USSR: Plyushch says protest

Central Europe & the USSR

A Protest

Sir,?In to-day's issue of a Calcutta daily paper I find the enclosed advertisement sandwiched in between an advertisement for enamel paints and another for furniture: Dr.'s -Wonderful Discovery.?Specific for Hydrocele, guaranteed to cure any nature and of any standing by using this medicine externally. Price, Its. 2-8. Apply to , Calcutta. A Government big officer of Central Provinces writes:?"...

Central Europe & the USSR

Hepatic Surgery in the Ussr

The history of hepatic surgery in the USSR goes back to the work of Russian surgeons in the late nineteenth century. The first successful liver resection was performed in Russia by N.V. Sklifosovsky in 1889, further contributions to surgery of the liver were made by M.M. Kuznetsov and V.R. Pensky who suggested the hepatic suture (Figure 1) in 1894 1, 2. At the same time as the topographical stu...

Europe fisheries policy protest

The EU last month announced its allowable quotas for various species within its waters for this coming year that fishermen will be able to land and sell. The aim behind the quotas is to limit fishing in an effort to preserve stocks at sustainable levels, but the policy is being shown increasingly to be damaging many stocks, caught by fishermen pursuing one species but catching others, which oft...