Extracts from a Chapter on Leprosy in "A System of Bacteriology in Relation to Medicine," Vol. V. (Privy Council, Medical Research V. (Privy Council, Medical Research Council)

Privy Council Medical Research Council Memorandum No. 19. The Rh Blood Groups and Their Effects

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What is it famous for? While being the main UK government's agency for funding biomedical research, it is probably best known for having nurtured British molecular biology in Cambridge in the golden decade of the 1950s — whence came the double helix model of DNA (James Watson and Francis Crick), the first amino-acid sequence of a protein (insulin, Fred Sanger), and the first three-dimensional p...

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' Modern diagnosis and treatment make an increasing demand for methods by which the functional efficiency of organs or systems of the body may be objectively and quantitatively determined. It is important alike for the physician and for the surgeon to be able to assess the degree of impairment with which he has to deal. It may also be necessary to have means of measuring a disability for such p...

The Medical Research Council Trial.

THE medical literature over the past half dozen or more years has been strewn with reports and commentaries on the treatment of mild hypertension. Those who are particularly influenced by the evidence from the insurance companies point to the well-documented increased mortality in the presence of even a little high blood pressure, cite the efficacy of lowering blood pressure by various nonpharm...

Determining Research Priorities of the Medical Group: Medical Commission of the Scientific Research Council

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