history of medicine for he achieved an enduring reputation and greatness in an unusual way. Most of his distinguished contemporaries became famous by making lasting contributions to one important aspect of medical science. Snow's special claim is that he made fundamental contributions to not one,...

The Late Dr. Reginald Farrar

The Late Dr. Francis Warner

The recent death of Dr. Warner in his eightieth year, is an event which must command the sympathy and regret of the readers of Mental Welfare. For many years past he had been retired from active work, but in the l'atter part of last century his name was one of the best known among those working in the field to which this journal is devoted. He was, indeed, a leader in the way in which he approa...

Late Dr. Busteed, I.M.S.

sensible of the great debt due to Dr. Busteed for the sagacious and indefatigable researches which he conducted into the history of " Old Calcutta," for the light which he threw upon the life and conversation of our countrymen in that city, and for the graphic pictures drawn by his careful pen of one of the most momentous periods in the growth of our Indian Empire, the days of Warren Hastings a...

The case books of Dr. John Snow Medical History

measured. In demonstrating this interaction between public and private activities, Geison goes to the heart of what makes science so powerful a means of generating not just experimental novelty, but also effective new technologies for ordering and controlling the world. But in making clear the extent to which even so great a scientist as Pasteur was tempted, on occasion, to conceal the truth ab...