INSULIN resistance in association with primary haemochromatosis has been reported on several occasions previously (Allen and Constam, 1929; Root, 1929; Wood and Fitzhugh, 1929; Engel, 1934; Eskind, Franklin and Lowell, 1953; Colwell and Weiger, 1956; Darnaud, Denard, Moreau, Voisin and Pujol, 1958; Uhry, Marcel and Cohen, 1958; Justin-Besancon, Pequignot, Deuil, Etienne, Magdelaine and Jullien,...

A redescription of the genus Achmonia Bordoni, 2004 is presented. Based on a revision of types and of additional material, seven species are recognized in Africa south of the Sahara and placed into two species groups. All species are described or redescribed and illustrated, four of them for the first time: Achmonia carinata sp. nov., A. kapangana sp. nov., A. knirschi sp. nov., and A. simulato...

BY " PNEUMOCOCCUS IMMUNOGEN (COMBINED)." By MAHENDRA KUMAR BATTACHARYA, Medical Officcr, Bengal Police Hospital, Alipore. The patient, a male, aged 23 years, was first admitted into this hospital on 30th December, 1928, with complaints of dyspepsia and was treated accordingly up to 23rd January, 1929. On 24th January, 1929, he suddenly complained of pain in the risrht side of the chest with ris...

ROOT (1929) gave theoretical reasons for regarding insulin resistance as present when a patient requires more than 200 units of insulin daily. This figure was derived from the insulin requirements of depancreatised animals but has been accepted as a satisfa:tory and practical although clearly arbitrary standard (Martin, Martin, Lyster and Strouse, 1941; Davidson and Eddleman, 1950; Oakley, Fiel...

A study of the intelligence of unmarried mothers who had been admitted to a home for unfortunate girls over a period of four years was published in 1929 by McClure and Goldberg.1 The study was based on the results of the Stanford-Binet test given to 84 girls. Eighty-seven had been examined but the scores of three were eliminated because of language difficulties. Since 1929 an additional number ...