The Way that I Went

I went; I saw: I was never the same!

The anomaly that finally went away?

When Archie Cochrane, Fred Moore and I conceived of trying to relate mortality in developed countries to measures of health service provision little did we imagine that it would set a hare running 20 years into the future. To us this was an amusing correlational study in the spirit of McKeown and Illich—those sceptics of medical prowess. That our work has been reprinted in two collections of ep...

I Went to See the Elephant

Every man's life is an interesting story. When one of the leading physiologists of our time gathers his memories and opinions, his frustrations and achievements into an autobiography, he is sure to have an interested audience. And when these reminiscences are pithy, uninhibited, concise and specific the story may be instructive as well as fascinating. Dwight Ingle began life on an Idaho farm, m...

Where, when and why hyperthermia went wrong way

‘Hyperthermia is generally regarded as an experimental treatment with no realistic future in clinical cancer therapy’ – Horsman and Overgaard said in 2007, though, trying to combat this statement. It’s difficult to find another method in medicine which remains experimental after 40 years of research and application. Hyperthermic community usually claims to technical problems of heating and heat...

Cutaneous Lupus - "The Pimple That Never Went Away".

A 28-year-old woman presented with an erythematous rash involving the nose, nasolabial folds, and philtrum that appeared after she had manipulated a painful vesicular lesion at the base of her nose that she believed to be a pimple. The patient received cloxacillin for presumed erysipelas and had a partial response. However, after cloxacillin therapy, worsening induration (Panel A) prompted trea...