Seamen's dispensary, Liverpool 1924-1991.

The Seamen's Hospital Society: a progenitor of the tropical institutions.

1999 marks the centenary of the two major British Schools of Tropical Medicine, founded in London and Liverpool, respectively. The origin(s) of the former clearly lies in the Seamen's Hospital Society, which dates from 1821. It seems likely that the foundation of this school (with Government support) also acted as a catalyst for the school at Liverpool, which in fact opened its doors a few mont...

Triacetyloleandomycin (Evramycin) in lymphogranuloma inguinale.

Although lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) is a serious problem in many foreign countries, it is comparatively rare in the United Kingdom. As shown by Alergant (1957), "Somewhere between a quarter and a third of all cases of LGV reported in Great Britain are first seen"-at the Seamen's Dispensary, Liverpool. A few additional cases are treated in the other regional clinics, notably at Birkenhead, w...

Reevaluating progressive eugenics: Herbert Spencer Jennings and the 1924 immigration legislation.

W. T. G. Morton's Memoir on Sulphuric Ether, 1847

could delineate Cushing's character and characteristics quite as well as has Cushing himself. The reader may well wish that more of such material had been included. The book is singularly free of observable technical errors, the most significant one is the statement on page 88 where we find that Cushing sailed from Boston on the 30th of June to arrive (says Cushing) "in Liverpool harbor on June...

Selective Aldosterone Deficiency: Correction by Angiotensin Infusion

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