In the nineteenth century it was not uncommon for doctors to die from infectious diseases, but the death of five young physicians in Greenock--one third of the medical profession in a medium-sized Scottish town--from epidemic typhus, during four consecutive months in 1864-65, was an unusual event. This paper describes the lives and backgrounds of these five doctors, whose deaths in the line of ...

John Woodland (Woody) Hastings, Paul C. Mangelsdorf Professor of Natural Sciences and Professor Emeritus, Harvard University, died at home on August 6, 2014 after a long battle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. He was 87. To those who worked with Woody, he was a personality larger than life. Woody infected those around him with his love of science, his curiosity, and his view that although wh...