The rapid advances in surgery and anaesthetics are making more extensive surgical procedures possible and allowing more “poor risk” patients to be operated on with a reasonable chance of survival. An important advance has ...

Scientists, and medical men are scientists, have been attacked for the poor quality of their writing, and yet, as Professor Kapp (1950) remarked at a meeting of the British Association a few years ago, during the past half ...

Anaesthesia for obstetrical cases is regarded by the general practitioner and occasionally even by the anaesthetist with great respect and a certain amount of fear; and rightly so, for in the hands of an inexperienced ...

The diagnosis of the true nature of a lymph gland enlargement must finally rest upon histological evidence. With the increasing use of radiotherapy it often happens that patients are treated without a definite diagnosis ...