There is controversy in the neurological literature about where Joseph Babinski was born, including a myth propounded by various important authors that he was born in Lima, Peru. However, according to the most consistent biographical data, he was in fact born in Paris, France, and became a medical celebrity there and in Poland as well as around the world.

PURPOSE This article reviews the pioneering efforts of Joseph Bell, the model for Sherlock Holmes, in the surgical care of children during the antiseptic era. METHODS I reviewed biographies of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; the biography of Joseph Bell; his surgical textbook, Edinburgh Medical Journals; and the history of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children. RESULTS Dr Bell was a collea...

Joseph J. Kaufmanwas born inNewHaven,Connecticut, on February 10, 1921 toKarl andTiny Kaufman. The family moved shortly thereafter to open a millinery shop in Worcester, Massachusetts. As a child of first-generation Jewish Romanians, his life in Blue Collar, Worcester, was challenging. Kaufman and his friends took turns “on patrol” whenwalking home from school to protect themselves from anti-Se...

(individualizing) and the modern (ontological) concepts of disease, the part played by Harvey concerning tissue irritability, and the fundamental new ideas and leanings towards mysticism and magia naturalis in Helmont. We have also noted the absence of Paracelsus and the Victorines under lumen naturale (cols. 547-552), of Picatrix and the "prohibited arts", the spectacular controversy on magnet...

s | 7 Speaker 4: Joseph Zohar, Israel Title: The importance of the neuroscience-based nomenclature Abstract Current psychopharmacological nomenclature remains wedded to earlier period of scientific understanding, failing to reflect contemporary developments and knowledge, does not help clinicians to select the best medication for a given patient, and tending to confuse patients as they are bein...