Sir Arthur Newsholme and state medicine, 1885–1935

The Evolution of Preventive Medicine

By Sip Arthur Newsholme, K.C.B., M.D., F.R.C.P. London: Bail I ft re, Tindall and Cox, 1927. Pp. xv Plus 226, with 6 plates. Price, 11s. 6d. net. The value of the study of history and historical ^PPreciation in political and national matters has long been recognised; it is but lately however that the history ?f rnedicine has received its proper place in the medical ^rriculmn, Many leading schoo...

Some aspects of congenital syphilis.

Introduction In 1917 Sir William Osler, in his Oration to the Medical Society of London, referred to the 20,000 syphilitic stillbirths which Sir Arthur Newsholme estimated then occurred annually in this country, and the numerous cases of eye, ear, bone, and joint, and-above all-nervous and mental disease which are due to congenital syphilis. In 1928 and again in 1930 Colonel Harrison referred t...

The Application of Our Knowledge of Tuberculosis to Indian Conditions *Paper read at the Fourteenth Indian Science Congress at Lahore, January, 1927.

s, 7. . . . ? , ? , ,. 13. Muir, E., "Tuberculosis in Bengal, The Indian Mudical Gazette, 1926, 326. 14 Newsholme, A., quoted by K. l'aber and J. Ostenfeld Tuberkulosen i Danmark, 1926, 51. 15. Evrot, " Tuberculosis in France," Tubercle, 1924, 6 257 ' 16. Newsholme. Sir Arthur, "The present position of the Tuberculosis Problem," The Lancet, 1926, 1021. 338 THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE. [June, 192...

The Elements of Vital Statistics

Risk of cancer in pesticide applicators in Swedish agriculture.

The risk of cancer was analysed in a cohort of 20,245 licensed pesticide applicators in agriculture who had licences issued between 1965 and 1976. Most were men (99%) and about 50% had been born in 1935 or later. The cohort was followed up in the Swedish Cancer Register from date of licence until death or 31 December 1982. The mean follow up time was 12.2 years. Average time since first exposur...