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"Of recent" years," writes A. H., " Dobriner hadcontributed largely to the establishment of the patternsof urinary excretion of the steroid hormones in normaland pathological states, the application of infra-red

spectroscopy to steroid structure and metabolism, andthe study of the effects of cortisone and related steroidson the growth of experimental tumours. From theselater researches he was. gradually evolving a view andinterpretation of the role of adrenal cortical dysfunctionin the inception and development of malignant diseaseas a whole. A welcome visitor to England, he had takenpart in various symposia at the Ciba Foundation andat other meetings elsewhere, and his friends had lookedforward to meeting him at the International Congressof Biochemistry in Paris this summer. Many, not onlyin the country of his adoption but far beyond it, willmourn Dobie as a valued colleague and generous friend."

Diary of the Week

MARCH 30 TO APRIL 5

Tuesday, 1 st

ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, Pall Mall East, S.W.15 P.M. Prof. Robert Platt : Structural and Functional Adaptation

in Renal Failure. (First of two Lumleian lectures.)ROYAL EYE HOSPITAL, St. George’s Circus, S.E.15 P.M. Mr. T. M. Tyrrell : Cataract Extraction.

Wednesday, 2ndROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, W.C.2

5 P.M. Mr. S. M. Cohen : Peripheral Aneurysm and ArteriovenousFistula. (Hunterian lecture.)

ROYAL SOOIETY OF MEDICINE, 1, Wimpole Street, W.18 P.M. Section of Surgery. Dr. Hayes Martin (New York), Dr.

A. Tailhefer (Paris), Sir Stanford Cade : Treatment ofCervical Met’1static Cancer.

ROYAL EYE HOSPITAL5.30 P.M. Mr. Howard Reed : Visual Fields.

ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND HYGIENE, 28, PortlandPlace, W.1

3.30 P.M. Prof. R. S. Illingworth : Disturbances of Sleep inChildren.

MANCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY4.30 P.M. (University of Manchester.) Section of Medicine. Dr.

Lawrence Kilroe : All in the Day’s Work.YORKSHIRE SOCIETY OF ANAESTHETISTS .

8 P.M. (Leeds General Infirmary.) Dr. G. Steel : Theoretica andPractical Aspects of Therapeutic Nerve Blocking.

Thursday, 3rdROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS5 P.M. Professor Platt: Structural and Functional Adaptation

in Renal Failure. (Second of two Lumleian lectures.)ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS

5.30 P.M. Sir Charles Symonds : Intracranial Thrombophlebitis.UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

5 P.M. (Radcliffe Infirmary.) Dr. T. N. MacGregor : Significanceand Mechanism of Menstruation. (Litchfield lecture.)

ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE8 P.M. Section of Neurology. Dr. J. St. C. Elkington, Prof. R. H. S.

Thompson, Dr. W. B. Matthews : The Peripheral Neuro-pathies.

ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL COLLEGE, Millbank, S.W.15 P.M. Prof. M. L. Rosenheim : Treatment of Hypertension.

ROYAL EYE HOSPITAL5.30 P.M. Miss M. Savory : Detachment of the Retina.

ASSOCIATION OF CLINICAL PATHOLOGISTS4.30 P.M. (City Council Chambers, Portsmouth.) Opening

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MIDLAND MEDICAL SOCIETY8.15 P.M. (Birmingham Medical Institute, 154, Great Charles

Street, Birmingham, 3.) Mr. W. H. Bond : Oral Cancer.

Friday, 4thROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS

5 P.M. Sir James Learmonth : After Fifty-six Years. (ListerOration.)

ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE5.30 P.M. Section of Anœsthetics. Prof. R. J. S. McDowall:

Asphyxia and the Electrolyte Balance.INSTITUTE OF DISEASES OF THE CHEST AND INSTITUTE OF

CARDIOLOGY5.30 P.M. (London School of Hygiene, Keppel Street, W.C.I.)

Mr. Norman Barrett : Injuries to the Heart.BUBENICS SOCIETY

5 P.M. (26, Portland Place, W.1.) Dr. J. A. Fraser Roberts :Genetics of Mental Deficiency. (Galton lecture.)

SOCIETY OF ANÆSTHETISTS OF SOUTH WALES 7.30 P.M. (Cardiff Royal Infirmary.) Anaesthetic films.

WHIPPS CROss HOSPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY, Whipps Cross Hospital,E.ll

8.30 P.M. Dr. Joan Taylor : Diarrhoeas of Bacterial Origin.

EMERGENCY BED SERVICE.—In the week ended last

Monday applications for general acute cases numbered 1100.The proportion admitted was 89-75%.

Notes and News

NATIONAL FORMULARY, 1952

A NEW edition of the formulary is published this week.The notes for prescribers have been expanded by the additionof further monographs, and a pharmacological classificationwill now help the prescriber to recall those preparations whichhave similar actions or contain a particular drug. The list of

approved non-proprietary names and their equivalents will beparticularly useful in saving time and confusion. The generalsection of the formulary has been rearranged with Englishheadings to the subsections, but the Latin names are retainedfor the individual formulae. Prescriptions with no pharmaco-logical justification have been dropped, but this principle hasbeen waived in favour of some traditional and popularmedicines. Doctors may miss some old friends, but they are,of course, in no way restricted to preparations in the formu-lary. The changes make it better than ever. The publishersare the British Medical Association and the PharmaceuticalPress, 17, Bloomsbury Square, London, W.C.1, and the price is4s. 9d. post free or 7s. lid. post free for an interleaved copy.

B.M.A. IN THE MIDDLE EAST

DOCTORS from as far afield as Bahrein and the Lebanonassembled in Bagdad for the annual meeting of the MiddleEast Branch of the British Medical Association on March 4and 5. Sir John Troutbeck, the British Ambassador, recalledthat Bagdad was once the centre of the medical world ;and " those who are Scotsmen among you may think that it

might still be so today if its place had not been usurped byEdinburgh." The medical profession in Iraq had been builtup in the closest association with the British, and the growinginternational importance of the Iraqi medical professionand of the Royal Medical College in Bagdad was clearlyevident. The Ambassador was followed by Sayyid MajedMustapha, the minister for social affairs, and Prof. Hashimal-Witry, dean of the medical faculty.The scientific proceedings were opened by Prof. F. A. R.

Stammers (Birmingham), who spoke on Fluid, Crystalloid,and Protein Balance m Surgery. Dr. F. Akrawi, professorof venereology at Bagdad, discussed bejel, which is a

treponemal disease resembling syphilis, endemic in some partsof the Middle East. Clinically, bejel resembles syphilisexcept for the absence of the primary sore, the rarity orabsence of neurovisceral complications, and doubt about itshereditary transmission. Professor Akrawi regards bejel assyphilis modified by the conditions under which it exists.A lecture on W.H.O. in the Middle East, by Dr. W. H.

Crighton, public-health administrator for the Eastern Medi-terranean Regional Office of W.H.O., was followed by adiscussion in which Dr. W. H. Ford Robertson (Beirut)suggested that insufficient attention had been given to mentalhealth in the Middle East, and Prof. A. M. Critchley (Bagdad),hon. secretary of the Middle East Branch of the B.M.A.,declared that the W.H.O. services for acquiring and impartinginformation could be improved.

THE MEDICAL DIRECTORY

THE two volumes of The Medical Directory 1952 follow thepattern of last year, but the number of medical practitionerslisted has increased by 2174 (making a total of 81,846), thenumber of pages by 56, and the price by 9s.

University of CambridgeThe honorary degree of sc.D. is to be conferred -on Sir

Gordon Gordon-Taylor.Dr. V. B. Wigglesworth, F.R.s., has been appointed Quick

professor of biology.Dr. Wigglesworth, who is 52 years of age, was educated at Repton.

In 1917 to 1918 he served in France with a commission in the RoyalField Artillery. On demobilisation he entered Caius College,Cambridge, of which he was a scholar. In 1922 he held a FrankSmart studentship at Caius College, and in 1926 he graduatedB.CHIR. from St. Thomas’s Hospital. The same year he wasappointed lecturer in medical entomology at the London School ofHygiene, and in 1936 he became reader in entomology in theUniversity of London at the school. In 1939 he was elected F.R.s.,and in 1944 he joined the ’Agricultural Research Council’s unit ofinsect physiology at Cambridge as director. He also holds a reader-ship in entomology in the university and a fellowship at CaiusCollege. His published work includes, besides many papers oncomparative physiology, two monographs on insect physiology.

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University of ManchesterOn May 21 the honorary degree of D.sc. is to be conferred on

Prof. Alexander von Muralt who holds the chair of physiologyin the University of Berne.

University of DublinAt a recent examination, the following were awarded the

diploma in gynaecology and obstetrics :Mary Abraham, Abanindranath Basu, J. P. Botha, Gopal

Vasudeo Chaphekar, Thin Mann Chin, E. F. Harben, AndyJonbert, Satyendu Kumar Kundu, Durgaeliaran Mukhopadhyay,Dulcie G. Rayment, Harbans Lal Suri.

Royal Sanitary InstituteThe International Health Congress, organised by the

institute, is to take place this year at Margate from April22 to 25 under the presidency of Lord Moran, who will givethe opening address. Dr. Brock Chisholm, the director-

general of the World Health Organisation, will also speak.Proposed Charge on PrescriptionsOn March 20 Mr. Harry Crookshank, the Minister of Health,

received a deputation representing the General MedicalServices Committee and the Central National Health Service(Chemist Contractors) Committee. This deputation explainedthe difficulties that doctors and chemists, more particularly inrural areas, would have in collecting the proposed 18. chargeon prescriptions. Further discussions are to take place.Defence of ChildrenAn International Conference for the Defence of Children is

to be held in Vienna from April 12 to 16. Thirty-eight countriesare participating, and the subjects will include economicneeds, education, health, and moral and cultural problems.In Britain a committee of sponsors has been set up to arrangefor the presentation of reports on the care of children in thiscountry. The secretary is Mrs. Emmerson, 109, BrondesburyRoad, London, N.W.6.

Coal Board’s Advisory PanelsThe National Coal Board have set up four panels to advise

them on research into medical and human problems in thecoal industry. The membership of the panels is :Epidemiology Panel.—Dr. D. D. Reid (chairman), Mr. G. Bridge-

more Brown, Mr. R. F. George, Mr. J. C. Hobbs, Mr. J. F.Houldsworth, Dr. W. P. D. Logan, Dr. J. Rogan, Dr. T. D. Spencer.

Psychology Panel.-Prof. G. C. Drew (chairman), Mr. C. B. Frisby,Dr. C. G. Gooding, Mr. N. H. Mackworth, PH.D., Dr. J. Rogan,Mr. J. W. Whitfield, Dr. A. T. Macbeth Wilson.

Physiology Panel.—Prof. Esther Killick, M.R.c.P. (chairman),Dr. K. W. Donald, Dr. T. K. Elliott, Dr. H. R. Noltie, Dr. R.Passmore, Dr. J. Rogan, Dr. A. G. M. Weddell, Dr. J. S. Weiner.

Industrial Iledicine Panel.-Dr. J. G. Scadding (chairman),Dr. A. J. Amor, Prof. R. C. Browne, D.M., Dr. J. C. Gilson, Dr. T. E.Howell, Dr. T. H. Jenkins, Dr. J. Rogan, Dr. J. Trefor Watkins.

Dr. J. S. MeLintock, assistant to the board’s chief medicalofficer, is the secretary of the panels.Medical Education in IndiaNew Zealand’s contribution of £250,000 to India under

the Colombo Plan is to be used for building and equippingthe All-India Medical Institute in Delhi. The New Zealand

government have promised to provide a total of £1,000,000for the scheme in the coming three years. The foundationstone of the institute will be laid in April, when Mr. J. T.Watts, New Zealand’s minister for industries and commerce,visits India. The institute will provide facilities for traininghealth personnel, fostering research in all branches of medicine,and offering postgraduate training. The government ofIndia are also developing, in collaboration with UNICEF, theexisting maternity and child-welfare section of the All-IndiaInstitute of Hygiene and Public Health, Calcutta, into a

department of maternal and child health to serve as a nationaltraining-centre for child-health workers, with certain inter-national obligations.

Speaking at the Glancy Medical College, Amritsar, Raj-kumari Amrit Kaur, the health minister, said : " I am quitesure that all governments will have to provide adequateemoluments to whole-time teachers of all categories in ourmedical colleges so that the ablest in the profession may bedrawn to the fields of research and teaching." The Rajkumariadded : " Personally, I have no doubt that we should moveas rapidly as circumstances permit towards the goal of noprivate practice, for doctors in government service, and

adequate remuneration for them. Pari passu with this, weshould levy a per caput minimum contribution towards healthinsurance so that everyone may be entitled to get free treat-ment and at the same time be proud to feel that he is acontributor in a great humanitarian endeavour."

West End Hospital for Nervous DiseasesFrom April 17 to May 29 on Thursdays at 5.30 P.M. a course

of lectures and demonstrations on treatment in psychiatrywill be given at the department of psychiatry of the hospital,48, Cosway Street, off Marylebone Road, London, W.I.

Arrangements for InpatientsArrangements for the reception and welfare of hospital

inpatients in England and Wales are being examined by acommittee, appointed by the Central Health Services Council,which includes Sir Ernest Rock Carling and Sir WilliamGilliatt. The committee are basing their review on the reportmade to the Scottish Health Services Council last year.

Wessex Rahere ClubThe spring dinner will take place at the Royal Clarence

Hotel, Exeter, on Saturday, April 19, when Mr. C. NauntonMorgan will be the guest of honour. Membership of the clubis open to all Barts men practising in the West Country.Further details may be had from Mr. A. Daunt Bateman,the hon. secretary, 3, The Circus, Bath.

Le Collège International des ChirurgiensThe following meetings of the college have been arranged:French Chapter, University of Bordeaux, May 13 and 14.Spanish Chapter (Catalonian section), University of Barcelona,

May 16, 17, and 18.International Assembly at the University of Madrid, May 20-23.Austrian Chapter, Vienna, May 26 and 27.Dutch Chapter, Amsterdam, May 29 and 30.

Further information may be had from the secretary of theBritish chapter, Dr. J. F. Brailsford, 20, Highfield Road,Edgbaston, Birmingham, 15.

AppointmentsHAGGFR, A. 0., M.R.C.S. : asst. m.o., Eastern Region, British

Railways.MACLEAN, C. D. T., M.B. Glasg., M.R.C.P., D.M.R.D.: part-time

consultant diagnostic radiologist, Charing Cross Hospital,London.

PEARCE, A. J., M.B. Birm. : appointed factory doctor, BirminghamWest district, Warwick.

SHAW, J. D. F., M.R.C.s. : asst. school M.o., City of Nottinghameducation committee.

SIMPSON, N. R. W., M.B. Lond., D.P.M.: consultant in physicalmedicine to the Leicester hospitals.

WATSON, R. T. B., M.B. Glasg., D.P.H.: asst. tuberculosis physician,Lanarkshire.

Appointed Factory Doctors :GLENN, R. W., M.B. Lond. : Haywards Heath district, Sussex.GREIG, AGNES, M.B. Edin. : Kirkcaldy district, Fife.WHITWORTH, HENRY, M.B. Lond. : St. Agnes district, Cornwall.

The 7’errns and Conditions of Service of Hospital Medical andDental Staff apply to all N.H.S. hospital posts we advertise, unlessotherwise stated. Canvassing disqualifies, but candidates may normallyvisit the hospital by appointment.

Births, Marriages, and DeathsBIRTHS

CRITCHLEY.—On March 19, at Harrogate, the wife of Dr. J. M. A.Critchley-a son.

DONALD.’—On March 19, in London, the wife of Dr. Ian Donald- a daughter.

GRIFFITHS.—On March 20, in London, the wife of Dr. J. D.Griffiths—a daughter.

HARROLD.—On March 17, in London, the wife of Dr. A. J. Harrold- a daughter.

MOREL.-On March 22, at Barnstaple, the wife of Mr. MervynMorel, F.R.C.S.—a daughter.

MUIR.—On Feb. 25, in London, the wife of Mr. Ian Muir, M.B.E.,F.R.C.S.—a son.

WILKINSON.—On March 18, in London, the wife of Dr. R. S.Wilkinson-a daughter.

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MARRIAGES .

GRUBB—BROWN.—On March 21, in London, Dermot O’C. Grubb,to P. Jane Brown, M.B. (formerly Rickword).

JENKINS—EVANS.—On March 18, at Gilfach Goch, Glam, lutchieT. Jenkins, M.R.C.P., to Eileen Joyce Evans.

DEATHSCROSFIELD.-On March 20, at Broadstairs, Arthur Mellor Crosfield,

L.R.C.P.E., formerly of Leicester, aged 79.ELLIS.—On March 18, Edward Alfred Ellis, B.A., M.B. Dubl., 0:

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ELLISON.—On March 19, Philip Oswald Ellison, M.B. Lond., ofGerrards Cross.

McELLIGOTT.—On March 19, Maurice Gerald McElligott, F.R.C.S.I.,of Listowel, co. Kerry, formerly of Bushey Heath, aged 83.

MUIRHEAD.—On March 4, in Sheffield, William Martin Muirhead,M.B. Sheff., D.O.M.S.