Whither medical botany?

Whither the acute medical patient?

The continual change in NHS structure demands reappraisal of both the services provided and the allocation of resources to ensure appropriate standards of care. Unfortunately this equation never seems to balance. Although the overall goal is to have an excellent standard of care, the necessary resources nearly always are lacking. As a consequence "we" often have to critically analyse and change...

Whither the Hong Kong Medical Journal?

This issue of the Hong Kong Medical Journal (HKMJ) marks the end of the fifth year of its publication and its transition into the year 2000. After 5 years, of publication and in the face of the new millennium, this is perhaps the opportune moment to review where the Journal has gone and what lies ahead. Since January 1995, the Journal has endured many challenge;., including a period of uncertai...

Botany :

By the law of mutually exclusive events, the distribution of a' when s' is known can be found by integrating the present p(a)p(cr)dadu over all o. Equation (9) is then in fact obtained, showing the consistency of the results given in these papers. Equation (9) is the answer to question'(A); and while the answer to question (A) has thus been shown to follow from the answer to question (B), the m...

A Textbook of Botany for Medical, Pharmaceutical and Other Students

Introduction Botany

(Pp. viii + 479; figs. 121. 30s.) Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone, 1962. THE author originally hoped to provide a background of biological knowledge and at thd same time to interest the student in applications of botany to his life work, but claims only the first objective for this book. As far as medicine is concemed it is doubtful if botany has now any application except in so far a...