Lawrence T Weaver
Biographic Data
| ID | 5405911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lawrence T Weaver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lawrence T |
| FAMILY NAME | Weaver |
| SIGNATURE | WEAVER L T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1915 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Kinderheilkunde and Continental Connections in Child Health
The last two hundred years or so have seen the transformation of medical practice from a clinical art to the application of science to the diagnosis and treatment of disease. There has been a historical debate about how the use of technology and discoveries of the laboratory have become integrated within medical practice. In trying to understand the evolution of "scientific medicine," this has generally focused on the tensions between the differi…
In the Balance
The nineteenth century saw the incorporation of technology, such as the stethoscope, microscope, and thermometer, into clinical medicine. An instrument that has received less attention in the history of the role of technology in medicine is the weighing balance, or scale. Although not new to nineteenth-century medicine, it played an important part in the rise of the numerical method and its application to the development and shaping of pediatrics…
Growing Babies
How babies should best be fed was a pressing question at a time when infant mortality in many parts of Europe and North America was well above 100 per 1,000 live births, and recognised to be strongly associated with 'improper feeding'. This paper compares and contrasts three national answers to this question. In France a gravimetric method, in Germany a caloric method and in the USA a volumetric method of calculating how much milk infants needed …
The Glasgow Corporation Milk Depot 1904-1910 and its Role in Infant Welfare
The role of nutrition in combating high rates of infant mortality was an important topic in the first decade of the twentieth century. Seeking to mirror the success of the French Consultations de Nourissons and Gouttes de Lait, English municipal depots aimed to provide vulnerable infants with sterilised cow's milk modified to resemble breast milk. This idea was adopted by Glasgow Corporation when it instigated an infant milk depot in 1904. Howeve…
Gender, work and illness
Changes in employment opportunities and medical services are exploited by men and women in different ways. This paper examines gender-based variation in the selective use of employment and health opportunities in a Gambian village which has been the subject of medical and nutritional research by the Medical Research Council (MRC) for 43 years. The seasonal workloads of 105 men and women in Keneba were compared during one calendar year. Women carr…
Discoveries at Amesbury
On 26th June 1920 workmen in the employ of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, whilst excavating at the Ministry's Farm Settlement at Amesbury, discovered some bones of a skeleton. The site lies approximately 175 yards north-east of Ratfyn Barrow (marked on the Ordnance Map), and about 6 in. below the surface of the chalk. The grave was about 7 ft. long and about 2 ft. 3 in. in depth. Mr. P. Farrar, of Bulford Camp, a local archaeologist, …
I.— The Complete Building Accounts of the City Churches (Parochial) designed by Sir Christopher Wren
Bound up with other additional matter in the heirloom copy of Wren's Parentalia , on which I read a short paper on the 17th June, 1909;, is an engraving by Hulsbergh. It is an emblematical design of a pyramid dotted with medallions, on each of which is written the name of a Wren building and a reference number. At the sides are two tables giving the costs of each building, set out to the uttermost farthing. No doubt many students of Wren have won…
The Glasgow Corporation Milk Depot 1904-1910 and its Role in Infant Welfare
The role of nutrition in combating high rates of infant mortality was an important topic in the first decade of the twentieth century. Seeking to mirror the success of the French Consultations de Nourissons and Gouttes de Lait, English municipal depots aimed to provide vulnerable infants with sterilised cow's milk modified to resemble breast milk. This idea was adopted by Glasgow Corporation when it instigated an infant milk depot in 1904. Howeve…
Kinderheilkunde and Continental Connections in Child Health
The last two hundred years or so have seen the transformation of medical practice from a clinical art to the application of science to the diagnosis and treatment of disease. There has been a historical debate about how the use of technology and discoveries of the laboratory have become integrated within medical practice. In trying to understand the evolution of "scientific medicine," this has generally focused on the tensions between the differi…
Discoveries at Amesbury
On 26th June 1920 workmen in the employ of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, whilst excavating at the Ministry's Farm Settlement at Amesbury, discovered some bones of a skeleton. The site lies approximately 175 yards north-east of Ratfyn Barrow (marked on the Ordnance Map), and about 6 in. below the surface of the chalk. The grave was about 7 ft. long and about 2 ft. 3 in. in depth. Mr. P. Farrar, of Bulford Camp, a local archaeologist, …
I.— The Complete Building Accounts of the City Churches (Parochial) designed by Sir Christopher Wren
Bound up with other additional matter in the heirloom copy of Wren's Parentalia , on which I read a short paper on the 17th June, 1909;, is an engraving by Hulsbergh. It is an emblematical design of a pyramid dotted with medallions, on each of which is written the name of a Wren building and a reference number. At the sides are two tables giving the costs of each building, set out to the uttermost farthing. No doubt many students of Wren have won…
Discoveries at Amesbury
On 26th June 1920 workmen in the employ of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, whilst excavating at the Ministry's Farm Settlement at Amesbury, discovered some bones of a skeleton. The site lies approximately 175 yards north-east of Ratfyn Barrow (marked on the Ordnance Map), and about 6 in. below the surface of the chalk. The grave was about 7 ft. long and about 2 ft. 3 in. in depth. Mr. P. Farrar, of Bulford Camp, a local archaeologist, …
Gender, work and illness
Changes in employment opportunities and medical services are exploited by men and women in different ways. This paper examines gender-based variation in the selective use of employment and health opportunities in a Gambian village which has been the subject of medical and nutritional research by the Medical Research Council (MRC) for 43 years. The seasonal workloads of 105 men and women in Keneba were compared during one calendar year. Women carr…
The Glasgow Corporation Milk Depot 1904-1910 and its Role in Infant Welfare
The role of nutrition in combating high rates of infant mortality was an important topic in the first decade of the twentieth century. Seeking to mirror the success of the French Consultations de Nourissons and Gouttes de Lait, English municipal depots aimed to provide vulnerable infants with sterilised cow's milk modified to resemble breast milk. This idea was adopted by Glasgow Corporation when it instigated an infant milk depot in 1904. Howeve…
Growing Babies
How babies should best be fed was a pressing question at a time when infant mortality in many parts of Europe and North America was well above 100 per 1,000 live births, and recognised to be strongly associated with 'improper feeding'. This paper compares and contrasts three national answers to this question. In France a gravimetric method, in Germany a caloric method and in the USA a volumetric method of calculating how much milk infants needed …
In the Balance
The nineteenth century saw the incorporation of technology, such as the stethoscope, microscope, and thermometer, into clinical medicine. An instrument that has received less attention in the history of the role of technology in medicine is the weighing balance, or scale. Although not new to nineteenth-century medicine, it played an important part in the rise of the numerical method and its application to the development and shaping of pediatrics…
Kinderheilkunde and Continental Connections in Child Health
The last two hundred years or so have seen the transformation of medical practice from a clinical art to the application of science to the diagnosis and treatment of disease. There has been a historical debate about how the use of technology and discoveries of the laboratory have become integrated within medical practice. In trying to understand the evolution of "scientific medicine," this has generally focused on the tensions between the differi…
Medicine (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Environmental health (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works)