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I bought the latest issue of India Today this morning and the cover image brought back a memory from medical college days.

It is a memory that recurs every time I see an image of the Bald Eagle.
This occurred about sixteen years ago, when I was in my second year in medical college. Suresh, Raghu Ramesh [...]

William Henry Oldendorf, MD., 1925 - 1992
In a foot note in an earlier post, I had written:
Many feel that William Oldendorf, an American Neurologist, should also have been offered the award for a device he built from junk box parts in 1960.

That was a direct quote from a Historical Perspective article1 written by Samuel [...]

Paul C. Lauterbur, a University of Illinois professor of chemistry who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2003 for his pioneering work in the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), died on Tuesday March 27, 2007 at his home in Urbana, Illinois. The cause of death was kidney disease. Lauterbur was 77 years [...]

I am currently reading ‘The Discovery of the Germ,’ a book by John Waller which “provides a gripping insight into twenty years in the history of medicine that profoundly changed the way we view disease.”
I came across an episode of British Colonial deceit which is worth sharing. This is not the stuff that we [...]

The previous post on the history of CT was inspired by an editorial by Lee F. Rogers, MD, in the June 2003 issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
Please read the entire article that is titled “My Word, What Is That?”: Hounsfield and the Triumph of Clinical Research here (no subscription required).
I’m going to reproduce [...]

I wrote a post on the history of ultrasonography sometime ago.
This is on the history of computed tomography (CT).

Sir Godfrey N. Hounsfield, DSc, the father of computed tomography, died on August 12, 2004 at the age of 84. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1979 along with Allan M. Cormack, [...]

Thanks to Arunn who is the inspiration behind what I hope will be a series of posts.
The longest-running and perhaps the most influential journal archive in Science, that of the Royal Society of England, is available now for FREE to anyone on the internet to explore. 350 years of scientific study is now available online [...]