LESLIE T. MORTON and ROBERT J. MOORE, A bibliography of medical and biomedical biography, Aldershot, Hants, Scolar Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. ix, 208, £37.50. This book was originally conceived as a third edition of John Thornton's slim paperback A select bibliography of medical biography (1961, 1970) but has been so much enlarged and improved that it is rightly presented as a new work. Like its pre...

LESLIE T. MORTON and ROBERT J. MOORE, A bibliography of medical and biomedical biography, Aldershot, Hants, Scolar Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. ix, 208, £37.50. This book was originally conceived as a third edition of John Thornton's slim paperback A select bibliography of medical biography (1961, 1970) but has been so much enlarged and improved that it is rightly presented as a new work. Like its pre...

Although unreal and not touching the experience of anyone in the audience, the film was entertaining to watch and made a good story. Perhaps because it was less pretentious than Spellbound (which had a special preamble on psychiatry and billed a psychiatric adviser), the improbabilities did not spoil the enjoyment of the film. Some of the photography was excellent ; scenes in the artist's attic...

1613 I 1577, Peter Paul Rubens was born in Siegen, Germany, to Belgian parents from Antwerp. He lived there until he was 10 years old, when his father died and his mother moved the family back to Antwerp. By age 13, Rubens knew he wanted to be an artist. In 1600, he traveled to Italy where he studied firsthand Renaissance and classical works by masters such as Michelangelo, Bassano, Titian, and...

On Tuesday, 6 May 1760, the Order of the Garter conducted the installation of a knight at Windsor Castle, outside London. A day of ceremony and festivity, participated in by a throng of knights, nobility, clergy, and others, ended with a splendid ball and supper.1 On Wednesday most of those who attended as well as numerous servants made their way back to London (1). Among the travelers were fou...

Dr. J. Russell Greig (Moredun Institute, Gilmerton, Midlothian) My acceptance of an invitation to provide an introduction to today’s proceedings has imposed upon me a task much more difficult than I had a t first anticipated. The history of nutrition is largely a history of agriculture and I propose this morning briefly to refer to a number of historic happenings in Scotland, to indicate how th...

The accession of the House Bourbon to Spanish throne after death last Habsburg king, Carlos II, in 1700 brought important changes for court high nobility. Historians have seen Philip V’s reign as beginning titled nobility’s withdrawal from front line politics. process, encouraged by Bourbon’s reformism during War Succession, was carried out nobility several ways. This article will analyze caree...

This article analyses the educational differentiation of nobility during reign Elizabeth expressed in status their property (number “souls”); geographical location estates; institutions where they were sent; and age when began education. It is based on a wide array historical sources, among which archival records from collections Russian State Archive Ancient Acts. The data registration gentry ...