What Killed Jane Austen?: And Other Medical Mysteries Read Online Free PDF Page B
Author: George Biro and Jim Leavesley
(no relative to her enigmatic predecessor).
Elizabeth Blackwell continued to write on medical issues throughout her life, eventually dying in Hastings in 1910 aged 89. Kitty died in 1936.
The first female medical student in Australia was Dagmar Berne, who enrolled at Sydney University in 1885. There seems to have been no overt hostility from male staff or students and she completed the four-year course without incident. Then she blew her chance of becoming Australia’s first registered female doctor by electing to transfer to Great Britain to pass out as a Licentiate of the College of Physicians of Glasgow and Edinburgh and Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries of London. Dr Berne returned to Sydney in 1895, practised briefly and died of tuberculosis in 1900 aged 34.
Adelaide University enrolled Laura Fowler as its first woman medical student in 1886. She graduated in 1891, but did not register until March 1892, again thereby denying herself the unique honour of being number one on the register. Nonetheless, Dr Fowler had a long and eventful life, including missionary work in India and being held prisoner in Serbia in the First World War. She died in 1958.
At Melbourne University, no less than seven women enrolled as medical students in 1887. All eventually graduated, but the first two (in 1891) were Clara Stone and Margaret Whyte. They went on the register at once, thereby pipping Laura Fowler at the post and have their names writ large in the history of Australian medicine.
Today in Australia there are more female than male medical graduates.
(GB & JL)
Francis Galton, the man who walked north, south, east and west
He was a rough-cut genius, a pioneer who moved from one new field to the next, applying methods developed in one to problems in another, often without rigor, yet usually with striking effectiveness (Daniel J. Kevles)
The Art of Travel (1855) by Sir Francis Galton was full of handy tips. If you were a long way from home and feeling under the weather, just drop a charge of gunpowder into warm soapy water and glug it down.
Sore feet? Blisters? Just make a lather of soapsuds inside your socks, and break a raw egg into each boot to soften the leather. You want to keep your only set of clothes dry when it rains? Take them off and sit on them!
Galton (1822-1911) was an English eccentric, explorer, geographer, author, inventor, meteorologist, anthropologist and statistician. Some have called him the father of modern psychology.
Just before his fifth birthday, he boasted that he could read any English book, say all the Latin active verbs and recite 52 lines of Latin poetry.
He must have been an insufferable brat. An expert later calculated Galton’s IQ at over 200 (but gave Galton’s first cousin Charles Darwin only 135 and Copernicus only 110!).
He studied medicine at Birmingham University and King’s College, London. As a medical student, he proposed that there should be an ‘index of curative skill’ to measure doctors’ merit and to regulate their fee.
He did a statistical study of the efficacy of prayer. Findings: though churchgoers all over Britain prayed every Sunday for the lives of the royal family, the royals did not live longer than others.
Galton dropped medicine when his father’s death gave him an independent income.
In 1850 he set off to explore Syria, Egypt and the Sudan; then vast areas of South West Africa.
Hearing that Hottentots were killing off missionaries, he demoralised their ferocious chief by wearing a pink hunting coat, riding into his doorway on a snorting ox and telling him to stop!
Back in London after covering 2,700 kilometres in two years, Galton became a Fellow of the Royal Society.
He was one of the first to discover that we each have a unique set of fingerprints that do not change with age. After Scotland Yard put Galton in charge of Criminal Investigation, his Fingerprints Branch successfully identified over 100 criminals in six months. Today we still use
Elizabeth Blackwell continued to write on medical issues throughout her life, eventually dying in Hastings in 1910 aged 89. Kitty died in 1936.
The first female medical student in Australia was Dagmar Berne, who enrolled at Sydney University in 1885. There seems to have been no overt hostility from male staff or students and she completed the four-year course without incident. Then she blew her chance of becoming Australia’s first registered female doctor by electing to transfer to Great Britain to pass out as a Licentiate of the College of Physicians of Glasgow and Edinburgh and Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries of London. Dr Berne returned to Sydney in 1895, practised briefly and died of tuberculosis in 1900 aged 34.
Adelaide University enrolled Laura Fowler as its first woman medical student in 1886. She graduated in 1891, but did not register until March 1892, again thereby denying herself the unique honour of being number one on the register. Nonetheless, Dr Fowler had a long and eventful life, including missionary work in India and being held prisoner in Serbia in the First World War. She died in 1958.
At Melbourne University, no less than seven women enrolled as medical students in 1887. All eventually graduated, but the first two (in 1891) were Clara Stone and Margaret Whyte. They went on the register at once, thereby pipping Laura Fowler at the post and have their names writ large in the history of Australian medicine.
Today in Australia there are more female than male medical graduates.
(GB & JL)
Francis Galton, the man who walked north, south, east and west
He was a rough-cut genius, a pioneer who moved from one new field to the next, applying methods developed in one to problems in another, often without rigor, yet usually with striking effectiveness (Daniel J. Kevles)
The Art of Travel (1855) by Sir Francis Galton was full of handy tips. If you were a long way from home and feeling under the weather, just drop a charge of gunpowder into warm soapy water and glug it down.
Sore feet? Blisters? Just make a lather of soapsuds inside your socks, and break a raw egg into each boot to soften the leather. You want to keep your only set of clothes dry when it rains? Take them off and sit on them!
Galton (1822-1911) was an English eccentric, explorer, geographer, author, inventor, meteorologist, anthropologist and statistician. Some have called him the father of modern psychology.
Just before his fifth birthday, he boasted that he could read any English book, say all the Latin active verbs and recite 52 lines of Latin poetry.
He must have been an insufferable brat. An expert later calculated Galton’s IQ at over 200 (but gave Galton’s first cousin Charles Darwin only 135 and Copernicus only 110!).
He studied medicine at Birmingham University and King’s College, London. As a medical student, he proposed that there should be an ‘index of curative skill’ to measure doctors’ merit and to regulate their fee.
He did a statistical study of the efficacy of prayer. Findings: though churchgoers all over Britain prayed every Sunday for the lives of the royal family, the royals did not live longer than others.
Galton dropped medicine when his father’s death gave him an independent income.
In 1850 he set off to explore Syria, Egypt and the Sudan; then vast areas of South West Africa.
Hearing that Hottentots were killing off missionaries, he demoralised their ferocious chief by wearing a pink hunting coat, riding into his doorway on a snorting ox and telling him to stop!
Back in London after covering 2,700 kilometres in two years, Galton became a Fellow of the Royal Society.
He was one of the first to discover that we each have a unique set of fingerprints that do not change with age. After Scotland Yard put Galton in charge of Criminal Investigation, his Fingerprints Branch successfully identified over 100 criminals in six months. Today we still use
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