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CORRESPONDENCE sentences give, I think, full credit to Dr. Morton Smart for the original invention and use of this To the Editor of THE LANCET. apparatus, but some credit is certainly due to Mr. Bristow surgeon for calling for its SiR,—The Investigation Committee of the British routine as an orthopaedic in suitable cases. employment Empire Cancer Campaign has inquired into the I was present at the discussion of the ElectroBendien method of diagnosis for cancer, and finds Section of the Royal Society of that, although the preliminary results were encourag- therapeutical and heard Mr. Bristow’s generous in Medicine 1923, ing, subsequent inquiries have failed to justify the disclaimer on that occasion, and was fully aware of The Investigation Committee there.early promise. fore has come to the conclusion that the Bendien the exact position of affairs as then recounted. method of diagnosis for malignant disease cannot at Hence the careful wording of the paragraph above I am, Sir, yours faithfully, quoted. -the present time be accepted as reliable. C. B. HEALD. I am, Sir, yours faithfully, C. GORDON WATSON, Chairman, Investigation Committee. THE ADENOID FACIES. British Empire Cancer Campaign, 12, Grosvenor-crescent, London, S.W., Oct. 2nd, 1931. To the Editor of THE LANCET. **As we go to press we are informed by Dr. J. R. de Bruine Groeneveldt of the outcome of SIR,-I am particularly anxious to obtain, for Institute for Preventive display in our museum, photos of a case of an investigation at the Medicine in Leiden-namely, that the spectroscopic adenoids, one showing the condition before operation, differentiation of serum albumins is not possible with and another taken a year or so later to illustrate the Bendien’s method.--ED. L. mental and physical improvement that has resulted from treatment. If any reader has such, and would loan the same " A DISCLAIMER." to me, I would have them copied, and originals BENDIEN’S WORK ON CANCER.
To the Editor
of
of THE
promptly
LANCET.
SiR,-Mr. Rowley Bristow’s disclaimer in your issue Sept. 26th (p. 715) is, I think, hardly necessary if
returned. I am, Sir, yours faithfully, H. B. NEWHAM, Curator, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
the full context of the pertinent sentences of the paragraph be taken. It is as follows : " Thanks to certain ingenious technical modifications introduced by Dr. Morton Smart, his apparatus produces a far more comfortable current than the unmodified faradic current. It can therefore be used at an earlier stage of recovery than its prototype. The credit for introducing this current as a routine procedure for injuries requiring muscle movements and re-educationis chiefly due to Mr.
CASES OF PERNICIOUS ANÆMIA.
To the, Editor
of
THE LANCET.
SIR,-I should be very grateful if any of your
Rowley Bristow, and the apparatus is therefore often called readers would refer me cases of pernicious anaemia by his name. The Morton-Smart coil, the Smart-Bristow for treatment at Guy’s Hospital. coil, and the Bristow coil (as it will be called hereafter) are Patients with septic complications or paralysis one and the same." I am, Sir, yours faithfully,are not suitable. The words in italics have been omitted by Mr. L. J. WITTS. Bristow in his quotation, and these with the other Guy’s Hospital, London,
OBITUARY EDMUND WEAVER ADAMS, F.R.C.S.
THE death occurred on Thursday, Sept. 24th, of Dr. Weaver Adams, who for 40 years had been in general practice in Slough, obtaining a position not only in the town but in the surrounding countryside whose influence it would be difficult to estimate. Edmund Weaver Adams was born in 1869, and was educated at the City of London School and King’s He qualified with the double College Hospital. diploma in 1892, and took the F.R.C.S. England in 1894, the age regulations preventing him from receiving the diploma one year earlier. After holding the house appointments at his hospital, he entered almost immediately into the practice with which he remained connected for the rest of his life, and lie built up his great connexion by a combination of high professional skill and of power to understand he obtained the D.P.H. of the and three years after his start in
.career
i
Buckingham-gardens, Slough. Weaver Adams was widely known for his devotion to and proficiency at cricket. An excellent field and Royal Colleges, an astute lob-bowler, his batting figures for the Slough became Slough Cricket Club indicate that, even in the highest
difficulties, other than physical, that might be present among his patients of all sorts. Early in his
the
medical officer of health for the district. He held other professional appointments, all of which he discharged zealously, but he was particularly interested in questions connected with maternity and child welfare, and the last three years of his life were largely devoted to raising funds for the Slough Maternity Home. He had the satisfaction of seeing the home opened this year, although it was started encumbered with debt, and a proposal has been made that the removal of this debt would prove a fitting memorial to one whose straight and strenuous life had gained him such widespread admiration and respect. We learn that already the editor of the Slough, Windsor and Eton Observer will receive subscriptions towards a fund on behalf of the Home, and communications, marked " For the Dr. Weaver Adams Memorial," should be addressed to him at numerous
CORRESPONDENCE sentences give, I think, full credit to Dr. Morton Smart for the original invention and use of this To the Editor of THE LANCET. apparatus, but some credit is certainly due to Mr. Bristow surgeon for calling for its SiR,—The Investigation Committee of the British routine as an orthopaedic in suitable cases. employment Empire Cancer Campaign has inquired into the I was present at the discussion of the ElectroBendien method of diagnosis for cancer, and finds Section of the Royal Society of that, although the preliminary results were encourag- therapeutical and heard Mr. Bristow’s generous in Medicine 1923, ing, subsequent inquiries have failed to justify the disclaimer on that occasion, and was fully aware of The Investigation Committee there.early promise. fore has come to the conclusion that the Bendien the exact position of affairs as then recounted. method of diagnosis for malignant disease cannot at Hence the careful wording of the paragraph above I am, Sir, yours faithfully, quoted. -the present time be accepted as reliable. C. B. HEALD. I am, Sir, yours faithfully, C. GORDON WATSON, Chairman, Investigation Committee. THE ADENOID FACIES. British Empire Cancer Campaign, 12, Grosvenor-crescent, London, S.W., Oct. 2nd, 1931. To the Editor of THE LANCET. **As we go to press we are informed by Dr. J. R. de Bruine Groeneveldt of the outcome of SIR,-I am particularly anxious to obtain, for Institute for Preventive display in our museum, photos of a case of an investigation at the Medicine in Leiden-namely, that the spectroscopic adenoids, one showing the condition before operation, differentiation of serum albumins is not possible with and another taken a year or so later to illustrate the Bendien’s method.--ED. L. mental and physical improvement that has resulted from treatment. If any reader has such, and would loan the same " A DISCLAIMER." to me, I would have them copied, and originals BENDIEN’S WORK ON CANCER.
To the Editor
of
of THE
promptly
LANCET.
SiR,-Mr. Rowley Bristow’s disclaimer in your issue Sept. 26th (p. 715) is, I think, hardly necessary if
returned. I am, Sir, yours faithfully, H. B. NEWHAM, Curator, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
the full context of the pertinent sentences of the paragraph be taken. It is as follows : " Thanks to certain ingenious technical modifications introduced by Dr. Morton Smart, his apparatus produces a far more comfortable current than the unmodified faradic current. It can therefore be used at an earlier stage of recovery than its prototype. The credit for introducing this current as a routine procedure for injuries requiring muscle movements and re-educationis chiefly due to Mr.
CASES OF PERNICIOUS ANÆMIA.
To the, Editor
of
THE LANCET.
SIR,-I should be very grateful if any of your
Rowley Bristow, and the apparatus is therefore often called readers would refer me cases of pernicious anaemia by his name. The Morton-Smart coil, the Smart-Bristow for treatment at Guy’s Hospital. coil, and the Bristow coil (as it will be called hereafter) are Patients with septic complications or paralysis one and the same." I am, Sir, yours faithfully,are not suitable. The words in italics have been omitted by Mr. L. J. WITTS. Bristow in his quotation, and these with the other Guy’s Hospital, London,
OBITUARY EDMUND WEAVER ADAMS, F.R.C.S.
THE death occurred on Thursday, Sept. 24th, of Dr. Weaver Adams, who for 40 years had been in general practice in Slough, obtaining a position not only in the town but in the surrounding countryside whose influence it would be difficult to estimate. Edmund Weaver Adams was born in 1869, and was educated at the City of London School and King’s He qualified with the double College Hospital. diploma in 1892, and took the F.R.C.S. England in 1894, the age regulations preventing him from receiving the diploma one year earlier. After holding the house appointments at his hospital, he entered almost immediately into the practice with which he remained connected for the rest of his life, and lie built up his great connexion by a combination of high professional skill and of power to understand he obtained the D.P.H. of the and three years after his start in
.career
i
Buckingham-gardens, Slough. Weaver Adams was widely known for his devotion to and proficiency at cricket. An excellent field and Royal Colleges, an astute lob-bowler, his batting figures for the Slough became Slough Cricket Club indicate that, even in the highest
difficulties, other than physical, that might be present among his patients of all sorts. Early in his
the
medical officer of health for the district. He held other professional appointments, all of which he discharged zealously, but he was particularly interested in questions connected with maternity and child welfare, and the last three years of his life were largely devoted to raising funds for the Slough Maternity Home. He had the satisfaction of seeing the home opened this year, although it was started encumbered with debt, and a proposal has been made that the removal of this debt would prove a fitting memorial to one whose straight and strenuous life had gained him such widespread admiration and respect. We learn that already the editor of the Slough, Windsor and Eton Observer will receive subscriptions towards a fund on behalf of the Home, and communications, marked " For the Dr. Weaver Adams Memorial," should be addressed to him at numerous