Cromwell as a Soldier

Dieulafoy lesion presenting as severe anaemia in a soldier.

An unusual presentation of severe anaemia in a young soldier is presented. A brief review of the nature of Dieulafoy lesions and treatment and difficulties of managing these in military primary care is considered.

Physician-soldier: a Moral Profession

Doctors performing brain surgery by flashlight during a blackout necessitated by a Japanese air raid. The austerity of the surroundings is evident in the lack of medical equipment and supplies. Just as the wounded soldier moves along a pathway from injury, to triage, to care, to recovery, military physicians need to travel along their own pathway of understanding themselves as both physician an...

Soldier rehabilitation.

Morphological variation in adult Cromwell chafer beetles Prodontria lewisi

Adult Cromwell chafer beetles (Prodontria lewisi) from the Cromwell area were investigated for sex-specific morphological variation. Material from the National Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research Auckland and the Otago Museum that had been collected since the 1940s was examined. Females were significantly larger than males, but size-related variables were not effective in distinguishing bet...

Conservation of the Cromwell Chafer Prodontria Lewisi (coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

The Cromwell chafer, Prodontria lewisi, is a flightless chafer beetle whose natural range appears not to have been more than 500 hectares and which now, because of habitat destruction and modification, is reduced to about 100 hectares. This inhabited area is situated on the terrace on which the town of Cromwell, Central Otago, is built. The continued existence of the Cromwell chafer is threaten...