Letters from Mr. R. B. Shaw

Mr. R. G. Paul

was a graduate of Edinburgh University in 1927. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, and was very proud when he was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (ad eundem) in 1959. In addition, Mr. Paul became a Fellow of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain, and a member of the council. He was a member and past president of the Moynihan Chiru...

(submitted to Physics Letters B)

3D Orthodontics - from Verne to Shaw

As children receiving new toys, we are approaching a great new world of fantasy. Three-dimensional image devices arrived at the port of Orthodontics with increasingly strong anchors firmly holding to the ground. In this case, immobility is symbolical and inversely proportional to the ongoing possibilities we are not even capable to imagine. Perhaps, the French novelist Julio Verner could. Where...

Remembering Mr B.

In the accompanying translation and film, Gustav Störring describes the psychological profile of Mr. B. (Franz Breundl), a victim of carbon monoxide poisoning with a nearly complete short-term memory deficit. Störring diagnoses Mr. B. as lacking entirely the capacity to register or retain any information in consciousness for longer than two seconds. Here we introduce these historical documents,...

Points from Letters

(a) Undergraduate medical education, leading up to the M.D. degree. After qualification, all doctors have to serve a period of interneship for at least one year, as well as pass a state licensing examination, before they can practise as general practitioners. (b) Graduate education, covering usually a period of at least three years, with a view to specialization. During this period, graduates g...