Spinal cord disease due to Schistosoma mansoni successfully treated with oxamniquine.
	E M Scrimgeour
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:625, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.625-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Empty epididymal syndrome
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:613, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.613 [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Articles

This week's Articles

	OBITUARY
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:631-632, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.631 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	NEWS AND NOTES
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:633-634, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.633 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Book Review

This week's Book Review

	Medicine and Books
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:619-621, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.619 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Correspondence

This week's Correspondence

	Which patients are likely to die in an accident and emergency department?
	John Bache
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:624, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.624 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Which patients are likely to die in an accident and emergency department?
	M W Beckett
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:624, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.624-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Which patients are likely to die in an accident and emergency department?
	W StC Symmers
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:624-625, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.624-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Which patients are likely to die in an accident and emergency department?
	G D Stanley
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:625, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.625 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Which patients are likely to die in an accident and emergency department?
	Brian G Steggles
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:625, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.625-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lymphangitis after tuberculin tests
	Freda Festenstein
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:625-626, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.625-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lymphangitis after tuberculin tests
	Derek Hall
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:626, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.626 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Can nocturnal emergency surgery be reduced?
	P A Sykes
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:626, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.626-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Can nocturnal emergency surgery be reduced?
	John A Shepherd
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:626, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.626-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Can nocturnal emergency surgery be reduced?
	D Mitchell, C A C Clyne
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:626-627, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.626-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	What annoys me most
	Neil Scheurmier
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:627, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.627 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Is routine episiotomy necessary?
	Esa Läärä
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:627, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.627-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Is routine episiotomy necessary?
	Robert F Harrison
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:627-628, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.627-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Thiamine concentrations in liver disease
	Stuart H Anderson, Andrew D Nicol
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:628, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.628 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Thiamine concentrations in liver disease
	M Dancy, M K Gaitonde, J D Maxwell
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:628, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.628-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Writing a thesis on a word processor
	M Veeravahu
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:628-629, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.628-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Ablative radioiodine therapy for hyperthyroidism
	P B S Fowler, P Dorrington Ward, R F Jewkes
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:629, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.629 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors have management responsibilities too
	J R Bradshaw, J L G Thomson, M J Campbell
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:629, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.629-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A health economist defines efficiency
	John L Appleby
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:629, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.629-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Conscience and nuclear war
	T D V Swinscow
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:629, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.629-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Conscience and nuclear war
	George D Kersley
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:629, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.629-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: What annoys me most
	H W Ashworth
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:630, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.630 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Rear seat belts
	Graham Read
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:630, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.630-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Persistent fetal haemoglobin and falsely high glycosylated haemoglobin levels
	M Hartog, R B Paisey
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:630, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.630-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Enteral feeds may antagonise warfarin
	A Y Dubourg
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:630, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.630-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: The Bolter's brother in law
	Karin M Englehart
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:630, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.630-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Blood transfusion
	T D Culbert
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:630, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.630-e [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Idiosyncratic reactions to carbamazepine mimicking viral infection in children
	David Shuttleworth, Robin Graham-Brown
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:630, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.630-f [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Metabolic acidosis induced by carbonic anhydrase inhibitors and salicylates
	L V K De Silva
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:630, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.630-g [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: AIDS: an old disease from Africa?
	A G Dalgleish
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:630, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.630-h [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Management of obstructed balloon catheters
	David V Thomas
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:i, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.630-i [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Medical Practice

This week's Medical Practice

	Personal Paper: Abstinence or abundance—what goal?
	John Strang
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:604, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.604 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine and the Media
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:622, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.622 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Personal View
	Tony Milne
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:623, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.623 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research Article

This week's Research Article

	Computer aided decision making in medicine.
	D J Spiegelhalter
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:567-568, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.567 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Falls in older age.
	B Livesley
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:568-569, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.568 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Early posthaemorrhagic hydrocephalus.
	J D Pickard
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:569-570, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.569 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The diagnosis of toxoplasmosis.
	S M Hall
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:570-571, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.570 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of advanced carcinoma of the prostate.
	G Williams, S R Bloom
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:571-572, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.571 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Seroepidemiology of HTLV-III antibody in Danish homosexual men: prevalence, transmission, and disease outcome.
	M Melbye, R J Biggar, P Ebbesen, M G Sarngadharan, S H Weiss, R C Gallo, W A Blattner
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:573-575, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.573 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Degos' disease: association with anticardiolipin antibodies and the lupus anticoagulant.
	H J Englert, C H Hawkes, M L Boey, G J Derue, S Loizou, E N Harris, A E Gharavi, R G Hull, G R Hughes
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:576, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.576 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of Raynaud's phenomenon with ketanserin in patients with connective tissue disorders.
	O K Roald, E Seem
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:577-579, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.577 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Antidiuretic function in Sheehan's syndrome.
	F Bakiri, M Benmiloud
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:579-580, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.579 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Naftidrofuryl and the nitrogen, carbohydrate, and lipid responses to moderate surgery.
	J M Jackson, H T Khawaja, P C Weaver, S T Talbot, H A Lee
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:581-584, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.581 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Protein synthesis in muscle measured in vivo in cachectic patients with cancer.
	P W Emery, R H Edwards, M J Rennie, R L Souhami, D Halliday
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:584-586, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.584 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	West Berkshire perineal management trial.
	J Sleep, A Grant, J Garcia, D Elbourne, J Spencer, I Chalmers
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:587-590, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.587 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Unilateral sacroiliac overuse syndrome in military recruits.
	R Chisin, C Milgrom, J Margulies, M Giladi, M Stein, H Kashtan, H Atlan
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:590-591, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.590 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Fatal overdosage of phenylpropanolamine.
	A W Logie, C M Scott
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:591, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.591 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of septic arthritis due to Mycobacterium kansasii.
	S R Carroll, S W Newson, J R Jenner
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:591-592, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.591-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Stress reduction by oxprenolol and placebo: controlled investigation of the pharmacological and non-specific effects.
	A A Landauer, D A Pocock
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:592, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.592 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Computer controlled repeat prescribing used to analyse drug management.
	F Difford
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:593-595, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.593 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Absence from work.
	N Ellis
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:595-597, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.595 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Divorce.
	C F Donovan
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:597-600, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.597 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Resection line disease in stomach cancer. British Stomach Cancer Group.
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:601-603, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.601 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Dermatitis.
	A D Ormerod, M I White
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:605-608, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.605 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The cardiologist in the Third World.
	E G Wilkins, J I Strang
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:609-611, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.609 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Anticholinergic drug abuse: a common problem?
	G P Pullen, N R Best, J Maguire
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:612-613, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.612 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of poisoning. Respiratory complications.
	M Nielsen, J Henry
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1984;289:614-618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.289.6445.614 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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