a General Duty and Regimental Medical Officer, but in Belgium collected an MC (for 'liberating a case of champagne for the Officers' Mess') and also married the sculptress Jacqueline Heyse. On demobilisation he grasped his chance, and for the next ten years worked successively as Registrar and Surgical Tutor in Professorial Units in Bristol, Edinburgh, Baltimore USA, Oxford and Leeds; so by 195...

of recent Ministers of Health, 'Hospitals are for people'. We seldom get any glimpse of what the hospitals were really doing and what the condition of the wards in which the patients were nursed was like. When under the Local Government Act of 1929 the Metropolitan Asylums Board handed over its functions to the newly constituted London County Council, what was then the condition of the hospital...

Alfred Henry Sturtevant studied heredity in fruit flies in the US throughout the twentieth century. From 1910 to 1928, Sturtevant worked in Thomas Hunt Morgan?s research lab in New York City, New York. Sturtevant, Morgan, and other researchers established that chromosomes play a role in the inheritance of traits. In 1913, as an undergraduate, Sturtevant created one of the earliest genetic maps ...

Medical education in North America changed dramatically during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although American medical schools had begun to establish ties with major universities in the 870s,1 few physicians in this country had any meaningful exposure to high quality basic science. According to William G. Rothstein,2 there were 65 medical schools in 860, 75 in 870, 00 i...

Henry Sigerist (1891-1957) was a leading medical historian of his generation. Restless, energetic, brilliant, charming, the range of his talents equalled that of his interests. Sigerist was born in France of Swiss parents. He received in Zurich, London, Munich, and Leipzig formal education successively in oriental philology, medicine, and medical history and before the end of his career held ap...