J Med Biogr: Most-Read Full-Text Articles http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/ Most-read rankings are recalculated at the beginning of the month based on usage of full-text and PDF views for the previous month. 2009-11-09 <![CDATA[Samuel Wilks (1824-1911): neurologist and generalist of the Mid-Victorian Era]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/16/4/215?rss=1&ssource=mfc Nov 1, 2008; 16:215-220
Neurologists]]> Mervyn J Eadie 2008-11-01 10.1258/jmb.2007.007042 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Maud Forrester-Brown (1885-1970): Britain's first woman orthopaedic surgeon]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/16/4/197?rss=1&ssource=mfc Nov 1, 2008; 16:197-204
Surgeons]]> John Kirkup 2008-11-01 10.1258/jmb.2007.007044 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Jean Langlais (1907-91): an historical case of a blind organist with stroke-induced aphasia and Braille alexia but without amusia]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/16/4/232?rss=1&ssource=mfc Nov 1, 2008; 16:232-234
Patients]]> C A H Fisher, A J Larner 2008-11-01 10.1258/jmb.2007.007043 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873-1943), surgeon and suffragette]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/16/4/205?rss=1&ssource=mfc Nov 1, 2008; 16:205-214
Surgeons]]> Jennian F Geddes 2008-11-01 10.1258/jmb.2007.007048 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Sir Michael Foster MD FRS (1836-1907): the rise of the British school of physiology]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/16/4/221?rss=1&ssource=mfc Nov 1, 2008; 16:221-226
Physiologists]]> Barbara J Hawgood 2008-11-01 10.1258/jmb.2008.008009 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[William Allen Miller (1817-70): a distinguished scientist re-discovered]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/16/4/237?rss=1&ssource=mfc Nov 1, 2008; 16:237-240
Medical Truants]]> Michael Ashley-Miller 2008-11-01 10.1258/jmb.2008.008012 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Norman Bethune (1822-92), Canadian surgeon, as remembered by Henry Dunant (1828-1910), founder of the Red Cross Organization]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/16/4/195?rss=1&ssource=mfc Nov 1, 2008; 16:195-196
Surgeons]]> D Vanni, R Ottaviani, P Vanni 2008-11-01 10.1258/jmb.2008.008021 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Gillies needle-holder/scissors]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/16/4/220?rss=1&ssource=mfc Nov 1, 2008; 16:220-220
]]> John Kirkup 2008-11-01 10.1258/jmb.2007.007056 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Hubert Maitland Turnbull (1875-1955): Pathologist at the London Hospital]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/16/4/227?rss=1&ssource=mfc Nov 1, 2008; 16:227-231
Pathologists]]> Geoffrey O Storey 2008-11-01 10.1258/jmb.2007.007038 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808), founder of the Pneumatic Medical Institution]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/16/4/235?rss=1&ssource=mfc Nov 1, 2008; 16:235-236
Anniversaries]]> Penelope Hunting 2008-11-01 10.1258/jmb.2008.008018 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[The life and work of Abu ul-Ala Shirazi (d. 1001): a Persian pioneer in the treatment of malaria, in the style of Rhazes (865-925)]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/16/4/186?rss=1&ssource=mfc Nov 1, 2008; 16:186-187
Physicians]]> Masoud Mahmoudian, Parvaneh Rahimi-Moghaddam 2008-11-01 10.1258/jmb.2007.007054 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[The Shorts of Bury St Edmunds: Medicine, Catholicism and politics in the 17th century]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/16/4/188?rss=1&ssource=mfc Nov 1, 2008; 16:188-194
Physicians]]> Francis Young 2008-11-01 10.1258/jmb.2007.007058 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA['I want to see the work': Maud Forrester-Brown: inspiration and paradigm]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/16/4/185?rss=1&ssource=mfc Nov 1, 2008; 16:185-185
Editorial]]> Richard L M Newell 2008-11-01 10.1258/jmb.2007.007052 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Heath's non-rusting steel instruments]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/16/4/214?rss=1&ssource=mfc Nov 1, 2008; 16:214-214
]]> John Kirkup 2008-11-01 10.1258/jmb.2008.008022 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[The start of the Peninsular Campaign 1808]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/16/4/231?rss=1&ssource=mfc Nov 1, 2008; 16:231-231
Glimpses]]> Penelope Hunting 2008-11-01 10.1258/jmb.2008.008033 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Sir James Mackenzie (1853-1925) at 17 Bentinck St, London WI]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/16/4/187?rss=1&ssource=mfc Nov 1, 2008; 16:187-187
]]> Geoffrey O Storey 2008-11-01 10.1258/jmb.2006.006009 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Sir John Gray (1816-75)]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/16/4/204?rss=1&ssource=mfc Nov 1, 2008; 16:204-204
]]> Neil McIntyre 2008-11-01 10.1258/jmb.2008.008007 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Hutchinson's disorders]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/16/4/226?rss=1&ssource=mfc Nov 1, 2008; 16:226-226
Glimpses]]> D Geraint James 2008-11-01 10.1258/jmb.2008.008032 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): a classical case of mitochondrial encephalomyopathy with lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) syndrome?]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/17/3/161?rss=1&ssource=mfc Aug 1, 2009; 17:161-164
Patients]]> Christiane Koszka 2009-08-01 10.1258/jmb.2009.009016 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Alexander's (356-323 BC) expeditionary Medical Corps 334-323 BC]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/17/3/165?rss=1&ssource=mfc Aug 1, 2009; 17:165-169
Patients]]> Spyros Retsas 2009-08-01 10.1258/jmb.2009.009001 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Tuberculosis in the Ottoman harem in the 19th century]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/17/3/170?rss=1&ssource=mfc Aug 1, 2009; 17:170-173
Patients]]> Y Izzetin Baris, Gunnar Hillerdal 2009-08-01 10.1258/jmb.2009.009012 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Thomas Vicary, barber-surgeon]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/14/2/84?rss=1&ssource=mfc May 1, 2006; 14:84-89
Barber-Surgeons]]> Duncan P Thomas 2006-05-01 10.1258/j.jmb.2006.04-26 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Dr William Sargant (1907-88) and the emergence of physical treatments in British psychiatry]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/17/1/23?rss=1&ssource=mfc Feb 1, 2009; 17:23-29
Psychiatrists]]> John A S Beard 2009-02-01 10.1258/jmb.2008.008026 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Kaethe Kollwitz (1867-1945): the artist who may have suffered from Alice in Wonderland Syndrome]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/17/2/106?rss=1&ssource=mfc May 1, 2009; 17:106-110
Patients]]> Graeme R Drysdale 2009-05-01 10.1258/jmb.2008.008042 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[George N Papanicolaou (1883-1962) MD]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/17/3/134?rss=1&ssource=mfc Aug 1, 2009; 17:134-134
]]> Constantinos C Frangos 2009-08-01 10.1258/jmb.2009.009030 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Sir Hans Adolf Krebs (1900-81), pioneer of modern medicine, architect of intermediary metabolism]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/17/3/149?rss=1&ssource=mfc Aug 1, 2009; 17:149-154
Biochemists]]> F W Leigh 2009-08-01 10.1258/jmb.2009.009032 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Intensive care 1650: the revival of Anne Greene (c. 1628-59)]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/17/1/35?rss=1&ssource=mfc Feb 1, 2009; 17:35-38
Patients]]> Caoimhghin S Breathnach, John B Moynihan 2009-02-01 10.1258/jmb.2007.007041 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) and the nucleus of Darkschewitsch: a discursive commentary]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/17/1/55?rss=1&ssource=mfc Feb 1, 2009; 17:55-60
Truants]]> Richard L Golden 2009-02-01 10.1258/jmb.2008.008001 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Jonathan Osborne (1794-1864) MD FRCPI: a crypto-neurologist]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/17/3/144?rss=1&ssource=mfc Aug 1, 2009; 17:144-148
Neurologists]]> Caoimhghin S Breathnach 2009-08-01 10.1258/jmb.2009.009029 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Nikolai Konstantinovich Kulchitsky (1856-1925)]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/17/1/47?rss=1&ssource=mfc Feb 1, 2009; 17:47-54
Physiologists]]> Ignat Drozdov, Irvin M Modlin, Mark Kidd, Victor V Goloubinov 2009-02-01 10.1258/jmb.2008.008038 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[George Higoumenakis (1895-1983): Greek dermatologist]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/17/2/64?rss=1&ssource=mfc May 1, 2009; 17:64-72
Physicians]]> Constantinos C Frangos, Christos C Frangos 2009-05-01 10.1258/jmb.2009.009005 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[What motivated Dr David Livingstone (1813-73) in his work in Africa?]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/17/2/95?rss=1&ssource=mfc May 1, 2009; 17:95-99
Missionaries]]> John A S Beard 2009-05-01 10.1258/jmb.2008.008011 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) and cholera: the cause of World War II?]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/13/2/108?rss=1&ssource=mfc May 1, 2005; 13:108-112
Patients]]> Brad Spellberg 2005-05-01 10.1258/j.jmb.2005.03-42 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Where Ronald Ross (1857-1932) worked: the discovery of malarial transmission and the Plasmodium life cycle]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/17/2/120?rss=1&ssource=mfc May 1, 2009; 17:120-122
]]> Agneish Dutta 2009-05-01 10.1258/jmb.2009.009004 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[John Bell (1763-1820), the 'father' of surgical anatomy]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/13/2/73?rss=1&ssource=mfc May 1, 2005; 13:73-81
Surgeons]]> M H Kaufman 2005-05-01 10.1258/j.jmb.2005.03-31 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Eponymous, anonymous: Queen Anne's sign and the misnaming of a symptom]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/15/2/97?rss=1&ssource=mfc May 1, 2007; 15:97-101
Physicians]]> Elizabeth Lane Furdell 2007-05-01 10.1258/j.jmb.2007.06-13 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[The many ailments of Herman Melville (1819-91)]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/16/1/21?rss=1&ssource=mfc Feb 1, 2008; 16:21-29
Anatomists]]> John J Ross 2008-02-01 10.1258/jmb.2006.006066 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Sir Stanford Cade KBE CB FRCS (1895-1973): a pioneer in the modern treatment of cancer]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/17/1/14?rss=1&ssource=mfc Feb 1, 2009; 17:14-17
Surgeons]]> Gerald Westbury, Harold Ellis 2009-02-01 10.1258/jmb.2008.008030 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[The personality and health of King Henry VIII (1491-1547)]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/13/3/174?rss=1&ssource=mfc Aug 1, 2005; 13:174-183
Patients]]> Milo Keynes 2005-08-01 10.1258/j.jmb.2005.05-20 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Illness]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/15/2/104?rss=1&ssource=mfc May 1, 2007; 15:104-110
Patients]]> Armond S Goldman, Frank C Schmalstieg Jr 2007-05-01 10.1258/j.jmb.2007.06-14 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[C Walton Lillehei (1918-99): the versatile pioneer of open-heart surgery]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/16/3/150?rss=1&ssource=mfc Aug 1, 2008; 16:150-154
Surgeons]]> Ashis Banerjee 2008-08-01 10.1258/jmb.2007.007031 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Notes and Jottings]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/16/4/236?rss=1&ssource=mfc Nov 1, 2008; 16:236-236
]]> 2008-11-01 10.1258/jmb.2008.008031 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Diagnostic reappraisal of disease in famous persons]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/17/3/125?rss=1&ssource=mfc Aug 1, 2009; 17:125-125
]]> Armond S Goldman, Frank C Schmalstieg Jr 2009-08-01 10.1258/jmb.2007.007033 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Venereal disease and the great]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/17/3/143?rss=1&ssource=mfc Aug 1, 2009; 17:143-143
Glimpses]]> D Geraint James 2009-08-01 10.1258/jmb.2009.009024 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Demise of botany in the medical curriculum]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/16/1/1?rss=1&ssource=mfc Feb 1, 2008; 16:1-2
Editorial]]> A J Larner 2008-02-01 10.1258/jmb.2007.007002 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[A little-known aspect of Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930): the call of India and a debt to Walter Scott (1771-1832)]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/17/1/2?rss=1&ssource=mfc Feb 1, 2009; 17:2-7
Physicians]]> D L Gardner, M F Macnicol, P Endicott, D R T Rayner, P Geissler 2009-02-01 10.1258/jmb.2008.008004 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) as a stroke victim: hemiparesis: a result of a vegetarian diet?]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/17/1/7?rss=1&ssource=mfc Feb 1, 2009; 17:7-7
Glimpses]]> Serefnur Ozturk 2009-02-01 10.1258/jmb.2008.008002 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Sir Victor Horsley (1857-1916) and the birth of English neurosurgery]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/15/1/45?rss=1&ssource=mfc Feb 1, 2007; 15:45-52
Neurosurgeons]]> J T Hughes 2007-02-01 10.1258/j.jmb.2007.05-81 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Daniel John Cunningham (1850-1909): anatomist and textbook author, whose sons achieved distinction in the Army, Navy and Indian Medical Service]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/16/1/30?rss=1&ssource=mfc Feb 1, 2008; 16:30-35
Anatomists]]> Matthew H Kaufman 2008-02-01 10.1258/jmb.2006.006058 Royal Society of Medicine <![CDATA[Soranus of Ephesus (AD 98-138) and the Methodist sect]]> http://jmb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/short/16/1/51?rss=1&ssource=mfc Feb 1, 2008; 16:51-51
Glimpses]]> Don Todman 2008-02-01 10.1258/jmb.2007.007011 Royal Society of Medicine