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a would-be specialist through a further obligatory stage, post-graduate clinical research. The author’s deep cynicism and dis-illusionment regarding high-technology medicine are here

afforded ample illustrations from among the meekly sufferingpatients who serve as convenient academic fodder for further-ing the reputations of ambitious consultants. However, thebudding research acolytes in this elaborate game do not lackfor diversions and easily counter the tedium and horrors oftheir daily rounds with an injudicious mixture of sex, love,beer, and skittles. The prescription, in fact, is much as before,but the highly technical language and satirical tone of theactive medical ingredients in this new bottle could just possiblydetract from the saleability of the richly erotic solvent.

University of Manchester

Surgeon Captain N. J. Blacklock has been appointed to thenewly established chair of urological surgery.

Captain Blacklock, who is 49, graduated M.B. from the Universityof Glasgow in 1950; he became F.R.C.S. in 1957. After National Ser-vice in the Navy he worked in surgery and urology in hospitals in Glas-gow and London. In 1958 he rejoined the Navy as a specialist in sur-gery with responsibility for all urological cases, working in Chatham,Plymouth, and Malta. In 1964 he was appointed to the Royal NavalHospital, Haslar, as consultant with responsibility for creating adepartment of urology. He is known particularly for his work on renalstone, male urinary-tract infection, and the prostate gland.

Dr Fred Stratton has been appointed professor of humanserology.Dr Stratton graduated B.sc. from the University of Manchester in

1934, M.B. in 1937, M.D. in 1944, and D.sc. in 1957. He became

deputy director of the Emergency Medical Service’s Blood Transfu-sion Service in Manchester in 1940. In 1946 he was appointed directorof the Ministry of Health Blood Transfusion Service, and since 1948he has been director of the Blood Transfusion Service provided by theManchester R.H.B. (now North Western R.H.A.). He is part-timereader in human serology at the University of Manchester, and hasserved as Government adviser on blood-transfusion on several occa-sions. He is co-author of Practical Blood Grouping.

Dr H. B. Stoner has been appointed to an honorary chairof surgical science.Dr Stoner graduated B.SC. from the University of Sheffield in 1939,

M.B. in 1942, and M.D. in 1946. He joined the R.A.M.C. as a residentanxsthetist and was seconded to the department of pathology at theUniversity of Sheffield, where he remained after demobilisation as amember of the external staff of the M.R.C. In 1953 he transferred tothe Toxicology Unit at the M.R.C. Laboratories in Carshalton. In1966 he became head of the Trauma Section which, in 1976, wasestablished as the M.R.C. Trauma Unit at the University of Manches-ter. His main interests are energy metabolism and mermoregulation ofinjury and he is known internationally for his work on the experimen-tal analysis of shock.

Royal College of General Practitioners

Mr Kenneth Robinson has been elected an honorary fellow.The Baron Dr Ver Heyden de Lancy award has been presentedto Dr R. J. F. H. Pinsent, the George Abercrombie award toDr John Fry, the Butterworth gold medal to Dr R. J. Taylor,and the Upjohn essay prize to Dr A. J. Tulloch.

Clinical and Experimental ImmunologyDr James Irvine has resigned as Editor of Clinical and

Experimental Immunology as from Dec. 31, 1977. The newEditor will be Prof. John Turk, of the Department of Patho-logy, Royal College of Surgeons, London. The editorial officeis moving to London, and all correspondence from Jan. 1,1978, should be sent to Professor Turk, c/o Blackwell Scien-tific Publications, 8 John Street, London WC1N 2ES.

Dr Frank Fairweather, a senior principal medical officer at theDepartment of Health and Social Security, has been appointed anhonorary physician to Her Majesty the Queen.

Dr C. G. Barnes has been elected chairman of the executive andfinance committee of the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council.

Dr John Vane, F.R.s., leader of the prostaglandin research team atthe Wellcome Research Laboratories, Beckenham, has been awardedthe Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for 1977; he sharesthe award with Dr Sune Bergstrom and Dr Bengt Sammuelsson, ofthe Karolinska Institute, Sweden.

Dr Emil Frei, III, director of the Sidney Farber Cancer Institute,Boston, has been awarded the second Jeffrey A. Gottlieb memorialaward of the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Hospital and TumorInstitute.

The 12th annual Heath memorial award of the University of TexasM. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute has been awarded toDr Georges Mathe, Institute of Cancerology and Immunogenetics,Villejutf, France.

A symposium entitled Mental Health Treatment-Is it Out of Con-trol ? is to be held at the New London Theatre, Drury Lane, at noonon Dec. 8; among the speakers will be Dr Thomas Szasz and DrAnthony Clare. Admission is 1.50. Details may be had from theCitizens’ Commission on Human Rights, 68 Tottenham Court Road,London Wl.

A symposium on genetic models of obesity in laboratory animals isbeing held at the Zoological Society of London on Feb. 16 and 17 bythe M.R.C. Laboratory Animals Centre, Woodmansterne Road, Car-shalton, Surrey SM5 4EF.

A symposium on controversies in cancer treatment is being held bythe European Organisation for Research on Treatment of Cancer inBrussels on April 26-29. Details may be had from Dr M. Staquet,EORTC Data Centre, Institut Jules Bordet, rue Heger-Bordet 1, 1000Bruxelles.

Diary of the Week

DEC. 4 TO 10

Monday, SthINSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY, St. John’s Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, Lisle

Street, Leicester Square, London WC1H 7BJ4.30 P.M. Mr K. W. Lee: The Biology of the Oral Mucosa.

INSTITUTE OF OBSTETRICS AND GvNACOLOGY, Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, Gold-hawk Road, London W6 OXG

4.45 P.M. Mr T. M. Coltart: H.P.L.-What Does it Do?

Tuesday, 6thINSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY

4.30 P.M. Dr R. A. J. Eady: The Ultrastructure of the Epidermis.WESTMINSTER MEDICAL SCHOOL, 17 Horseferry Road, London SW1P P 2AR

5.15 P.M. Mr Geoffrey Glazer: Investigations and Decision-making in Biliary-tract Disorders.

Wednesday, 7thROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON, 11 St. Andrew’s Place, Regent’s

Park, NWl 16 P.M. Dr Edwin Clarke: The Neural Circulation-the Role of Analogy in

Medicine. (Fitzpatrick lecture.)ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A

3PN4.30 P.M. Sir Rodney Smith: Tumours of the Liver. (Bradshaw lecture.)

INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY, National Hospital, Queen Square, London WC1N3BG

6 P.M. Dr J. B. Bnerley: Experimental Hypoxia and Ischemia.7 P.M. Dr R. W. Ross Russell: Posterior Cerebral Ischemia.

INSTITUTE OF ORTHOPEDICS, 234 Great Portland Street, London WIN 6AD6 P.M. Dr E. C. Huskisson: Assessment of Surgical Results.

NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL, Watford Road, Harrow, Middlesex HAl 3UJ1 P.M. Dr E. A. Hudson: Cervical Cytology-the Present Situation.

MANCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETYS P.M. (New Medical School.) Medicine. Dr D. M. Krikler: Modern Methods

in the Diagnosis of Cardiac Arrhythmias.

Thursday, SthINSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY

5.30 P.M Dr Alexander Hartmann (Heidelberg): Complication of Subarach-noid Hemorrhage, Evaluated by Measurement of CerebralBlood-flow and c.s.F. Pressure.

ROYAL INFIRMARY, Edinburgh EH3 9YW5 P.M. Dr M. F. Sudlow: Small Airways Disease-a Challenge or a Myth.

(Honyman Gillespie lecture.)