James Ewing society, 1940-1969. Presidential address.

James Ewing Society, 1940-1970, presidential address. The implications of the report of the Warren Cole committee.

HE WARREN COLE COMMITTEE REPORT IS T scheduled to be released for general distribution in 1970. Its recommendations should interest all physicians, other health professionals, and Americans, in general, for it calls for better utilization of personnel and facilities to assure quality care of patients who are faced with diagnostic, therapeutic, and rehabilitative procedures related to cancer. Th...

The fortunes of the legal and medical professions during the “Troubles” - Presentation to The Northern Ireland Medicolegal Society - October 14 2014

The seed for my presentation emerged from Mr Justice Ben Stevens’ eloquent Presidential address last year. In thanking him I reflected that we have taken for granted how, after 1969, while much of civil society failed to function, lawyers and doctors maintained the highest professional and ethical standards, with many developing national and international reputations. Most crucially, law and me...

Presidential Address: "Thoughts on the Life and Work of Sir James Young Simpson" *Read at a Meeting of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society, 11th November 1936.

Some Cases of Traumatic Myopia.

capsule. These changes can be noted in the micro-photographs. At no place could the marked thinning of the capsule or the feltwork appearance of the tissue described by Vogt be made out. The subcapsular epithelium appears normal but in one place it is duplicated. No debris of detached capsule could be recognised in the angle of the anterior chamber. Vogt3 described five cases which he had the o...

Management of patients with cancer of the thyroid. James Ewing Society Presidential Address, 1967.

ARCINOMA OF THE THYROID IS NOT A COMC mon disease. The incidence based on statistics from death certificates shows that the death rate in this disease is approximately one per lOO,OOO.5 Of course, these figures do not show the prevalence of the disease among the living. This is unknown because published statistics vary so greatly. The reported occurrence of carcinoma in nontoxic nodular goiters...