Specimen of Large Fibroma Removed from Patient Some Seven Years Ago

Some biophysical experiments from fifty years ago.

Georg von Bekesy died June 13, 1972. In early March of that year, the Editors and Editorial Committee members of the Annual Review of Physiology invited him to write the prefatory chapter for this 1974 volume. He accepted promptly and added "I am sure I will have it finished long before your deadline of June 1973." He mailed us his completed manuscript three weeks later, early in April 1972, tw...

Pathological Examination of the Removed Specimen

SYNOPSIS The clinical and pathological findings in a 59-year-old woman with a primary malignant lymphoma of the corpus uteri are described. There was a period of eight months between detection of the uterine lesion and evidence of disease elsewhere in the body. The patient died of disseminated lymphoma, and the distribution of secondary deposits were suggestive of spread via the right ovarian-u...

40 Years Ago

always voice his unhappy or distressing thoughts, and it is often most difficult to recognise the way he is tending, or having recognised it to induce him to seek the help and advice that would save him. And even when his condition has been realised and the man himself persuaded to have treatment, the difficulties in the ^ay of obtaining it for him are often insuperable. Outside of London and a...

Twenty Five Years Ago

so rarely met witH that a description of the following case is not without interest. AEuropean, aged 38, was admitted on the 4th February, 1929, with paresis of the left arm and leg. His previous history showed that he contracted syphilis in 1915, for which he was treated with a full course of murcury and galvarsan. In 1919 his Wasserman reaction was still positive and he had a further course j...

Seventy Five Years Ago