Wallace William Brigden

William Wallace (1791-1837).

Dr. William Wallace (1791-1837) of Dublin.

THE name William Wallace, M.D., M.R.I.A., of Dublin is inseparably associated with the use of potassium iodide in the treatment of syphilis. The reasons for his neglect by medical historians is, however, not surprising and for two reasons. Wallace lived at a time when the Dublin medical school was at its height and star-studded with such giants in the field of syphilology as Colles, Clutterbuck...

SESSION I Chairman: DR WALLACE BRIGDEN The relation between function and causation in cardiomyopathy

Definition Cardiomyopathy is defined as 'heart muscle disorder of unknown cause or association' (Oakley, 1972). We have abandoned the terms primary and secondary cardiomyopathy in order to focus attention on the need to establish the nature of the causal mechanisms in these all too common disorders. Secondary heart muscle disease is best described according to its cause. Disappearance of the wo...

William A. Wallace, Aquinas on the Temporal Relation Between Cause and Effect - Philosophy Online

The Review of Metaphysics Volume 27 Issue 3 / March1974 William A. Wallace Aquinas on the Temporal Relation Between Cause and Effect IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO FIND VIEWS more markedly opposed regarding the temporal relation between cause and effect than those propounded respectively by Hume and Aristotle. For Hume, cause and effect must be temporally distinct; in fact, almost by definition the c...

Wallace and Darwin

term the common ancestral state of members of a group); morphology (arguing that the “natural inference of an unprejudiced person” is to recognize that homologous structures “are true records of the progress of the organic world); domestication (maintaining that divergent animal breeds constitute evidence of mutability, and offering thought experiments to show that there is no good reason to th...