In 1889, the famous German Pathologist, Julius Cohnheim, postulated that the findings from tumor autopsy are explicable on natural principles. Within the next decade, members of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Medical Society with Dr. Flexner in the Chair dealt with a case that demonstrated the above dictum of Cohnheim. It is proposed here to appreciate historically what happened at the Meeting of F...

The subjoined cases, consisting of ten ovariotomies and two splenectomies, represent the most important operations performed at the Darbhanga Hospitals in 1896. Of the former, seven were operated on by myself, with six recoveries; my Assistant-Surgeon, Babu Nobin Chunder Dutt, being responsible with my assistance, for the remaining three, all of which recovered. The splenectomies, both of which...

The genus Tarema Schaus, 1896 is revised. The species Tarema fuscosa Jones, 1908 and Tarema rivara Schaus, 1896 are redescribed, the female of the former is described and figured for the first time, and the genitalia of both sexes for each species are figured for the first time. The lectotype of Tarema macarina Schaus, 1928, syn. n. is determined to be the female of Tarema rivara. Tarema brunas...

The Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen has had a long tradition of outstanding science. At the time covered by this discussion, Kjeldahl, Sørensen, and Linderstrøm-Lang had been consecutive directors of the Chemical Laboratory for 83 years. Lang's inspired leadership began in the 1930s with a number of innovations (study of metabolism in single cells, titrations in non-aqueous solvents, relatio...

John Langdon Down was born at Torpoint in Cornwall in 1828. After local schooling he .:: .!.i:.. became apprenticed at the age of 14 for four ;.i.l.l years to his father, a local apothecary. Then, wishing to become a scientist, in 1846 he entered a laboratory of the Pharmaceutical Society in London. There he won a prize for organic chemistry and also came into contact with 2A! Michael Faraday. ...