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He attends constantly the Meetings both of ye Society and the Council; noteth the Observables said and done there; digesteth ym in private; takes care to have ym entered in the Journal- and Register-Books; reads over and corrects all entrys; sollicites the performances of taskes recommended and undertaken;
writes all Letters abroad and answers the returns made to ym, entertaining a correspondence with at least 30. persons; employs a great deal of time, and takes much pain in inquiring after and satisfying foorain demands about philosophical matters, dispenseth farr and near store of directions and inquiries for the society’s purpose, and sees them well recommended etc.
Description of his duties as Secretary of the Royal Society, in his own words, but in the third person. As quoted from A. Rupert Hall, 'Henry Oldenburg', in Charles Coulston Gillispie (ed.), Dictionary of National Biography (1974), Vol. 10, 201.
Influenza is a distinct disease, recognizable clinically by its epidemic proportions and extreme infectiousness, characterized pathologically by peculiar lesions in the lung, and caused by an unknown virus which gains entry through the respiratory tract.
Describing his findings from two autopsies, reported in a 1919 article. The influenza virus was eventually discovered in 1933 by Smith, Andrews, and Laidlaw. As quoted in Robert D. Collins, 'Dr Goodpasture: “I was not aware of such a connection between lung and kidney disease”', Annals of Diagnostic Pathology (Jun 2010), 14, No. 3, 194-198. [The original article is Goodpasture EW. The significance of certain pulmonary lesions in relation to the etiology of influenza. Am. J. Med. Sci. 1919;158:863–70.]
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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