Post-marketing surveillance of drugs.
	D H Lawson
	Br Med J  1979;2:546, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.546 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Drug information and cost effectiveness.
	A Maynard
	Br Med J  1979;2:546-547, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.546-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Heatstroke in a "run for fun".
	T J Bassler
	Br Med J  1979;2:547, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.547 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The haematuria of the long-distance runner.
	T Heide
	Br Med J  1979;2:547, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.547-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Alcohol-dependent doctors.
	G V Lewis, P Rawlinson
	Br Med J  1979;2:547, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.547-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Extracranial-intracranial anastomoses.
	C M Bannister
	Br Med J  1979;2:547-548, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.547-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	On-demand analgesia equipment.
	T Lind, R G Weatherstone, I R Chambers
	Br Med J  1979;2:548, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.548 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Splenectomy for massive splenomegaly.
	D Shaw, G R Tudhope
	Br Med J  1979;2:548, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.548-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Splenectomy for massive splenomegaly.
	P J Toghill
	Br Med J  1979;2:548-549, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.548-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Suicide and attempted suicide.
	F D Hart
	Br Med J  1979;2:549, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.549 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Wernicke's encephalopathy.
	G Jones
	Br Med J  1979;2:549, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.549-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Wernicke's encephalopathy.
	D S McLaren, D H Boyd
	Br Med J  1979;2:549, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.549-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Herpetic proctitis and sacral radiculomyelopathy in homosexual men.
	D Goldmeier
	Br Med J  1979;2:549, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.549-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Relation between herpes simplex virus and carcinoma.
	M G Davies
	Br Med J  1979;2:549-550, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.549-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Blindness after treatment for malignant hypertension.
	J H Wetherill
	Br Med J  1979;2:550, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.550 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Maturity-onset diabetes.
	R H Lloyd-Mostyn, R M Goodfellow
	Br Med J  1979;2:550, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.550-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Serum free thyroxine in pregnancy.
	M Boss, D Kingstone
	Br Med J  1979;2:550, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.550-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Serum free thyroxine in pregnancy.
	A Kurtz, K Dwyer, R Ekins
	Br Med J  1979;2:550-551, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.550-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	General practitioners' advice against smoking.
	G Fowler
	Br Med J  1979;2:551, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.551 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Comparison of buprenorphine and diamorphine in suspected myocardial infarction.
	H C Simpson
	Br Med J  1979;2:551, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.551-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Interstitial fibrosis in a patient treated with 5-fluorouracil and mitomycin C.
	J W Fielding, J Crocker, R A Stockley, V S Brookes
	Br Med J  1979;2:551-552, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.551-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Practical problems with the Clinitest.
	P A Aspinall, A R Hill
	Br Med J  1979;2:552, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.552 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The grumbling appendix.
	I Lewis
	Br Med J  1979;2:552, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.552-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and children's teeth.
	P Stocker
	Br Med J  1979;2:552, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.552-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Disposable insulin syringes.
	M R Phillips, S Strang, G Werther, D Baum, R C Turner
	Br Med J  1979;2:552-553, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.552-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lupus-like autoimmune syndrome after levodopa and benserazide.
	G Massarotti, E Cassi, A Passaleva
	Br Med J  1979;2:553, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.553 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Smoking and anaesthetics.
	S McKechnie
	Br Med J  1979;2:553, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.553-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Fetal malnutrition--the price of upright posture?
	P Diggory
	Br Med J  1979;2:553, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.553-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Yersinia arthritis.
	D L Walker, T J Coleman
	Br Med J  1979;2:553-554, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.553-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The case against neonatal circumcision.
	P M Fleiss, J Douglass
	Br Med J  1979;2:554, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.554 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Destroying the whole-time option.
	P W Fisher
	Br Med J  1979;2:554, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.554-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Articles

This week's Articles

	OBITUARY
	Br Med J  1979;2:556-558, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.556 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	NEWS AND NOTES
	Br Med J  1979;2:559-560, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.559 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Book Review

This week's Book Review

	Medicine and Books
	Br Med J  1979;2:540-544, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.540 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Correspondence

This week's Correspondence

	Alcohol-dependent doctors
	M Rosen
	Br Med J  1979;2:547, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.547-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The "Radcliffe" hospitals, Oxford
	Malcolm H Gough
	Br Med J  1979;2:554, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.554-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Survival of the fittest?
	T J Daymond
	Br Med J  1979;2:554, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.554-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Unfit for holiday
	William I Martin
	Br Med J  1979;2:554, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.554-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Fifty years of penicillin
	Henry S Fraser, Iris Bannochie
	Br Med J  1979;2:554-555, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.554-e [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: How to use an overhead projector
	Clifford Hawkins
	Br Med J  1979;2:555, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.555 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Handicapped Children's Pilgrimage Trust
	P A Trafford
	Br Med J  1979;2:555, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.555-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Exercise testing in patients with angina pectoris
	Peter F Meyer
	Br Med J  1979;2:555, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.555-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Free treatment for foreigners
	J M F Clarke
	Br Med J  1979;2:555, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.555-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: To fart
	Philip D Welsby
	Br Med J  1979;2:555, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.555-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: To fart
	P J E Wilson
	Br Med J  1979;2:555, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.555-e [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Chlamydia
	Geoffrey L Ridgway, J D Oriel
	Br Med J  1979;2:555, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.555-f [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Single trainees
	Eric J Webb
	Br Med J  1979;2:555, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.555-g [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Easy-rider sling
	J R Gillespie
	Br Med J  1979;2:555, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.555-h [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: The grumbling appendix
	J W Maltby
	Br Med J  1979;2:i, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.555-i [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Penicillamine causing acute colitis
	G B Grant
	Br Med J  1979;2:555, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.555-j [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Medical Practice

This week's Medical Practice

	Materia Non Medica
	Br Med J  1979;2:535, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.535 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Classes in literature
	W L Burrowes
	Br Med J  1979;2:538-539, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.538 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Personal View
	V Basnayake
	Br Med J  1979;2:545, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.545 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Papers and Originals

This week's Papers and Originals

	Effect of beta-blockers on arrhythmias during six weeks after suspected myocardial infarction
	J M Roland, R G Wilcox, D C Banks, B Edwards, P H Fentem, J R Hampton
	Br Med J  1979;2:518-521, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.518 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research Article

This week's Research Article

	Vasodilators in senile dementia.
	Br Med J  1979;2:511-512, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.511 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Gastric and duodenal ulceration after burns.
	Br Med J  1979;2:512, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.512 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Acquired pulmonary stenosis.
	Br Med J  1979;2:512-513, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.512-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Monitoring plasma concentration of psychotropic drugs.
	Br Med J  1979;2:513-514, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.513 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Genetic association with bladder cancer.
	Br Med J  1979;2:514, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.514 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Large-bowel obstruction caused by cancer: a prospective study.
	L P Fielding, S Stewart-Brown, L Blesovsky
	Br Med J  1979;2:515-517, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.515 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Decreased serum 24,25-dihydroxy vitamin D concentrations in children receiving chronic anticonvulsant therapy.
	Y Weisman, A Fattal, Z Eisenberg, S Harel, Z Spirer, A Harell
	Br Med J  1979;2:521-523, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.521 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	High-carbohydrate diets and insulin-dependent diabetics.
	R W Simpson, J I Mann, J Eaton, R D Carter, T D Hockaday
	Br Med J  1979;2:523-525, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.523 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Failed laparoscopic clip sterilisation.
	A Kenney, R D de Vere, J R Jass
	Br Med J  1979;2:526, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.526 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Effects of the media on attitudes to electric convulsion therapy.
	J M Bird
	Br Med J  1979;2:526-527, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.526-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Pathological fracture of tibia in patient with corticosteroid-dependent psoriasis treated by functional bracing.
	N M Clarke, D N Smith, C J Paul
	Br Med J  1979;2:527-528, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.527 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Use of ethamsylate in vaginal surgery and deep-vein thrombosis.
	M F Vere, S M Sellers, D N Joyce, G E Staddon
	Br Med J  1979;2:528, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.528 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Design of forms for clinical trials (1).
	P Wright, J Haybittle
	Br Med J  1979;2:529-530, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.529 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Social factors and marital pathology.
	J Dominian
	Br Med J  1979;2:531-532, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.531 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Vitamin B12: an area of darkness.
	D M Matthews, J C Linnell
	Br Med J  1979;2:533-535, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.533 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Osteosarcoma.
	R Sweetnam
	Br Med J  1979;2:536-537, doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6189.536 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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