The Reminiscences of an Apprentice Fifty Years Ago

The evacuation of Burma: fifty years ago.

When asked to write a few notes about my spell in Burma, April and May 1942, I had to read again Field Marshal Sir William Slim's book, especially the first part of "Defeat into Victory", in order to refresh my memory with the dates and place names in Burma with which I was concerned. It is hard to believe that it took place 50 years ago and one gets no younger in body and mind.

Tuberculosis in Indian Prisons Fifty Years Ago

Some biophysical experiments from fifty years ago.

Georg von Bekesy died June 13, 1972. In early March of that year, the Editors and Editorial Committee members of the Annual Review of Physiology invited him to write the prefatory chapter for this 1974 volume. He accepted promptly and added "I am sure I will have it finished long before your deadline of June 1973." He mailed us his completed manuscript three weeks later, early in April 1972, tw...

Wilhelm Türk: a prominent hematologist of fifty years ago.

Fifty years ago: 'Parameters of occupational health in America'.

The distribution of in-plant services is much the same as it is in this country, most large firms having a medical department with full-time doctors and many more using full-time nurses and part-time local practitioners. The Industrial Medical Association in America has 3000 members of whom about one-third are full-time, but this figure probably includes people in university departments. About ...