This paper presents a narrative summary of an increasingly important trend in medical education by addressing the merits of community-based distributive medical education (CBDME). This is a relatively new and compelling model for teaching and training physicians in a manner that may better meet societal needs and expectations. Issues and trends regarding the growing shortage and imbalanced dist...

One of the most fascinating aspects of nineteenth-century experimental medicine is the role of so-called vivisection in securing advances and, at the same time, earning vehement criticism. Dr. French deals with the latter in his scholarly and comprehensive study, and he traces the anti-vivisection movement in the last three decades of the ninteenth century. Objectors to animal experiments had, ...

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We review several key sessions from the European Society for Medical Oncology's annual congress, including those on emerging immunotherapies for melanoma and non-small-cell lung cancer and on treatments for renal, ovarian, and breast cancer.

This is a long, but by 110 means uninteresting Article. Dr. Adams has displayed considerable ingenuity in the theoretical part of the paper, and what is of more consequence, has evinced much talent in his therapeutic views. He divides Epilepsy into acute and chronic. Under the former head he describes the well known paroxysms of this dreadful disease, preceded sometimes by higher health than or...

This session will prove to be an important landmark in the life of our Society. Early next year we will take up residence in our new home in the extension to the Biology building. Over the years we have had several homes. The most famous, of course, was the Whitla Medical Institute, a building of great elegance and comfort, with which many of you were familiar and loved greatly. Dr. Allison rec...

However, it appears somewhat unsatisfactory to the medically oriented microbiologist, in spite of the first four chapters. There are no articles on ecology, isolation and identification in the routine laboratory, antigenic structure, and pathogenicity (the latter is treated only in the second chapter for P. aeruginosa). Maybe this was not the intention of the editors; however, in view of the fi...

on former Medical Societies and Journals in Calcutta. Beginning with the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta in 1823 which met in the Asiatic Society's rooms and published a series of volumes of Transactions, he traced the history through several short-lived attempts to found medical journals in the first half of the nineteenth century, and through the long series of Indian Annals of Medic...