Charles Arthur Lovatt Evans, 1884-1968.

Starling's Principles of Human Physiology

F.R.s. Fifth Edition. London: J. ?* h. c. unurcnui, 1930. Pp. XV plus 1039 with 543 Illustrations, 9 in colour. Price, 21s. net. The fifth edition of Starling's Principles of Human Physiology will be welcome to all students and teachers of the subject. Physiology has advanced with such rapid strides during the last few years that a new edition of the book embodying all the recent advances was u...

V. the Influence of Caffeine on Lactic Acid Formation

THE production of rigor in skeletal muscle by the action of caffeine, discovered by Cogswell [1852], has formed the subject of several investigations. Ransom [1911] showed that the rigor is accompanied by lactic acid production, and this was confirmed and the conditions of lactic acid forbnation further studied by Meyerhof [1921] and by Matsuoka [1924]. The alterations in the lactacidogen conte...

Gangrene of gall bladder due to arterial embolism.

The creation of the essentialism story: an exercise in metahistory.

The essentialism story is a version of the history of biological classification that was fabricated between 1953 and 1968 by Ernst Mayr, who combined contributions from Arthur Cain and David Hull with his own grudge against Plato. It portrays pre-Darwinian taxonomists as caught in the grip of an ancient philosophy called essentialism, from which they were not released until Charles Darwin's 185...

Samuel D. Gross, M.D. (1805-1884): an innovator, even in death.