Journal of Medical Biography

Robert Furchgott (1916-2009): A scientist with a mission.

Dr John McLennan MD (Aberdeen), FRCP (Lond) (1801–1874) and the Medical School of Bombay that failed

Karl Otto Landsteiner (1868–1943). Physician–biochemist–immunologist

Charles Darwin’s (1809–1882) illness – the role of post-traumatic stress disorder

Rudyard Kipling’s medical addresses

Joshua Harold Burn (1892–1981): A visionary during the evolution of pharmacology as a biomedical discipline

Caroline Hampton Halsted and the origin of surgical gloves

The life and legacy of William Keiller (1861-1931), anatomist, artist and curator.

A pioneer in two worlds: Thomas Keith (1827–1895) photographer and surgeon

Kenneth Mellanby Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) (1908-1993). The facts about scabies.

John King, the Bristol surgeon and friend of artists and poets.

Professor Henry Urich 1916–2015: A London neuropathologist and his Polish heritage

‘Neither a borrower nor a lender be’: Letters from the anaesthetist Joseph Thomas Clover to the Birmingham surgeon Joseph Sampson Gamgee

Professor Xenophon J Contiades: The most significant medical loss during World War II in Greece.

Who made what? The Ross renal biopsy needle

Walter Robinson Swann (1900-1980): Surgical blade maker, craftsman and philanthropist.

Dr Jerome Pierce Webster (1888–1974): Surgeon, historian, campaigner, and ‘the father of plastic surgery education’

Retrospective diagnosis: Pitfalls and purposes

Sir Matthew Tierney and the foundation of the 1804 Sussex Vaccine Institution

William Wallace (1860–1940): British ophthalmologist and classical music composer

Sir William Osler (1849–1919) and the paternity of William Willoughby Francis (1878–1959): Review of the evidence

ERA Merewether - And asbestos.

Alfred Caleb Taylor (1860–1927): X-ray pioneer and martyr

Reinhard Hoeppli (1893-1973): The life and curious afterlife of a distinguished parasitologist.

Sir Marc Armand Ruffer, MD: The early years, 1878-1896.

An analysis of the hospitals of Sultan Suleyman and Hurrem: Two different approaches to healthcare in sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire

A medieval physician: Amirdovlat Amasiatsi (1420–1495)

Jacob Winslow (1669-1760): The surprising legacy of an anatomist.

Churchill’s fractured neck of femur

Philip De la Cour (1710-1785), a Jewish Physician in eighteenth-century London and Bath.

Ahmed Hilmi Pasha (1839–1905): A remarkable Ottoman physician and medical translator

Doctor William Gunn (1804–1890): From the South Pacific Islands to Chatham Royal Dockyard