{"title":"Dr Florence Sabin (1871-1953): Her work with Friedrich Ziegler (1860-1936) to make a wax model of the brainstem.","authors":"Peter Dean Mohr","doi":"10.1177/09677720251400623","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09677720251400623","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dr Florence Sabin is remembered for her research on cellular histology at the Johns Hopkins Medical School and the Rockefeller Institute. This paper highlights her first project while she was just an Intern at the Johns Hopkins Hospital (1900-1901), when she undertook to make a wax model of an infant's brainstem, using a 'stacked wax plate' method. She then collaborated with artist Friedrich Ziegler to construct a set of larger wax brainstem models, designed to reveal the internal neuroanatomy. The use of wax embryo models for research and teaching embryology was popular during the late nineteenth century but quickly became obsolete during the twentieth century, overtaken by improved research techniques and audio-visual teaching aids. Examples of Ziegler's models can still be found in some medical museums; however the Sabin/Ziegler brainstem model is very rare.</p>","PeriodicalId":16217,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Biography","volume":" ","pages":"292-299"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145708077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Allen Buckner Kanavel: Surgical proteus and founder of hand surgery.","authors":"David Tate","doi":"10.1177/09677720251386733","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09677720251386733","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Allen Kanavel possessed a protean skill set, excelling as an anatomist, clinical surgeon, surgical leader, surgical educator and surgical investigator. His investigations led to the foundation of a new surgical specialty, that of surgery of the hand. Additionally, he was a prolific author (>80 scientific articles, seven editions of his textbook Infections of the Hand). He also served as Chairman of Surgery at Northwestern University, President of the American College of Surgeons, of which he was a founding member, and he was also a charter member of the Society of Neurological Surgeons. In addition, he was a kind and humble person, and a devoted husband and father.</p>","PeriodicalId":16217,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Biography","volume":" ","pages":"237-244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145308288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<i>The Production of Antibodies</i> (1941) by F. M. Burnet or by Burnet, Freeman, Jackson and Lush: Collaboration in research.","authors":"Brian K Hall","doi":"10.1177/09677720251395368","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09677720251395368","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A slim 75-page 'book,' <i>The Production of Antibodies: A Review and a Theoretical Discussion</i> was published 84 years ago, in 1941. The authorship is normally attributed to Francis MacFarlane Burnet (1889-1985), 1960 Noble Laureate for his research on acquired immune tolerance and acknowledged as the most famous Australian scientist. A revised edition in 1949 was co-authored with Frank Fenner (1914-2010), another distinguished Australian virologist, best remembered for the elimination of smallpox in Australia and for control of the rabbit population. The curiosity and the topic of this paper is that three collaborators are listed on the title page of the 1941 book - Mavis Freeman, A. V. (Alan Vaughan) Jackson and Dora Lush. All three worked with Burnet at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne between 1936 and 1939/1940 during which time they were co-authors on 25 research papers. Who were these collaborators, what did they contribute to the book and why the confusion over authorship? This journey takes us into research on influenza, poliomyelitis, smallpox, myxomatosis, herpes, Q fever and scrub typhus undertaken by brilliant scientists who contributed to important advances in virology and immunology with one tragic consequence.</p>","PeriodicalId":16217,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Biography","volume":" ","pages":"263-272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13392149/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145549690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tikhon Efimovich Boldyrev (1900-1984): A Soviet epidemiologist's contributions to public health in 1950s China.","authors":"Shanshan Gao","doi":"10.1177/09677720251398961","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09677720251398961","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Tikhon Efimovich Boldyrev was a prominent Soviet epidemiologist. During the Sino-Soviet collaboration of the 1950s, he played a key advisory role in shaping health policies in the newly established People's Republic of China. This article explores Boldyrev's life and his journey to China, where he served as Group Leader of the Soviet Experts and Chief Expert at the Chinese Ministry of Health from 1954 to 1956. During his tenure, Boldyrev authored twenty reports and proposals that influenced China's public health policy. His notable contributions included introducing and adapting the Soviet healthcare model to Chinese conditions; endorsing traditional Chinese medicine and advocating for its integration with modern medical science; and providing critical expertise in epidemic prevention, particularly in combating diseases such as schistosomiasis and plague. Drawing on Boldyrev's work completed in China, along with Chinese-language government reports, press coverage, and professional journals, this article brings renewed attention to his important yet often overlooked contributions to public health in 1950s China.</p>","PeriodicalId":16217,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Biography","volume":" ","pages":"273-281"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13392155/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145573513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Edward S. Miller: Physician, entrepreneur, and community leader (1858-1942).","authors":"Vivian Lewis, Paul Miller, Constance D Baldwin","doi":"10.1177/09677720251404808","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09677720251404808","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Edward S. Miller was born into slavery in 1858. After navigating the racist educational system in Kentucky, he moved north to seek greater opportunities. In Chicago, he obtained medical training, built a practice in the Black community, and participated in the growth of Provident Hospital. He earned broad respect and expanded his networks, serving in the Spanish American War as a field surgeon for a unique Black volunteer regiment. He prospered as an entrepreneur and civic leader, using the power of community networks to help found the first Black cemetery and a federally chartered bank in Chicago, both of which supported the Black community. Miller was a respected civic leader and physician whose story illustrates the complexity and challenges of the medical system in the north at the turn of the 20th century and the resourcefulness needed by a Black leader to succeed in a segregated society.</p>","PeriodicalId":16217,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Biography","volume":" ","pages":"300-308"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145756271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A study of the Mongolian translation of an eight-volume book written in Manchu by the missionary Dominique Parennin in 1723.","authors":"Buyandelger Sharav, Selenge Erdenechimeg, Shagdarsuren Dashjamts, Gerelmaa Battogtokh, Bold Sharav","doi":"10.1177/09677720251392706","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09677720251392706","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the early eighteenth century, Dominique Parennin, a French Jesuit missionary in China, wrote at the behest of the Emperor Kangxi a manuscript in the Manchu language which combined some of the theories of traditional Chinese medicine with Western medical concepts. One of the surviving manuscripts of this \"Manchu Anatomy,\" sent by Parennin to the French Royal Academy of Sciences in 1723, is now kept in the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. This work, \"Ge ti ciowan lu bithe,\" has recently been translated into modern Mongolian, affording an opportunity to research Parennin, his life and work, and the significance of the \"Manchu Anatomy.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":16217,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Biography","volume":" ","pages":"258-262"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145438200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bertrand Russell's interpretation of Socrates' behavior fits.","authors":"Francisco José Appiani","doi":"10.1177/09677720261415770","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09677720261415770","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16217,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Biography","volume":" ","pages":"319-320"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146029890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dr Mehmet Esat (Işık) Pasha and his contributions to ophthalmology.","authors":"Mustafa Talha Savaş, Mehmet Kerim","doi":"10.1177/09677720251386281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09677720251386281","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dr Mehmet Esat (Işık) Pasha (general) was one of the leading military physicians and politicians of the Ottoman Empire who made innovations in the field of ophthalmology. Dr Esat, who specialised in ophthalmology during his medical education in Istanbul and Paris, first made his name with his double-mirror ophthalmoscope, 'Ophtalmoscope Essad', which he designed and developed himself. In addition to his scientific studies, the international scientific congresses he attended as a delegate and the innovations he brought to the field of ophthalmology, he established the first modern eye clinic and ophthalmology chair at Mekteb-i Tıbbiye (Ottoman Medical School). He worked as a lecturer at Darülfünun (Istanbul University) for many years and trained many ophthalmologists. He played a major role in the social inclusion of the visually impaired through his health, education and rehabilitation activities. Dr Esat, who served as Sıhhiye Umûm Müdürü (the General Director of Sanitary Medicine), was involved in many political and military activities during the First World War and then the Turkish National Struggle. He assumed administrative duties in the Hilâl-i Ahmer (Red Crescent).</p>","PeriodicalId":16217,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Biography","volume":"34 3","pages":"220-228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148562298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The remarkable life of Carol Davila: Founder of the military medical service and architect of modern medical education in Romania.","authors":"Lidia Trăușan-Matu, Octavian Buda","doi":"10.1177/09677720251386722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09677720251386722","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An ethnic Frenchman who became a naturalized Romanian, Carol Davila is renowned for fundamentally organizing the Army Medical Service and founding modern medical education in Romania. He studied medicine at the University of Paris and, in April 1853, after earning his doctorate, settled in Bucharest, where he built a remarkable career within the state medical service. He served as general inspector of the Medical Service (both military and civilian), and professor of chemistry at the Faculty of Medicine in Bucharest (which he founded in 1869). This study is based primarily on archival sources (identity documents, diplomas, correspondence, and medical reports), follows a chronological approach, and reconstructs the life and work of Dr Carol Davila from his arrival in Romania (1853) until his death (1884). The aim of the research is to provide an overview of Carol Davila's contribution to the modernization of medicine in the Romanian space during the 19th century. The beneficial influence of Western medicine was also exercised in Romania through this truly remarkable figure.</p>","PeriodicalId":16217,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Biography","volume":"34 3","pages":"213-219"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148562310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The medical practice of James McCune Smith (1813-1865).","authors":"Ian Bone","doi":"10.1177/09677720251408205","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09677720251408205","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Having gained his medical education at Glasgow University, McCune Smith returned to New York City to establish himself. Difficulties in his acceptance were evidenced by the New York Academy of Medicine's refusal of membership and the New York Medical and Surgical Society preventing him from presenting in person at a meeting. He can claim the first peer-reviewed publication and presentation by an African American physician and interacted with both the elite of New York's medical establishment and his unqualified fellow African American colleagues. Whilst writing and lecturing on a range of medical topics, his most memorable achievements lie in the essays on climate, longevity, racial equality and civilisation. In each, he showed a mastery of quantitative analysis, physiology, comparative anatomy and the medical textbooks of the time. It is not just as a physician and pharmacist that he should be remembered but also as the foremost black social scientist of his era with an enquiring analytical approach learnt from and revealed in his Glasgow years. This article will examine his medical practice and writings as well as those essays that displayed his scientific knowledge.</p>","PeriodicalId":16217,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Biography","volume":" ","pages":"309-318"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145863179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}