Bornholm disease has been recognized for over a hundred years, and had been described by authors from many parts of the world, for example: Daae (1872) in Sweden, Finsen (1874) in Iceland, Dabney (1888) in the U.S.A., Williamson et al. (1924) and Pickles (1933) in England, Sylvest (1934) in Denmark, Scadding (1946) in Egypt, Hamburger and McNeil (1947) in India, and many others. In fact the dis...

In 1957, Prof. H. N. Robson, then Head of the Department of Medicine in the University of Adelaide, decided to form a small team to study the new disease kuru, recently reported from the highlands of New Guinea by V. Zigas and D. C. Gajdusek. Henry Bennett (Professor of Genetics) remembers that Robson was encouraged to do this by John Eccles and Sydney Sunderland, then great figures in Australi...

ONE thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven began auspiciously for the Belfast Medical School with the appearance of the ninth edition of Whitla's "Dictionary of Medical Treatment." The first edition appeared in January, 1892, and was one of the outstanding medical textbooks of its time. William Whitla was 42 years of age, had held the Chair of Materia Medica for about a year, and his textbook on...

D. S. DANE, B.A., M.B. (Cantab.), Lecturer in Microbiology, Queen's University, Belfast with MOYA BRIGGS, B.Sc., and R. T. NELSON, A.I.M.L.T. IN the summer and early autumn of 1957 there was an epidemic of type 1 poliomyelitis in Northern Ireland. The principle area involved was Belfast County Borough (population approximately 450,000), where there were 162 cases of acute poliomyelitis, of whic...

amount of total expenditures is reduced to an amount per inhabitant. Interyear and interstate variations in the total outlay for assistance payments depend upon differences between years and among States in the average monthly assistance payments per recipient, the proportion of the population aided (recipient rates), and the size of the total population. In analyzing variations in assistance e...