J Skoda was born in Pilsen, Bohemia, to a locksmith, who lacked funds for the higher education of his three sons. Remarkably, each son acquired stature, respect and enviable position in the society, despite initial adversity. Joseph and elder brother Franz studied medicine. Franz advanced to public health officialdom and a Royal title. Younger brother Johann turned to heavy industry and founded...

It has not been too long since we realized that Joseph Murray (1919-2012) has passed away while we heard this sad news 2 weeks ago. We never forget his memories and trip for the first time on 14 November 1974to Iran. He returned to our country one more time later to share his experiences with the country specialists. It is a great sorrow that he did not see our progress in plastic and reconstru...

In this two hundredth anniversary year of his death, we are met to celebrate the life and career of Joseph Priestley—and most of us celebrate the wrong man, for the wrong reasons. We celebrate the pneumatic chemist who, in a flurry of random experiments made over a period of five years, isolated and partially identified nine new gases, including oxygen—and the man who spent roughly five times a...

I develop a model of ideologies as collectively sustained (yet individually rational) distortions in beliefs concerning the proper scope of governments versus markets. In processing and interpreting signals of the efficacy of public and market provision of education, health insurance, pensions, etc., individuals optimally trade off the value of remaining hopeful about their future prospects (or...

To cite: Menzies S, Chotirmall SH, Wilson G, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2014206808 DESCRIPTION A 72-year-old woman was referred to our emergency department with general malaise and an elevated international normalised ratio (INR) at 15. Of note, she was on Warfarin therapy for atrial fibrillation. She appeared cachectic and frail. On ex...

It lias been known for some time that Sir Joseph Fayrer has been engaged in compiling the annals of his eventful life and brilliant and useful career. The announcement is now made that this work will shortly be published. It will be read with avidity, and as its distinguished author has been in the habit of making copious notes of all the important incidents of his service, the book will be a r...