Yankee Surgeon: The Life and Times of Usher Parsons (1788-1868)

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...

On Some Old Eighteenth Century Lists of the I. M. S.

... Surgeon-General. 11th November 1769. Died at Bombay. March 1777. Surgeon-Major, 1st Brigade, with rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, 16tli February 1784. Chief Surgeon, 28th August 1786. Resigned 15tli January 1788. Surgeon-Major. Resigned 10th October 1780. Surgeon-Major. Died 7th July 1772 (D & M). Died 7tli July 1784 (India Office, MS. records). Died at Serampore, 1st January 1795. Died at Madr...

Famine and Fever as Cause and Effect in Rajpootana in 1868 and 1869

IN RAJPOOTANA IN 1868 & 1869* By E. T. LYONS, Surgeon, 28th Regiment, Punjab Infantry. Within the last decade, since the subject of the prevalence of relapsing fever has been discussed in India, writers, who deny the existence of the disease in this country, have referred to the circumstance that in recent times no epidemic of relapsing fever has been recorded as co-existing with the prevalence...

Sam Harvey Yankee Surgeon—Philosopher

Evaluation of humoral and cellular immunity of recombinant autolysin protein Staphylococcus aureus in mouse model

Background: Staphylococcal aureus is a gram positive cocci and opportunistic pathogen. Due to the spread of this bacterium to antibiotics resistance, one of the most important ways of prevention is the use of vaccines. In this respect, autolysin protein as one of the adhesion molecule of bacteria plays an important role for binding bacteria to the host cells and cell division. Herein, the role ...