Twenty-five new Sphingidae

Twenty-Five Years Ago

Tarasoff at twenty-five.

In 1976, in the landmark case of Tarasoff v. The Regents of the University of California, the California Supreme Court imposed a legal duty on psychotherapists, enforceable by a civil suit for damages, to warn a person who may become a victim of a violent act by a patient. Courts and legislatures in other jurisdictions soon began to examine the subject, and within a decade or so the “duty to wa...

Twenty Five Years Ago

A second individual next went down the shaft of the well with a rope to try and rescue the boy, but was suffocated and ropped into the water. A third then went down, dangled his legs in the water and tried to grasp the two still living bodies between his knees. He suddenly felt suffocated, however, and shouted to be drawn up. This man recovered; he states that he thinks the two were still livin...

Twenty Five Years Ago

Twenty Five Years Ago

length with the Bill then pending before the Bengal Legislative Council to amend the Bengal Medical Act and with the criticisms of the Bill put forward by the Bengal Medical Association. We pointed out that the functions of the Bengal Council of Medical Registration, like those of the General Medical Council of Great Britain, fell into three categories:?(1) to maintain the medical register, (2)...