In his 1933 inaugural address to the American people, President Franklin Roosevelt attempted to rouse the nation out of the stultifying Depression with his famous aphorism on fear as a self-fulfilling end. Decades later, a scientific understanding of fear continues to remain elusive, despite the unraveling of brain circuits triggered when people respond to a raft of dangers. That is, in part, b...

By the death of Sir Joseph Ewart, the Epidemiological Society has lost one who, during two successive years, (1890-91 and 1891-92) occupied its Presidential Chair, as well as many other distinguished positions, both in this country and in India. He was born in 1831, and after studying at Guy's Hospital entered the Indian Medical Service in 1854. He served with the Maywar Bheel Corps during the ...

Soutra is no doubt an interesting site, and careful archaeological examination of the remains of its pits may produce, as suggested by SHARP, knowledge of the foods and medicines used by its staff and inmates. For the moment, however, the First report on Soutra indicates that the necessary balance between academic skills, ambitious objectives, imagination, and interpretative ability has yet to ...