Sir Harry Baldwin, Surgeon-Dentist to the King, lecturing before the People's League of Health, drew attention to the chief methods of avoiding the decay of the teeth. These, he insisted, were to ensure an active circulation of blood in the gums by means of a vigorously but discreetly used toothbrush, that need not be of too stiff bristles. Hygiene of the mouth was all important, but he did not...

This short report acts as a supplemental to our recently submitted journal paper (Wood and Bryson, 2005), and mostly contains information of a more practical nature that was not suitable for inclusion in said article. This includes descriptions of tangential work undertaken, some extra details regarding the programming required for the paper and, most importantly, an itinerary for the completio...

T his 37-year-old man had surgical correction of a coarctation of the aorta nine years previously. He has no complaints and there are no abnormal physical findings. The lesion did not pulsate at fluoroscopy. Bronchoscopy was normal.

Remarkable figures showing the decline of smallpox in London during recent years and the heavy cost of treating the disease in the hospitals, were quoted by Dr. W. McConnell Wanklyn, principal Assistant Medical Officer of Health to the London County Council, in a lecture at the London Hospital. In 1921, the lecturer stated, there were 336 cases of smallpox in the country at large, and two cases...

In his Norman Kerr Memorial Lecture on " Drug Addiction " Sir William Willcox said that the commonest cause of addiction in the citizen classes was undoubtedly the prescription of the drug for medical purposes. It was to be feared that after operations drugs were too often given as a routine practice, without sufficient regard to the dangers of toxic action and the development of addiction dise...

of the opinion, formed in 1919, that overfeeding is the one conspicuous sin against physiological law committed in that country. This over-feeding is very general, and often very gross. During the year now closing I have partaken of hospitality, first, in three Northern countries, Denmark, Switzerland and Finland. It is not open to question that feeding is excessive in Denmark and Sweden. This ...

Writing in the " Sunday Express " on the Health of 1922, Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen says that the recent visitation of smallpox should serve as a warning. " Great Britain, though an island and itself virtually free from smallpox, is in these days of new-fashioned transport in closer touch than ever with overseas countries which have not yet succeeded in stamping out smallpox from their midst....

Type I Gaucher disease, the subject of this article, was initially reported by Gaucher' in 1882 as a non-leukaemic splenic epithelioma. The biochemical defect, an autosomal recessively inherited lysosomal glucocerebrosidase enzyme deficiency, was delineated in 1965,2 3 and more recently the full length coding DNA sequence has been cloned and characterised.4 Gaucher disease is conventionally cla...

A 13-year-old girl presents with abdominal pain, right lower quadrant tenderness, guarding, elevated lipase, and a history of gastroesophageal reflux disease. Findings On contrast-enhanced CT images, a heterogeneous low-attenuation intraluminal mass is identified in the stomach (Figure 1), duodenum, and jejunum (Figure 2). Multiple intussusceptions are seen in several segments of the small bowe...