At the height of Sino-Indian border dispute in 1962, Bertrand Russell, as “a lifetime friend India” (Unarmed Victory, p. 88), appealed to Prime Minister Nehru for peace. Yet first 75 years Russell’s life, India had not been an independent, developing state whose non-aligned diplomacy he could (usually) admire, but rather economically and stra­tegically vital part British Empire. Thus fraternal ...

The importance of achieving concentrations of both streptomycin and isoniazid adequate to sterilize all parent drug-susceptible organisms was empasized by in vitro studies on the prevention of emergence of mutants resistant to these drugs (1). Many factors determine the concentrations of these agents to which multiplying tubercle bacilli are exposed in the human subject: dosage; absorption and ...