E100 CMAJ, January 10, 2012, 184(1) © 2012 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors When students asked the celebrated Sir William Osler about the role of the physician of the day, he is quoted as saying “diagnosis, diagnosis and diagnosis.” Consistent with this, 80% of the 67 original articles in Volume 1 of the Canadian Medical Association Journal related to the description and diagnosis...

Excerpt] Relatively little has been written about unemployment relief during the period between the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act in 1834 and the adoption of national unemployment insurance in 1911. This study is an attempt to help fill the gap in the literature. It examines the changing roles played by poor relief, private charity, trade unions, and public employment in the lives of th...

1908 1. Fatal septicemia in young chickens or "white diarrhea." J. Med. Res., 1908, 18, 277-290. (With L. F. Rettger) 2. The regulations of venous pressure and its relation to shock. Proc. Am. Physiol. Soc., Boston, 1908-1909, p. 30. (With Yandell Henderson and T. B. Barringer) 1910 3. The quantitative determination of the chlorids in the urine. Arch. Int. M., 1910, 6, 12-18. 1911 4. "Shock." Y...

“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants” (letter of Isaac Newton to Robert Hooke). This wellknown sentence of Newton finds its correct meaning in biology through the work of Oswald Avery (1877-1955), Colin MacLeod (1909-1972), and Maclyn McCarty (1911-2005) that was published in 1944 in The Journal of Experimental Medicine, which showed that DNA carried genetic inf...

officer of the R. A. M. C., who, during the past year, was retired for age, with twenty-nine years and 3G4 days' service, receiving only the twentyfive year pension, and missing that for thirty years by one day. The orders on the subject of fees from Indian chiefs and gentlemen of high rank, published on 2nd February 1911, and again, with modifications, on 23rd December, form a settlement, on t...