BRITISH

MEDICAL JOURNALJOURNAL OF THE BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

SATURDAY JANUARY 19 1946

TABLE OF CONTENTS600 Cases of Sprue in India K. D. KEELE, M.D., and J. P. BOUND, M.B . ........................ 77

Outbreak of Weil's Disease in the British' Army in ItalyJ. H. HUTCHISON, M.D., J. S. PIPPARD, M.B., M. H. GLEESON-WHITE, M.B., and H. L. SHEEHAN, M.D......81

Primary Tuberculosis in Children W. F. GAISFORD, M.D.84Intelligence and Infant Mortality in Problem Families s. w. SAVAGE, M.D........... 86

Spontaneous HaemothoraxMEDICAL MEMORANDA

Fatal Aortic-Oesophageal Fistulafrom a Swallowed Piece of Bone.G. W. A. DICK, M.B., and G. E.NEVILL, M.B ............................. 90

GENERAL ARTICLES AND NEWSWith the Partisans in Albania. J. G.DUMOULIN, M.B . ......................... 96

New Year Medical Honours Part 11 100Investigation of Nutrition . .96The Campaign against Cancer........... 98COMMONWEALTH FUND FELLOWSHIPS 99ORDER OF ST. JOHN........................ 100rHE SERVICES ..............................111UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES............ IIMEDICAL NEWS ............................. I 113

REVIEWSMovement of Extravascular Fluid in

the Lungs ............................. 90History of Science.......................... 90A Medical Tract........................... 91Notes on Books............................. 91

LETTERS AND ANSWERSDermatitis Herpetiformis-Modern Col-ostomy-Coroners and Mental Hospitals--Effect of Tobacco on the Heart-Boveri Test for Tuberculous Meningitis-Penicillin for Styes-Time of Deathafter Injury-Painful Feet-Penicillinfor Gonorrhoea-Alveolar Absorption-Pregnancy in Middle Age - Flatu-lence and Auricular Fibrillation - In-come Tax-Surface-marking the LowerBorder of the Liver-Venereology-R.A.M.C.T.A. Reunions - ObstetricInstruments Wanted .............. 114-16

Epidemiology Section................. 112

A. MUIR CRAWFORD, M.D., and J. SHAFAR, M.D. ..... ............... 88

LEADING ARTICLESSprue .2.............................9Infections in the Lent Term ............... 93

ANNOTATIONSJuvenile Delinquency and its Remedy 94Arsenic in Tobacco Smoke................ 94Jittery Legs.............................. 95

OBITUARYLockhart Lowe, M.R.C.S ............ 110Alice McLaren, M.D. .... ............... 110W. H. Unwin, M.D., F .RK .S. ..... ..... 110E. S. Miller, M.B. ..................... 110Lady (Margaret) Bhore, O.B.E., M.B ..IIIJ. Price Williams, M.D ................. IIIC. H. East, M.D .......................

REPORTS OF SOCIETIESMEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH:Human Gamma-globulin ..... 101

CORRESPONDENCENutrition in Vienna. MAGNUS PYKE,

Ph.D. ..........ti.e........K....Sir. 102Tropical Medicine in the U.K. SirPHILIP MANSON-BAHR, M.D.: H. M.STANLEY TURNER, M.D . ............... 102

SUPPLEMENTThe Health Service: How it Can beDone. W. E. EDWARDS, M.D. ...... 11

Heard at Headquarters..................... 12CORRESPONDENCE.............................. 13MEDICAL REPRESENTATION IN PARLIA-MENT FUND.............................. 14

ASSOCIATION NOTICES ...................... 14

CORRESPONDENCE--contd.Leprosy Control in India. D. ROSENBERG,

M.R.C.S. ............................. 102Stethoscope v-. X Rays. JAMES MAXWELL,

M.D.; E. WEATHERHEAD, M.B. ........ 103Physical Therapy in Mental Disorder.

H. CRICHTON-MILLER, M'.D.; C. H.ROGERSON, M.D.; J. A. AINSLIE,M.R.C.S.; JAN FRANK, M.D.

..........103

Paraesthesias. R. WARTENBERG, M.D. . . 105Hospital Service. E. C. BEVERS, F.R.C.S. 105A Fundamental Principle. J. A. RYLE,

M.D.; R. G. BLAIR, M.B.; IGEOFFREYBOURNE, M.D. . 105

The Industrial Nurse. W. BLOOD,M.R.C.S. .105

Textile Contact Dermatitis. G. A. GRANTPETERKIN, M.B. .......... ............ 106

Spinal Analgesia. C. R. BOLAND, F.R.C.S.I. 106Choice of Anaesthesia. K. C. GRIGOR,

M.B. .. .............................. 106Shock and Open Ether. W. N. ROLLASON,

M.B. ................................ 106Frequency of Micturition after Injection

of Haemorrhoids. H. P. WINSBURY-WHITE. F.R.C.S ...................... 107

Varicose Ulceration. STUART MCAUSLAND,M.D.; J. F. JENKINS, M.R.C.S.; R. S.HARVEY, M . ...... 107

Questionaries. S. F. L. DAHNE, M.B.J. FRANKLAND WEST, M.B....... 108

Domiciliary Midwifery and the FamilyDoctor. R. G. GORNALL, M.D. ...... 108

Venereology. G. BENION THOMAS,F.R.C.S.Ed. ...........................

109"Chronic Ear Disease." C. DE W. GIBB,

F.R.C.S.Ed. ............... ............109

Paracentesis and Myringotomy. W. 0.REID, F.R.C.S.Ed.; J. K. MILLIGAN,M.R.C.S. ..... ....

109"Cord Round the Neck." M. REDDING-TON, F.R.C.S. 109

Adder Bite. F. R. B. H. KENNEDY,L.R.C.S. ........................ 110

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