How dangerous is obesity.
	Br Med J  1977;1:1345-1346, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1345 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Localised airway obstruction.
	Br Med J  1977;1:1346, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1346 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Diet and coronary heart disease.
	K Ball
	Br Med J  1977;1:1346, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1346-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Tuberculosis among immigrants in Glasgow.
	W Ducat, M Silver, T S Wilson, W D Wilson, V M Hawthorne
	Br Med J  1977;1:1346-1347, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1346-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	How effective is measles immunisation.
	M D Coulter, B M Jones
	Br Med J  1977;1:1347, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1347 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Must they die.
	W P Stamm
	Br Med J  1977;1:1347, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1347-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Rehabilitation work frustrated.
	R Morgan
	Br Med J  1977;1:1347-1348, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1347-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Anaesthetic waste gas scavenging systems.
	Br Med J  1977;1:1348, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1348 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Polymyalgia arteritica.
	Br Med J  1977;1:1348-1349, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1348-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Absorption of lithium from controlled-release preparations.
	R P Hullin
	Br Med J  1977;1:1349, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1349-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Predicting child abuse.
	Br Med J  1977;1:1349-1350, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1349-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Icelandic disease (benign myalgic encephalomyelitis or Royal Free disease)
	A M Ramsay, E G Dowsett, J V Dadswell, W H Lyle, J G Parish
	Br Med J  1977;1:1350, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1350-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Mechanism of chloroquine induced involuntary movements.
	S K Majumdar
	Br Med J  1977;1:1350, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1350-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Insurance companies' attitude to psychiatric illness.
	A Sims
	Br Med J  1977;1:1350, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1350-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Maintenance digoxin.
	R J Dobbs, W I Kenyon, S M Dobbs
	Br Med J  1977;1:1350-1351, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1350-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Adjunctive chemotherapy and breast carcinoma.
	M J Garrett
	Br Med J  1977;1:1351, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1351-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cost of ECG electrodes.
	C Rodger, R Railton, A Walsh, H Donald
	Br Med J  1977;1:1351, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1351-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Oestrogen-like effect of tamoxifen on vaginal epithelium.
	E Ferrazzi, G Cartei, R Mattarazzo, M Fiorentino
	Br Med J  1977;1:1351-1352, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1351-e [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Royal College of Physicians and fluoridation.
	R V Mummery
	Br Med J  1977;1:1352, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1352 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Parascending: a safer alternative to hang gliding.
	A J Macaulay, P G Nixon
	Br Med J  1977;1:1352, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1352-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Night visiting rates by general practitioners.
	J N Pritchard
	Br Med J  1977;1:1352-1353, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1352-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Phenelzine and oedema.
	D L Dunleavy
	Br Med J  1977;1:1353, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1353-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reduced DNA synthesis in non-responsive coeliac disease.
	M Elmes
	Br Med J  1977;1:1353, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1353-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A case of dysphagia.
	I Pullen
	Br Med J  1977;1:1353, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1353-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Gluten-free diet in dermatitis herpetiformis.
	D B McClelland
	Br Med J  1977;1:1353-1354, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1353-e [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Amniotic fluid AFP in multiple pregnancy.
	S L Duncan, B Ginz, A M Ward, S M Hingley
	Br Med J  1977;1:1354, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1354 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lumbar disc surgery.
	A Thompson
	Br Med J  1977;1:1354, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1354-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Amoxycillin rash.
	P W Copeman, R Scrivener
	Br Med J  1977;1:1354, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1354-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Induction of labour and perinatal mortality.
	T J Leeson, A smith
	Br Med J  1977;1:1354-1355, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1354-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Sedatives for alcoholics.
	A Foster
	Br Med J  1977;1:1355, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1355 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Mahler revolution.
	M R Bahl
	Br Med J  1977;1:1355, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1355-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Unbearable headache of temporal arteritis.
	R V Jones
	Br Med J  1977;1:1355, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1355-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Noxythiolin as a possible cause of peritoneal adhesions.
	M A Morris
	Br Med J  1977;1:1355, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1355-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	"The cholecystogram is normal"...but...
	G Qvist
	Br Med J  1977;1:1356, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1356 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Bromocriptine for severe mastalgia.
	R E Mansel, P E Preece, L E Hughes
	Br Med J  1977;1:1356, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1356-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Articles

This week's Articles

	NEWS AND NOTES
	Br Med J  1977;1:1359-1362, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1359 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	OBITUARY
	Br Med J  1977;1:1363-1365, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1363 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Book Review

This week's Book Review

	Medicine and Books
	Br Med J  1977;1:1339-1342, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1339 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Correspondence

This week's Correspondence

	How dangerous is obesity?
	R W Parnell
	Br Med J  1977;1:1345-1346, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1345-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Localised airway obstruction
	J J Segall
	Br Med J  1977;1:1346, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1346-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Anaesthetic waste gas scavenging systems
	J R Wedley, M P Broadbent
	Br Med J  1977;1:1348, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1348-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Anaesthetic waste gas scavenging systems
	R F Armstrong, S P Bourne, E J Kershaw
	Br Med J  1977;1:1348, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1348-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Anaesthetic waste gas scavenging systems
	Leslie Rendell-Baker, Ralph A Milliken
	Br Med J  1977;1:1348, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1348-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Polymyalgia arteritica
	D R Swinson
	Br Med J  1977;1:1349, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1349 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Polymyalgia arteritica
	John R Golding
	Br Med J  1977;1:1349, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1349-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Malignant hypertension secondary to idiopathic arteritis of the aorta
	Mark N Lowenthal
	Br Med J  1977;1:1349, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1349-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Predicting child abuse
	Margaret A Lynch, Jacquie Roberts
	Br Med J  1977;1:1350, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1350 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Anonymous barbs
	Roger J Bagshaw
	Br Med J  1977;1:1351, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1351 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The thyroid and the psychiatrist
	G Nicholson
	Br Med J  1977;1:1351, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1351-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Double-blind trials and the patient
	George T Watts
	Br Med J  1977;1:1351, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1351-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Academics and scientists
	David Bulmer
	Br Med J  1977;1:1352, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1352-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome
	Paul Wentworth
	Br Med J  1977;1:1353, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1353 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Alcoholic liver disease in women
	G Nicholson
	Br Med J  1977;1:1353, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1353-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	More thought for the elderly
	J S Rodgers
	Br Med J  1977;1:1355-1356, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1355-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Review Body
	Jean Orr
	Br Med J  1977;1:1356, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1356-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Review Body
	Hugh T Fay
	Br Med J  1977;1:1356, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1356-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Future staffing in community medicine
	David Wild
	Br Med J  1977;1:1356-1357, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1356-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Differentials in payment of hospital staff
	P J E Wilson
	Br Med J  1977;1:1357, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1357 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Differentials in payment of hospital staff
	John A Shepherd
	Br Med J  1977;1:1357, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1357-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Health care: private choice and public provision
	D L Gullick
	Br Med J  1977;1:1357, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1357-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical students, the BMA, and the BMJ
	Anthony L Blower
	Br Med J  1977;1:1357-1358, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1357-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Category D fees
	R J Mountain
	Br Med J  1977;1:1358, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1358 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Incomes in the NHS
	M S Rao
	Br Med J  1977;1:1358, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1358-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points from letters: Polymyalgia arteritica
	Flora Dale
	Br Med J  1977;1:1358, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1358-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points from letters: Paw-paw for ulcers
	J Dallos
	Br Med J  1977;1:1358, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1358-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points from letters: Penicillin treatment failure
	R R Gilfillan
	Br Med J  1977;1:1358, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1358-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points from letters: Haemolytic streptococci
	J D McKeever
	Br Med J  1977;1:1358, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1358-e [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points from letters: Generic and proprietary names
	J P Lester
	Br Med J  1977;1:1358, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1358-f [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points from letters: Night visiting by general practitioners
	G H Curtis Jenkins
	Br Med J  1977;1:1358, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1358-g [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Medical Practice

This week's Medical Practice

	Materia Non Medica
	Br Med J  1977;1:1343, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1343 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Personal View
	Kenneth Harvey
	Br Med J  1977;1:1344, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1344 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research Article

This week's Research Article

	Management of elderly demented patients.
	Br Med J  1977;1:1301, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1301 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Very early recognition of coronary heart disease.
	Br Med J  1977;1:1302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1302 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Research and cancer education.
	Br Med J  1977;1:1302-1303, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1302-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Congenital dislocation of the hip.
	Br Med J  1977;1:1303, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1303 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Steroid-antibiotic combinations.
	Br Med J  1977;1:1303-1304, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1303-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Food and the handling of drugs.
	Br Med J  1977;1:1304-1305, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1304 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Postoperative biliary stricture: falling frequency and improving results.
	Br Med J  1977;1:1305-1306, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1305 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Making better use of our nurses.
	Br Med J  1977;1:1306, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1306 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Comparative study of alkaline phosphatase isoenzymes, bone histology, and skeletal radiography in dialysis bone disease.
	R B Naik, P Gosling, C P Price
	Br Med J  1977;1:1307-1310, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1307 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	25-Hydroxycholecalciferol absorption in steatorrhoea and postgastrectomy osteomalacia.
	J M Gertner, M Lilburn, M Domenech
	Br Med J  1977;1:1310-1312, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1310 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Premature baby statistics.
	R R Gordon
	Br Med J  1977;1:1313-1315, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1313 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Evoked potentials, saccadic velocities, and computerized tomography in diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.
	F L Mastaglia, J L Black, L A Cala, D W Collins
	Br Med J  1977;1:1315-1317, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1315 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Immunoreactive beta-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in cerebrospinal fluid and plasma in hypopituitarism: evidence for an extrapituitary origin.
	S Shuster, A Smith, N Plummer, A Thody, F Clark
	Br Med J  1977;1:1318-1319, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1318 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Proximal myopathy after perhexiline maleate treatment.
	I W Tomlinson, F D Rosenthal
	Br Med J  1977;1:1319-1320, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1319 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Severe thrombophlebitis with Praxilene.
	C R Woodhouse, D G Eadie
	Br Med J  1977;1:1320, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1320 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Pseudomembranous colitis and co-trimoxazole.
	A Cameron, M Thomas
	Br Med J  1977;1:1321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1321 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Detecting wakefulness during general anaesthesia for caesarean section.
	M E Tunstall
	Br Med J  1977;1:1321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1321-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Continuous positive airway pressure in congenital lobar emphysema.
	A G Campbell, M E Tunstall, A J Shearer
	Br Med J  1977;1:1322, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1322 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Conception of normal child during chemotherapy of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in the father.
	T H Kroner, A Tachumi
	Br Med J  1977;1:1322-1323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1322-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Empyema due to splenic abscess in typhoid fever.
	J M Martinez-Vazquez, A Pahissa, M P Tornos, E Gemar, R Bacardi
	Br Med J  1977;1:1323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1323 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Aide-mémoire for preparing clinical trial protocols.
	Br Med J  1977;1:1323-1324, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1323-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Isoimmunisation after narcotic addiction.
	B A McVerry, M C O'Connor, A Price, E Tylden, A Gorman
	Br Med J  1977;1:1324-1325, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1324 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Fulminating haemorrhagic influenza.
	R A Banks, J Tinker
	Br Med J  1977;1:1325, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1325 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Normal complement in early poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis.
	R H McLean, M A Schrager, N F Rothfield, M A Berman
	Br Med J  1977;1:1326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1326 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Donor insemination: report of a two-year study.
	G W Pennington, S Naik
	Br Med J  1977;1:1327-1330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1327 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Landry Guillain-Barré syndrome: personal experience of acute ascending paralysis.
	D Rice
	Br Med J  1977;1:1330-1332, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1330 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Diseases of the urinary system. Urinary tract infections.
	A W Asscher
	Br Med J  1977;1:1332-1335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1332 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hospital inpatient provision for patients with dementia.
	D Jolley
	Br Med J  1977;1:1335-1336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1335 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Primary care: a look at Kenya.
	T D Swinscow
	Br Med J  1977;1:1337-1338, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1337 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Supplement

This week's Supplement

	The Week
	Br Med J  1977;1:1366, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1366 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Technical deficiencies in RAWP
	K Geary
	Br Med J  1977;1:1367, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1367 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	CCHMS: Close vote on hospital practitioner grade
	Br Med J  1977;1:1368-1370, doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.6072.1368 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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