Medical research: Mariners' malady

The vampire in medical perspective: myth or malady?

Porphyria—a Royal Malady*

FARMFR GEORGE was a mad king, and so we lost the American colonies: such in brief is the recollection of what the man-in-the-street garnered at school. It is remarkable that so little attention has been paid to the nature of George III's malady, and it is a sad reflection on British medical historians that during the 200 years that have elapsed since his first overt attack of illness, there hav...

Gout: the patrician malady

Aborigines, the repercussions of European contact for levels of native infection and the racial discrimination inherent in the coercive regulations adopted to isolate Aboriginal victims of the disease. More contemporary concerns over the prevalence of HIV/AIDs in the Aboriginal people provides a preamble to a general consideration of the social and governmental responses to the "modern plague" ...

Venereal Disease Imported by Mariners.

Over the years several investigations have been made into the nationality of patients attending the venereal diseases clinics of Great Britain by the British Cooperative Clinical Group (1956, 1963a, b). The results of these surveys are of special interest in inland areas where promiscuity is found especially in migrant immigrants, but at seaports peripatetic native and foreign mariners are equa...

Porphyria - a Royal Malady