Obituary: John Michael Thresh – On lifelong war with plant viruses.

Plant viruses: exploiting agricultural and natural ecosystems.

Low but highly variable mortality among nurses and physicians during the influenza pandemic of 1918–1919

BACKGROUND During the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, nurses and physicians were intensively exposed to the pandemic A/H1N1 strain. There are few published summaries of the mortality experiences of nurses and physicians during the pandemic. METHODS Mortality records from U.S. and British Armies during the First World War and obituary notices in national medical association journals were reviewe...

Terminal Programs in the Graduate Schools.

Terminal Programs in the Graduate Schools: DR. Discussion: CARD E. SEASHORE ................................................. 213 "Ten-Eighty," a War-produced Rodenticide: E. Obituary: R. KALMBACH. Pectin Intravenously: DR. W. C. HUEPER. "Isosensitivity" Instead of "IsoimmuRoscoe Gilkey Dickinson: DR. LINUS PAULING. nity": DR. ELMER L. DEGOWIN. The Gulf HamAlbert Edward Edgecombe: PROFESSOR HAN...

"the Doctor's Dilemma" or Medical Ethics in Peace and War.

"The Doctor's Dilemma" or Medical Ethics in Peace Special Articles: and War: PROFESSOR EDWIN G. CONKLIN ........................ 187 The Possible Synthesis of Biotin from Desthiobiotin Agricultural Research in the War and After: DR. by Yeast and the Anti-Biotin Effect of DesthioE. C. AUCHTER .......... 190 biotin for L. casei: KARL DITTMER, DONALD B. Obituary: MELVILLE and PROFESSOR VINCENT DU ...

Poet's Corner

(1) MICHAEL LENNARD 1923-1986 In his Obituary to Michael Lennard printed in our August number Donald Ratcliffe referred to his love of art and literature. He was a brilliant parodist and we reprint below with kind permission two excerpts from a contribution he made as a student to the 'Black Bag'. The theme was 'hernia' and readers will recognise echoes of Browning's 'Home thoughts from abroad'...