can speak confidently of it. It js named St. John Long's liniment, and is made as follows Oil of turpentine 3 ozs., acetic acid 2 ozs., the yolks of two eggs, water 6 ozs. First rub the yolks of the_ eggs, the water, and the acetic acid together, then add the oil of turpentine, and mix well by agitation. The liniment thus made is of the colour and consistency of cow's milk, and has?to me?an agr...

for John Clutton-Brock, the subject became a consuming interest and occupied more and more of his time in general practice. Although self taught in the main, clearly he was very good at it and his skills were held in very high esteem for he was soon appointed as one of the first consultant anaesthetists at Lincoln County Hospital, shortly after the introduction of the NHS. A few years later he ...

Correspondence to: Dr K J Rothman, Epidemiology, 1 Newton Executive Park, Newton Lower Falls, MA 02161, USA John Graunt, 17th century citizen of London, thought of himself as a haberdasher. History knows him, however, as the first epidemiologist and demographer. He made his mark because he grasped the potential in an overlooked data source of his day-the weekly Bills of Mortality-and he mined t...

Given a photo of person A, we seek a photo of person B with similar pose and expression. Solving this problem enables a form of puppetry, in which one person appears to control the face of another. When deployed on a webcam-equipped computer, our approach enables a user to control another person’s face in real-time. This image-retrievalinspired approach employs a fully-automated pipeline of fac...

Readers Digest contains more than abridged stories. The “My Most Unforgettable Character” feature articles highlight people who affected others in a most positive manner. Computer graphics has a wonderful cast of unforgettable characters who founded the eld in the 1960s and 1970s. John Staudhammer, who died in February 2017, is one of those unforgettable characters. He profoundly in uenced comp...

In the essential area of Network Management we have dealt with the subject of the scheduler reaction and adjustment in a dynamic resource environment. Different scheduling models from various areas of Computer Networks (wired and wireless) are presented. Better performance for all the cases via simulation is provided. Many methods of packets? service have been developed, associated with the bor...

During the early part of his career as an academic in 1660s Oxford, John Locke trained as a physician. Acquainted with some of the most brilliant researchers of his day— Robert Boyle, Thomas Willis, Richard Lower and Robert Hooke—and an active member of the scientific community, Locke was part of a generation that revolutionized natural philosophy. He never published a natural philosophical wor...

The book begins with John Henry Biggart’s memories from his personal papers, meticulously dissected by his son, Denis (himself a Consultant Pathologist and academic in Queen’s University). For those interested in social history there are titbits of the times in which he lived from his birth in Belfast in 1905, to his school days, University days (with the remarkable pranks of yesteryear) to the...