The evaluation of the effects of the special physical methods oftreatment ofschizophrenia-insulin coma and electroconvulsive therapy-requires not only an assessment of the short-term results but also continued follow-up of the patients over a long period. Three factors in particular make assessment of the effects of any form of treatment in this disease difficult: first, the elusive character o...

In Part I of this paper (Wilcox, Woodcock, Latto, John, Redmond, Parker, Rees, and Cobbold, 1973), the results of treating 114 male patients with acute uncomplicated gonorrhoea with 2 g. ampicillin and 1 g. probenecid at a single session in and near London were compared with those obtained under similar conditions with single doses of 1 2 m.u. aqueous procaine penicillin. This second paper prov...

SIR,-Following the recent report by Drs P J Toghill and R G Wilcox (28 February, p 502) we would like to recount a similar case in this hospital The patient was a 54-year-old housewife who developed aplastic anaemia of undetermined aetiology. As in the case reported, she had been using a new hair dye prior to this. This contained para-toluene diamine sulphate. She showed no response to predniso...

61 6 Sham PC, Zhao JH, Waldman I, Curtis D: Should ambiguous trios for the TDT be discarded? Ann Hum Genet 2000;64:575–576. 7 Aidoo M, Terlouw DJ, Kolczak MS, et al: Protective effects of the sickle cell gene against malaria morbidity and mortality. Lancet 2002;359(9314): 1311–1312. 8 Spielman RS, McGinnis RE, Ewens WJ: Transmission test for linkage disequilibrium: the insulin gene region and i...

The genus Munina Chen, 1976, and M. donacioides Chen, 1976, are redescribed. Munina laotica sp. nov. from Laos is described. The examined paratype of Munina flavida Yang & Yao, 1997 proved to be a female of M. donacioides Chen, 1976, thus M. flavida is proposed as its new synonym. M. donacioides is reported for the first time from Laos. Male and female genitalia of both species are illustrated....

Wilcox (1970), in reviewing the problems of treating gonorrhoea in South-East Asia, noted that relatively large doses of penicillin had been used in the region for the last 10 years, but that nevertheless failure rates of 30 per cent. and higher had often been reported. When treating gonorrhoea acquired in the Philippines and Hong Kong, Holmes, Johnson, and Floyd (1967a) found that treatment wi...

Algae and plants are the dominant primary producers on our planet and define an evolutionarily diverse group of taxa (Graham and Wilcox 2000). Despite their importance, dating algal origin is frustrated by a limited fossil record (Knoll 1992). Recent molecular phylogenetic trees place algae near the base of the eukaryotic tree of life (e.g., Baldauf et al. 2000, 2003; Nozaki et al. 2003). This ...