The differential diagnosis of the bony lesions known as porotic hyperostosis found on a Bronze
Age child's skull is discussed. Keith and Shattock gave an opinion in 1923 that the cause …

John Pughe himself was a stern Baptist, who later on sought the even stricter tenets of the
Plymouth Brethren. The young Taliesin writing home from College for the first time occasioned …

NOT often has it been possible to define the social position of the physician with such
accuracy as to know his exact precedence in a community, but in 10th century Wales he even …

George James Guthrie FRS (1785-1856) was a distinguished soldier, surgeon and medical
reformer whose literary skills and competence in foreign tongues has made him a valuable …

In this volume the Observations in Midwifery comprises some three hundred pages with an
index. There follows, also by PercivallWillughby, forty-five pages of an opusculum (or little …

These are the words of William Osler, published in the first decade of the twentieth century.
You may learn much of a man himself as well as a man's p~ rsonal heroes when he writes …

SIR,-The authors of the report on the emigration of British doctors (6 January, p. 45) correctly
emphasize that access to hospi-tals is one of the prime attractions to general practice in the …

The sudden mountains of Carmarthen rising green and black upon the valley pastures and
leading to flat mysterious summits with wild, rocky lakes are still as inhabited by fairies as …

Is it any longer the medical profession which is the culture that accepts, supports and nourishes
the history of medicine to make it, in Johan Huizinga's terms, a full-fledged field of study? …

To date, very large scale sequencing of many clinically important RNA viruses has been
complicated by their high population molecular variation, which creates challenges for …