physician. He was educated by private tuition and at Aberdeen and Glasgow Universities, and took the degrees (with honours) M.B. and C. M. in 1863, at the age of twenty-one. In 1883 he became M.D. (Aber.), M.R.C.P. (Lond.), in 1889, and F.R.C.P. in 189-i. He was also made an LL.D. of Aberdeen. Shortl}7 after his arrival in India Harvey saw his first field service in the Bhootan War of 1865-6, f...

Percutaneous nephrostomy has revolutionized urologic practice. Goodwin, Casey, and Woolf’s landmark report in 1955l described percutaneous trocar nephrostomy for temporary drainage of hydronephrosis in 16 patients. Following a twenty-five year period of relative dormancy, percutaneous access to the upper urinary tract became a fundamental diagnostic and therapeutic tool. The literature contains...

In his study, published in 1865,' of living human leucocytes examined at body temperature with the highest powers of the microscope then available, Schultze described for the first time four different types of leucocyte corresponding to what are now recognized as the lymphocyte, the monocyte, the neutrophil polymorphonuclear leucocyte, and the eosinophil leucocyte. The detail and precision of h...

THE great obstetricians of the 18th century did much to reduce the suffering of women in pregnancy and childbirth. It is all the more remarkable that in their copious writings on the care of expectant mothers the condition of the fetus is rarely mentioned and played little or no part in determining the management of women in childbirth. The reason for this however is quite clear: apart from not...