Walter Cannon – Homeostasis – Fight-or-Flight Response Scientific integrative medicine finds its roots in the seemingly simple but actually enormously...
Discovery of Interferon I first met Alick Isaacs in November, 1955. He immediately struck me as an extremely intelligent and...
Mental State – Tuberculosis Tohru Ishigami was born in 1857, in the midst of a tempestuous period in Japanese history....
Bridging neurosciences and immunology – historical perspectives Bridging neurosciences and immunology provides some historical perspectives on major figures, events, concepts...
Louis Pasteur – Disease-Environment Interactions Threats of bioterrorism have renewed interest in learning more about all aspects of anthrax, particularly...
Beta Adrenergic Theory – Allergy and Asthma Fifty six years ago Andor Szentivanyi and colleagues were the first to document...
Discovery – adrenaline The first practical discovery of adrenaline by man occurred when one of our ancestral hominids while out...
Claude Bernard – BrainImmune Claude Bernard was born on 12 July 1813 in the village of Saint-Julien, in France’s Beaujolais...
Philip Hench – Cortisone Corticosteroids, despite their well-recognized adverse effects, are an essential component in the treatment of many types...
Caleb Parry and Hyperthyroidism and Stress The disease that we commonly call Graves’ disease, or Basedow’s disease in part of...
Bartolomeo Eustachius – Adrenal Glands Bartolomeo Eustachius was born in 1524 in San Severino Marche, a little town situated in...
Genesis – Concept of Chemical Neurotransmission Although the first suggestion that a chemical transmitter might be involved with synaptic events...