Dr. G. P. Douglas, O.B.E.

Nutrition and Cancer: Dr. Douglas Wilson - Honoured

Historical, current and future aspects of the potential value of ‘phyto-oestrogens’ and lifestyle in lowering the risk of endocrine cancer, and high-lighting the crucial importance of global policy makers in providing the means for a healthier diet, is the purport of this paper. Early studies in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and S.W. Australia demonstrated the potential value of oestrogen-like dietary ...

Dr. G. L. Foss

Dr. George Lush Foss who died on 11th February 1985 at the age of 76 years was not only a highly respected General Practitioner in Bristol but also a pioneer in the early days of Endocrinology and the problems of sub-fertility. Educated at Marlborough and Jesus College, Cambridge he did his clinical training in Bristol where his father was a general practitioner in St. George. On the very day t...

Corpses and maniacs: the loves of Dr James Douglas.

I t was a fine day in the dead of winter, 1826, when a young doctor and his wife arrived in Quebec city, Que, in a horse-drawn sleigh, galloped around the city a few times, liked the look of it, and decided to stay for the rest of their lives. The next day they sold their horse and started looking around for real estate. A few days later they bought a house. Dr James Douglas was a refugee and a...

Dr. A. M. G. Campbell

Dr R P Warin

Obituary British dermatology and the Bristol medical community suffered a grievous loss on 1.7.92 when Bob and Anne warm vvere both killed in a car crash near Salisbury, while they were travelling to the Bournemouth Meeting of the British and he and Anne had been such central figures in the Association for so many years that it was difficult to believe he Meeting could continue in their absence...