Farquhar Murray (1929) outlined the concept of an obstetric flying squad when, speaking to the Edinburgh Obstetric Society he suggested that there were"....... many conditions in which, instead of rushing a shocked and collapsed patient to hospital for nursing and specialised aid, the specialist and nurse should be rushed to the patient". Consequently the Bellshill Emergency Service commenced o...

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Since the introduction in 1933 (Kluyver and Perquin, 1933) of the shaker flask method of culturing fungi this technique has found widespread use in fungus physiology (Foster, 1949). It was used for spore germination studies by Davies et al. (1948) and Mandels and Norton (1948). The measurement of antifungal activity, however, has been accomplished by the more conventional methods making use of ...

IN dedicating this article to Professor Karl Lindner in honour of his 70th birthday, the author acknowledges a debt which he among many ophthalmic surgeons-and their patients-owes to this pioneer of the surgery of retinal detachment; a debt which, unlike other debts, must rejoice the creditor in the knowledge that it will ever grow and ever remain unpaid. Particular reference is made to Lindner...