Stormy Petrel Research Articles

William (Bill) Richmond Postle Bourne, MA, MB, B CH, MBOU (1930–2021)

William (Bill) Richmond Postle Bourne, MA, MB, B CH, MBOU (1930–2021)

The Image of Late Soviet Pioneer Camp in Russian Mass Culture Works of the 2010s

During the first two decades of the 21st century, an increasing interest of Russian policymakers towards the Soviet past can be recorded, which is reflected in the modern Russian mass culture (movies, literature, music) providing more and more often a fruitful approach to reappraise the role of pioneer camps in the Soviet Union to its people. Based on an example of two significant mass culture products of the 2010s with different languages ‒ Aleksandr Karpilovskiy’s movie “Private Word of a Pioneer 2“ (2015) (rus. “Chastnoe pionerskoe. Ura kanikuly!!!”) and the novel “Food Block“ (2018) (rus. “Pishcheblok”) by Aleksey Ivanov, this article for the first time illustrates the image of two late Soviet pioneer camps “Youth” (1979) and “The Stormy Petrel” (1980) and gives analysis of their features with the help of descriptive-functional and comparative research methods. As a result, the semantics shows that one pioneer camp is a safe place for everyone and another one poses risks and it is more dangerous to be within the camp than outside. While in the “Youth” camp, the teaching staff devotes much attention to health promotion and cultural development of young pioneers, the main purpose of “The Stormy Petrel” is the ideological education. In both cases, we see educational formalism in the work of educators. Children and teenagers of the late Soviet era are seemingly burdened with playing young Leninists. The protagonist in the movie puts his personal goals far above the public interests in his personal hierarchy. By contrast, the protagonist of the novel is seeking for a true community in the pioneer camp and causes rejection and misunderstanding by others. In both late Soviet camps, the value of pioneer attributes (ties and badges) is noticeably decreased. In “Stormy Petrel”, their meaning is even audaciously perverted. Unreserved nostalgia for childhood, dominating in two works, does not prevent their creators to a greater (novel) or lesser (movie) extent to make a critical assessment of the late Soviet pioneer camps. Keywords: Soviet pioneer camp, A. Karpilovskiy “Private Word of a Pioneer 2”, A. Ivanov “Food Block”, late Soviet era, nostalgia, criticism

IMAGINING M. GORKY: TOUCHES TO THE SOVIET MYTH OF THE «STORMY PETREL OF the REVOLUTION»

At the time of the appearance in the press of The Song of the Stormy Petrel, M. Gorky was addressed to wide democratic circles. However, the Bolsheviks, using Gorkys proximity to his party, monopolized the multi-valued images of this work, securing the writer the title of Stormy petrel of the proletarian revolution. It was most fully represented in the essay-book of the famous journalist M. Koltsov The Stormy Petrel. Life and death of Maxim Gorky (1938). Describing the life of Gorky, Koltsov combined in it the socialist realistic canon of a native of the people and a fighter of the proletariat with the modernity of the enlightener and the encyclopedic, the man who made himself. Although the influence of the cult of the leader and political repression on the ideological and substantive concept of the book was strong, it offered the correct version of Gorkys death, and Koltsov in his journalistic practice himself contributed to the formation of the Gorky myth, thanks to his close personal friendship with Gorky. He touched upon aspects of creative collaboration and his literary talent, especially those that stirred the writer in his search for a new person the antipode of the tradesman.Gorky appears as a cultural hero of the era in the apotheosis of youth, energy, movement. At the same time, Koltsov integrated into the essay important for the social practice of his time questions of searching for the past, meeting the needs of socialist construction, and ways of narrating about it. The essay reflected the nomination for the first in politics of the national-patriotic version of the past and the transition to the second plan for its revolutionary version.

The Classic: Ankylosis: Arthroplasty—Clinical and Experimental

Figure: Dr. John B. Murphy is shown. Reprinted with courtesy from Davis LJB. JB Murphy: Stormy Petrel of Surgery. New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons; 1938.This month we republish abridged sections from Dr. John B. Murphy's article, “Ankylosis: Arthroplasty-Clinical and Experimental,” published in 1905 [6]. Dr. Murphy, quite a controversial figure in his time [3], made many innovations in many surgical fields. Dr. Murphy was born in Appleton, Wisconsin in 1857, to a farming family who had immigrated from Ireland [3, 8]. He graduated from high school, having been sufficiently accomplished he taught some of the courses [7]. He apprenticed with a local surgeon, and in 1878 at the age of 21 entered Rush Medical College [3]. His mentor, Dr. Christian Fenger, encouraged him to go abroad, which he did for a period of two years beginning September, 1881 [3]. He visited London and Paris on his way to Vienna, Berlin, and Heidelberg, spending time with Billroth, Schröder, and Arnold in those three centers. He returned to Chicago in the spring of 1884 to a private practice and became a professor of surgery at Rush Medical College and the Northwestern Medical College. His accomplishments and prominence were such that he became Chief of the Editorial Staff of Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics, then President of the American Medical Association in 1911. Dr. Murphy was a founder of the American College of Surgeons and honored by membership in The Royal College of Surgeons of England and receiving a Knighthood in the Order of St. Gregory. He died of heart disease in 1916. The article we republish in an abridged version outlines the embryological basis for joint development and the experimental and clinical basis for joint reformation using various forms of arthroplasty in stiff or ankylosed joints. Based on the manner of joint formation embryologically, Murphy explained the development of a “hygroma”—a space with “acquired endothelial lined sacs.” Such spaces provided the rationale for arthroplasty, and he, as others he cites, recognized the importance of interposing various materials to facilitate such formation. These materials included skin, fascia, muscle, periosteum, and adipose tissue. However, he noted Chlumsky experimented with artificial materials such as “plates of celluloid, silver, zinc and rubber, cambric, and layers of colloidion” while Hubscher used magnesium foil. “Interposition arthroplasty” was common well into the mid 20th century. Campbell described various forms of the procedure, and noted that prepared animal membranes, including chromacized pig's bladder, were no longer in general use in 1939 [2]. By that time metals, including Vitallium as advocated by Smith-Petersen for hip interposition arthroplasty [11], had become more widely accepted. All authors, up to and including Murphy, recognized the importance of the aftercare, including passive and active motion, and occasionally forced manipulation. For the time, the outcomes were sometimes remarkably effective compared to the disability of the stiff joint, although we have no idea as to the success rates since series were virtually never reported and failures rarely. The concept, though, remains current for many uses: the carpometacarpal joint [10], following resection of the distal ulna [4], temporomandibular joint [5], elbow [9], shoulder [1], and other joints.

District Attorney Thomas Lee Woolwine: Stormy Petrel of Politics

Lee Woolwine, who practiced law in Los Angeles for nearly twenty-five years, was characterized at various times as a hot-blooded Southerner, a stormy petrel of politics, and the fighting district attorney of Los Angeles County. Woolwine was born in the suburbs of Nashville, Tennessee, in 1874 and settled in Los Angeles in 1896. He studied law in the offices of Anderson & Anderson, clerked for two United States district attorneys, and was admitted to the California Bar in 1899. Ambitious for further education, he earned an LLB. in 1903 from Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee, and graduated in 1904 from the law department of Columbian College (now George Washington University) in Washington, D.C.1

Review: The Third James – James Fearon, 1874–1924 – An Unsung Hero of Our Struggle, ‘The Stormy Petrel of the Transport Workers’: Peadar O'Donnell, Trade Unionist, 1917–1920, Navigating a Lone Channel: Stephen McGonagle, Trade Unionism and Labour Politics in Derry, An Index to Saothar, Journal of the Irish Labour History Society and other ILHS Publications, 1973–2000

Review: The Third James – James Fearon, 1874–1924 – An Unsung Hero of Our Struggle, ‘The Stormy Petrel of the Transport Workers’: Peadar O'Donnell, Trade Unionist, 1917–1920, Navigating a Lone Channel: Stephen McGonagle, Trade Unionism and Labour Politics in Derry, An Index to Saothar, Journal of the Irish Labour History Society and other ILHS Publications, 1973–2000

Robert Wartenberg: stormy petrel of neurology; rebel of book reviewers.

This "Sherlock Holmes" in the discipline of neurology, always searching for truth accuracy and dependability of researcher, clinician or writer, advanced his endowment into book reviewing. His acrid criticism was accurate, for the succeeding edition always embodied all recommendations, but at all times everyone benefited from the Wartenberg warmth, for he never made enemies with his microscopic scrutiny of facts in his unique but complete review of a tome.

The Remarkable Surgical Practice of John Benjamin Murphy Edited by Robert L. Schmitz and Timothy T. Oh (review)

The Remarkable Surgical Practice ofJohn Benjamin Murphy. Edited by Robert L. Schmitz and Timothy T. Oh. Urbana and Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1993. Pp. 207. $39.95. J. B. Murphy, 1857-1916, a Chicago surgeon who during his last twenty-one years was chiefof surgery at Mercy Hospital, has inspired this evaluation, written by fourteen current staff members of that institution. As the title indicates, they have focussed on Murphy's surgical prowess, which was considerable. His reputation persists in the Murphy button and the Murphy drip, and he pioneered the use of early operation for appendicitis, therapeutic pneumothorax, and blood vessel anastomosis. The Murphy button is a device that allows rapid performance of bowel anastomosis, an important advance during the early development of anesthesia and abdominal surgery. The drip, for rectal instillation of salt solutions, was widely used before intravenous fluids were practicable. A major scholarly achievement of this volume is provision of an extensive bibliography; an index, however, is lacking. Murphy was well known for his instructive talks, many delivered to packed amphitheaters during his operations; 617 transcriptions were published in the first five volumes of Surgical Clinks (now Surgical Clinics of North America) which he helped to found. More formal publications number 143; there are duplications in both groups, but the coverage of practically all important surgical topics is extraordinary even for those unspecialized times. In addition to what is now general surgery, Murphy contributed energetically to thoracic surgery, gynecology, orthopedics, neurosurgery, urology, and vascular surgery. Broad-based knowledge and a discursive style are represented in this sample from a four-part series on thoracic surgery (JAMA 1898, vol 31, p. 296): "The pathology of repair of pulmonary tubercular cavities involves certain physical conditions which are peculiar to the chest (they exist to a certain degree in abscess of the bone and brain), namely the constant resistance of the bony framework against contraction, the effort at expansion of the cavity in each inspiratory act." Illustrations from several other papers by Murphy, and other quotations, are reprinted in the book. Murphy's wealthy spouse fitted out a laboratory for him, placed in an outbuilding of his home, where he developed his button and other techniques by testing them in animals. He revealed at times an arrogant personality. He did not get along well with the Chicago medical community, whose members consequently were slow to recognize his merit even after he had earned a distinguished reputation nearly everywhere else. It appears that he sought publicity, which was then considered unethical. In two major public emergencies requiring surgical expertise—the Haymarket riots and the superficial bullet wound of Theodore Roosevelt— Murphy took complete charge with minimal consultation. He avoided sharing responsibility with other eminent Chicago surgeons such as Christian Fenger or Nicholas Senn who might have helped with the many patients seriously injured during the riot. The news featured Murphy. Although he was considered an outstanding teacher, partly because of his readiness to give clear and knowledgeable lectures, Murphy apparently had little interest in providing surgical training, which requires close guidance of apprentices as they begin to operate and to investigate. Unlike his famous conPerspectives in Biology andMedicine, 37, 2 ¦ Winter 1994 | 309 temporary, William Stewart Halsted, Murphy did not develop and promote a distinguished school of surgeons. There apparently was little interaction between these two giants. Murphy did describe a sort of radical mastectomy, but it was not guided by Halsted's principle (" . . . the suspected tissues should be removed in one piece"), Halsted was not mentioned in this article (Surg. Gyn. Obst. 2:84—89, 1906), nor was there a follow-up of patients. Murphy's gravest fault was a lack of simple honesty, documented in another interesting biography by Loyal Davis (J. B. Murphy, Stormy Petrel ofSurgery, N.Y., Putnam, 1938, p. 163). (I did not find this note in the present volume, which tends to be more laudatory.) Murphy wrote to a coauthor who was preparing a paper on the "button" for publication: "If Abbe's case terminates fatally, as I have some fear it will ... I would not include it in the numbers." This smoothing of reported facts, not of course acceptable, is perhaps justified...

F. Mason Sones, Jr.—Stormy petrel of cardiology

F. Mason Sones, Jr.—Stormy petrel of cardiology

Hall, Jr., Robert A. Stormy Petrel in Linguistics

La aütobiografio de Hall rakontas el persona vidpunkto la historion de la lingvistiko en Usono inter la tridekaj kaj sesdekaj jaroj de nia jarcento. Gi atestas la atakemon, batalemon de la universitata vivo, kiu neniel estas tiel ideala, kiel studento revas. Temas pri vivhistorio de interesa, sprita, humura lingvisto, kun carmaj, amuzaj, ofte tiklaj rakontoj kaj anekdotoj. Kontraüe al sia propra aserto, per sia libro Hall ofte respondas al atakoj de profesiaj kontraüuloj, tiel ricevante la lastan vorton. Li montras la kve-relojn inter si kaj, ekzemple, Leo Spitzer; la sintenon de diversaj profesoroj, ankaü liaj propraj, al siaj studentoj - do ankaü al li, kiel studento. Oni ekkomprenas la reputacion de la lingvistoj kaj filologoj kiel ec plikverelemaj, ol la alifakaj kolegoj. Leginda, ofte humura libro.

ABOUT THE COVER: PARACELSUS: STORMY PETREL OF MEDICINE

Journal of School HealthVolume 47, Issue 6 p. 372-372 ABOUT THE COVER: PARACELSUS: STORMY PETREL OF MEDICINE First published: June 1977 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1746-1561.1977.tb01093.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume47, Issue6June 1977Pages 372-372 RelatedInformation

Stormy Petrel: N. G. Gonzales and His State.

Stormy Petrel: N. G. Gonzales and His State.

Stormy Petrel: The Life and Times of General Benjamin F. Butler, 1818-1893 (review)

book reviews181 perous economy. He also pictured the Whigs as the true democrats, and attributed antidemocratic motives to every Jacksonian action. Colton was essentially a latter day Federalist who wanted to see the republic governed by wise, virtuous, propertied men aloof from the masses. At the same time, he preached the harmony of all social classes and the need for equality of opportunity. Colton was, in Professor Cave's view, "nearly obsessed" with a fear of social turmoil, whether it was brought on byradical reformers orJacksonian politicians. This summarization of Colton's thought makes little effort to go beyond Colton's words. One wonders if his views were common among Whigs, or if he was merely echoing others. An analysis of Colton's views in light of those of other conservatives such as Greeley, James Watson Webb, Philip Hone, Theodore Dwight, Orestes Brownson, William Sullivan , Chancellor Kent and Charles King would have greatly strengthened this treatise. It can, however, serve as a beginning point for those interested in nineteenth-century conservatism, or as a short cut for those who do not want to read Colton in the original. John D. Morris Kent State University Stormy Petrel: The Life and Times of General Benjamin F. Butler, 18181893 . By Howard P. Nash, Jr. (Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1969. Pp. 335. $10.00.) A book such as this puts a reviewer in a quandary. One is tempted to borrow the terse summary style of the writers of those reviews of the late shows which appear in the TV sections of our daily papers, say "Nothing new here. Save your $10," and let it go at that. There is no evidence that Mr. Nash reads this journal, so such brevity might escape his notice altogether. But for the record—. In his introduction, the author states that in writing the book he has come to like his subject as a person and that he feels previous biographers have not been fair to Butler. This book can be regarded therefore as an attempt to set the record straight. The more flamboyant aspects of Butler's life—his rise to prominence as the defender of the mill girls of Lynn; his apparently outrageous actions as the captor of Civil War New Orleans; his less-than-brilliant military performance in the eastern theater of the war; his management of the impeachment campaign against President Andrew Johnson; his lifelong attempts to achieve the governorship of Massachusetts—all are fairly well-known, and this volume adds nothing new. In fact, it is short of a good deal of information already available in other recent works on Butler , for the author has employed no manuscript sources other than Butler 's own. Even these, he admits, were used only for comparison checking with the printed versions in the Private and Official Correspondence of 182CIVIL war history Gen. Benjamin F. Butler During the Civil War, compiled and edited by Butler's grand-daughter, Jesse Ames Marshall. It has always seemed to me that anyone who wanted to brighten Butler 's image—and, indeed, to draw a more accurate picture of this very complex man who three times changed political parties—would do well to look into his correspondence with his daughter Blanche. These letters reveal him to be a man of warmth and humor, a loving father, and a person of considerable literary cultivation. A figure, in short, very difficult to match with the man who coldly separated Mrs. Philip Phillips from her children and sentenced her to desolate Ship Island. Unfortunately, Mr. Nash barely mentions Blanche Butler and makes no attempt to sort out Butler's complexities. Convinced that Butler has been maligned, he settles for an attack on James Ford Rhodes, the nineteenth -century historian who was, in Mr. Nash's view, solely responsible for the sorryview of Butler thathas been so longheld. There's little question that in some circles today the name of Benjamin F. Butler is still a dirty word; but the members of these circles probably haven't read Rhodes—nor, as is the case with the author himself, H. L. Tréfousse's first-rate The South Called Him Beast. Anyone who has...

<i>Zachariah Chandler: A Political Biography</i> (review)

182civil war history Gen. Benjamin F. Butler During the Civil War, compiled and edited by Butler's grand-daughter, Jesse Ames Marshall. It has always seemed to me that anyone who wanted to brighten Butler 's image—and, indeed, to draw a more accurate picture of this very complex man who three times changed political parties—would do well to look into his correspondence with his daughter Blanche. These letters reveal him to be a man of warmth and humor, a loving father, and a person of considerable literary cultivation. A figure, in short, very difficult to match with the man who coldly separated Mrs. Philip Phillips from her children and sentenced her to desolate Ship Island. Unfortunately, Mr. Nash barely mentions Blanche Butler and makes no attempt to sort out Butler's complexities. Convinced that Butler has been maligned, he settles for an attack on James Ford Rhodes, the nineteenth -century historian who was, in Mr. Nash's view, solely responsible for the sorryview of Butler thathas been so longheld. There's little question that in some circles today the name of Benjamin F. Butler is still a dirty word; but the members of these circles probably haven't read Rhodes—nor, as is the case with the author himself, H. L. Tréfousse's first-rate The South Called Him Beast. Anyone who has certainly could list at least one fair, well-balanced, carefully documented life of Butler. All this being so, does Mr. Nash's book add anything to that previously done? Unfortunately, it does not, for—in addition to the previously mentioned omission of manuscript sources or references that indicate an awareness of either the Tréfousse book or of this journal—the author seems to have relied almost entirely on secondary sources published fifty or more years ago. (Of 325 items in the bibliography, only 29 were published after World War II—and such excellent periodical articles as Howard P. Johnson's "New Orleans Under General Butler" [Louisiana Historical Quarterly, April, 1941] or Richard Harmond's "The Beast in Boston" [Journal of American History, September, 1968]—are omitted entirely.) There is a pervading air of the late nineteenth century throughout the book, induced as much by the author's heavy reliance on writings of that period as by his chapter "refuting" Rhodes or by such occasional obiter dicta as the sentence on page 188, "Needless to say, Butler made a friend that day." All in all, Stormy Petrel is a pedestrian biography that adds little or nothingto the existingknowledge of Benjamin F. Butler. Elizabeth Joan Doyle St. John's University, New York Zachariah Chandler: A Political Biography. By Sister Mary Karl George, R.S.M.'(East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1969. Pp. x, 301. $8.50.) Sister George, president of Mercy College in Detroit, has limited her BOOK REVIEWS183 study to a straight political chronology covering Chandler's role as a leader of the Republican party in Michigan, his long senatorial career (1857-1875), his two year term as Grant's Secretary of the Interior, and as Hayes' campaign manager in the disputed election of 1876. In her preface , the author admits she has discovered very few records relating to Chandler's political career and that the seven volumes of Chandler papers in the Library of Congress seem to have been carefully pruned. Unfortunately, these are major handicaps which Sister George fails to overcome. For example, in chapter one Chandler's life from his birth in 1813 to his unsuccessful bid for governor of Michigan in 1852 is summarized in three pages (without footnotes). The reader can only guess how Chandler became wealthy during this period, what he did as mayor of Detroit, and what influence his early Whig affiliations had in molding his political viewpoints. This lack of information on, or interpretation of, Chandler's early life makes it almost impossible to interpret his subsequentpolitical career in any meaningful way. The treatment of Chandler's Civil War career is equally superficial. We are not told why Chandler aligned himself with the Radicals, what type of Radical he was, or what motivated his responses to wartime events. The lack of answers to these questions...

Stormy Petrel. The Life and Work of Maxim Gorky

Stormy Petrel. The Life and Work of Maxim Gorky

Stormy Petrel: The Life and Work of Maxim Gorky

Stormy Petrel: The Life and Work of Maxim Gorky

Changing Patterns of African International Relations

Whatever happened to the “radical,” “moderate,” and “conservative” African states we used to talk about not so long ago—say in early 1961? One wonders if the snapshot of African orientations, then in fair focus, has not become badly blurred.President Sekou Touré, once the radical foe of neo-colonialist African regimes, has more recently offered assurances that his nation opposed intervention in the internal affairs of other states and thus tacitly acknowledged the legitimacy of the states he had formerly condemned. Touré helped to prepare the way for the reconciliation of “radical” and “conservative” states at Addis Ababa, in May 1963, where the Organization of African Unity was formed. At that conference, another stormy petrel of West African radicalism, President Modibo Keita of Mali, observed that though the colonial system divided Africa, “it permitted nations to be born.” “African unity,” he declared, “requires full respect for the frontiers we have inherited from the colonial system.”

Materials for Recusant History in “ The Rambler”

The Rambler, one of the leading English Catholic magazines of the nineteenth century, is best known as the literary organ of the Liberal Catholic movement. Founded in 1848 by a group of lay converts, it became the stormy petrel of Catholic periodical literature, coming into frequent conflict with the hierarchy, until its career was terminated by its last editor, Sir John (later Lord) Acton, in 1862. Despite the troubles with which it was beset, the Rambler contained many notable contributions to Catholic literature. Among these are a number of articles dealing with the history of English Catholicism since the Reformation, which may still be of interest to students of recusant history.

J. B. Murphy, Stormy Petrel of Surgery

Journal Article J. B. Murphy, Stormy Petrel of Surgery Get access J. B. Murphy, Stormy Petrel of Surgery. By Loyal Davis, M. D., M. S., Ph. D., Professor of Surgery and Chairman of the Division of Surgery in Northwestern University Medical School. Cloth. Price, $3.00. Pp. 311. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1938. Physical Therapy, Volume 18, Issue 3, March 1938, Page 170, https://doi.org/10.1093/ptj/18.3.170b Published: 01 May 1938

CHRISTOPH GIRTANNER 1760-?

Girtanner was not one of the shining lights of either medicine or pediatrics; rather a stormy petrel, he achieved notoriety in several directions. Of his life, comparatively little is known. He was born on November (or December) 1, 1760, in St. Gallen; he studied medicine and received his degree at Göttingen, and then started to practice in his native town. Seized by a desire for travel, he had a<i>Wanderjahr</i>through Switzerland, France and England, after which he returned to Göttingen and gave private lectures without having any official connection with the University. He became interested in politics and wrote on various political topics, but especially on the French Revolution, which he was against. He is perhaps better known in medical history for a bit of plagiarism in the matter of Brown's system. While on his travels he evidently studied some in Edinburgh, and becoming familiar with the ideas of