Towards the end of the nineteenth century, quackery of all kinds was on the increase. One of the most notorious of the mountebanks was ‘Sequah’, arguably the arch-prince of charlatans, who first made his appearance in the 1890s. He is described as "the most celebrated medical operator in Britain outside the capital". Sequah started his medical career at Portsmouth in September 1887. In January ...

In nineteenth century Great Britain, Thomas Henry Huxley [3] proposed connections between the development of organisms and their evolutionary histories, critiqued previously held concepts of homology, and promoted Charles Darwin?s theory of evolution [4]. Many called him Darwin?s Bulldog. Huxley helped professionalize and redefine British science. He wrote about philosophy, religion, and social...

T H E I N T E R S T A T E M O V E M E N T of industr ia l workers has long been an accepted factor in our American economy. I n the nineteenth century Paul B u n y a n , the m y t h i c a l lumberjack, and John H e n r y , the rai lroad worker, moved f rom State to State along w i t h the miners who were fo l lowing the discovery of new veins of ore, the journeymen printers and carpenters who f...

Even before any numerical considerations are confronted, we run into difficulties simply in specifying a coordinate system. It is important to distinguish between true scalarvalued and vector-valued functions. The value of a scalar function, say temperature, is independent of coordinate system. That is, the temperature at some point in space is the same regardless of how we define the position ...

Abstract Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie was one of the founders British historical economics. He an important figure in history economic thought nineteenth century, as he contributed to critique Ricardian political economy while at same time being school. influenced by classical economists, such Adam Smith and J. S. Mill, calling for a historically institutionally informed economy. This article at...

This chapter is a survey of modern theories of the firm. We categorize these as belonging either to the principal-agent or the incomplete contracting approach. In the former category fall, for example, the Alchian and Demsetz moral hazard in teams theory as well as Holmstrøm and Milgrom’s theory of the firm as an incentive system. Belonging to the incomplete contracting branch are theories that...

Evidence for a substantial nuclear ordering in solid bcc Re3 at melting pressure has been inferred from solid entropies s s deduced from measurements of the slope of the melting curve for a liquid-solid mixture cooled by adiabatic compression. At 3.4 mK we find experimentally that ss/R = 0.S3ln2. It is likely that much lower temperatures and solid entropies are obtained during parts of the expe...

During the last part of the nineteenth century, Finnmark province and the northern part of Troms experienced a decline in intergenerational coresidence. This article discusses what impact ethnic affiliation and economic activity had on the living arrangements of the elderly, and what contributed to the change. Logistic regression shows that ethnicity played a role but its effect disappears afte...