Elisapee and her Baby Seagull by N. Mike

The Ordinary Devoted Mother and Her Baby

By D. W. Winnicott, F.R.C.P. Apply " Pamphlet 47 Queen Anne Street, London, W.l. Is. 2d. post free. This little book whifch contains nine broadcast talks given by Dr. D. W. Winnicott, is quite charming. It is a simple account of the relationship between mother and baby, explaining what each means to the other. Dr. Winnicott takes it for granted that mothers love their babies and want to do the ...

The Expectant Mother and Her Baby

_ This little book strikes a new note in medical publications by authors in India. In the first place the "author, who is an Edinburgh student, has gone to British publishers, with the result that the book is admlirably printed, free from typographical errors, well bound, and well published. Secondly, it is written especially from the Indian point of view whilst the author has a certain forcefu...

Narcotic addiction: the expectant mother and her baby.

In a retrospective study of the period 1982-1985, the records of 29 narcotic-addicted mothers and their 42 babies were reviewed. All mothers were from socially deprived backgrounds, had a poor record of ante-natal attendance and had frequent admissions to hospital. Thirteen mothers had a past history of hepatitis B and four were HBsAg positive. The babies had significantly lower mean gestationa...

Hadwiger’s Conjecture and Seagull Packing

T he four-color theorem [1, 2] is one of the most well-known results in graph theory. Originating from the question of coloring a world map, posed in the middle of the nineteenth century, it has since fascinated hundreds of researchers and motivated a lot of beautiful mathematics. It states that every planar graph (that is, a graph that can be drawn in the plane without crossings) can be proper...

Mike Anderson