An Address ON GASTRIC HYPERACIDITY (HYPERCHLORHYDRIA); Its Nature, Diagnosis, and Treatment: Delivered before the Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society

Early Life *From an address delivered before the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society on 10th November, 1948.

At the passing of the first Public Health Act in 1848 the infant mortality in the industrial areas of some of our big cities was about 400 per thousand live biiths, perhaps a maximum for all time in this country. To-day we see the great skill and care devoted to the health and safety of mother and child, with the result that infant mortality is now one-tenth of that figure, and there has been a...

Gastric Hyperacidity (Hyper-Chlorhydria): Its Nature, Diagnosis, and Treatment

The Surgery of Vascular Disease *An address delivered before the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society, 12th January, 1949.

In this paper I do not propose to discuss the great advances which have been made recently in dealing with the large vessels in the chest and abdomen. Although first reported in 1945, they are all based on the methods of suture which were laid down by Alexis Carrel, as a result of experimental work, more than forty years ago. It was in 1906 that he successfully transplanted the kidneys of one d...

The Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh Fifty Years Ago—Valedictory Address

a Vale or farewell as your President. Looking back on past addresses by my Presidential forest's, the majority have dealt with the work of the Society during the term of Presidential office of the speaker. This method has never appealed to me. "No age can ^nte its own history." The work recently done by this 0ciety cannot be correctly judged by me, at any rate. It is to? recent. I am too near t...

The Dramatic in Gynæcology and Obstetrics *An address delivered to the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society on Wednesday, 9th February, 1949.