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Notes and News

THE NEW HUNTERIAN MUSEUM

ON May 17 the new Hunterian Museum was officially opened,fittingly enough, by the Prime Minister; for in 1797 the Govern-ment of the day, having purchased the Hunterian collection,presented it to the master, governors, and commonalty of theArt and Science of Surgeons of London, which was to becomethe Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 1941, as a resultof enemy action, more than half of John Hunter’s specimensand dissections were destroyed. The new museum, recon-structed with funds from the Wolfson Foundation, now housesthe remainder, together with many added by others. The

money for the elegant furniture and the lighting of the displaycabinets in the impressive air-conditioned hall came from theMacrae-Webb-Johnson Fund.The original Hunterian collection is well mounted, and even

those who may feel a tinge of regret for the lost specimens mustacknowledge that the reconstruction amply reflects the prideof the Royal College of Surgeons in the man who, with littleexaggeration, may be described as its patron saint. Enoughremains to prove the superhuman industry and high intelligenceof John Hunter.One cabinet contains some of Hunter’s contributions to the

collection at the Royal Observatory in Kew which was begunat the request of Queen Charlotte for instruction of herchildren in the natural sciences.On the staircase landing hang four anatomy tables made at

Padua in 1646 for John Evelyn. Originally in the museum ofthe Royal Society, the tables were given to the British Museum,and finally in 1801 to the Royal College of Surgeons. The

diagrams on wood illustrate the spinal cord and nerves, theaorta and its branches, and the sympathetic and venous supplyof the body.The new Hunterian Museum is a worthy addition to the new

College buildings which have gone up in the past few years.

TASKS OF EUROPEAN TROPICAL SCHOOLS

A CONFERENCE of European Schools of Tropical Medicinewas held at the London School of Hygiene and TropicalMedicine and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicinebetween May 13 and 17. Its object was to study mutualproblems, and particularly the changes that will best equipthem to help tropical countries, and to prevent reintroductionof tropical diseases to countries now free from them. The

following paragraphs summarise some of the conclusionsreached.

Training.-It is ethically essential that medical men goingout, even briefly, to practise in the tropics should have trainingin tropical medicine. Also, if the practitioner in Europe couldrecognise certain tropical diseases, some unnecessary deathsand suffering could be prevented.Research.-The intensity of present research into tropical

disease is inadequate; and, through informal visits, the Euro-pean schools could increase their contact with institutions inthe tropics. Schools which have overseas contacts undertookto provide introductions and opportunities for developing links.

Teaching material.-A central agency for teaching materialwas proposed. This would undertake collection, description,cataloguing, and (where appropriate) reproduction of material.It would expect to receive gifts of interesting material, copy-right free, and would supply material on request-at therecipient’s expense. The Wellcome Museum of MedicalSciences has been asked if it would be prepared to run suchan agency.

Teaching staff for overseas medical schools.-The best wayof aiding overseas medical schools is by the secondment ofteaching staff from European schools, not only of tropicalmedicine. Teachers are required for all stages in the curricu-lum, preclinical and clinical, and the urgent need for teachersof basic sciences such as anatomy, physiology, and biochem-istry was specifically emphasised. To be able to provide them,European schools need special new posts additional to their

own teaching requirements, for which fiancial provision mustbe made. It was also resolved that European schools shouldaid in the training of all categories of medical auxiliaries.

WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY

AT the 16th World Health Assembly, which opened inGeneva on May 7 and closes this Friday, Dr. M. G. Candau,director-general of the World Health Organisation, suggestedthat the time had come to review the methods and techniquesof raising the standards of medical education and training inthe developing countries. Another matter which deserved fulldiscussion was the place of a well-prepared cadre of auxiliarypersonnel in the health services of many countries now

suffering from an acute shortage of fully trained medical staff.In an inaugural address as president of the Assembly,

Dr. M. A. Majekodunmi (Nigeria) said that, at least in thedeveloping countries, the concept of a division between thecurative and the preventive functions of a physician in clinicalpractice might have to be abandoned.

Dr. Candau was reappointed director-general for a furtherfive years by a vote of 95 for, with none against and noabstentions. The Darling medal and prize for original work inmalaria was awarded to Dr. M. D. Young, of the NationalInstitutes of Health, Bethesda. Dr. P. M. Kaul, assistant

director-general, reported to the programme and budgetcommittee two achievements in the malaria eradication pro-gramme since the last Assembly:

" The first is that an additional 168,000,000 people have gone intothe consolidation phase. In India, by the end of 1962, 154,000,000of the population of the country were living in areas where inter-ruption of transmission had been achieved and spraying couldaccordingly be stopped. The second is that early in 1963 all originallymalarious areas of continental Europe reached the consolidationphase."

THE ROYAL SOCIETY

THOUGH there was perhaps less than usual of strictly medicalinterest at this year’s conversazione of the Royal Society onMay 16, no visiting doctor could complain that other fascina-tions were lacking at Burlington House. For instance, who isnot at some time concerned (and maybe alarmed) to know thearea of road required for traffic in towns ? Dr. R. J. Smeed, ofthe Road Research Laboratory of the Department of Scientificand Industrial Research, has been looking at the movement oftraffic and people going to and from work in towns. His

ingenious technique demonstrated plainly the folly of lettingeveryone surge into the centre of the town on their way towork during the rush hours. A ring-road system, to minimisetravelling within the central area, can reduce enormously thearea of road required. Thus, with a conventional rectangulargrid pattern of roads in a city of 1 million commuters, the

average return journey to work by car requires about 180 sq. ft.of road, under given conditions of density of working; butwith a ring-road system this figure can be cut to 75 sq. ft.,and only 40% of this area is needed in the city centre.

Prof. G. V. R. Born and his colleagues illustrated a quantita-tive method for studying the aggregation of blood-platelets(lack of such a method has been a hindrance to work on thisphenomenon). Admirably simple in principle, their apparatusdirects a beam of light through a tube of plasma, and, as theplatelets therein aggregate, it measures the increasing intensityof transmitted light. The instrument also stirs the plasma andcontrols its temperature. Among other applications, the methodis being used to examine the properties of substances whichmay inhibit platelet aggregation.

Agents derived from human foetal tissues obtained frommothers recovered from rubella have been investigated byDr. J. S. Porterfield, Dr. E. Peppercorn, and Dr. H. E. M.Kay. During the rubella epidemic last year, a number ofwomen had their pregnancies terminated, and a few of thesefoetuses were examined to try to demonstrate the presence ofa virus. Cells cultured from foetal kidneys have shown degenera-tive changes suggesting a virus infection; and cultures of

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with other viruses. What is particularly interesting, thisresistance has been transmitted to cultures of normal human

embryonic tissues; and one explanation is that the foetusesfrom these mothers are already carrying a virus (probably infact the rubella virus) which may be transmitted to normalcells in culture, altering their sensitivity to other viruses.

Dr. N. W. Moore, of the toxic chemical and wildlife sectionof the Nature Conservancy at Monks Wood ExperimentalStation, has been examining wild birds and mammals exposedto pesticides. Though the conclusions from preliminarystudies are less forceful than those of Miss Rachel Carson,they do show that a high proportion of the animals containedresidues of chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides. Predatoryspecies were affected more than other groups. The suggestionis that persistent pesticides become concentrated in foodchains.The live animals on display were less enchanting than in

former years-which was not surprising, because they werethere as examples of venomous creatures. Dr. Findlay E.Russell and his colleagues had brought along some rattle-snakes and scorpions and one or two even more lethargicpoisoners; and there was a grim picture of an encounterbetween a stinging ray and a swimmer.One of the most striking items on the programme was the

film about Tristan da Cunha, largely shot by the RoyalSociety’s expedition which went to study the effect of thevolcanic eruption of October, 1961, that had driven theislanders from their homeland. Two geologists made a briefreconnaissance of the island in the following December, andthey were followed in January, 1962, by a party of twelve,who spent 7 weeks on the island. They had a rare opportunityto watch the growth of the eruption and particularly thespread of the very viscous and chunky lava flows and theirsteamy contact with the sea. The botanist took special noteof what had happened to plants exposed to fumes of sulphurand other corrosives from the main vent. By March, 1962,all active growth in the small cone and lava beds had virtuallyceased; and most of the islanders have now returned.

A NEW DIPLOMA

WHEN, on May 10, Sir Roy Cameron, as president of thenewly formed College of Pathologists, presented the first

diplomas awarded by the Royal Institute of Public Health andHygiene in mortuary hygiene and technology, he paid generoustribute to the mortuary attendants of all time. Who, he asked,was the first mortuary attendant ? There was no record in earlypapyrus. Who assisted Celsus ? Who assisted the prosectorwhile Morgagni in his chair held forth at Bologna two hundredyears ago ? History did not record even those more recent days.But mortuary attendants there were-postmortem examina-tions were known from early times, and morbid anatomy was, is,and would be the foundation of study in medicine. Drawingfrom his own early experience in Melbourne he said that howmuch the young pathologist owed the trusted mortuary atten-dant only those two themselves knew. The skilled old handguided the early hesitant technique, and was at all times a guardagainst error, or a discreet cover. The trust and respect he hadlearnt in Melbourne continued down the years in other landsand hospitals, for the mortuary attendant was a timelessinstitution and knew no frontiers.

PARENTS GROWING OLD

" CRABBED age and youth cannot live together ", and indeedas married partners they had better not try; but, unless thecrabbed old are to be segregated or somehow " put away ", asymbiosis of age and middle-age must often be attempted-more often as more of us persist into our 80’s.The daily burden of this situation usually rests on the

shoulders of a daughter or daughter-in-law, but with a spreadto husband and children if she has them. If she is single it

may monopolise her years of working life, and leave her

compulsorily retired when it falls off. The fear of being aburden troubles many ageing parents, sometimes becomingobsessive and self-defeating. Nothing will induce them to

live with a willing daughter, even when much trouble wouldbe saved by the arrangement.Today it is usual to advise that preparation for retirement

-the polite word for growing old-should begin at fifty.Actually the foundations of success are probably laid in thenursery years, when the arts of " living together in unity

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are learnt, or not learnt, and when parents earn, or fail to

earn, their children’s affection and esteem. A family thatrows the same boat or climbs the same hills physically whileparents and children are young has prepared well for later

doing so metaphorically. The seeds of personal interests oraccomplishments that can flower in later years are best sownearly; but too often the situation was not prepared for, unde-signedly in childhood or deliberately at 50.Death or illness may precipitate parental incursions. When

this happens, all age-groups need help, and their family doctormay not only receive the first call for guidance, but may findhimself playing the pilot to journey’s end with an inadequatesupply of charts. Both he and those he pilots may be gratefulto the Marriage Guidance Council for an eminently practicalbooklet 1 of advice and information directed to middle-aged" children " with old or ageing parents. The possible positivecontributions of the old are perhaps underrated, but thedifficulties of the average family are squarely stated and faced.Besides good advice there is a full account of sources of helpand a list of publications for further reading.

ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING OF HOSPITAL WARDS

IN designing the lighting of a ward the conflicting require-ments of staff and of patients must be met. The staff must beenabled to care for the patients efficiently, while the patientsmust be able either to read and perform other activities, oralternatively to rest and sleep. Critical visual work may requirehigh values of illumination, but comparative subjective studieshave shown that a task (for example, a moderately difficultindustrial inspection) requiring an illumination of 100 lumensper sq. ft. (" foot-candles ") for easy visual performance canstill be performed, though with difficulty, at 3 lumens per sq. ft.

In a report to the Ministry of Health from the Joint Com-mittee on Lighting and Vision of the Building Research Boardand the Medical Research Council, the desirable upper limitof illumination in hospital wards was set after consideration ofbasic work on discomfort glare and of practical experience inexperimental ward lighting-both of which indicated that itwould be very difficult to provide an illumination of more than10 lumens per sq. ft. without some risk of glare discomfort toa patient confined to a fixed position and fixed direction of view.As a compromise the Joint Committee recommends that thepatient should be provided with enough light for reading, &c.,which could be under his own control (but suitably restrictedto avoid disturbing other patients) and that the illuminationprovided by the general lighting (not under the patient’scontrol) should be 3 lumens per sq. ft., which would enable thenursing staff to carry out general supervision. For the staff10 lumens per sq. ft. should be provided in the centre of theward, while the patient’s reading light will be available fortasks carried out at the bed head. For clinical inspection,which may demand a high level of illumination on any part ofthe patient’s body, a portable inspection lamp should be

provided.It is assumed that at night time the nurse requires illumination

on a desk for reading and writing but must adapt quickly to thelow level of illumination in the darkened ward. The Committeerecommends that 3 lumens per sq. ft. should be providedon her desk, and that 0.01 lumen per sq. ft. (which is abouthalf that out of doors from a full moon) should be adequate toobserve whether a patient is restless or needing attentionwithout making it difficult for the patients to sleep. This lownight-time level of illumination could be provided by low-mounted wall lights ; but these may give rise to reflection frompolished floors, and it may be difficult to see the patient insilhouette against the brighter lower part of the room; it may1. Parents Growing Old. Marriage Guidance Council, 58, Queen Anne

Street, London, W.1. 3s. (post free).

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be found easier to use low-wattage lamps carefully screened indark shades mounted adjacent to or as an integral part of thenormal ward-lighting fittings.The Committee’s recommendations deal with the desirable

characteristics of light sources from the points of view of colourrendering, prevention of a gloomy appearance, avoidance offlicker, and luminance. Although this is not specifically stated,the requirements are fulfilled by incandescent tungsten filamentlamps, which have been the type of source most used untilrecently. The problems of heating and ventilation, however,would be more easily resolved by the use of fluorescent lighting.

University of LondonOn Foundation Day, Nov. 28, the honorary degree of LL.D.

will be conferred on Lord Cohen of Birkenhead.

University of ManchesterOn May 15 the honorary degree of D.SC. was conferred on

Lord Brain.

University of SheffieldMr. J. A. Thornton has been appointed senior lecturer and

head of the department of anaesthetics, from a date to bearranged. Dr. R. Kilpatrick has been promoted to seniorlecturer in pharmacology and therapeutics. The followingappointments have been approved:Dr. J. T. Hindmarsh, assistant lecturer in physiology; Dr.

Margaret E. Horn, research assistant in medicine; Dr. G. A. Meek,senior lecturer in anatomy, and Dr. R. N. Smith, research assistant inpharmacology and therapeutics (full-time); Dr. D. H. Anderson,lecturer and clinical teacher in chest diseases, Mr. J. T. Rowling,lecturer in clinical surgery, Mr. C. H. Talbot, lecturer in clinicalsurgery, and Dr. R. H. Townshend, clinical teacher in chest diseases(part-time). ’

University of AberdeenDr. P. E. G. Mitchell has been appointed lecturer in chemical

pathology, Dr. T. M. Forrester lecturer in materia medica, andDr. 1. B. Porteous lecturer in pathology.

University of DublinOn May 16 the following degrees were conferred:M.B.,B.Ch.,B.A.O.-Herman-Harro E. A. Fink, D. G. R. Wagener.

Royal College of Surgeons of EnglandOn May 15, the president, Sir Arthur Porritt, took the chair

at a dinner in the college for delegates to the Convention onAccident Prevention and Life Saving (referred to in a

leader on p. 1147). Other speakers at the dinner included JudgeAdrian Curlewis, ’president of the International Council ofSurf Life Saving, representing the Government of Australia,Mr. S. Paul Chambers, chairman of Imperial ChemicalIndustries, and Dr. Kurt Hahn.

Royal College of Obstetricians and GynxcologistsProf. Francis B. Carter, from the Duke University Medical

Center, Durham, North Carolina, will give the Green-Armytage Anglo-American sterility lecture at the college, 27,Sussex Place, Regent’s Park, London, N.W.1, at 5 P.M. onFriday, May 24. The title of the lecture will be Three Decadesof an Infertility Clinic. Admission is by ticket only and appli-cations should be sent to the secretary of the college.

Royal Society of ArtsProf. E. B. Chain will give the Trueman Wood lecture at

the house of the Society, John Adam Street, Adelphi, London,W.C.2, on Wednesday, June 19, at 6 P.M. His subject will beacademic and industrial contributions to drug research.

North of England Neurological AssociationAt the annual general meeting of the association at Man-

chester on May 11 the following officers were elected:President, Mr. G. F. Rowbotham; president-elect, Dr. F. R.

Ferguson; hon. secretary, Dr. J. B. Foster; hon. treasurer, Dr. L. A.Liversedge.

Symposium on Hand SurgeryThe British Association of Plastic Surgeons will hold a

symposium on this subject at the Royal College of Surgeons,Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, W.C.2, on Friday, June 7, at10 A.M. Particulars may be had from the secretary of theAssociation, at the college.

Social and Preventive Aspects of General PracticeFrom June 24 to 28 inclusive, the University of Manchester

is holding a residential course on this subject. Members of thecourse will stay at Woolton Hall. Applications should be madeto Prof. C. F. Brockington, department of social and pre-ventive medicine, Clinical Sciences Building, York Place,Manchester, 13. The course is recognised for Ministry ofHealth grants.

Health of Students in British Universities and MedicalSchools

The British Student Health Association is to hold a con-ference on this subject in Aberdeen from July 8 to 12 underthe presidency of Dr. M. A. Moriarty. Particulars may be hadfrom Dr. S. E. Finlay, hon. secretary of the Association, TheUniversity, Leeds, 2.

Conference on Dental Anaesthesia

The Institute of Dental Surgery will hold this conferenceat Eastman Dental Hospital, Gray’s Inn Road, London, W.C. 1,on June 6 and 7. The chairmen of the four sessions will beSir Ivan Magill, Dr. W. S. McConnell, Prof. E. A. Pask, andLord Justice Ormerod. Applications should be sent at once toDr. Victor Goldman at the hospital.

Medical Course in OsteopathyA postgraduate course, for medical practitioners only, will

begin at the London College of Osteopathy on Oct. 1. All the

teaching will be medical, and participants may take either anintensive course lasting four terms or a part-time course

lasting seven. Further particulars may be had from thesecretary at the College, Dorset Square, London, N.W.1.

Chemotherapy of Tropical DiseasesThe Nottingham section and the fine chemicals group of the

Society of Chemical Industry will hold a meeting in Notting-ham on April 6 and 7, 1964, to discuss the chemotherapy ofamoebiasis, helminthiasis, and trypanosomiasis. The speakerswill be Prof. A. W. Woodruff, Dr. 0. D. Standen, and Dr.H. J. Barber. Particulars may be had from Mr. F. E. Rymill,Allen & Hanburys Ltd., Ware, Herts.

Fleming Memorial FundThe trustees of this fund have made the following grants for

basic medical research:St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School- £ 75,000 to help the foundation

in the Wright-Fleming Institute of a department of virology with aprofessorial head; E4200 towards a two-year investigation into themechanism of intracellular killing of bacteria and the phagocyticfunction in man, under the direction of Dr. A. A. Glynn.

University College London and University College Hospital MedicalSchool-f 16,000 to extend interdepartmental research in humangenetics, under the direction of Prof. L. S. Penrose and Prof. M. L.genetics, under the direction of Prof. L. L.Rosenheim.

University College Hospital Medical School-E8000 for a generalstudy of influenza virus haemagglutination inhibition reaction, underthe direction of Prof. George Belyavin.

International Film CompetitionThe Finnish Medical Association is to organise an inter-

national film competition in connection with the General

Assembly of the World Medical Association, which is to beheld at Helsinki from June 13 to 19, 1964.The films (16 mm. or 35 mm., colour or black and white, silent or

with sound) should deal with medical research or with social orpreventive medicine. There will be two classes-documentary andresearch films, and popular films for lay audiences. Films for thecompetition should reach WMA-Filin/Finmedicas, Ullanlinnankatu1, Helsinki, Finland, not later than May 15, 1964.

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Personal Factor in Hospital InfectionThis is the subject of a conference to be held by the Royal

Society of Health at 10 A.M. on Wednesday, June 19, at ChurchHouse, Westminster, London, S.W.l, under the chairmanshipof Prof. A. B. Semple. The speakers will include Dr. R. E. M.Thompson, Dr.. E. J. L. Lowbury, Prof. Carl W. Walter, MissM. J. Parker, S.R.N., and Prof. Ralph Shackman. Particularsmay be had from the society, 90, Buckingham Palace Road,S.W.I.

Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans ofMedical Men

During 1962 this society distributed El 025 in grants, E882as presents at Easter, and S1575 as Michaelmas presents. Atthe end of the year 23 widows were receiving grants.Membership is open to male doctors who live within 20 miles of

Charing Cross. Further particulars may be had from the secretaryof the Society, 11, Chandos Street, London, W.1.

Geriatric Care Association

This Association will hold its first annual general meeting onThursday, June 20, at 2.15 P.M., at St. John’s Hospital, London,S.W.l1. The programme will include a lecture by Dr. L. V.Sthyr on the complete care of the geriatric patient, anddemonstrations by the hospital’s senior physiotherapist,occupational therapist, chiropodist, dietitian, and pharmacist.

Cancer Conference in Amsterdam

The Commission on Cancer Research of the InternationalUnion Against Cancer and the Netherlands Cancer Institutewill hold a conference at the Royal Tropical Institute, Amster-dam, from Sept. 9 to 13. The speakers from this country.will include Dr. G. H. Beale, Dr. W. S. Bullough, Dr. P. C.Koller, Dr. Leslie Foulds, Dr. P. N. Magee, and Dr. E,Boyland. Further particulars may be had from Dr. H. G. Kwa,c/o Congresdienst Gemeente Amsterdam, 4, St. Agnietenstraat,Amsterdam C, The Netherlands.

Anglo-American Medical AssociationThe London group of this society will meet at Abbots

Langley Hospital, Herts, on Thursday, June 13, at 6.30 P.M.,when Lord Amulree will open a discussion on geriatric pro-blems in Great Britain and the United States. The secretaryof the society is Dr. M. E. Arnold, 2, Forty Lane, Wembley,Middlesex.

Beit FellowshipsDr. W. T. J. Morgan has been elected a member of the

advisory board, and the following elections to fellowships havebeen made:

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Junior Fellowships.-W. L. Ford, M.B. Edin. (at the Sir William DunnSchool of Pathology, Oxford); M. D. Casey, M.B. Sheff. (at the departmentof genetics, University of Sheffield); David Franks, B.sc. Birm., PH.D.Cantab. (at the department of pathology, University of Cambridge);Trichur Krishna Sundaram, PH.D. Madras (at the John Innes Institute,Bayfordbury, Herts); W. B. J. Broom, M.B. Lond. (at the department ofphysiology and the Institute of Clinical Research, Middlesex HospitalMedical School, London); Munir Ahmed Siddiqui, M.B. Karachi, F.R.C.S.(at the department of experimental chemotherapy, Christie Hospital,Manchester); E. K. Matthews, PH.D. Lond. (at the department of pharmacology, University of Cambridge).

Fourth-year Fellowships.-E. R. Huehns, PH.D. Lond. (at the departmentof biochemistry, University College London, and the medical unit, Univer-sity College Hospital Medical School); A. J. Rowe, PH.D., Cantab. (at theM.R.C. Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge).

American Collaboration with British JournalThe editors of Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

(published in London for the Spastics Society) announce thattheir bi-monthly journal has been appointed the official organof the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy. Such an appoint-ment they regard as unique in the history of medical journalism.The academy has about 400 members, from various medicalspecialties. The journal will continue to be published in Lon-don but will naturally become more international in ffavour.

Further information may be had from: Dr. M. C. 0. Bax (assistanteditor of the journal), 62, Hornsey Lane, London, N.6; or fromDr. J. D. Russ (secretary of the academy), 1520, Louisiana Avenue,New Orleans 15, Louisiana, U.S.A.

Colonel G. Gregg has been appointed honorary physician,Territorial Army, to the Queen in succession to Colonel H. A.Mullen, and Colonel R. G. Sykes honorary surgeon in succession toColonel G. A. W. Neill.

The Faculty of Homreopathy will hold a meeting at the RoyalLondon Homoeopathic Hospital, -Great Ormond Street, London,W.C.1, on Thursday, May 30, at 5 P.M., when Dr. Pierre Schmidt,from Geneva, will speak on Kentism, Kent’s Method, and his Life.

The Hammersmith Postgraduate Association will hold its annualopen day and dinner on Friday, June 28. The programme willinclude an open lecture on the development of Hammersmith

Hospital and the Postgraduate Medical School.

The Royal College of Nursing has amalgamated with the NationalCouncil of Nurses to form the largest association in Britain for

State-registered nurses. The new body will be known as the RoyalCollege of Nursing and National Council of Nurses of the UnitedKingdom.

Diary of the Week

MAY 26 TO. JUNE 1

Monday, 27thPOSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON, Ducane Road, W.12

4 P.M. Dr. David Weitzman: Serum Lipids and Coronary Disease.ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, 1, Wimpole Street, W.1

5.30 P.M. Odontology. Prof. A. E. W. Miles: Pigmented Enamel.WRIGHT-FLEMING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY, St. Mary’s Hospital

Medical School, W.25 P.M. Dr. R. R. A. Coombs: Sero-morphology of Man. (Almroth Wright

lecture.)ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray’s Inn Road, W.C.1

8 P.M. (Anaesthetic Department.) Dr. R. S. Williams: Anaesthesia andLiver Function.

MANCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY9 P.M. (Medical School, University of Manchester.) Section of General

Practice. Dr. Richard Asher: Face Values.

Tuesday, 28thROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, W.C.2

5 P.M. Mr. H. Graham Stack: Muscle Function in the Fingers. (Arrisand Gale lecture.)

ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE8 P.M. Medicine. Mr. R. Y. Calne, Dr. N. A. Mitchison, Prof. M. F. A.

Woodruff: Tissue Transplantation.ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY

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5 P.M. (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street,W.C.I.) Dr. E. A. Gehan (Bethesda): A Sequential Trial in AcuteLeukaemia.

Wednesday, 29thPOSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON

2 P.M. Dr. R. J. W. Rees: Applicability of Experimental Murine Leprosyto the Study of Human Leprosy.

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INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY, Lisle Street, W.C.25.30 P.M. Dr. Leon Szur: Radiotherapy of Benign Skin Diseases.

INSTITUTE OF DISEASES OF THE CHEST, Brompton, S.W.35 P.M. Mr. Donald Barlow: Dysphagia.

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD5 P.M. (Radcliffe Infirmary.) Dr. Alberto Zanchetti: Neural and Bodily

Aspects of Sleep. (Litchfield lecture.)ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF EDINBURGH, 9, Queen Street, Edinburgh

5 P.M. Prof. W. Malcolm Millar: Models and Methods in PsychiatricResearch.

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Thursday, 30thUNIVERSITY OF LONDON

5.15 P.M. (Middlesex Hospital Medical School, Mortimer Street, W.I.)Prof. Bayard Carter (Duke University, North Carolina): Chemo-therapy for Pelvic Cancer-Perfusion and Infusion.

POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON4 P.M. Dr. A. Goldberg: Clinical Aspects of Iron Metabolism.

INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY5.30 P.M. Dr. P. D. Samman: Pathogenesis of Nail Disorders.

BRITISH INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGY, 32, Welbeck Street, W.I8 P.M. Dr. J. F. Loutit: Lymphocytes. (Mackenzie Davidson lecture.)

ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL, W.25 P.M. (Wright-Fleming Institute.) Prof. K. W. Cross: Heat Production

in the Newborn in Health and Disease.NUFFIELD ORTHOPEDIC CENTRE, Wingfield-Morris Orthopa:dic Hospital,

Oxford8.30 P.M. Prof. J. Trueta: A Visit to the Sudan.

HONYMAN GILLESPIE LECTURE5 P.M. (Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh.) Dr. A. R. Muir:

Structure of Cardiac Muscle.UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS

5 P.M. (Queen’s College, Dundee.) Prof. John McMichael: The ResearchSpiral and Observations Out of Time.

UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN4.30 P.M. (University Medical Buildings, Foresterhill.) Prof. H. McIlwain:

Neurochemistry and Therapeutic Endeavour.

Friday, 31stPOSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF LONDON

10 A.M. Mr. F. J. Gillingham: Management of Ruptured IntracranialAneurysms.

INSTITUTE OF LARYNGOLOGY AND OTOLOGY, 330, Gray’s Inn Road, W.e.l5.30 P.M. Mr. George Qvist: Surgery of the Lower (Esophagus.