Impressions of the Oxford Meeting, B.M.A. July, 1936

Diseases Due to Medical Treatment *A paper read at the B.M.A. Annual Meeting, Torquay, 21st June 1960.

Congenital Toxoplasmosis : a Report of Two Cases

Human infection by the protozoan Toxoplasma hominis has been reported quite frequently in the Americas and in continental Europe. The first case proved to be due to toxoplasma was reported in the United States by Wolf, Cowen, and Paige in 1939. In retrospect four earlier cases have been accepted, although the true nature of the infection was not correctly recognized at the time of reportng (Jan...

Proceedings of the joint summer meeting of the British and American Neuropsychiatry Associations, 12-14 July 1992, Oxford.

Censoring Huxley and Wilberforce: a New Source for the Meeting That the Athenaeum ‘wisely Softened Down’

In mid July 1860, the Athenaeum published a summary of the discussions about Charles Darwin’s theory that took place at the British Association meeting in Oxford. Its account omitted the famous exchange between Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, and Thomas Huxley, the rising man of science. A fuller report of the meeting was published a week later in a local weekly, the Oxford Chronicle, but...

Intestinal Tuberculosis and Auro-Therapy

Sir,?In my reply to Dr. Roy Chowdhry of Delhi which was published in the July number of the Gazette, I referred him to an interesting discussion that took place in London in a meeting of the Tuberculosis Association on the subject of intestinal tuberculosis. I have given expression to my views on some of the points discussed in the meeting. These views have appeared in Tubercle (August 1936). I...