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Notes and News

HEALTH EDUCATION

IN London during the past week the World Health

Organisation has, been holding a regional conference on healtheducation. Attended by experts from the United Kingdomand 18 countries of Western Europe, its object has beento bring together " for mutual discussion medical administra-tors and persons actively engaged in health education workwith the primary objective of, first, identifying the constituentsof a total programme of health education of the public and,second, of planning toward expansion of health educationwithin countries and the European regibn- as- & whole."The joint chairmen have been Dr. J. M. Mackintosh, professorof public health at the London School of Hygiene and TropicalMedicine, and Dr. Eugène Aujaleu, director of the depart-ment of social hygiene in the French ministry of public healthand population. On April 11 the meeting was opened byDr. N. D. Begg, director of the W.H.O. regional office forEurope, and the delegates were welcomed by Sir John Charles,chief medical officer, Ministry of Health, and by ProfessorMackintosh who gave an introductory address. Mr. lainMacleod, the Minister of Health, met the delegates on April 13.The leaders of discussions were Dr. John Burton, -medicaldirector of the Central Council for Health Education, Prof.Pierre Delore of Lyons, Frau Magda Telber, and Prof. JaapKoekebakker, and visits were paid by delegates to hospitals,clinics, and exhibitions in London. The proceedings of theconference were private.On the eve of the conference the Central Council for

Health Education gave a reception at B.M.A. House.

SCOTTISH N.H.S. COSTS

IN Scotland the total hospital expenditure for the yearended March 31, 1952, was £31,424,354, and for the executivecouncils £16,572,122. The report of the Comptroller andAuditor-General records that examinations were undertakenat 25 hospitals where costs were high compared with thenational average, and at a further 17 hospitals where " house-keeping " costs seemed high. Some of the high costs were dueto circumstances outside the control of the regional board, orhad to be interpreted carefully in the light of variations in thevolume of service provided and the general movement ofprices ; but it was thought that such special inquiries werenevertheless worth while. Special emphasis was placed on thecost of heating, which in some war-time hospitals built indispersed blocks was equivalent to £120 a year per occupiedbed ; but plans were already under way which would reducethis cost by a third.The pharmaceutical services for Scotland accounted for

an expenditure of £5,472,758. A total of 151,000 prescriptionforms (1-3% of the total) were scrutinised for evidence ofextravagance, but only 22 reports on prescribing of variousdoctors were referred for inquiry and only 2 fines were ulti-mately imposed. In addition, the Drugs Accounts Committee,who price the prescriptions, referred back 213 individual

prescriptions. Of these, 89 were thought to be excessive and4 fines were imposed.

LIVING WITH TUBERCULOSIS

INSTEAD of recording that the tuberculous are constitu-

tionally timorous, aggressive, hysteric, schizoid, obsessional,psychopathic, and whatnot (with appropriate percentages),Dr. Wilmer 2 propounds that they are normal men and womenwho in their pretuberculous days had found life a mixedblessing but had made an average sort of adjustment to it.Then the catastrophe of tuberculosis with all its implicationsand repercussions suddenly befalls them. How, he asks,can they be helped to stand up to this additional burden ?And he makes a gallant attempt to answer this question.

Just as in a sanatorium there is a basic physiologicalrégime of abundant food, fresh air, and long rest-hours,so has he set out to devise a basic psychological régime towhich all patients may similarly be exposed. His new

patients, having been given two or three weeks in which tosettle down and get over their initial bewilderment, are

then gathered together in a group and given informal little

1. National Health Service (Scotland) Acts, 1947 to 1951. Accounts1951-1952. H.M. Stationery Office. Pp. 27. 1s. 6d.

2. This is Your World. By HARRY A. WILMER, M.D., consultant inpsychiatry, San Mateo County Tuberculosis Sanatorium.Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas. Oxford: BlackwellScientific Publications. 1952. Pp. 152. 40s.

talks about adjusting to tuberculosis and to sanatorium life;after which, free-floating discussions are encouraged. Laterin the course of treatment patients with similar cultural ’backgrounds are invited to form discussion groups whichmeet from time to time and are led, if necessary, throughdeeper psychiatric waters. This pattern of psychothera.peutic action is thus partly prophylactic and partly first.’aid. (The occasional patient who needs more intensivepersonal treatment is spotted all the quicker.) It is offered,not as a panacea, but merely as a suggested line of action tobe modified according to circumstances.

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The three informal lectures on " Adjusting to Tuberculosis,"written as they were for American patients in Americaninstitutions, cannot be expected to travel well. Great stressis laid on the folly of patients who discharge themselvesprematurely (the irregular discharge-rate in the United Statesis higher than 50%) but this warning is, so far, less necessaryin this country. The sputum-positive patient’s infectivity,played down in Great Britain, is rubbed in vigorously in theU.S.A. (witness the habit of mask-wearing among all whocome in contact with the patient--except his visitors!)On the other hand, the possibility that tuberculosis couldever prove anything more than a tiresome interlude, let alonea fatal disease, to any member of his audience, is implicitlydenied by Dr. Wilmer. (" You are bound to get well in time"he seems to say ; inviting, surely, the rejoinder,

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Oh’yeah1What about Joe who was in the next bed ? ") It seems alsothat the American patient does not mind being urged toenlighten his visitors about tuberculosis, and is willing on hisdischarge to engage in propaganda against the disease.Nevertheless, in spite of these transatlantic differences inapproach and emphasis, the basic idea of these talks isexcellent. Of his ballad, " This is Your World," some 600lines of dialogue in vers libre between the wise doctor and thepatient in varying moods, it is hard to express an opinion.When read aloud by two intelligent actors to a musical

accompaniment, it may register more than it does in coldprint. Rather more fun is promised by the performance ofhis sixteen inconclusive charades, in which childhood episodesare enacted by patients, who have to improvise their linesand round off the dramatic situation when the script gives out.The book is certainly one that all sanatorium superin.

tendents should borrow, in view of the price, and ponder.A BURNS UNIT AT GUY’S

THE Ministry of Health lately suggested that the trainingof surgeons should include more experience in the treatmentof burns ; and this was one of the reasons why a new children’sburns unit has been established at Guy’s Hospitall Theunit has 12 beds-4 at Guy’s for the primary treatment ofsevere burns, and 8 at the nearby Evelina Hospital, to whichcases will be transferred for reparative surgery. The Evelinabeds will be part of the reconstructive and plastic unit whichis already dealing with congenital deformities. Mr. PatrickClarkson, who directs the burns unit, -and Mr. Rex Lawrie,senior surgeon at the Evelina, will be in joint charge of

reparative treatment and aftercare.

WOOD BED-CRADLE ‘

AT Nottingham General Hospital a wood bed-cradle,

designed by the senior nursing staff with the aim of takingthe weight of the bed-clothes off the patient’s feet; has proveevery satisfactory This cradle, shown in the accompanyngfigure, is easy andinexpensive to

make ; it is puttogether with brassscrews so that itcan be easilywashed, and whennot in use it can be

clamped under thebed in a steelframe. The foot ofthe mattress fitsinside the cradleand is thus fixed,so that " creeping "ia Drevented. Thesheet and blankets are placed over the end of the cradle

..... can be

and tucked in. If necessary an additional blanket ean Ut’placed across the end of the bed for extra warmth,

and to

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prevent draughts. The cradle does not interfere with the

patient using a bed-table. The chairman of the hospitalwrites that, many patients who have been in bed for a longtime have been grateful for having their feet free. " Themedical staff," he adds,

" find these cradles an excellentelbow-rest when stopping to talk to a patient. In fact, someward sisters call them ’doctors’ detainers.’ "Any hospital management committee that is interested

can obtain a sketch showing dimensions and details of con-struction from the Secretary, Nottingham no. 1 HospitalManagement Committee, c/o the General Hospital, Not-

tingham.. THE MEDICAL DIRECTORY

THE names of untraceable medical practitioners, mainlywith overseas qualifications, having been omitted, TheMedical Directory 19531 contains 3116 fewer names and9i, fewer pages than it did last year. There are no new

features, and the price remains the same.

. TO COMPLETE THE SET

THE Harveian Librarian of the Royal Collego of PhysiciansofLondon (Prof. E. C. Dodds, F.B..S.) is seeking a copy of theHarveian oration for 1849, which is the only volume missingfrom the college’s set of these lectures. The followingparticulars of the oration, are given in the catalogue of theArmy Medical Library :BADELEY (Joh. Carr.) Oratio ex Harveii Institute in mdibun, Collegii Regalis Medicorum habita pridie calend. Julii,

A.D. 1849. 20pp. 8’. London : J. Churchill, 1849.

Professor Dodds asks anyone who can help him in the questto write to him at the college, Pall Mall East, S.W.I.

University of LiverpoolAt recent examinations the following were successful :Ph,D. in the Faculty of Medicine.—E. S. Jones.M.B., Ch.B., final examination, part II.—J. D. Agnew, .1. A.

Ba,rlow, A. G. Bowers, VI. J. A. Britten, N. T. Burnett, B. J.Charhel, R. W. Coffee, J. S. Comaish. J. R. Cope, G. W. Danger,fi. S. Davies, R. J. G. Downie, Florence M. Duckenfield, D. P.Dufteld, T. R. Evans, R. Finn, J. G. Foley, 1). Gardner, Anne M.Godfrey, D. H. Goldsmith, Mary Gregson, Patricia 0. Grundy,W,B.Hanley, P. A. Harrison, J. W. Hill, H. B. Hilton, E. J. M.Hopkins, C. L. Imison, R. A. Johnson, P. L. Jones, P. King. J. B.Laine, V. Leach, C. L. Levene, G. Lloyd, B. A. Lowe, Joan K.llcCann, Anne D. Micah, J. B. Middleton, J. M. Nichols, F. T.O’Brien, B. J. O’Dowd, L. Ratoff, M. R. Rayman. A. Roberts,S. S. Rubenstein3 M. J. Samuels, H. savage, Eleanor K. Scott,T. F. Shelley, Mary E. Shepherd, A. Speakman, D. Taylor-Robinson,D. A. Thomas, R. S. Todd, V. Tonge, A. Turner, M. R. B. WaUiee,IV. P, Walsh, P. K. Wilson, Elizabeth A. Witham, N. C. Woodier,G. H. Worsley, I. Wort.

University of AberdeenOn April 2, the following degrees were conferred :M.D.—Joan bI. Burrell, with commendation ; It. N. Johnstou,

S. J. H. Miller.M.B., Ch:B.-J. W. Davidson, Marion E. Mackay, (.’. G. c’lark,

W. D. Wilson, with commendation ; J. B. O. Armstrong, R. A.Browne, C. I. T. Cruickshank, C’hristobel Donald, Annabelle M.Duguid, Mary E. Duncan Eleanora J. Elmslie, Graham Findlay,J. A. Fowler, C. V. Fraser J. S. Fraser, R. D. Garson, G. M. Gill,.J.Gray, Elizabeth N. Grieve, W. S. Hossack, Wilma E. M.Hoyte,A, G. Ironside, G. D. Laing, R. D. Laurenson, A. A. Lawrence,James Lawrence, W. C. M. Lawrence, J. G. Ledingham, DouglasLeslie, R. D. Little, 1. M. Lowit, Robert Lynch, A. P. McBain,A. M. McConachie, I. C. McLean, Donovan Macleod, Joseph Main,Helen M. Maitland, W. E. Mickleburgh, Jessie C. Millar, C. G. Mitchell,M. J. Mitchell, P. E. G. Mitchell, Dorothy N. Mortimer, D. A. E.Mcwitt. J. H. Palmer, J. A. Pattillo. G. T. Pollock, 1. F. Ralph,R, D. Richmond, Gladys M. Riddell, G. M. MoLobb, R. J. D.Robson; Lydia J. Rose, J. M. Ross, A. M. Semmence, A. W.Simpson, A. J. Smith, R. W. G. Stewart, R. W. Strachan, G. H.SMpp, P. G.’Todd, A. H. Wade, G. W. lVebster, J. H. Williamson,Jane M. IViseman, J. R. Wood, M. B. Yorston.

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University of GlasgowMr. W. A. Mackey has been appointed to the St. Mungo chair

of surgery (Royal Infirmary) in succession to Prof. J. A. G.Burton, who retires at the end of the session.Mr. Mackey graduated M.B. with honours at the University of

Glasgow in 1927 when he was awarded the Brunton prize as themost distinguished graduate in medicine of his year. For threeyears he acted as assistant in pathology under Sir Robert Muir,F.B.s., and later he became’an assistant in the department of surgerynnder Prof. Archibald Young. With a Rockefeller fellowship in;urgery he spent a year in the United States. In 1934 he becameF.R.F.P.S. and the following year F.R.C.S.E. Before the outbreak of thelate war Mr. Mackey was in command of the medical unit of theuniversity o.T.o., and during the war he served in the R.A.M.C. aslieut.-colonel in charge of the surgical divisions of various hospitalsm Europe and the Middle East. On his return from war service he

1. London: J. & A. Churchill. 1953. Pp. 2727. £3 12s.

became assistant, in surgery under Prof. C. F. W. Illingworth, andlast year ho was appointed a surgeon in charge of wards at theSouthern General Hospital, Glasgow. Mr. Mackey is a member ofthe council of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain andIreland, a member of the International Surgical Society, and afounder member of the European Society of Angeiology. He haspublished papers on the surgical treatment of arterial hypertensionand of Banti’s syndrome.

Royal College of Surgeons of EnglandAt a meeting of the council held on April 9, with Sir Cecil

Wakeley, the president, in the chair, Prof. Reynaldo dosMantes of Lisbon was admitted to the honorary fellowship..The following were elected to the fellowship without examina-t,ion as being medical practitioners of at least 20 years’standing : Mr. W. E. Tucker (Bermuda), Prof. F. Davies(Sheffield), Mr. J. Dobson (Wigan), Mr. R. Scot Skirving(Sydney), Mr A. E. Coates (Melbourne).The Jacksonian prize for 1952 was awarded to Mr. John

Borrie, and a certificate of honourable mention was awardedto Mr. Rodney Smith. The council selected the following asthe subject for the Jacksonian prize for 1954: Melanomasand Melanosis.

Diplomas were granted jointly with the Royal College ofPhysicians to the following :

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D. Phys. Med.—L. S. Bain, E. E. Bullock, A. B. Coyer. J. A. Joyce,Stephen Mattingly, A. P. H. Randle, -Dorothy J. Roth, R. A.Shaddick, G. 0. Storey.D.O.-Judith MacA. Brown, Rahmat Ullah Chowdhary, Khurshed

Jehangir Dastur, J. M. Heaton. Savitri Itchhaporia, B. R. Jones,Mary A. C. Jones. A. T. Karsgaard, llithlesh Kumar Mehra, JohnMoss. Mohamed Nawaz, C. 1. Phillips, Ahmad Samad, JagjitSingh, J. R. van der Merwe. B. I. Williams, Thomas Wilson.D.T.M. & II.-Imteyazuddin Ahmad, Anwar-ul-Islam, Timothy

Awuku-Asabre, Abdu Rasaki Oladeinde Bakare, S. A. Biggart,E. B. Bright, G. H. Burgess, Carmel Caehia, J. E. Cranswick,R. A. Davis, Silas Rofine Amu Dodu, P. F. Doherty, 1. M. Grant,U. H. Gurd, Shiekh Mohammed Mazharul Haque, Habib GabrielHenduw, C. S. Heymann, Jasmine R. Jacob, Vicken Vahan Kalbian,W. N. Laing, A. R. T. Luudie, A. D. A. Maconochie, D. E. Marmion,Supperamaniam VIadesan, M. C. Peterside, Irene Rajaratnam,Dattatraya Ramadwar, Saville Paul, A. W. Senft, Paja Sirivorasarn,H. G. Skinner, G. J. Stott, Gladys M. Vanniasingham, A. V. A.Vethanayagam, Shyamlal Vyas, M. C. Williams, William Williams,Ross Woodward.D.L.O.-P. J. Damato.D.I.H.-P. H. Nash.D.M.R.T.—R. Finney.

Royal College of Physicians of LondonProf. R.. A. McCance, F.R.S., will deliver the Humphry Davy

Rolleston lectures at the college, Pall Mall East, S.W.I, onTuesday and Thursday, May 5 and 7, at 5 P.M. The subjectof the lectures is Overnutrition and Undernutrition.

Sanderson-Wells LectureProf. E. C. Dodds, F.R.S., will deliver this lecture on May 20,

at 4.30 P.M., at the Middlesex Hospital, London, W.l. Thetitle of the lecture will be Chemicals and Food, AReconsideration. ,

Society of ChiropodistsThe annual convention of this society will be held in.

London from May 7 to 9. Further particulars may be hadfrom the secretary of the society, 21, Cavendish Square, W.I.

Society of Chemical IndustryAt a meeting of the crop-protection panel of the agriculture

group, to be held at the Chemical Society, Burlington House,London, W.I, on April 20, at 5.30 P.M., Mr. J. R. Booor,PH.D., will discuss Organo-mercurial Fungicides.British AssociationThe annual meeting of the association will be held this year

in Liverpool from Sept. 2 to 9 under the presidency of SirEdward Appleton, F.R.S.

Convalescence for the ElderlySeapark House, Greenisland, co. Antrim, was opened

on April 10 by Mr. lain Macleod, Minister of Health -forEngland and Wales, as a convalescent home for elderlypatients discharged from geriatric units who no longer needhospital care but are not yet fit to look after themselves intheir own homes or in residential homes. The house wasbought and equipped with money allocated from a gift of£1 million to the people of Britain from the people of SouthAfrica. It belongs to the National Corporation for the Careof Old People, and is the fourth of its sort-the other threeare at Englefield Green, Stanmore, and Glasgow. The newhome will be maintained jointly by the Northern IrelandHospitals Authority and by welfare authorities.

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Lind Bicentenary .

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In honour of the bicentenary of the publication of JamesLind’s Treatise on the Scurvy, the Nutrition Society is holdinga conference at Edinburgh on Friday and Saturday, May 22

’_ and 23. - During the conference Surgeon Vice-Admiral SirSheldon Dudley, F.R.s., will give an address on Lind, and Prof.V. P. Sydenstricker will speak on the Impact of VitaminResearch on the Practice of Medicine. Further particularsmay be had from Dr. C. P. Stewart, the department of clinicalchemistry, clinical laboratory, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh.Courses for Matrons of Homes for Old

The. National Old People’s Welfare Committee will holda four-month training course, boginning, in October, for womenwishing to take up work as matrons or assistant matronsof homes for old people. The course will include six weeks’theoretical training at a centre in London, four weeks’ practicaltraining in the. geriatric units of London hospitals, and sixweeks’ practical training in old people’s homes. Further

particulars may be had from the committee, 26, BedfordSquare, W.C.I.

Medical Research in LiberiaA broad international programme of research into problems

of tropical medicine and health is to be initiated immediatelyin Liberia, West Africa, by the Liberian Institute of theAmerican Foundation for Tropical Medicine. Dr. Edward I.Salisbury, president of the institute, has announced that theinstitute is also to provide for the education of physicians in

the treatment and control of tropical diseases. " Today," hedeclared,

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graduates seeking opportunities for field work arelimited, almost entirely to the few large companies operatingin the tropics which maintain medical departments."Clergy and DoctorsA meeting for clergy and doctors in the Rural Deanery ofCaterham is to be held on Tuesdav, May 19, at 8.30 r.zs-.,in- the clubroom adjoining St. Andrew’s Church, Coulsdon,when the Rev. F. S. Sinker, M.B., will speak on Cooperationbetween Clergy and Doctors. Further .particulars may be hadfrom Dr. J. B. Gurney Smith (Royal Earlswood Institution,Redhill, Surrey), treasurer of the Union of St. Luke forCommunicant Anglican Doctors, or from Dr. R. H. Hardy(1, Rolle Villas, Exmouth, South Devon), secretary of theunion, who will also supply details about the union to thoseinterested,Prizes for- Medical FilmsIn the second competition organised by La Presse Médicale

for medico-surgical films, the first prize (frs. 50,000) wasawarded to J. Frederic and R. Robineaux (Paris) for theirfilm " Cytophysiologie des phagocytes " ; two second prizes(frs. 25,000) were awarded to M. Dargent (Lyonsj for the film" Resection du maxillaire superieur," and to Hofmann-

Saguez (Paris) for the film "Laryngectomie reconstitutive."Awards (frs. 10,000) were also made to Lapeyssonnie (Corpsde Sante colonial) for the film " La lepre " ; to Baron (Paris)and Fowler (New York) for the film " Vertiges et lentillesprismatiques " ; to J. Demirieau (Tunis) for the film

" Traite-men,t- chirurgical des kystes hydatiques du poumon par lakystectomie"; and to J. T. Rice Edwards (Newport, Mon.)for the film Resection of- the oesophagus."Medical Art Society .

After the -opening of this society’s annual exhibition inLondon last Monday, members and their guests dined togetherat the Cafe Royal. Mr. Bernard Adams, R.P., proposingThe Society,-provided professional encouragement and cheer-fulness.. Sii7-Philip Manson-Bahr, the president, spoke favour-ably of other guests and benefactors including Mr. PhillipLambe, Mr. Adrian Beach, Mr. J. L. Naimaster of’Walker’sGalleries, and especially Dr. A. M. Rackow, the hon. secretary.Replying for The ‘Guests, Lord Moran admitted that soonafter qualifying he had forsaken medicine for a year spentamong’ the- art galleries of Italy. He could not understandwhy men- of business or affairs should grudge the 40 sittings—a mere two -or three days-that would give them theirone chance of posthumous fame.The society, which was founded in 1935 and now has

about 130 members, holds meetings monthly in the winter.These include criticism by professional artists, demonstrationsof techniques -in various media, and discussions. The presentexhibition, which is briefly reviewed on p. 792, remains opentill April 25. The hon. secretary may be addressed at

Flat 4, 11, Hornton Street, London, W.8.

Food and the FutureThe fourth meeting in the series on this subject, which

the food group of the nutrition panel of the Society of ChemicalIndustry is holding, will take place at the Chemical Soeiety’srooms, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W.I, onWednesday,- April 22, at 6.15 r.M. Mr. W. F. J. Cuthbertson,F.R.I.C., and Mr. P. N. Williams, F.R.I.C., will speakonSyntheticFood Potentialities ; and Mr. N6.t-man Wright, D.SC., willsummarise the whole series. - - -

CORRIGENDUM: Tracing the Staphylococcus.—In the- thirdparagraph of our annotation last week (p. 734) the sentencebeginning in line 11 should read "In the mothers of theseinfants the prevalence was higher- than the adult nomallevel (40-60%) only in the first 2 months after delivery ;..."

Lord Boyd-Orr, F.R.S., former director-general of the linitedNations Food and agriculture Organisation, arrived in Karachi onApril 12, to become chairman of the newly formed Pakistan. "grovmore food " emergency committee.

Dr. C. H. Andrewes, F.R.S., Prof. L. P. Garrod, and Prof. RobertCruickshank are to attend the third Middle East Medical Symposiumat the American University of Beirut from April 17 to 19 as delegatesof the United Kingdom. Tliey will also give lectures in the NewEast on behalf of the British Council.

Under the chairmanship of Prof. Arvid ’"’allg-re-’n (StockhoJl)1)a W.H.O. team of experts is visiting Indoneeia. The team includesProf. E. W. H. Cruickshank, Prof. M. L. Rosenheim, Prof. R. Rllacintosh, and Prof. Alan Stevenson.A low-sodium milk powder is shortly to be marketed by Trufood

Ltd. In a note on April 4 (p. 703) we drew attention to low-sodiumfoods manufactured in the U.S.A.

Diary of the WeekAPRIL 19 TO 25

Tuesday, 21st _

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, Lincoln’s.Inn l’’ields,BV.C.’23.45 P.M. Dr. 13. E. Heard : Structure of Tumour Cells. (Erasmus

W’ilson demonstration.)SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF ADDICTION

8 P.M. (11, Chandos Street, W.I.) Dr. W. R. Belt: Viiieuntvan Gogh—Artist and Addict.

Wednesday, 22nd -

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS5.30 P.-M. Mr. Arthur Jacobs: Ureterocolic Anastomusis.

ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, 1, WiuipOlc Street, W.I5 r.M. Section of Endocrinoloyy. Prof. G. W. Pickering:

Bilateral Adrenalectoniy- for Hypertension. Dr. R. U.Sitraguc : Cushing’s SyudroiMe. ’

ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND HYGIENE, 28, PortlandPlace, W.I

3.30 P.M. Dr. YB’. Bentley Purchase : Experiences at the Barand as a London Coroner.

HARVEIAN SOCIETY OF LONDON, 11. Chandos Street, W.I8.15 P.M. Dr. John ii Rawksley-, Prof. Montagne Maizels: P.U.O,

NORTH-WESTERN TUBERCULOSIS SOCIETY3.30 P.M. (Aintree Hospital, Liverpool, U.) Dr. W. S. SuUm:

Bronchiectasis.

Thursday, 23rd ,

ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL COLLEGE, Dlillllank, S.W.I5 P.M. Sir Francis Fraser : Privileges of a Learned Profession.

ST. GEORGE’S HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL, Hyde Park Corner, S.W.I5 P.M. Dr. Desmond Curran: Psychiatry demonstration.

HONYMAN GILLESPIE LECTURE5 P.M. (University New Buildings, Teviot Placc, Edinburgh.)

Dr. A. Rae Gilchrist : Coronary Sclerosis.UNlVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS ’

J r.M. (Medical School, Small’s Wynd. Dundec.) Mr. B’. Mailer: Tleatinent of Peptic Ulceration.

Friday, 24thROYAL, SOCIETY 01" MEDICINE ,

8.15 P.M. Section of Obstetrics and Gynœcology Mr. L. E. C.Noi-bury, Mr. E. BV. Riches, Mr. D. H. AlacLeod: Lesionsof Intestine and R(mal Tract ltesembling Disease of tbcFemale Ucnital Tract.

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BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF PLASTIC BURGEONS11.30 A.M. (Royal College of Surgeons.) Mr.’J. P. Reidy. Mr.

E: BV. Poet, Prof. T. P. Kiincr : Corrective Rhinoplasty.INSTITUTE OF LARYNGOLOGY AND OTOLOGY, 330, Gray’s Inn Road,

W.C.I3.30 P.M. Mr. S. E. Birdsall: Otitis Externa.

MEDICAL SOCIETY FOR STUDY OF VENEREAL DISEASES, 11, ChandosStreet, W.I

7.30 P.M. Dr. C. S. Nicol, Dr. D. G. 1:1’. Edward : Rôle of Plpneumonia-like Organisms in Genital Infections.

Saturday, 25th _ . ;

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBJMDUE10.30 A.M. (Addenbrooke’s Hospital.) Symposium on Cardif-

vascular Diseases. ’