THF title of this talk is "Whither Medicine,"-which means of course that, at aniv rate for part of this address, I intend to trv and examine the changes that mav come about in our profession, and more still those changes which we should try to produce. The future does not just happen; it is made by our own efforts, or lack of them, now in the present; and what we do now depends on what has gone...

SIR,-Throughout the country commnittees are being set up (and perhaps a central index) to investigate parents who may be harming their children. Recent reports by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and others show the alarming situation that may exist in this respect. These committees may well be not only helpful buit essential, but they pose problems of principle th...

Probably the most striking feature of those involved with the EGP is their apparent willingness to make do with what they have to make it a success. The laboratory may be missing the sophisticated instrumentation that one would expect from a similar facility in a richer Western country, but it is definitely rich with the excitement of being a pioneer and with the keenness to improvise and solve...

In his General Psychopathology, Karl Jaspers identifies two stages in the genesis of delusions in schizophrenia. The first is a set of primary subjective experiences, which he encompasses under the rubric of “delusional atmosphere,”1 building upon F.W. Hagen’s construct of “delusional mood.”2 The second is the patient’s “working through” those experiences, sometimes “calling for the full streng...

In his General Psychopathology, Karl Jaspers identifies two stages in the genesis of delusions in schizophrenia. The first is a set of primary subjective experiences, which he encompasses under the rubric of “delusional atmosphere,”1 building upon F.W. Hagen’s construct of “delusional mood.”2 The second is the patient’s “working through” those experiences, sometimes “calling for the full streng...

The types of soil at the experiment station, ,as would be the case at anyone site, form only a small proportion '0£ the very variable' types and conditions -to be fo'&hd 'growing considerable areas of cane in the sugar belt.. Experiments have th~refore been established. on private estates in co-operation with the, occupiers where certain typical soils were well represented, and where other circ...

The male European starling is well known for its diverse range of song phrases, some of which have sometimes been recognizably poached from those of other species and even from anthropogenic sources: it is not entirely unusual to hear the odd telephone ringtone or car alarm amongst their complex songs. There’s evidence that the wide range of the bird’s song phrases provide an indication of a ma...

Within the last 10 yrs there has been an explosion of interest in the results of biopsy of the airway lining which, whilst invasive, is safe providing it is performed by an experienced bronchoscopist following the published recommendations [1, 2]. The airway mucosa which is sampled comprises surface epithelium and its supportive subepithelial tissue, often referred to as the lamina propria. The...

I was appointed house physician at The Hospital for Sick Children in 1937. In retrospect I can see that I was there at a very particular time in the hospital's history, because 1937 was to mark the end of an era. A decade or so before, the fame of Great Ormond Street had depended on a generation of physicians of the calibre of Still, Garrod, Batten, and Poynton. But the staffing of the hospital...

This paper is adapted from a book and many scholarly articles. It reviews the main ideas of a novel theory for the assessment of a student’s knowledge in a topic and gives details on a practical implementation in the form of a software system available on the Internet. The basic concept of the theory is the ‘knowledge state,’ which is the complete set of problems that an individual is capable o...