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of which is said to give satisfactory results. Penicillin, medical films; but only a fraction of these are suittoo, may sometimes bring speedy cure. Many believe able-in subject, modernity, and state of repair-’ that " lock up " treatment, by enclosure in plaster-of- for the present purpose. Here and there patches in paris in conjunction with the selected local application2 the field of medicine are well covered ; but there are expedites healing and epithelisationas in other chronic vast expanses of bare ground between. If films are ulcerative conditions ; and it seems that transfer of to play anything like their potential part in the the sufferer to a good environment, and an appetising refreshing process new ones must be made-and and generous diet, may quickly improve the lesions, quickly. The Scientific Film Association is preparing a without adjuvant treatment other than the simplest. Cutaneous leishmaniasis, on the other hand, is a memorandum on’ what films are needed. But who is definite clear-cut clinical entity due to local cutaneous to sponsor them ? The only body that has yet carried infection of the skin with a protozoon, Leishmania through any large scheme of production is Imperial tropica. This parasite is conveyed from man to man Chemical Industries, with its series on anaesthesia ; by certain species of sandflies frequenting hot arid and ICI cannot be expected to fill all the gaps. InThe lesions may be single, but more often are evitably we think of the trusts founded to promote areas. multiple. They are self-limitingand vanish usually the progress of medicine ; but the production of within a couple of years, leaving substantial immunity medical teaching films has not necessarily any special to reinfection-a fact appreciated by the indigenous claims on them. In any case, should the production inhabitants of the endemic areas who practise arti- of medical films depend wholly on the goodwill of ficial infection of children on the body as a protection business houses or public trusts ?1 As the,full cost against the cosmetic injury that may follow facial cannot be met by payment for copies by the teaching lesions. Diagnosis rests on recovery of the causative bodies, it looks as though sooner or later the making organisms from the walls of the lesion, but about of films would have to be subsidised, perhaps by a treatment there is again no universal accord. Treasury grant through the Ministry of Health to Preliminary cleansing of the ulcer by antiseptic pack- some organisation created for the purpose. Hitherto ing with such preparations as eusol will do much to the Ministry have taken an interest chiefly in public arrest the progress of the condition, and it may then health films, which are nowadays a necessity if they heal spontaneously. More elaborate forms of treat- are to inform the public. But in the long run ment have their exponents ; for example, curetting information for the profession is no less important. and swabbing with carbolic acid, local application of The Services have proved the value o& training by antimony preparations such as ’Stibosan,’ local films, and Service doctors are reasonable in asking applications of carbon dioxide snow, or exposure to that we shall make full use of this method in helping X rays or diathermy. All these methods, and many them to recover lost ground. others, have been quickly successful on occasion. ’
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£80,000
Refreshment by Film LAST February the Royal College of Surgeons launched AT each British university a committee is now an appeal for 1:250,000 to carry out a great scheme of and development. The remarkable response considering the best way of "refreshing doctors restoration from and members has demonstrated their loyalty fellows The man who soon who leave the Services. joined up in its future. Fulfilafter qualification (class I in the Government’s to the college and their confidence ment is brought nearer by a gift from the Wellcome Trust classification) will need a junior hospital appointment announced in a letter from Sir Henry Dale, PRS, its chair-either an existing post or one specially created for man, to Sir Alfred Webb-Johnson, the president. Under him. Those who were training for a specialist career _the will of the late Sir Henry Wellcome, FRS, the trustees ’when they joined up (class ill) will need senior are empowered to make grants for the foundation or hospital appointments. But in some ways the most extension of museums dealing with medical science or difficult group to provide for will be class II-those research, and in view of the " great service which the who left an established general practice to join the Royal College has so long rendered to surgery, and to a much wider of scientific the "
range knowledge, by mainThese men are to have a free refresher with --travelling and subsistence expenses tenance of its historic and world-famous museums of human and anatomy and pathology " they paid, as well as the cost of a locum tenens where are preparedcomparative to contribute 80,000 for the construction necessary, and the courses can be concentrated into and equipment of three new museum floors which are to a fortnight or spread over about three months of be part of a new wing at Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Recalling the first year of civilian life. Only by utilising the that Sir Henry Wellcome was an honorary fellow of the most efficient means of rapid propagation of knowcollege, they express a hope that thts offer will result in increased and progressive opportunities for friendly ledge can the university committee hope to compress a useful amount of instruction into so short a time.interchange between the college museum and the historiOf these means the film is one of the most promising. cal and scientific medical museums which he created in maintained by the Wellcome A correspondent last week (p. 59) expressed the London and which are Foundation. In accepting the gift the council of the hope that he would find a supply of modern medical college on July 9 decided that the appropriate part of the films ready to bring general practitioners up to date new buildings shall be called the Sir Henry Wellcome on infant feeding and respiratory disorders, minor wing. This contribution brings the sums already gynaecology, and the psychoneuroses, with the received to 122,000—almost half the total needed. common skin disorders and exanthems in technicolor. But the letter we publish this week from the Sir ALFRED WEPB-JOH-.N7---o.N has been re-elected Scientific Film Association will- disappoint him. president of the Royal College of Surgeons. The new True, the catalogue being prepared for the Royal vice-presidents are Mr. MAX PAGE and Mr. W. H. Society of Medicine may contain a thousand names of OGILVIE.
Forces. course,
of which is said to give satisfactory results. Penicillin, medical films; but only a fraction of these are suittoo, may sometimes bring speedy cure. Many believe able-in subject, modernity, and state of repair-’ that " lock up " treatment, by enclosure in plaster-of- for the present purpose. Here and there patches in paris in conjunction with the selected local application2 the field of medicine are well covered ; but there are expedites healing and epithelisationas in other chronic vast expanses of bare ground between. If films are ulcerative conditions ; and it seems that transfer of to play anything like their potential part in the the sufferer to a good environment, and an appetising refreshing process new ones must be made-and and generous diet, may quickly improve the lesions, quickly. The Scientific Film Association is preparing a without adjuvant treatment other than the simplest. Cutaneous leishmaniasis, on the other hand, is a memorandum on’ what films are needed. But who is definite clear-cut clinical entity due to local cutaneous to sponsor them ? The only body that has yet carried infection of the skin with a protozoon, Leishmania through any large scheme of production is Imperial tropica. This parasite is conveyed from man to man Chemical Industries, with its series on anaesthesia ; by certain species of sandflies frequenting hot arid and ICI cannot be expected to fill all the gaps. InThe lesions may be single, but more often are evitably we think of the trusts founded to promote areas. multiple. They are self-limitingand vanish usually the progress of medicine ; but the production of within a couple of years, leaving substantial immunity medical teaching films has not necessarily any special to reinfection-a fact appreciated by the indigenous claims on them. In any case, should the production inhabitants of the endemic areas who practise arti- of medical films depend wholly on the goodwill of ficial infection of children on the body as a protection business houses or public trusts ?1 As the,full cost against the cosmetic injury that may follow facial cannot be met by payment for copies by the teaching lesions. Diagnosis rests on recovery of the causative bodies, it looks as though sooner or later the making organisms from the walls of the lesion, but about of films would have to be subsidised, perhaps by a treatment there is again no universal accord. Treasury grant through the Ministry of Health to Preliminary cleansing of the ulcer by antiseptic pack- some organisation created for the purpose. Hitherto ing with such preparations as eusol will do much to the Ministry have taken an interest chiefly in public arrest the progress of the condition, and it may then health films, which are nowadays a necessity if they heal spontaneously. More elaborate forms of treat- are to inform the public. But in the long run ment have their exponents ; for example, curetting information for the profession is no less important. and swabbing with carbolic acid, local application of The Services have proved the value o& training by antimony preparations such as ’Stibosan,’ local films, and Service doctors are reasonable in asking applications of carbon dioxide snow, or exposure to that we shall make full use of this method in helping X rays or diathermy. All these methods, and many them to recover lost ground. others, have been quickly successful on occasion. ’
"
.
.
£80,000
Refreshment by Film LAST February the Royal College of Surgeons launched AT each British university a committee is now an appeal for 1:250,000 to carry out a great scheme of and development. The remarkable response considering the best way of "refreshing doctors restoration from and members has demonstrated their loyalty fellows The man who soon who leave the Services. joined up in its future. Fulfilafter qualification (class I in the Government’s to the college and their confidence ment is brought nearer by a gift from the Wellcome Trust classification) will need a junior hospital appointment announced in a letter from Sir Henry Dale, PRS, its chair-either an existing post or one specially created for man, to Sir Alfred Webb-Johnson, the president. Under him. Those who were training for a specialist career _the will of the late Sir Henry Wellcome, FRS, the trustees ’when they joined up (class ill) will need senior are empowered to make grants for the foundation or hospital appointments. But in some ways the most extension of museums dealing with medical science or difficult group to provide for will be class II-those research, and in view of the " great service which the who left an established general practice to join the Royal College has so long rendered to surgery, and to a much wider of scientific the "
range knowledge, by mainThese men are to have a free refresher with --travelling and subsistence expenses tenance of its historic and world-famous museums of human and anatomy and pathology " they paid, as well as the cost of a locum tenens where are preparedcomparative to contribute 80,000 for the construction necessary, and the courses can be concentrated into and equipment of three new museum floors which are to a fortnight or spread over about three months of be part of a new wing at Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Recalling the first year of civilian life. Only by utilising the that Sir Henry Wellcome was an honorary fellow of the most efficient means of rapid propagation of knowcollege, they express a hope that thts offer will result in increased and progressive opportunities for friendly ledge can the university committee hope to compress a useful amount of instruction into so short a time.interchange between the college museum and the historiOf these means the film is one of the most promising. cal and scientific medical museums which he created in maintained by the Wellcome A correspondent last week (p. 59) expressed the London and which are Foundation. In accepting the gift the council of the hope that he would find a supply of modern medical college on July 9 decided that the appropriate part of the films ready to bring general practitioners up to date new buildings shall be called the Sir Henry Wellcome on infant feeding and respiratory disorders, minor wing. This contribution brings the sums already gynaecology, and the psychoneuroses, with the received to 122,000—almost half the total needed. common skin disorders and exanthems in technicolor. But the letter we publish this week from the Sir ALFRED WEPB-JOH-.N7---o.N has been re-elected Scientific Film Association will- disappoint him. president of the Royal College of Surgeons. The new True, the catalogue being prepared for the Royal vice-presidents are Mr. MAX PAGE and Mr. W. H. Society of Medicine may contain a thousand names of OGILVIE.
Forces. course,