THERE is apparently some little difference of opinion at Beyrout as to the nature and extent
of the medical assistance required in view of the present sufferings and diseases of the …

Hospital. No. 1 General Hospital comprises all the hospital buildings at Wynberg and has
been already described by me in my first letter. 1 I was consulted concerning many wounded …

IT is most important that communications relating to the Editorial business of THE LANCET
should be addressed exclusively" To THE EDITORS," and not in any case to a. ny …

ONE way of teaching children to swim is to throw them into deep water; and this was the way
in which my generation learned to give anaesthetics. Nowadays there is no excuse for …

GENTLEMEN,-A Course of Lectures upon the diseases of the or-gans of sight and hearing
demands your special attention, from their great importance in a practical point of view, from …

SIR, — The present manner of giving and receiving certificates is a great and some-
times insufferable nuisance; if the examina-tions at the various boards were more severe …

Officer, No. 2: Small penetrating gun-shot wound on the inner side of the popliteal space of
the right knee, with purulent effusion under the fascia of the leg and thigh; a, superficial …

T. uis is the story of how the first health centre has been built at the new town of Harlow in
Essex. In a sense, it is also the story of Britain's first health centre, since it has been brought …

Speaking in 2016 Professor Sir Eldryd Parry recalled his student days in the UK during the
1950s, first at Cambridge University and thereafter at the then Welsh National School of …

THERE is an old adage that the looker-on sees most of the game. One of us who is a looker-
on at general practice has visited Hungary and East Germany; the other, a general …