Sam Harvey Yankee Surgeon—Philosopher

The Medical Education of James Lloyd in Colonial America **

The speaker is not unmindful of the honor conferred upon him by the Departments of the History of Medicine and Surgery in being asked to give the third Samuel Clark Harvey Lecture. This is not a copiously elegiac age, but it is well to be reminded that Sam Harvey was a rathe and ripe mind, dedicated, as was Osler, to developing in his daily life the historical approach to medicine. As a surgeon...

Quantum adiabatic algorithms, small gaps, and different paths

Edward Farhi,1 Jeffrey Goldstone,1 David Gosset,1 Sam Gutmann,2 Harvey B. Meyer,1, 3 and Peter Shor1, 4 1Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 2Department of Mathematics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115 3Physics Department, CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland 4Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge...

Manual for Nurses in India

It is the joint product of Surgeon Major Van Someren, M. r>., Surgeons Harris, M. D., Keess, H. D., and Assistant Surgeon Harvey of the Madras Service. It contains simple descriptions of those medicines and appliances with which nurses should be familiar, directions with regard to the duties which they have to perform in hospitals and the sick room, and easy information respecting those injurie...

Service Notes, &c.

American Humor in Promoting the Talk over the Wall with a Focus on Robert Frost’s Poems

The Yankee is an American national phenomenon. He had leapt into national stature when slipped outside of his local character. A myth was woven around him and a cult of the Yankee developed by the permeation of the Yankee characteristics in many different characters who played tricks or told stories and entertained their audiences. The present article is an attempt to observe the Yankee myth, i...