LORD PORRITT--Biographical notes

Porritt Committee Report Published

cases and we recommend that a psychiatric unit should be attached to the area hospital though we recognise the need for beds elsewhere for patients requiring continuing treatment. The treatment of mentally confused old people has now improved so much that the treatment of these patients in geriatric units should he encouraged. 124. Arrangements should be made f?r all mental patients on the admi...

Lord Lister

i hp; medical man who wishes to gain a clear idea of the broad foundations upon which modern medicine and surgery are based should read two great books which are almost twin classics; Rene Vallery Radot's Life of Pasteur" (English translation by Mrs. Devonshire), and Sir Rickman Godlee's "Lord Lister," the re-appearance of which in a third edition we cordially welcome. Both are finely written s...

Biographical Sketches

Some notable names in renal medicine from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Abercrombie moved from successful general practice into the Royal Public Dispensary as a consultant and was appointed physician to the King in Scotland. President of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh and a contemporary of Sir Robert Christison both ...

Biographical methods

Biographical essay.