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Richard Hugh Brew

year. He was born at Ballyvaughan Rector}/, Co. Clare, the only son of Richard St. John Brew, an officer who died at the early age of 27, and was educated at the medical schools of Dublin and at Edinburgh, where in 1884 he obtained his diplomas of L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S., and L.M. Edin. After a short assistantship at Chesham, he practised in Birmingham, but moved to Chew Magna shortly after his marr...

Home-Brew the Blockbuster

Photo A. The six-meter Blockbuster. A lthough I enjoy ragchewing, DX-chasing, contesting, satellite work, and just about every conceivable aspect of amateur radio, the activity I enjoy most of all is home-brewing, especially home-brewing with a purpose. This article describes a reasonably ambitious effort which was precipitated by a very distinct purpose: I wanted to become more competitive in ...

Chemical Brew of Criminal Behavior,The

Strange brew: assessing risk of chemical mixtures.

Intravenous administration of the anticancer drug, cis-dichlorodimmineplatinum (CDDP) leads to tumour regression in 50% of patients with advanced ovarian cancer (Gershenson et al, 1981; Adams et al, 1984). The number of treatment failures, coupled with the drug-induced host toxicities in this condition, have prompted studies on the human tumour stem cell assay (Salmon & Von Hoff; 1982) in which...

The witches' brew of spirituality and medicine.

Recent proposals to join spirituality and medicine are facile and ill defined. The notion that physicians have the time or training to make assessments and recommendations about spirituality is misguided. Whenever a physician demonstrates personal caring for a patient, the healing process is likely enhanced, and in that sense, physicians often promote the spirituality of the patient. However, r...