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Valentinuzzi BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010, 9:1 /content/9/1/1 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Open Access Honoring Leslie A. Geddes - Farewell ... * Max E Valentinuzzi * Correspondence: Abstract maxvalentinuzzi@.ar Instituto de Ingeniería Biomédica, Honor thy father and thy mother, say the Holy Scriptures[1], for they at least gave thee Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad this biological life, but honor thy teachers, too, for they gave thee knowledge and de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina example. Leslie Alexander Geddes took off on a long, long trip, Sunday October 25, 2009, leaving his body for medical and research use. The departing station was West Lafayette, Indiana, where he set foot in 1974, at Purdue University, stamping there a unique deep imprint, similar and probably more profound than the one left at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), Houston, Texas, in the period 1955-1974. Memories came back as a flood the minute after a message broke the news to me: When I first met him visiting the Department of Physiology at BCM back in 1962, my first Classical Physiology with Modern Instrumentation Summer Course ... The versatile Physiograph was the main equipment, an electronic-mechanical three or four channel recorder that could pick up a variety of physiological variables. Les and his collaborators had introduced also the impedance pneumo