Lady lawley wards

THE HISTORY OF NATURE by MARK LAWLEY

The Lady Almoner

j'HOUSANDS of patients pass through the doors of a great hospital every year, and not all are ln-patients. Many receive advice and treatment ^hich can be carried out at home, and in every hospital the out-patient department is very important. Long hours are devoted by skilled physicians and surgeons to the treatment of out-patients, but having given their help, what is impossible to the medical...

The Hon. Lady Darwin

One Old Lady

Paul Bailey's first novel, 'At the Jerusalem', led to wide acclaim from the critics of a new writer of major importance. Dr. Ralph Emery, a psychiatrist, at Brookwood Hospital, Woking, who specialises in the problems of the elderly, reviews this story of This is not an entertaining book. It is not meant to be. Any pleasure in reading it is entirely derived from its literary merit and masterly u...

Elderly lady with ascites.

An elderly lady with amylase-rich ascites is presented, whose isoenzyme estimation revealed salivary type amylase. Tumour hyperamylasemia is an important group among the nonpancreatic causes of elevated amylase.