Contributors to this Issue

PADY, DONALD S., M.S., M.A., Associate Professor, is Reference Li• brarian/Bibliographer at the Iowa State University Library. Biographies of English and Dutch whose lives and practices ranged between 1590 - 1625 interest him, and he and James Ruebel are currently translating and explicating the Latin correspondence between Sir , M.D. (1554-1634) and Johan Van Heurne, M.D. (1543-1601), of Leiden. The author's University thesis traced the sources and analogues of the probable identity of the doctor in Shakespeare's Macbeth.

SANDER L. GILMAN, is Professor of Humane Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University and Professor of The History of at the Cornell Medical College. He is the author of numerous books in the area of intellectual history, the most recent being SEEING THE INSANE, a history of the visual stereotypes of insanity.

FRIDOLF KUDLIEN, born 1928 in Berlin. Education: primary school and humanistic gymnasium Berlin. Studied classical philology, ancient and medieval history from 1947 until 1953 at the two Berlin Universities (Humboldt UniversiHit and Freie Universitat). Worked from 1954 until 1961 at the Berlin Akademie der Wissenschaften (with the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum). Got a grant from the Deutsche Forschungs• gemeinschaft (from Sept. 1961 until Dec. 1962), to finish his Habilita• tionsschrift. Started work at the Institute for the History of and , Kiel University, on Jan. 1st, 1963. Habilitation in the Kiel Medical Faculty: Summer 1963. Was appointed full professor there on Jan. 1st, 1970. Main research fields: Ancient medicine, primitive medicine, social history, contemporary history (Medicine and National Socialism). Published several books (e.g. on early Greek medicine. doctors in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, doctors' attitude toward~ National Socialism) and more than 100 articles in journals and en· cyclopedias (both German and international).

NATHANIEL LAOR, M.D., Ph.D. (Phil), is Assistant Professor and Ward-Chief, VA Medical Center, Yale Department of Psychiatry, West Spring Street, West Haven, Ct 06516, and Yale Child Study Center, POB 3333, New Haven, Ct. 06510.

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FRED ROSNER, M.D., F.A.C.P., is Director of the Department of Medicine, Queens Hospital Center Affiliation of the Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center; and Professor of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook.

DOCTOR ALEX SAKULA, born in London and trained at the Middlesex Hospital, London, has been senior consultant to Redhill General Hospital and other hospitals in Surrey and Sussex. He has specialised in repiratory medicine, a field in which he has made many original contributions. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physici• ans of London. Medical history has been one of his passions and he has written extensively on varied subjects, especially the history of chest disease tuberculosis. He is known internatinally for his lecturing on these subjects. He is the Honorary Secretary, Faculty of the History and Philosophy of Medicine and Pharmacy in the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London; Honorary Secretary, British Society of ; Vice-President, Section of History of Medicine in the Royal Society of Medicine, London and President the Osler Club of London.

FRANCIS SCHILLER, M.D., Clinical Professor in and Senior Lecturer in the History of the Health Sciences, Emeritus, University of California, San Franciso, is the author of a number of papers dealing with the history of neurology and medical semantics, also author of a Paul Broca biography, and Fin-de-siecle Neuropsychiatry and Paul Mobius (A Mobius Strip).

ANDRE DE VRIE-S, M.D.,Ph.D., is professor emeritus of medicine at Tel• Aviv University and medical consultant in Nazareth, Israel. He is Dutch- born (1911) and received his and specialist training at Amsterdam University. In 1940 he immigrated into Palestine- Israel, where he variously functioned as farmer, head of a department of medicine and medical research at Beilinson hospital, dean of the medical school and rector of Tel-Aviv University. His main research interests were blood coagulation, snake venoms and kidney stones. His general interests are philosophy of medicine, and Arabic literature.

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