In a previous post, I described the 1873 discovery by Camillo Golgi of a method to visualize neurons and his decades-long debate with co-Nobelist Santiago Ramón y Cajal, which led to our current ...

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Vol. 71, No. 3 (July 2016), pp. 271-292 (22 pages) This paper examines the reception of cell theory in the field of French anatomical pathology.

Some people have such a hectic existence they give the impression that, in order to fit it all in, they must be paying someone else to do their sleeping for them. One such is Siddhartha Mukherjee. His ...