Sir William McEwen, f.r.s., Regius Professor of Surgery, Glasgow Universit}7, has, in his Cavendish lecture on some points in the surgery of the lung, published in the British Medical Journal, dated 7th July, 1906, drawn attention to several important details, and has given some very useful hints as to the surgical treatment and management of cases. For the benefit of those readers who may not ...

Question: What benefits does brooding confer to offspring viability that outweigh its costs to the nest-attending female? Organisms: Thirty captive Python regius females and their clutches. Site: Vicinity of Lomé, Togo. Background: It has previously been shown that brooding enhances ball python hatching success by reducing desiccation of eggs. Methods: We captured wild, gravid females just befo...

M. ANNE CROWTHER and BRENDA WHITE, On soul and conscience: the medical expert and crime. 150 years offorensic medicine in Glasgow, Aberdeen University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xviii, 169, illus., £14.50, £7.95, (paperback). Though Edinburgh was, albeit most reluctantly, the first Scottish (or, indeed, British) university to recognize medical jurisprudence as an academic subject, with the establish...

to graduate in medicine from Glasgow University. Asher departed for London in 1862 to become medical practitioner to the Jewish Board of Guardians and, in 1870, was appointed the first secretary of the newly formed United Synagogue. By 1914, about twenty Scottish Jews had graduated in medicine although only four were practising in Glasgow, among whom was Noah Morris who became Regius Professor ...

In the first quantitative study of an endemic New Zealand aphid, the only known field populations of the rare Paradoxaphis plagianthi were monitored for two years from 1999 to 2001. The species appears to be anholocyclic, persisting viviparously throughout the year on its deciduous host tree, the lowland ribbonwood (Plagianthus regius). Local aphid abundance increased rapidly in spring as new l...

Two experimental trials were performed to elucidate the role of rodents in the life cycle of Hepatozoon species using snakes as intermediate hosts. In one trial, two ball pythons, Python regius Shaw, 1802 were force fed livers of laboratory mice previously inoculated with sporocysts of Hepatozoon ayorgbor Sloboda, Kamler, Bulantová, Votýpka et Modrý, 2007. Transmission was successful in these e...