the treatment given to the mad chauffeur. Repeated rigors were induced by deliberately giving the wretched man malaria. When the consultant physician decided enough was enough, the malaria was treated with quinine sulphate. Sometime later I learnt of the rationale for this useless treatment. In the First World War, a German Army doctor stationed in Albania had noted that in that country where s...

Dr. Clifford D. Evans, formerly Consultant Dermatologist at the United Bristol Hospitals, died at his home on 14th February 1979 aged 72. He was educated at Ardingly, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and St. Mary's Hospital, where he qualified in 1932. After being a House Physician to the Medical Unit, St. Mary's Hospital and Assistant Medical Officer at Paddington Hospital, he was in General P...

*Corresponding author: Dr. Neeraj k Tulara, MBBS, DNB (Medicine), Consultant ID Physician, Dr L H Hiranandani Hospital, Hillside Avenue, Hiranandani Gardens, Powai, Mumbai, India, 400076, Tel: +91-9833552955, +91-2225763230; E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]; Received February 02, 2015; Accepted March 28, 2015; Published April 04, 2015 Citation: Tulara NK (2015) Concurrent I...

1Clinical Assistant in Microbiology, 3Consultant Microbiologist and Chairperson Infection Control, 4Consultant Physician and Infectious Diseases Specialist, PD Hinduja National Hospital and MRC, 2Associate Consultant Microbiologist, Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra T mi les tones o f progress i n m i c r o b i o l o g y f r o m conventional to molecular diagnosis involve...

A retrospective case note review of 102 medical inpatients was conducted over a 4-week period and basic demographics, admitting/current diagnoses, comorbidities, functional level and length of stay were recorded. Existing DNAR orders were audited in accordance with national guidelines. An anonymised database of this information was reviewed by both an independent blinded consultant intensivist ...

*Professor of Medicine, T.N. Medical College (Retd.), Hon. Physician, Bhatia Hospital, Mumbai; **Consultant Internal Medicine, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai O Loewi (1873 1961) studied medicine at the University of Strasbourg and obtained his medical degree in 1896. Thereafter he worked in London under Starling. In 1905, he went to Austria and held professorial positions at the Un...

James McCarthy is Head of the Clinical Tropical Medicine Laboratory at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, and a consultant Infectious Diseases Physician at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. His current projects involve work on drug resistance in human scabies, hookworm and malaria. Michelle Gatton’s research interests focus on the use of theoretical models to better understand...

W Russell Brain (1895-1966) was two weeks short of his fifty-fourth birthday when he first saw Winston Churchill in consultation at the request of Lord Moran' on 5 October 1949. Russell Brain was a consultant physician at the (then) London Hospital and the Maida Vale Hospital For Nervous Diseases. He earned his living primarily from his private practice in Harley Street as a consultant neurolog...