Continuous lumbar epidural analgesia for labour and delivery.
	J S Crawford
	Br Med J  1979;1:1560-1561, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1560-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Analgesia in terminal malignant disease.
	P S Russell
	Br Med J  1979;1:1561, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1561 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Relief of postoperative pain.
	H T Davenport, B M Wright
	Br Med J  1979;1:1561, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1561-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Relief of postoperative pain.
	J Church
	Br Med J  1979;1:1561, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1561-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Seat-belt legislation.
	G Avery
	Br Med J  1979;1:1561-1562, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1561-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Rheumatoid arthritis and the gut.
	J H Larsen
	Br Med J  1979;1:1562, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1562 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endoscopy for all?
	G Holdstock, M Wiseman
	Br Med J  1979;1:1562, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1562-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	What shall we teach undergraduates?
	K Swinburne
	Br Med J  1979;1:1562-1563, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1562-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	What shall we teach undergraduates?
	D B Jelliffe, E F Jelliffe
	Br Med J  1979;1:1563, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1563 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Breast cancer in young women.
	H Honoré
	Br Med J  1979;1:1563, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1563-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hypnosis.
	H G Kinnell
	Br Med J  1979;1:1563, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1563-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Oestrogen-induced hypocalcaemia in hypoparathyroidism.
	C Nagant de Deuxchaisnes
	Br Med J  1979;1:1563-1564, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1563-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A Copper 7 IUCD with no copper.
	M Pollock
	Br Med J  1979;1:1564, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1564 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Airways insufficiency and pituitary failure.
	S G Barber
	Br Med J  1979;1:1564, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1564-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Contaminated hospital water supplies.
	H J Black, E J Holt, K Kitson, M H Maloney, D Phillips
	Br Med J  1979;1:1564-1565, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1564-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The wrong drug.
	D Chakraborti
	Br Med J  1979;1:1564, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1564-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Falciparum malaria despite chemoprophylaxis.
	P Moody
	Br Med J  1979;1:1565, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1565 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One man's schizophrenic illness.
	D Gallant
	Br Med J  1979;1:1565, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1565-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Drugs for epilepsy.
	P S Mehta
	Br Med J  1979;1:1565-1566, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1565-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Pressure on the tracheal mucosa from cuffed tubes.
	W G Notcutt
	Br Med J  1979;1:1566, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1566-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Immersion and thermoregulatory response.
	I F Hampton, D Smith, F S Golden
	Br Med J  1979;1:1566, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1566-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical representatives.
	P T Hughes
	Br Med J  1979;1:1566, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1566-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Opticians' salaries.
	D M Burns
	Br Med J  1979;1:1567-1568, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1567-f [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Articles

This week's Articles

	NEWS AND NOTES
	Br Med J  1979;1:1569-1572, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1569 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	OBITUARY
	Br Med J  1979;1:1573-1575, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1573 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Book Review

This week's Book Review

	Medicine and Books
	Br Med J  1979;1:1553-1557, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1553 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Correspondence

This week's Correspondence

	Manpower
	Jack Bavin
	Br Med J  1979;1:1559, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1559 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Manpower
	F S A Doran
	Br Med J  1979;1:1559-1560, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1559-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Manpower
	Thomas T Irvin
	Br Med J  1979;1:1560, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1560 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Manpower
	G H Hall
	Br Med J  1979;1:1560, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1560-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Manpower
	James Parkhouse
	Br Med J  1979;1:1560, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1560-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnostic sand
	John Anderson
	Br Med J  1979;1:1564, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1564-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	How to use an overhead projector
	John Robbins
	Br Med J  1979;1:1565, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1565-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and children's teeth
	J Vincenzi
	Br Med J  1979;1:1565, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1565-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Biochemical testing for medical emergencies
	David Cooper
	Br Med J  1979;1:1566, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1566 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Rampton Hospital allegations
	Gareth Jones
	Br Med J  1979;1:1567, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1567 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The time for plain speaking
	Harold Ellis
	Br Med J  1979;1:1567, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1567-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Training in urology
	Andrew Johnson
	Br Med J  1979;1:1567, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1567-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Patients' groups
	W D Harper, D W Evans, J W Bradshaw, D G Parry, W H Chase, J H Clark, J F Moore, J G Rigby, A Price, P D Barnard, H C Lanceley, O S Crosthwaite
	Br Med J  1979;1:1567, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1567-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Patients' groups
	R Leete
	Br Med J  1979;1:1567, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1567-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical medical officers
	H B Brown
	Br Med J  1979;1:1567, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1567-e [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Community medicine
	R W Smithells
	Br Med J  1979;1:1568, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1568 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Community medicine
	James R Preston
	Br Med J  1979;1:1568, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1568-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: The wrong drug
	E N S Fry
	Br Med J  1979;1:1568, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1568-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Doctors and children's teeth
	A J Rose
	Br Med J  1979;1:1568, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1568-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: The case against neonatal circumcision
	David Morris
	Br Med J  1979;1:1568, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1568-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Low back pain
	Stanley P Bohrer
	Br Med J  1979;1:1568, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1568-e [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Hallucinogenic fungus
	P Petch
	Br Med J  1979;1:1568, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1568-f [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Hallucinogenic fungus
	A P Radford
	Br Med J  1979;1:1568, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1568-g [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: BMA-sponsored candidates
	A Allibone
	Br Med J  1979;1:1568, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1568-h [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Medical Practice

This week's Medical Practice

	Materia Non Medica
	Br Med J  1979;1:1550, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1550 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Best of the bed books
	Peter Beattie
	Br Med J  1979;1:1551-1552, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1551 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Personal View
	S L Henderson Smith
	Br Med J  1979;1:1558, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1558 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research Article

This week's Research Article

	What is to be done with the XYY fetus?
	Br Med J  1979;1:1519-1520, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1519 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Saving asthmatics.
	Br Med J  1979;1:1520-1521, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1520 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Emergencies and the laboratory.
	Br Med J  1979;1:1521, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1521 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Review Body reports.
	Br Med J  1979;1:1521-1522, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1521-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Tory health.
	Br Med J  1979;1:1522, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1522 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Can we really prevent postoperative pulmonary emboli?
	J R Mitchell
	Br Med J  1979;1:1523-1524, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1523 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Survival of patients ventilated in an intensive therapy unit.
	J F Nunn, J S Milledge, J Singaraya
	Br Med J  1979;1:1525-1527, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1525 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Pneumoperitoneum associated with artificial ventilation.
	B Summers
	Br Med J  1979;1:1528-1530, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1528 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Unknown primary adenocarcinoma: incidence of overinvestigation and natural history.
	J F Stewart, M H Tattersall, R L Woods, R M Fox
	Br Med J  1979;1:1530-1533, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1530 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Variation in plasma prednisolone concentrations in renal transplant recipients given enteric-coated prednisolone.
	R G Henderson, T Wheatley, J English, J Chakraborty, V Marks
	Br Med J  1979;1:1534-1536, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1534 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Raised blood pressure and plasma noradrenaline concentrations in teenagers and young adults selected from an open population.
	A Hofman, F Boomsma, M A Schalekamp, H A Valkenburg
	Br Med J  1979;1:1536-1538, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1536 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Nail bed ablation--excise or cauterise? A controlled study.
	T Andrew, W A Wallace
	Br Med J  1979;1:1539, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1539 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prurigo and pets: the benefit from vets.
	M Kieffer, S Kristensen, T E Hallas
	Br Med J  1979;1:1539-1540, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1539-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Objective assessment of treatment in severe angina.
	G D Oakley, K M Fox, H J Dargie, A P Selwyn
	Br Med J  1979;1:1540, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1540 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Spinal-cord compression in myeloma.
	W J Benson, J H Scarffe, I D Todd, M Palmer, D Crowther
	Br Med J  1979;1:1541-1544, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1541 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Low-dose radiation.
	B J Culliton, W K Waterfall
	Br Med J  1979;1:1545-1546, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1545 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Keeping up to date.
	J M Longmore
	Br Med J  1979;1:1547-1548, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1547 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Insulin.
	P J Watkins
	Br Med J  1979;1:1548-1550, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1548 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Supplement

This week's Supplement

	The Week
	Br Med J  1979;1:1576, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1576 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Review Body's Ninth Report
	Br Med J  1979;1:1577-1583, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1577 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMA's evidence on general economic case
	Br Med J  1979;1:1579-1580, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1579 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Council: Medical manpower report welcomed
	Br Med J  1979;1:1581-1582, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1581 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Supplementary Annual Report of Council—1978-9
	Br Med J  1979;1:1583, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1583 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Council dinner 1979
	Br Med J  1979;1:1584, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6177.1584 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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