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....
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...
Philip Hench – Cortisone Corticosteroids, despite their well-recognized adverse effects, are an essential component in the treatment of many types...
Claude Bernard – BrainImmune Claude Bernard was born on 12 July 1813 in the village of Saint-Julien, in France’s Beaujolais...
Bartolomeo Eustachius – Adrenal Glands Bartolomeo Eustachius was born in 1524 in San Severino Marche, a little town situated in...
Caleb Parry and Hyperthyroidism and Stress The disease that we commonly call Graves’ disease, or Basedow’s disease in part of...
Hans Selye – BrainImmune In 1936 a half page report appeared in Nature magazine under the title “A syndrome produced...
Walter Cannon – Homeostasis – Fight-or-Flight Response Scientific integrative medicine finds its roots in the seemingly simple but actually enormously...
Genesis – Concept of Chemical Neurotransmission Although the first suggestion that a chemical transmitter might be involved with synaptic events...
Serguei Metalnikov – Immune Conditioning Any student of physiology is thoroughly familiar with Pavlov’s original work on classical conditioning, which...