A prototype Malthus Microbiological Growth Analyser was compared with conventional methods for examining blood cultures in a trial of 651 cultures mostly from patients with haematological malignancy or undergoing haemodialysis or renal transplantation. Of 100 significantly positive cultures, organisms from 82 grew in the conventional aerobic (+ CO2) bottle, 78 in the conventional anaerobic bott...

A total of 3347 blood cultures from patients in all hospital wards were examined on a Malthus microbiological growth analyser and by a conventional system. There was no significant difference in the total numbers of positive cultures of clinical importance between the two systems (p greater than 0.05). Staphylococcus aureus, however, was isolated more often by the conventional method (p less th...

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These two quotations have appeared in recent medical literature. We have never seen a reference to Malthus in any of the current literature of the day, either lay or medical, which did not clearly show that the writer believed that the “Malthusian idea” is to destroy the fruitfulness of the marital relation, and which did not convict him of having never read one word of the writings of Malthus....

This article re-reads Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population for his explicit discussion men and women, masculinity femininity. A feminist reading is possible, but not undertaken here. Rather, purpose simply to demonstrate how ‘gender’ was own object inquiry. Historical actors, perhaps especially economic thinkers, often considered gender far more fully explicitly than almost all subseq...

The City of Bath has known many famous men. Today I pay tribute to the ReV erend Thomas Robert Malthus. He first came to Bath as a schoolboy, though he \e^ little but Latin and good behaviour from his teacher, the Rector of Claverton. y j he returned many years later (in 1834),to yisit his wife's family, Malthus had achieve lasting fame. He died suddenly of heart disease, and was buried in Bath...