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W F Bynum

Publications and source records attributed to W F Bynum.

At least 37 records · Page 2Linked to original sources
PubMed1995

Eighteen ninety five and all that.

Anniversarial commemorations this year include the discovery of X-rays, the calculation of the position of the undiscovered planet Neptune, the emergence of syphilis and the mandatory serving of lime juice to British sailors.

Animals↗
PubMed1994

Eighteen ninety-four and all that.

Understanding the intricacies of colour vision, the origins of the DNA industry and the classification of stars are but three of the scientific birthdays celebrated in this year's anniversarial feast.

History, 16th Century↗
PubMed1994

An experiment that failed: malaria control at Mian Mir.

With the discovery of the role of the Anopheles mosquito in the transmission of malaria came the goal of mosquito control as a public health measure. One of the early experiments (1902-1909) in mosquito control was conducted at the military cantonment at Mian Mir, near Lahore in present-day Pakistan. The experiment attached much attention and comment, especially from Ronald Ross who argued that it had been badly planned and inadequately funded. Mian Mir certainly demonstrated that mosquito eradication was difficult to achieve and unlikely to be inexpensive, and is said to have influenced subsequent malaria programmes in India and elsewhere.

History, 20th Century↗
PubMed1993

Policing hearts of darkness: aspects of the international sanitary conferences.

Internationalism became an important feature of medicine and medical science during the second half of the nineteenth century. Internationalism emerged in a climate of nationalism and the latter sometimes affected cooperation, especially after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, and the increased imperialism of the last third of the century. Against this backdrop, the International Sanitary Conferences, beginning with the first one in Paris in 1851, attempted to provide guidelines to control the spread of disease, especially cholera and plague. Quarantine was seen as a central feature of disease control, but it remained a controversial measure, since it disrupted trade and inhibited freedom of movement. Most of the early Sanitary Conferences failed to reach agreement, but by the early twentieth century, a broader series of control measures began to be effected, as knowledge of the mode of spread of infectious diseases was achieved.

Communicable Disease Control↗