(anatomy), Franz Hofmann (hygiene), Hubert Sattler (ophthalmology), Adolf Striimpell (internal medicine), Paul Flechsig (brain research), Felix L6hnis (microbiology), Henry E. Sigerist (history of medicine and natural sciences), Richard Arwed Pfeifer (neurology), Robert Schr6der (gynaecology). While neurology and brain research at Leipzig are represented, an early founder of psychiatry, J. C. H...

JOHN LADA and FRANK A. REISTER (editors), Medical statistics in World War II, Washington D.C., Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, 1975, 8vo, pp. xvii, 1215, illus., $19.50. In World War II American troops were deployed in eight theatres, forming the largest force ever mobilized by the nation. This book contains, in 1129 pages of tables, the data concerning the battle casualt...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of a nearly forgotten hypothesis on aging by Leo Szilard, best known for his pioneering work in nuclear physics, his participation in the Manhattan Project during World War II, his opposition to the nuclear arms race in the postwar era, and his pioneering ideas in biology. Given a specific set of assumptions, Szilard hypothesized that the major reason for th...

OBJECTIVE Most studies of the long-term after-effects of war have focused on survivors seeking treatment or financial compensation. The present study examined the current psychological adjustment of a community sample of ageing World War II (WW II) survivors, including survivors of bombardments, persecution, resistance, combat and other violence. METHOD A community sample of 4057 Dutch WW II ...

Most histories, novels, and films of World War II are preoccupied with bullets, bombs, and shells and the means of delivering them, and great emphasis is placed on personal courage. They ignore the most subtle, incapacitating and often deadly enemy which the allied armed forces had to conquer if they were to defeat their human opponents. This enemy was malaria, against which bullets and persona...

At 3:15 AM on 27th April 1941, Pilot Officer Christopher Carmichael of 502 Squadron took Whitley aircraft Z6501 to roll out on Limavady’s partially completed airfield. A crew of 6, including Pilot Officer Christopher Carmichael, Flight Lieutenant John Dickson, Sergeant Desmond “Des” O’Connell, Sergeant Stanley William Dorney, Sergeant Fred Redhead, Sergeant John Wilson (Air Gunner) were schedul...

what he would say about a patient who had a purulent pleural effusion, and received the smug and tautological reply that the patient had an empyema. Perhaps our present-day student-physician would be more sophisticated, but he still tends to be casual in his attitude toward this highly significant manifestation of disease. A monograph on the subject is, indeed, needed. A somewhat unusual organi...

This article traces the development of Japan’s foreign policy since the end of World War II. It asks whether the concept of a reactive state is still valid as an explanation of Japan’s foreign policy in the post-Cold War era. The article surveys the origins and key features of the Yoshida Doctrine, and discusses the limitations placed on Japan’s Cold War foreign policy. The article introduces t...