Minerva's octogenarians
	BMJ  1990;301:1484, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1484 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research Article

This week's Research Article

	If preventable, why not...?
	S Lock
	BMJ  1990;301:1405-1406, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1405 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cancer services.
	T Smith
	BMJ  1990;301:1406-1407, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1406 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Chasms in communication.
	T Richards
	BMJ  1990;301:1407-1408, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1407 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Archives of contemporary medicine and science.
	C Booth, J Sheppard, E M Tansey
	BMJ  1990;301:1408, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1408 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Longevity of men capable of prolonged vigorous physical exercise: a 32 year follow up of 2259 participants in the Dutch eleven cities ice skating tour.
	J L van Saase, W M Noteboom, J P Vandenbroucke
	BMJ  1990;301:1409-1411, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1409 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	50 years on: the crush syndrome.
	E G Bywaters
	BMJ  1990;301:1412-1415, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1412 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Bell ringers' bruises and broken bones: capers and crises in campanology.
	A C Lamont, N J London
	BMJ  1990;301:1415-1418, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1415 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	An audit of the BMJ's correspondence columns.
	R J Boyton, P C Arnold
	BMJ  1990;301:1419-1420, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1419 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Urological myths.
	M C Foster, S M Upsdell, P H O'Reilly
	BMJ  1990;301:1421-1423, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1421 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	St Mary's Hospital, Isle of Wight: a suitable background for caring.
	R Burton
	BMJ  1990;301:1423-1425, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1423 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Are orthopaedic surgeons really gorillas?
	J S Fox, G R Bell, P J Sweeney
	BMJ  1990;301:1425-1426, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1425 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Carriage driving for disabled people.
	J R Brown
	BMJ  1990;301:1427-1428, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1427 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The surgeon's scissor-jaw reflex.
	W A McFadzean, J D Bennett
	BMJ  1990;301:1428-1429, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1428 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Can orthopaedic surgeons walk on water?
	D S Barrett
	BMJ  1990;301:1429-1430, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1429 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Diet, diabetes, and male chauvinism.
	C S Probert, W Maddison, J M Roland
	BMJ  1990;301:1430-1431, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1430 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A trip to Jersey with a ventilator.
	R D Croft
	BMJ  1990;301:1431-1432, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1431 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Dry haricot bean: a new continence aid for elderly men?
	A Patel
	BMJ  1990;301:1432-1433, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1432 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Natural history of the disappearance of various products in the course of the transfer from socialist economy to regulated market.
	G E Falkowski
	BMJ  1990;301:1433-1434, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1433 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Over 8000 pairs of specs for Africa.
	C Essex
	BMJ  1990;301:1435-1436, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1435 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Kimbanguist Hospital at Kinshasa, Zaire.
	Z Stern, E Mor
	BMJ  1990;301:1437-1438, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1437 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine in the outback.
	B Ostberg
	BMJ  1990;301:1438-1441, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1438 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Health in rural south India: new approaches.
	P D Bidinger
	BMJ  1990;301:1441-1443, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1441 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Project Orbis.
	E Sherry
	BMJ  1990;301:1444-1445, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1444 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Professor Sir Ronald Fisher, FRS.
	C Clarke
	BMJ  1990;301:1446-1448, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1446 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, 1090-1990.
	J H Baron
	BMJ  1990;301:1449-1451, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1449 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The early days of insulin use in Edinburgh.
	R L Lyon
	BMJ  1990;301:1452-1454, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1452 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The medical muse.
	F Spiegl
	BMJ  1990;301:1454-1456, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1454 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	"Human guinea pigs"--a history.
	M H Pappworth
	BMJ  1990;301:1456-1460, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1456 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Turning the BMA into print.
	G Macpherson
	BMJ  1990;301:1460-1462, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1460 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The royal colleges golf club, 1890-1990.
	J A Savin
	BMJ  1990;301:1462-1463, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1462 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The bombing of St Thomas's.
	F Cockett
	BMJ  1990;301:1464-1466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1464 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Christmas 1941.
	T Groves
	BMJ  1990;301:1467-1468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1467 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	It helps to remember faces.
	F Saa-Gandi
	BMJ  1990;301:1468-1469, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1468 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Java 1942-5: extracts from the diary of a medical officer.
	N Peach
	BMJ  1990;301:1469-1471, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1469 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Deception by immunisation, revisited.
	J D Bennett, L Tyszczuk
	BMJ  1990;301:1471-1472, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1471 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	All in a day's work.
	J Bulman
	BMJ  1990;301:1473-1474, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1473 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The last game.
	E Annesley
	BMJ  1990;301:1474-1475, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1474 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A modern day Iona.
	J Spencer
	BMJ  1990;301:1475-1476, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1475 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Inside madness.
	S Hughes
	BMJ  1990;301:1476-1478, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1476 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Noel's resurrection.
	C Smith
	BMJ  1990;301:1478-1479, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1478 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	OK surgical technology.
	R Calne
	BMJ  1990;301:1479-1480, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1479 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Why me?
	J S Horner
	BMJ  1990;301:1480-1481, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1480 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Thanks for caring.
	J Hollyhead
	BMJ  1990;301:1481-1482, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1481 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	My "one in a million" chance.
	R McCann
	BMJ  1990;301:1482-1483, doi: 10.1136/bmj.301.6766.1482 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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