William Gowers' classic single-authored two-volume A manual of diseases of the nervous system appeared in a first edition in 1886 and 1888, and in a second edition in 1892 and 1893, with a third edition of Volume 1 in 1899. No third edition of Volume 2 ever appeared. However, in 1949 Critchley stated that he had seen part of a revision of this volume. Subsequent writers could not find this mate...

Predicting the future is not easy. As young medical graduates in the 1970s we were told not to bother with infectious disease specialties as they had largely been fi xed with vaccines and antibiotics. There was a surplus of doctors, and the Alma Ata Declaration had ushered in a new model of primary health care which was going to solve third world poverty and disease. Things were looking so good...

its Diseases.?By Alfred U. Uoles, m.d., d.sc. f.R.s., Edin. Third Edition. With seven coloured Plates. London : J. & A. Churchill, 7, Great ^Marlborough Street, 1905. Price 10/6 net. The fact that the second edition of this small manual on the blood has been exhausted, and a third edition called for in such a short time notwithstanding the great increase, within reeent years, of the literature ...

> He tangata, he tangata > > It is the people, it people Welcome to Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians (ACSEP) edition BJSM . tangata—it people in our lives that are important us. How two countries have managed pandemic affecting around us will be told stories for generations. Many more affect unfolding front us—not least which includes warmest winter on record Aotearoa New...