At 3:15 AM on 27th April 1941, Pilot Officer Christopher Carmichael of 502 Squadron took Whitley aircraft Z6501 to roll out on Limavady’s partially completed airfield. A crew of 6, including Pilot Officer Christopher Carmichael, Flight Lieutenant John Dickson, Sergeant Desmond “Des” O’Connell, Sergeant Stanley William Dorney, Sergeant Fred Redhead, Sergeant John Wilson (Air Gunner) were schedul...

what he would say about a patient who had a purulent pleural effusion, and received the smug and tautological reply that the patient had an empyema. Perhaps our present-day student-physician would be more sophisticated, but he still tends to be casual in his attitude toward this highly significant manifestation of disease. A monograph on the subject is, indeed, needed. A somewhat unusual organi...

To undertake a comprehensive review of such a massive subject as thoracic surgery during the Second World War is, indeed, a Herculean task. The sheer volume of material encompassed in such a study would tend to make the final result merely a list of statistical analyses so often encountered in the medical literature of today. Instead, the editors have accomplished a remarkable feat by interpret...

In this doctoral thesis (Amsterdam, 1990), parts of which were published before as articles, it is argued "that far more facts about revolutions and collective violence exist on file than we can cogently explain, and that this predicament owes to fallacies of concept, theory, and method namely, essentialism in defining 'revolution', reliance on the volcanic model to explain it, and resort to 'i...

This is one of the valuable volumes comprising the official history of the Medical Department of the U.S. Army in World War II, prepared by the Historical Unit, and published in the professional or clerical and technical series now including 29 volumes. Four volumes have been published in the administrative or operational series. The Surgeon General, in a Foreword, notes the delineation of the ...

I was a boy at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution during World War 1. I suppose one of my most vivid recollections of that period was reading the morning paper on July 2 1916 and seeing the entire front page filled with the names of those who had been killed the day before in the Battle of the Somme. I was a member of the Inst Officers Training Corps, and we took our training very serious...

The Hospital Committee was more adventurous in those days than now would be considered proper; they appointed Maudsley when he was only twenty-four, and his successor George Mould, when he was twenty-seven. In both instances the governors' courage was justified by the flourishing state of the hospital under the guidance of these two able men. In the present generation the medical direction has ...

Recent research demonstrated a relation between traumatic brain injury (TBI), health symptoms and diagnosis of Gulf War Illness (GWI) in Gulf War Veterans, but no study has examined the impact of multiple mild TBIs (mTBIs). A total of 229 male Gulf War Veterans from the Ft Devens Cohort were categorized by a number of mTBIs reported. One-way ANOVA and chi-square test of independence were used t...

During World War II and the brutal experience of German attacks against civilians on the home front, Britain underwent a consequential, yet unstudied, development. This total war elevated British psychoanalysis to a role not enjoyed anywhere else in the world. Under the shock of bombing and evacuation, exiled continental analysts such as Anna Freud (Sigmund Freud’s daughter) and Melanie Klein a...