these outposts or from manoeuvre camps in their vicinity that the disease first made its appearance. The last case only joined the regiment in Peshawar to which place they came in January 1909. Owing to constant changes, some sheets and records have been lost, but of those left there are sufficient to show the character of the disease. The fever varied little in type: the men never appeared dan...

This special issue of Medical History presents a selection of the papers delivered to the conference on ‘The Future of Medical History’, held in London in June 2010, sponsored by The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL. Although, sadly, this was an occasion to mark the closing of the Centre (in existence in various guises since the 1960s), it was also a moment for colleague...

The relationship between selected aspects of medical history and the risk of primary liver cancer was analyzed in a hospital-based case-control study conducted in Northern Italy on 242 patients with histologically or serologically confirmed hepatocellular carcinoma and 1169 controls in hospital for acute, nonneoplastic, or digestive diseases. Significant asso ciations were observed for clinical...