William H. Berry—1849-1923

Historical insights: John William Ballantyne 1861-1923.

s from and reviews of the current literature. In Volume 2 there are articles by Ballantyne on pre-auricular appendages, enencephaly and the Biddenden Maildens, as well as a case report of cerebral haemorrhage in a fetus by one Dr William Osler from Baltimore. Although enthusiastically received initially, the journal ceased publication because the required number of 50 subscribers was not reached.

William Ford Robertson (1867-1923): his study of neuroglia.

THE PRESENCE of a supporting tissue within the central nervous system was first demonstrated by Keuffel in 1811,1 when he showed a definite meshwork left in crosssections of spinal cord after the nervous tissue had been brushed out. He interpreted this as representing prolongations of the pia mater. Arnold in 18452 and Virchow3 in the following year both described a granular ground substance wh...

Fletcher H. McDowell 1923-2017.

Fletcher H. McDowell, MD, died at his home in New York City on April 23, 2017. He was 93 years old. Fletcher graduated from Dartmouth College and then from Cornell Medical School in 1947. He continued training in medicine there and at Stanford, returning to neurology residency with Harold Wolff at Cornell. He then joined the Army Medical Corps and was chief of neurology at army hospitals in Bad...

William H. Carmalt

Bernard Dwork 1923--1998

Bernard Morris Dwork, “Bernie” to those who had the privilege of knowing him, died on May 9, 1998, just weeks short of his seventyfifth birthday. He is survived by his wife of fifty years, Shirley; his three children, Andrew, Deborah, and Cynthia; his four granddaughters; his brothers Julius and Leo; and his sister, Elaine Chanley. We mention family early in this article, both because it was su...