outline of the events which make this volume so well worthy of perusal. Brodie's character as a man deserves very careful study; and the insight which the book gives us into the condition of the profession and the state of society at the time when he lived is by no means its least instructive part. Brodie had many interests outside his profession, and his views on various questions of psycholog...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The medical case histories referred to are the original MS records now bound in one volume and filed in the hospital on the island. For background information the literature is very meagre, but I have had recourse to the following: St. Helena by Philip Gosse, (London, Cassell, 1938); Six Months on Ascension by Mrs. Gill (London, John Mufray); Darwin and The Beagle, by Alan Moor...

In 1945 I was looking for a job, after having spent a short post-war convalescence as a junior assistant in the Medical Unit at St. Thomas's Hospital, when I had the good fortune to be introduced to Dr Avery Jones. He had just then had the idea that clues to the causes of gastric and duodenal ulcers might be obtained if differences could be found in the frequency with which they occurred in men...

Two collaborative studies of acute respiratory disease were organized, one in patients seen in general practice and the other in children admitted to hospital. The main aims were to study the epidemiology and clinical presentation of these diseases and of the viruses associated with them. The field methods used are described and analyses of the consultation rates in general practice and of hosp...

ABOUT 35 YEARS AGO a young inexperienced and very nervous student entered Wards 1 and 2 of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, as resident pupil. The same student-I hope I am still capable of learning-stands before you this evening and hopes you will receive him as graciously as Professor W. W. D. Thomson did on that occasion. He shook my hand and welcomed me as a new member of his team. This...

George Buchanan was born in the year 1881 in Myddleton Square, Islington, where his father was in medical practice. He received his early education at University College School, and subsequently at the adjacent college. During this period he worked under T. H. Key and de Morgan; he acquired much fondness for classics, notably the English classics, and he was awarded medals in biology and chemis...

Sir, The recent review of carbon monoxide poisoning by Balzan et al' provided helpful advice about this sometimes difficult diagnosis. We would, however, hesitate to follow the recommendations made about the treatment of CO poisoning. Their assessment of the benefit of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) does not appear to be based on the presented evidence and the potential complications of transporting c...

It lias been known for some time that Sir Joseph Fayrer has been engaged in compiling the annals of his eventful life and brilliant and useful career. The announcement is now made that this work will shortly be published. It will be read with avidity, and as its distinguished author has been in the habit of making copious notes of all the important incidents of his service, the book will be a r...

SIR,--We have read with interest the article by Mr. E. E. Rawlings and Mr. B. Baligobin (29 March, p. 727) and agree that their results of laparoscopic sterilization are depressing and raise doubts about the usefulness of this procedure. We feel, however, that there are several reasons for the high incidence of complications and that it would be a pity to decry the operation on the basis of suc...

The time delay from an interplanetary driver arriving at the magnetopause to response in ionosphere has never been quantified separately for different types of storm drivers. This study investigates storms driven by high-speed streams and associated stream interaction regions (HSS/SIR), or coronal mass ejection sheaths magnetic clouds (MC). total field-aligned current (FAC) SME index lag Newell...