Saint Bartholomew's Hospital Reports

Ischaemic heart disease, aortic aneurysms, and atherosclerosis in the City of London, 1868-1982.

The rarity of thrombotic complications and overt clinical disease are possibly the only features that distinguish atherosclerosis in animals from the same condition in man. Yet the reason (or reasons) why a comparatively bland vascular disorder now presents as a lethal myocardial disease of high prevalence in modern western man is still largely unknown. A historical approach to the problem has ...

Why Henry III of Navarre’s Hair Probably did not Turn White Overnight

Although a rare event, sudden whitening of hair (canities subita) has reportedly affected a number of well-known historical figures, usually in relation to dramatic events in their lives. Although early accounts are substantiated by more recent case reports in scientific literature, we suspect that the phenomenon is not only used as a literary means in fiction, with the aim of dramatizing, but ...

Renewed interest in community hospitals and continuing controversy surrounding NHS finances make an examination of the hospital in modern history both topical and relevant. With the exception of St Bartholomew's and St Thomas's in London, refounded

surrounding NHS finances make an examination of the hospital in modern history both topical and relevant. With the exception of St Bartholomew's and St Thomas's in London, refounded in the 16th century, modern hospitals begin with the Westminster (1720) and Edinburgh Infirmary (1729), with provincial emulation initially in the county towns of southern and western England. Forty voluntary genera...

The Early Diagnosis of Malignant Disease

A note on the patterns of quantitative serological tests in late syphilis.

SEROLOGICAL TESTS IN LATE SYPHILIS* BY A. REDMOND, C. S. NICOL, and R. A. SHOOTER From Sr. Bartholomew's Hospiial, London Since January, 1949, all patients with late syphilis attending the Special Treatment Centre of St. Bartholomew's Hospital have had quantitative Wassermann reactions performed on their sera before and after treatment. 83 patients have been investigated by monthly tests for a ...