Of twentieth-century physiologists, probably only Pavlov has been subjected to as much historical attention as Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952). In addition to a large number of articles and obituaries, Lord Cohen of Birkenhead, Ragnar Granit, and Judith Swazey have written monographs on Sherrington, and E. G. T. Liddell's Discovery of the reflexes (1960) devoted a great deal of space ...

Of twentieth-century physiologists, probably only Pavlov has been subjected to as much historical attention as Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952). In addition to a large number of articles and obituaries, Lord Cohen of Birkenhead, Ragnar Granit, and Judith Swazey have written monographs on Sherrington, and E. G. T. Liddell's Discovery of the reflexes (1960) devoted a great deal of space ...

time, and though every intelligent mian knowvs that in all medical treatment there is an element of risk the plaintiff often thinks it vorth wvhile trying to convince the court that because there has been a mishap there must necessarily have been negligence. To rebut any such presumption is difficult, and often impossible. But though one has full sympathy wvith a patient wvho has met with furth...

Clive Hood, a technician in the Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge, was interviewed in April 1995 by Dr E. M. Tansey and Dr Ann Silver, the interview being transcribed and edited by Tansey. Starting his career with the first Lord Adrian FRS, Clive also worked with Professor William Rushton FRS and Professor Fergus Campbell FRS. This is an edited extract of that interview, the recording of whic...

tutes unsoundness of mind. To constitute a " lucid interval," the party must freely and voluntarily, and without the design of pretending sanity, confess his delusion. After making a few preliminary observations, Lord Brougham observes? " The principles which must govern a case of this description are sufficiently clear, and they may be regarded as well settled by the current of former decision...

The progress of modern surgery owes its recent phenomenal success and expansion to the use of anaesthetics and the prevention of sepsis in wounds. In 1844 the American dentist Horace Wells demonstrated the practicability of using nitrous oxide gas for surgical anaesthesia; within a few years (1846) ether was used for a similar purpose by Mr. Morton, also an American dentist; and Sir James Young...

The solemn entry of the Lord Jesus Christ into Jerusalem is described by four evangelists. With Lord's entrance Jerusalem, road to His suffering begins. worship glorifies as God and King - Victor Saviour, but it also mentions coming Passover voluntary suffering. feast, located after Great Lent preceding Holy Week Pascha, has a distinctly eschatological character. Three Old Testament readings (p...

Label-free detection of the interaction between hexahistidine-tagged human κ-opioid receptor membrane protein and anti-His antibody is demonstrated in liquid by an optical microelectromechanical system utilizing electromagnetically actuated microresonators. Shift in resonance frequency due to accretion of mass on the sensitive surface of microresonators is monitored via an integrated optical re...

When I first joined Lord (then Dr) Walton's unit in September of 1962, I was immediately impressed not only by his unique expertise in muscle diseases, but also by his encyclopaedic knowledge of medicine, and his versatility. Not surprisingly this caused digressions which strayed from the myofibril; one such diversion took him and my colleague, John Balla, into the field of cluster headache or ...