D2. Question to D-1, Spinothalamic Tractotomy by Dr. Kuru

Spinothalamic Tractotomy for the Relief of Intractable Pain of Carcinoma of Pelvis

The gynaecologists, radiologists and general practitioners often face with despair the unfortunate and miserable patients with extensive inoperable carcinomas of pelvis who complain of their intractable, constant and agonizing pain. The gynaecologists direct these advanced inoperable carcinoma patients to the radiologists for treatment with deep x-ray or radium, knowing very well that their pai...

On a question by D. I. Mendeleev

Dr. Clifford D. Evans

Dr. Clifford D. Evans, formerly Consultant Dermatologist at the United Bristol Hospitals, died at his home on 14th February 1979 aged 72. He was educated at Ardingly, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and St. Mary's Hospital, where he qualified in 1932. After being a House Physician to the Medical Unit, St. Mary's Hospital and Assistant Medical Officer at Paddington Hospital, he was in General P...

Dr D J Bennett

enter the notorious Japanese Prisoner of War "camp" at Changi Gaol after the liberation. On demobilisation he returned to UCH and then moved to Bristol as a surgical registrar. In 1952 he travelled the USA in company with his wife, visiting gynaecological and surgical centres. Having passed the PRCS in 1953 he decided to enter general practice and joined the practice in Keynsham where he contin...

Kuru and D. Carleton Gajdusek: a close encounter.

Kuru, the first human transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, was transmitted to chimpanzees by D. Carleton Gajdusek (1923-2008). In this review, I briefly summarize the history of this seminal discovery alongside its epidemiology, clinical picture, neuropathology and molecular genetics. The discovery of kuru opened new windows into the realms of human medicine and was instrumental in the late...