background: bleomycin (bl) is a glycopeptide antibiotic obtained from the bacterium streptomyces verticillus which is routinely used for treatment of human cancers. royal jelly (rj) is a production from the hypo pharyngeal, mandibular and post cerebral glands of nurse bees. rj consists of 66% water, 15% sugars, 5% lipids, and 13% proteins, essential amino acids and vitamins. objective: the aim ...

The Gold-Headed Cane, by WILLIAM MACMICHAEL, facsimile of 1827 ed., with introduction by Thomas Hunt, London, Royal College of Physicians, 1968, pp. 26 + 179, illus., £4. William Macmichael (1783-1839), M.D. Oxon., F.R.C.P., F.R.S., was educated at Bridgnorth Grammar School and Christ Church, Oxford. After graduating in Arts he studied medicine at Edinburgh and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Londo...

{The treatise "Intensitas vis magneticae terrestris ad mensuram absolutam revocata" was read by Gauss at the Goettingen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften (Royal Scientific Society) on December 15, 1832, and printed in Volume 8 of the treatises of this society, pp. 3-44. The translation from the Latin to the German was provided by Herr Oberlehrer Dr. Kiel in Bonn. Edited by E. Dorn, Leipzig, Wilhe...

This book is highly interesting and instructive and comprises the Bradshaw Lecture delivered by the author at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in December 1920. Though written by an eminent surgeon both surgeons and physicians will doubtless immensely benefit by it. The author justly remarks " the patient is no longer to be regarded merely as the victim of some type of disease but as th...

433 Miss Barbara Rhoades, S.R.N. 434 Retirement of Mr. J. H. G. Robertson 434 The Salisbury Clinical Club 435 Medical Education in East Africa 436 The Gwelo Memorial Cottages, Gwelo 439 At the Harare Hospital Staff Round 440 The Royal S oc ie ty .....................................445 Book R e v i e w s .......................................... 447 The Journal L ib ra ry ........................

By Kenneth Stone, D.M. (Oxon.), M.R.C.P. 1947. William Heinemann (Medical Books) Limited, London. Pp. ix plus 362. Illustrated. Price, 30s. His easy style saves this book from becoming boring when the author in a teleological mood excurses into biology or insists on proving the obvious Euclid-wise. 'Rheumatology' is good but orthopaedics not so good. Reasons for discarding the classification of...

muslims nowadays need to be present on the international stage. this involves living together with non-muslims, especially the people of the book. this sort of life and interaction has different political, cultural, economic, and military aspects. the belief that non-muslims are impure (najes) causes hardship to the muslims; and is incompatible with human dignity, which is acknowledged by the q...