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Record W2076787891 · doi:10.1093/brain/awm089

A student recalls Sir Charles Sherrington, O.M. (1857 1952)

2007· article· en· W2076787891 on OpenAlex
W. C. Gibson

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueBrain · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicHistory of Medical Practice
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Victoria
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBachelorLecture hallArt historyMedicinePsychologyClassicsArtHistory

Abstract

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> ‘Experience is not to be measured by time served, but by the use which a man makes of his opportunities.’ > > (Sir William Osler) The ‘Great Depression’ following the crash in 1929 of world stock markets ended my intended studies in banking and commerce at the youthful University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Adding a crushing load of courses in histology, chemistry, genetics and embryology, I proceeded instead to a Bachelor of Science degree achieving sufficient grades to enter McGill Medical School, Montreal, in autumn 1933. There, the freshmen class was amazed at the renowned professors gathered by McGill—such as the anatomist, Dr Samuel Whitnall, an Oxford graduate who lectured to his class wearing a beautiful black silk gown and a monocle which he adeptly expelled from his orbit, catching it in one hand. He instructed the attendant Mr Murphy to display various parts of the human body specially dissected for the purpose. The lecture on the human intestinal tract required only 3 min, as Murphy was commanded to pull-up the entire human digestive tract by a rope and pulley attached to the ceiling, whilst the immaculately dressed professor declared, as he left the classroom—‘Gentleman, the Guts’. Understandably, the Dean of Medicine—himself a first class clinician–sought to modify the 5-year MD course, replacing it with the standard American 4-year requirement, and introducing some new and less-flamboyant professors. On learning of this impending change, I applied to Dr Wilder Penfield whose new Montreal Neurological Institute was about to open, in order to fit in a Master of Science degree year. This was enthusiastically arranged by Dr Penfield and my work began in this sparkling new tower financed by prominent Montreal families and by the Rockefeller Foundation of New York. My task was to demonstrate, in large numbers, the all-important boutons terminaux by which …

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.314
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.026
GPT teacher head0.346
Teacher spread0.320 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it