Gastroenterology in Australia, 1949-69.

Cardiac surgery relative to population: pattern of cardiac surgery in South Australia, 1949--75.

The total work load of the sole cardiac surgery unit in South Australia has been analysed by means of a computer-based data retrieval system. The review covers the period 1949--75 inclusive. This study analyses the case-loads year by year, in total, and in different diagnostic categories, and has allowed conclusions to be drawn about surgical needs relative to population figures. From these fig...

Poliomyelitis in Bristol, 1949

During the warm dry summer and autumn of 1947 the prevalence of acute anterior poliomyelitis increased in Britain to an extent never before recorded. Cases were widespread but unevenly distributed over the country ; and some areas, notably the mountains of Wales and Scotland, showed no epidemic incidence of the disease. -The greatest number of cases occurred in August, and the curve was still h...

Mental Deficiency in 1949

Isotopes and Identity: Australia and the Nuclear Weapons Option, 1949-1999

One of the most impressive historical transformations in state nuclear weapons policies has been Australia’s switch from active supporter of the development and spread of the bomb in the 1950s and 1960s, to world leader in the effort to rein it in from the 1970s to the present day. There is a wide gap, to say the least, between 1950s-era Australia’s hospitable welcome to British nuclear tests o...

Gastroenterology

This book is one of a series of handbooks commissioned by the British Nuclear Medicine Society to act as a guide to Clinicians interested in the clinical use of radioactive tracers. The book is designed to discuss the potential applications of radioactive trace methods to clinical problem solving. No one would dispute the attraction of a series of this kind and after the choice of topic, the mo...