of regret and pain. The only consolation is that it would be still more regretful and painful to realize that my effusions were degenerating into senile twaddle. The starting of the Indian Medical Gazette was coincident with the commencement of my service in India, both occurring in January 1866. Since then, as contributor and editor, I have been in continuous and close connection with the jour...

correspondence, including 133 previously unpublished (though not all those previously published appeared in full). In this setting of an intense emotional attachment, Freud had the confidence to let his thoughts go, to allow prejudice, intuition, and imagination, as well as evidence and argument, to construct theory from his patients, current psychopathology, and-perhaps especially-his own emot...

This brief commentary reviews the concept of nest fouling, and advances the view that a different approach to giving expert testimony (that of impartially assisting the court) will largely negate nest-fouling issues.

Abstract Introduction Since their inception, TV medical dramas have been popular with the general public, and especially students. Some educators in biomedical disciplines used these to illustrate professionalism bioethical dilemmas. The first season of Good Doctor, an American series, consisted 18 episodes that showed life a young autistic physician savant syndrome who is starting his residenc...

throughout history, films have always been influenced by the social conditions of the societies in which they were made, often, representing the ideology of their middle class, probing their audience, and presenting new themes. hamoon is the name of a feature film made at the end of 1980s which won great acclaim. it was influenced by historical and social fabric of its time and was successful i...

To the Editor : Mutations in SLC9A6 are associated with Christianson syndrome, a syndromic form of X-linked intellectual disability characterized by severe intellectual disability, acquired microcephaly, seizures and ataxia (1, 2). Only nine mutations and two genomic aberrations involving SLC9A6 have been reported to date (1–7). Here, we report on two German families with novel SLC9A6 mutations...

Dr. Archibald Edward Malloch was a surgeon whose life and work were greatly influenced by Joseph Lister and his revolutionary system of antiseptic surgery. This paper describes how a young Canadian medical man came to introduce Lister's system to North America in 1869 and studies his career in the light of Lister's surgical epoch.

Recently a Dutch higher court judged that physicians should not be allowed to end the lives of patients for non-medical reasons. In the case before the court a general practitioner had ended the life of an elderly patient—a former member of the Dutch Senate—at the latter's urgent and repeated requests. Although he had not been seriously ill and a consultant psychiatrist had not found any indica...

The great classics of Indian medicine are generally considered to be the compendia composed two thousand years ago, and their study dominates Indian medical history. However, manuscripts of these classic works are relatively rare: for all their fame, they were not widely copied or read. By contrast, Indian manuscript libraries contain thousands of copies of a small Sanskrit medical work entitle...

There has been disagreement for more than 100 years concerning the presence or absence of deciduous and successional third premolars in dentition Australian dasyurid marsupial Dasyurus viverrinus as well other species genus Dasyurus. Most authors during 19th 20th centuries have considered missing premolar to be family both jaws, part because reduction size many genera dasyurids. While authors, ...