Letters From the Front, 1898-1945

“The greatest good to the greatest number”: penicillin rationing on the American home front, 1940–1945

qualities, especially when we find ourselves caught in the soulless, pitiless existence Rapoport describes. Is he unfair? Even he gave the MGB the names of friends and colleagues (p. 120), though throughout the book he tells us the probable dire effects of doing so. Yet he also cites instances of men forgiving colleagues for their betrayal, acknowledging that they could not help it (pp. 210-11)...

Postcards from the front.

HAVING written a book on the British Army’s use of horses from 1875 to 1925 (Winton 2013), I read with great interest the feature article by C. Trenton Boyd and Bruce Vivash Jones, ‘Postcards from the Front’ (VR, February 21, 2015, vol 176, pp 192-194). The postcard collection was quite amazing. There are, however, a number of points made in the article on which I would make comment. One might ...

Points from Letters

(a) Undergraduate medical education, leading up to the M.D. degree. After qualification, all doctors have to serve a period of interneship for at least one year, as well as pass a state licensing examination, before they can practise as general practitioners. (b) Graduate education, covering usually a period of at least three years, with a view to specialization. During this period, graduates g...

From Letters to Pixels

Specifying regions of interest to search 3D anatomical space can be di cult. Ontology-based queries are often imprecise and return extra (unwanted) data. Drawing regions of interest in graphical 3D representations of a model organism in principle allows for high precision, but user interfaces can be awkward to use and time consuming. In this poster we promote the use of spatial descriptions as ...

Points from Letters