Intraoperative Irradiation: Techniques and Results

fashion, which could only have been the result of events beneath the earth's surface, such as volcanoes and tectonic slips. They postulated a huge subterranean 'oven' fuelled by an unknown gas. Eventually, Jurine began to record pains in his chest, extending up into his neck and down his left arm, accentuated by effort or exercise. It was one of the first subjective descriptions of myocardial ischaemia, from which he perished peacefully in the town of his birth, on 17 September 1819. The convulsions of the Napoleonic Wars had entirely passed him by. There is something to be said for living in Geneva.