| Tuttle, James | <person> U.S. Surgeon, 1857-1913. See: Tuttle's proctoscope. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Ewing, James | <person> U.S. Pathologist, 1866-1943. See: Ewing's sarcoma, Ewing's tumour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ewing, James H | <person> Pathologist, 1798-1827. See: Ewing's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Joule, James | <person> British physicist, 1818-1889. See: joule, Joule's equivalent. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Lind, James | <person> This Edinburgher was an apprentice to a surgeon,but entered the navy before getting his M.D., and remained for nine years. He left the service and received his degree from the University of Edinburgh. Lind became physician to the Haslar Naval Hospital near Portsmouth where he had 300 to 1,000 cases of scurvy under his care at all times (for 25 years). He published three important texts: Treatise of the Scurvy (1753), An Essay on the most Effectual means of Preserving the Health of Seamen in the Royal Navy (1757), and An Essay on the Diseases Incidental to Europeans in Hot Climates. The signs and symptoms of scurvy may be a pale and bloated skin, listlessness, an aversion to exercise, swollen gums, halitosis, anserine or "goose pimple" skin, ecchymosis, and oedema legs. This surgeon died in 1794, but that same year a squadron was at sea for 23 consecutive weeks without a single case of scurvy - this dreadful disease was never a problem following the pioneer attention of young Mr. James Lind. James Lind, the British naval surgeon, is spoken of as the Father of Nautical Medicine largely because of his accomplishment in preventing scurvy in the British navy by using limes. And this is the reason today that English sailors are called "Limies." Lived: 1716-1794. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Little, James | <person> U.S. Surgeon, 1836-1885. See: Little's area. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Adams, Sir William | <person> British surgeon, 1760-1829. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Adie, William J | <person> Australian physician, 1886-1935. See: Adie's pupil, Adie syndrome, Holmes-Adie pupil, Holmes-Adie syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Aston, Francis William | <person, radiobiology> Physicist at Cambridge University who invented the mass spectrometer in 1919, a device which could measure the mass of individual atoms. This device led to his discovery that the helium nucleus was less massive than the two hydrogen nuclei which could have formed it (implying that the missing mass could somehow be converted into energy through the process of nuclear fusion). (09 Oct 1997) |
| Baker, William | <person> English surgeon, 1839-1896. See: Baker's cyst. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bevan-Lewis, William | <person> English physician and physiologist, 1847-1929. See: Bevan-Lewis cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bonwill, William | <person> U.S. Dentist, 1833-1899. See: Bonwill triangle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bowman, Sir William | <person> B. Nantwich, Cheshire, July 20th, 1816. Was a Surgeon and Anatomist. Was Surgeon to Birmingham General Hospital and went to London in 1837. Was elected F.R.S. (1841) and F.R.C.S. (1854) and was appointed Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at King's College, London (1848-1956). Was the leading Opthalmic Surgeon in England. D. At his house, Joldwynds, near Dorking, Mar. 29th, 1892. Bowman's Capsule - surrounding the glomerulus in the kidney. Bowman's Glands - glands in the olfactory mucous membrane. On the structure and use of the Malpighian bodies of the kidney. Phil Trans. 1842. Much of Bowman's best anatomical work is to be found in Robert Todd's Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology. London 1835-1859. Lived: 1816-1892. (05 Dec 1998) |
| Braasch, William | <person> U.S. Urologist, 1878-1975. See: Braasch catheter. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Browning, William | <person> U.S. Anatomist and neurologist, 1855-1941. See: Browning's vein. (05 Mar 2000) |