Léon Charles Albert Calmette, 1863-1933

1934 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-325 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Tropical Diseases ◽  
Medical Studies ◽  
Black Water ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Insect Transmission ◽  
The University

Albert Calmette was born at Nice on July 12, 1863. His father was secretary to the prefecture. The Calmettes were of Breton origin. After passing his baccalauréat ès lettres at Rennes and his baccalauréat es sciences at Paris, Calmette entered the Naval Medical School at Brest in 1881. At this time the part played by microbes in infectious diseases had been demonstrated by Pasteur and Lister and was exciting wide interest. Koch had just discovered the bacillus of tuberculosis. The young Calmette was fascinated by these discoveries and the possibilities they indicated of understanding and ultimately controlling diseases. He became an enthusiastic Pastorian and devoted himself to his microscope. Whilst a cadet at the naval school he took part in the China Campaign of 1883-4. At Hong Kong he met Patrick Manson, who explained to him his observations on the life-history of the filaria parasite and showed him the proof he had obtained that the parasite was conveyed from person to person by a mosquito. This, the first evidence of the insect transmission of a disease made a great impression on Calmette and he chose the subject of filariasis for the thesis he presented for his doctor’s degree three years later. In 1885, Calmette returned to France to complete his medical studies. He graduated in July, 1886, at the University of Paris. Shortly afterwards, he went to the French Congo. During his two years of service as a naval surgeon on the coast of West Africa he studied tropical diseases and published descriptive articles on sleeping sickness and black-water fever in the Archives de Medicine Navale. In 1888, he was sent to the French Islands of St. Pierre-et-Miquelon, off the coast of Newfoundland,, where he had medical charge of six thousand sailors and fishermen. It was at St. Pierre that he made his first contribution to bacteriology. The local industry was the capture and salting of cod for export to< France. For some mysterious reason, the salted cod frequently developed red spots known in the trade as maladie rouge.

scholarly journals Child psychiatry in a new medical school in Hong Kong

1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. K. Wong
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Education ◽  
Child Psychiatry ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Chinese University ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

There are two medical schools in Hong Kong, that of the University of Hong Kong and that of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The former has a history of more than 100 years whereas the latter admitted its first batch of students only in 1981. Both use English as the teaching medium and both are recognised by the GMC. I received my undergraduate medical education in the former but have been teaching in the latter for seven years.

Astrobiology in Brazil: early history and perspectives

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 189-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Rodrigues ◽  
Douglas Galante ◽  
Ivan G. Paulino-Lima ◽  
Rubens T.D. Duarte ◽  
Amancio C.S. Friaça ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Formal Group ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Funding Agencies ◽  
First Occurrence ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Review Reports ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
Brazilian History ◽  
The University

AbstractThis review reports the Brazilian history in astrobiology, as well as the first delineation of a vision of the future development of the field in the country, exploring its abundant biodiversity, highly capable human resources and state-of-the-art facilities, reflecting the last few years of stable governmental investments in science, technology and education, all conditions providing good perspectives on continued and steadily growing funding for astrobiology-related research. Brazil is growing steadily and fast in terms of its worldwide economic power, an effect being reflected in different areas of the Brazilian society, including industry, technology, education, social care and scientific production. In the field of astrobiology, the country has had some important landmarks, more intensely after the First Brazilian Workshop on Astrobiology in 2006. The history of astrobiology in Brazil, however, is not so recent and had its first occurrence in 1958. Since then, researchers carried out many individual initiatives across the country in astrobiology-related fields, resulting in an ever growing and expressive scientific production. The number of publications, including articles and theses, has particularly increased in the last decade, but still counting with the effort of researchers working individually. That scenario started to change in 2009, when a formal group of Brazilian researchers working with astrobiology was organized, aiming at congregating the scientific community interested in the subject and to promote the necessary interactions to achieve a multidisciplinary work, receiving facilities and funding from the University de Sao Paulo and other funding agencies.

scholarly journals History of Voroshilov (Stavropol) medical institute: background, problems, solutions

2015 ◽  
Vol 96 (6) ◽  
pp. 1084-1089
Author(s):  
R S Spevak
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Medical Institute ◽  
General Tendency ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Regional Features ◽  
History Of ◽  
Academic Buildings ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

The aim of work was the objective coverage of the 1930s events, associated with the opening of Medical Institute in Voroshilov (Stavropol), revealing the background of its creation, analysis of the problems accompanying decision implementation. Using the comparative analysis method in the archival sources study common trends and patterns of regional development and their cause and effect relationships, which contributed to pauses in the university organization, were identified. The main prerequisites for the institute creation were general tendency to increase the medical schools number in the country to provide the population with medical staff of expanding network of health care institutions; regional features, reflected in the fact that the Stavropol was one of the major administrative, cultural and scientific centers in the region, which had a favorable equidistant position from the cities with already existing medical schools. In addition to that, Voroshilov Medical Institute was not established on the basis of the department or by already established institution transfer to the city, as it has been originally planned by the RSFSR Council of People’s Commissars. Although the decision to open a medical school in Stavropol has been made, the city did not have the necessary areas for its placement. Local authorities petitions on medical school establishment were of adventurous nature, the measures they took were not implemented in time. The university organization proceeded in difficult conditions: academic buildings, dormitories for students and teachers were lacking; premises surrender to medical institute from other organizations was delayed for objective reasons. Thanks to the university administration persistent efforts, with the higher authorities support Medical Institute was opened and began its work. We can not say that with the opening of the Institute the stage of its organization was completed as abovementioned problems had to be solved in the future. Otherwise, liquidation threatened to the university.

scholarly journals Special issue on Aspects of OV and VO order in the history of English

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANN TAYLOR ◽  
WIM VAN DER WURFF
Keyword(s):  
Large Body ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Diachronic Syntax ◽  
University Of Leiden ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
English Syntax ◽  
The University ◽  
Recent Monograph ◽  
Detailed Picture

Whether judged by the amount of intrinsic interest, the number of knock-on effects, or the sheer volume of scholarly work devoted to it, it seems safe to say that one of the major issues in English historical syntax is the shift from object–verb (OV) to verb–object (VO) order. Over the last three decades in particular, a large body of literature has grown up that has resulted in an increasingly detailed picture of this change. No doubt in part because the recent introduction of electronic corpora has provided a boost to data-oriented work, the popularity of this change shows no imminent signs of abating. Evidence for the continuing popularity of this topic was demonstrated at two conferences held at the University of Leiden Centre for Linguistics in 2003 (the second Holland–York Symposium on the History of English Syntax in April 2003, and the Conference on Comparative Diachronic Syntax in August 2003). Although neither of the meetings had the shift from OV to VO in English as a special theme, the conference programmes together included no fewer than eight papers on the topic. Seven of these can be found in this special issue, which aims to illuminate selected aspects of the alternation between OV and VO order in the history of English; the collection of articles is rounded off by a review of a recent monograph on the subject.

scholarly journals OBITUARY

2007 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 589-595
Author(s):  
Ian Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
Albert Einstein ◽  
Theory Of Relativity ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University ◽  
Mathematics Department

Daniel Martin B.Sc., M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S.E. was born in Carluke on 16 April 1915, the only child of William and Rose Martin (née Macpherson). The family home in which he was born, Cygnetbank in Clyde Street, had been remodelled and extended by his father, and it was to be Dan's home all his life. His father, who was a carpenter and joiner, had a business based in School Lane, but died as a result of a tragic accident when Dan was only six. Thereafter Dan was brought up single handedly by his mother.After attending primary school in Carluke from 1920 to 1927, Dan entered the High School of Glasgow. It was during his third year there that he started studying calculus on his own. He became so enthused by the subject that he set his sights on a career teaching mathematics, at university if at all possible. On leaving school in 1932, he embarked on the M.A. honours course in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. At that time the Mathematics Department was under the leadership of Professor Thomas MacRobert; the honours course in Mathematics consisted mainly of geometry, calculus and analysis, and the combined honours M.A. with Natural Philosophy was the standard course for mathematicians. A highlight of his first session at university was attending a lecture on the origins of the general theory of relativity, given on 20th June 1933 by Albert Einstein. This was the first of a series of occasional lectures on the history of mathematics funded by the George A. Gibson Foundation which had been set up inmemory of the previous head of the Mathematics Department. From then on, relativity was to be one of Dan's great interests, lasting a lifetime; indeed, on holiday in Iona the year before he died, Dan's choice of holiday reading included three of Einstein's papers.

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