Maccabaean Prize Essay, 1968

Faculty of the History of Medicine and Pharmacy, Maccabaean Prize and Medal

'Nineteenth-century Revolution in Government.' (17) The Causes of Death and Morbidity in the Royal Navy, by Surgeon Captain F. P. Ellis. By the 1860s the Annual Reports on the Health of the Navy were well established. This paper discussed the main causes of death, and morbidity as revealed by an analysis of these Reports, and compared them with the causes in the civilian population. All the pap...

Professor Robert Herrlinger, M.D., D.Phil. 24 April 1914 (Antwerp)—8 February 1968 (Kiel)

The prizes were presented to the successful candidates at Apothecaries' Hall on Wednesday, 8 May, immediately before Professor Douglas Hubble gave his Osler Lecture on 'Lord Moran and James Boswell'. Entries are now invited for the 1969 Maccabaean Prize of 25 guineas and a bronze medal for an essay of 5,000 to 7,000 words on some aspect of the history of medicine or pharmacy. Intending candidat...

Lord Memorial Prize Essay

University of Edinburgh, Faculty of Medicine Wellcome Medal and Prize in the History of Medicine

The above medal and prize of £25 will be awarded in July 1967 for the best essay on 'Changing Concepts of the Causes of Congenital Deformities'. The competition is open to medical students and to recent graduates in medicine and surgery of the University of Edinburgh. Further details may be obtained from the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. This medal and prize was instituted by Sir Henry Wellc...

Richard Willstätter and the 1915 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

One hundred years after his Nobel Prize, Richard Willstätter's achievements and the fascinating role he played in 20th century chemistry are discussed in this Essay. Several of his discoveries, such as the anthocyanidins, cyclooctatetraene, the ortho-quinones, and the structure of cocaine, will forever be associated with his name.