Surgeons

G C Cook

Thomas Spencer Wells, Bt FRCS (1818–97) and His Contributions to Naval Medicine
J Med Biogr 15(2): 63-67; doi:10.1258/j.jmb.2007.05-57 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Alessandro Porro and Lorenzo Lorusso

Augusto Pellegrini (1877–1958): contributions to surgery and prosthetic orthopaedics
J Med Biogr 15(2): 68-74; doi:10.1258/j.jmb.2007.05-80 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Matthew H Kaufman

Sir George Ballingall (1786–1855): Regius Professor of Military Surgery in the University of Edinburgh
J Med Biogr 15(2): 75-81; doi:10.1258/j.jmb.2007.05-82 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Who made what?

John Kirkup

Petit's screw tourniquet
J Med Biogr 15(2): 67; doi:10.1258/j.jmb.2007.05-75 [PDF]  

Army doctors

Anne Bayliss and Paul Bayliss

Thomas Prosser (c1780–1827): army surgeon on the convict ship Maria
J Med Biogr 15(2): 82-87; doi:10.1258/j.jmb.2007.05-64 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Missionaries

John Owen

Arthur William Douthwaite (1848–99), Order of the Double Dragon, MD (USA) FRGS: evangelist, medical missionary, explorer
J Med Biogr 15(2): 88-92; doi:10.1258/j.jmb.2007.05-84 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Experimentalists

Ronald Bentley

Leslie A (Epstein) Falk (1915–2004) and penicillin production at Oxford
J Med Biogr 15(2): 93-96; doi:10.1258/j.jmb.2007.05-85 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Medical statues

Neil McIntyre

Andreas Vesalius (1514–84)
J Med Biogr 15(2): 96; doi:10.1258/j.jmb.2007.05-66 [PDF]  

Physicians

Elizabeth Lane Furdell

Eponymous, anonymous: Queen Anne's sign and the misnaming of a symptom
J Med Biogr 15(2): 97-101; doi:10.1258/j.jmb.2007.06-13 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Medical truants

D Geraint James

Robert Seymour Bridges (1844–1930)
J Med Biogr 15(2): 101; doi:10.1258/j.jmb.2007.06-27 [PDF]  

Physicians

Avi Ohry

Dr Jacob Mackiewicz (1887–1966) and his sign
J Med Biogr 15(2): 102-103; doi:10.1258/j.jmb.2007.06-16 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Patients

Armond S Goldman and Frank C Schmalstieg, Jr

Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Illness
J Med Biogr 15(2): 104-110; doi:10.1258/j.jmb.2007.06-14 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Pathologists

Andrzej Wincewicz, Mariola Sulkowska, and Stanislaw Sulkowski

Rudolph Weigl (1883–1957) – a scientist in Poland in wartime Plus ratio quam vis
J Med Biogr 15(2): 111-115; doi:10.1258/j.jmb.2007.06-19 [Abstract] [PDF]  

J T Hughes

Neuropathology in Germany during World War II: Julius Hallervorden (1882–1965) and the Nazi programme of ‘euthanasia’
J Med Biogr 15(2): 116-122; doi:10.1258/j.jmb.2007.06-57 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Book reviews

Geraint James

John MacAlister's Other Vision
J Med Biogr 15(2): 123; doi:10.1258/j.jmb.2007.06-10 [PDF]  

Adams Aileen K

The American Society of Anesthesiologists. A Century of Challenges and Progress
J Med Biogr 15(2): 123-124; doi:10.1258/j.jmb.2007.06-11 [PDF]  

Peter Garwood

Letter to the Editor
J Med Biogr 15(2): 124; doi:10.1258/j.jmb.2007.07-01 [PDF]  

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