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4 August 1979 (Vol 2, No 6185)
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This week's Letter

Screening for open neural-tube defects in England and Wales.
N Wald, H S Cuckle, C A Harwood
Br Med J  1979;2:331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.331
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Fetal hazards of altering hypotensive regimens in pregnancy.
A Nysenbaum, T McFarlane, R L Gadd
Br Med J  1979;2:331-332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.331-a
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Whooping-cough vaccination.
N W Preston
Br Med J  1979;2:332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.332
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Measles and vaccine protection.
G A Jackson
Br Med J  1979;2:332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.332-a
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Induction of labour using prostaglandin E2 pessaries.
A W Banks
Br Med J  1979;2:332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.332-b
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Induction of labour using prostaglandin E2 pessaries.
C J Hutchins
Br Med J  1979;2:332-333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.332-c
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Thromboembolism in pregnancy.
M L Orme, M J Serlin, A Breckenridge
Br Med J  1979;2:333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.333
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Luteal function in patients seeking AID.
B Sandler
Br Med J  1979;2:333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.333-a
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Drugs for pain.
L Lasagna
Br Med J  1979;2:333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.333-b
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Maintenance of diagnostic equipment in wards and consulting rooms.
B J Freedman
Br Med J  1979;2:333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.333-c
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Analgesia in terminal malignant disease.
A J Grace
Br Med J  1979;2:333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.333-d
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Muslims, Ramadan, and diabetes mellitus.
R N Ebbing
Br Med J  1979;2:333-334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.333-e
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Saving asthmatics.
R Monie, W V Evans
Br Med J  1979;2:334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.334
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Asthma due to industrial use of chloramine.
T J Charles
Br Med J  1979;2:334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.334-a
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Glycosylated haemoglobin and hyperglycaemia.
R J Sherriff, B J Burke
Br Med J  1979;2:334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.334-b
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Fifty years of penicillin.
G T Stewart
Br Med J  1979;2:334-335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.334-c
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Easy-rider sling.
T K Hanid
Br Med J  1979;2:335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.335
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Prophylaxis of tetanus.
R K Sanders
Br Med J  1979;2:335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.335-b
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Oral metronidazole in Clostridium difficile colitis.
G A Mogg, D W Burdon, M Keighley
Br Med J  1979;2:335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.335-c
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Medical audit.
G Strube
Br Med J  1979;2:336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.336
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Manpower.
Br Med J  1979;2:336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.336-a
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Minor operations in general practice.
P D Hooper
Br Med J  1979;2:336-337, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.336-c
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Review Body's award and consultant contract.
A B Shrank
Br Med J  1979;2:337, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.337-a
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Domesticated doctors.
R E Ferguson
Br Med J  1979;2:337, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.337-b
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This week's Articles

OBITUARY
Br Med J  1979;2:338-339, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.338
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NEWS AND NOTES
Br Med J  1979;2:340-342, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.340
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This week's Book Review

Medicine and Books
Br Med J  1979;2:325-329, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.325
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This week's Correspondence

Compliance with drug treatment
Kay Coonan, M I Drury
Br Med J  1979;2:335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.335-a
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Mission hospital medicine
F T Crossling
Br Med J  1979;2:335-336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.335-d
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Manpower
Colin Powell
Br Med J  1979;2:336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.336-b
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The general practitioners' work load
H W K Acheson
Br Med J  1979;2:337, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.337
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Information about wanted persons and medical ethics
Michael J G Thomas
Br Med J  1979;2:337, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.337-c
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This week's Medical Practice

Letter from Darjeeling: The going is still good
Derek Meyers
Br Med J  1979;2:321-322, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.321
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Men, mountains, and the sea
K G Dickinson
Br Med J  1979;2:323-324, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.323
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Materia Non Medica
Br Med J  1979;2:324, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.324
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Personal View
Michael Mackay
Br Med J  1979;2:330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.330
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This week's Research Article

Wernicke's encephalopathy.
Br Med J  1979;2:291-292, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.291
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Pesticidal diabetes.
Br Med J  1979;2:292-293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.292
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Wellcome Museum of the History of Medicine.
Br Med J  1979;2:293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.293
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Splenectomy for massive splenomegaly.
Br Med J  1979;2:293-294, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.293-a
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The grumbling appendix.
Br Med J  1979;2:294, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.294
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Diagnostic value of routine exercise testing in hospital patients with angina pectoris.
J A Raffo, I Y Luksic, C T Kappagoda, D A Mary, J B Stoker, W Whitaker, R J Linden
Br Med J  1979;2:295-297, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.295
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Serum thyroglobulin concentrations and whole-body radioiodine scan in follow-up of differentiated thyroid cancer after thyroid ablation.
S C Ng Tang Fui, R Hoffenberg, M N Maisey, E G Black
Br Med J  1979;2:298-300, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.298
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Randomised trial comparing buprenorphine and diamorphine for chest pain in suspected myocardial infarction.
M J Hayes, A R Fraser, J R Hampton
Br Med J  1979;2:300-302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.300
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Relative contributions of diet and sunlight to vitamin D state in the elderly.
D E Lawson, A A Paul, A E Black, T J Cole, A R Mandal, M Davie
Br Med J  1979;2:303-305, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.303
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Q fever treated with erythromycin.
L J D'Angelo, R Hetherington
Br Med J  1979;2:305-306, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.305
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Psychiatric disturbance and chronic haemodialysis.
W J Livesley
Br Med J  1979;2:306, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.306
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Treatment of orthostatic hypotension with dihydroergotamine.
G Jennings, M Esler, R Holmes
Br Med J  1979;2:307, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.307
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Interaction between chloramphenicol and paracetamol.
N Buchanan, G P Moodley
Br Med J  1979;2:307-308, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.307-a
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Chuei-Fong-Tou-Geu-Wan in rheumatoid arthritis.
P J Forster, M Calverley, S Hubball, B McConkey
Br Med J  1979;2:308, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.308
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Treatment of osteomalacia associated with primary biliary cirrhosis with oral 1-alpha-hydroxy vitamin D3.
J E Compston, J P Crowe, L W Horton
Br Med J  1979;2:309, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.309
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An unusual case of respiratory obstruction due to inhalation of the epiglottis with an unusual attempt at self-treatment.
M Hardingham, P N Young
Br Med J  1979;2:309-310, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.309-a
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Serum bilirubin and hepatic enzyme induction.
A K Scott, T A Jeffers, J C Petrie, J C Gilbert
Br Med J  1979;2:310, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.310
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Patients' knowledge of their condition and treatment: how it might be improved.
H Dunkelman
Br Med J  1979;2:311-314, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.311
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Which appliance or aid?
W V James, P V Scott, A J Collier
Br Med J  1979;2:314-316, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.314
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Fetal malnutrition--the price of upright posture?
A Briend
Br Med J  1979;2:317-319, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.317
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Suicide and attempted suicide.
W H Trethowan
Br Med J  1979;2:319-320, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.319
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Alternatives for community physicians.
J Noren
Br Med J  1979;2:345-347, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.345
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This week's Supplement

GMSC approves most of BMA manpower report
Br Med J  1979;2:343-348, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.343
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Occupational physicians: recommended pay scales
Br Med J  1979;2:347, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.347
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New fees for Government work
Br Med J  1979;2:348, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6185.348
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