24 December 1994(vol 309, issue 6970)

Editorials

• The inhumanity of medicine

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1671 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• Medical marriages

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1673 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• The rich man in his castle

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1674 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• The poor man at his gate

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1675 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• The animal kingdom bites back

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1676 (Published 24 December 1994)

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Mixed Messages

• Whatalotwegot—the messages in drug advertisements

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1734 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• Cross words

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1737 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• Christmas wishes

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1738 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• An audit of excuses

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1739 (Published 24 December 1994)

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SCIENCE

• The miracle of DICE therapy for acute stroke: fact or fictional product of subgroup analysis?

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1677 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• Handedness and longevity: archival study of cricketers

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1681 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• Colour blind cricketers and snowballs

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1684 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• How sensitive are cardiac surgeons' fingers?

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1685 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• Ability to distinguish whisky (uisge beatha) from brandy (cognac)

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1686 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• Commentary: A spirited attempt

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1688 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• Effect of ale, garlic, and soured cream on the appetite of leeches

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1689 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• The killing season—fact or fiction?

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1690 (Published 24 December 1994)

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BITES

• Crocodile bites and traditional beliefs in Korogwe District, Tanzania

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1691 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• Come back DDT—all is forgiven

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1692 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• Tickborne melanoma?

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1693 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• Squirrel bites

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1694 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• Once bitten, twice shy

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1694 (Published 24 December 1994)

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THE INHUMANITY AND HUMANITY OF MEDICINE

• Dying for palliative care

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1696 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• Going private: time for change

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1699 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• The price of truth

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1700 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• A passage through grief—the Western Australian Rural Pregnancy Loss Team

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1705 (Published 24 December 1994)

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COVER

• Cover story: Meg Campbell's “Mother and Child”

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1708 (Published 24 December 1994)

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THE PATIENTS PERSPECTIVES

• The lean and slippered pantaloon

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1709 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• Sartorial eloquence: does it exist in the paediatrician-patient relationship?

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1710 (Published 24 December 1994)

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PAST AND PRESENT

• John Marshall: the making of true spectacles

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1713 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• Dr Doubledose: a taste of one's own medicine

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1714 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• The earliest days of first aid

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1718 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• Adelaide Bartlett and the Pimlico mystery

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1720 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• Frederick Cayley Robinson's Acts of Mercy murals at the Middlesex Hospital, London

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1723 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• Thank you, Mr Shaw

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1724 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• Medicine and the Gulag

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1726 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• Medicine at the centre of the nation's affairs

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1730 (Published 24 December 1994)

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HOBBY HORSES

• De inertia urbanorum

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1741 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• Another kind of flying doctor

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1745 (Published 24 December 1994)

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PHOTO FINISH

• Photo finish

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1747 (Published 24 December 1994)

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Fillers

• A lesson in Indonesian

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1690 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• Prawn bites fisherman

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1695 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• Postscript

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1736 (Published 24 December 1994)

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• Summer visitors

  BMJ 1994; 309 :1740 (Published 24 December 1994)

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