his scientific activities came to an end with his public duties. He had not been merely Professor of Pathology, but he had been responsible in the University for the teaching of bacteriology and medical jurisprudence. He had been pathol6gist to the Royal Victoria Hospital and to the Mater Infirmorum Hospital. He was for many years pathologist and bacteriologist to the City of Belfast. He had pe...

OBJECTIVE X-linked hyper-immunoglobulin M (X-HIM) syndrome is a rare genetic immunodeficiency syndrome caused by mutations in the gene encoding CD40 ligand (CD40L, CD154). Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) offers the prospect of immune reconstitution in X-HIM syndrome. Standard HSCT using high-dose chemoradiotherapy can be followed by serious hepatic problems, including ...

Tlliam Jac^fon, a private foldier, twenty' two years old, was fuddenly feized, o11 the 2d of Sept. 1780, with a great numbnefs ?n his left fide, and immediately after perceived he had in a great meafure loft; the ufe of all his ?|imbs of that fide. He was carried to the hofp1' tal, where I found him the next morning labouring under a confiderable ftupor, and deprived of ftlmoft all voluntary po...

Gioacchino Failla was initially appointed to operate the radon plant at Memorial Hospital in 1916. What to most people would have been a part-time temporary position was to him a career. He was not satisfied to simply fabricate radon seeds, he wanted to understand the physics and biology of the radiation emitted by the progeny of radium. His was not the first medical physics group in the United...