Editorials The inhumanity of medicine BMJ 1994; 309 :1671; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission Medical marriages BMJ 1994; 309 :1673; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission The rich man in his castle BMJ 1994; 309 :1674; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission The poor man at his gate BMJ 1994; 309 :1675; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission The animal kingdom bites back BMJ 1994; 309 :1676; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission COVER Cover story: Meg Campbell's “Mother and Child” BMJ 1994; 309 :1708; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission Fillers Summer visitors BMJ 1994; 309 :1740; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission Prawn bites fisherman BMJ 1994; 309 :1695; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission A lesson in Indonesian BMJ 1994; 309 :1690; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission Postscript BMJ 1994; 309 :1736; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission HOBBY HORSES De inertia urbanorum BMJ 1994; 309 :1741; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission Another kind of flying doctor BMJ 1994; 309 :1745; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission Mixed Messages Cross words BMJ 1994; 309 :1737; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission Christmas wishes BMJ 1994; 309 :1738; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission An audit of excuses BMJ 1994; 309 :1739; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission Whatalotwegot—the messages in drug advertisements BMJ 1994; 309 :1734; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission PAST AND PRESENT John Marshall: the making of true spectacles BMJ 1994; 309 :1713; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission Dr Doubledose: a taste of one's own medicine BMJ 1994; 309 :1714; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission The earliest days of first aid BMJ 1994; 309 :1718; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission Adelaide Bartlett and the Pimlico mystery BMJ 1994; 309 :1720; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission Responses Frederick Cayley Robinson's Acts of Mercy murals at the Middlesex Hospital, London BMJ 1994; 309 :1723; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission Thank you, Mr Shaw BMJ 1994; 309 :1724; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission Responses Medicine and the Gulag BMJ 1994; 309 :1726; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission Medicine at the centre of the nation's affairs BMJ 1994; 309 :1730; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission Responses PHOTO FINISH Photo finish BMJ 1994; 309 :1747; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission SCIENCE The miracle of DICE therapy for acute stroke: fact or fictional product of subgroup analysis? BMJ 1994; 309 :1677; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission Handedness and longevity: archival study of cricketers BMJ 1994; 309 :1681; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission Responses Colour blind cricketers and snowballs BMJ 1994; 309 :1684; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission Responses How sensitive are cardiac surgeons' fingers? BMJ 1994; 309 :1685; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission Ability to distinguish whisky (uisge beatha) from brandy (cognac) BMJ 1994; 309 :1686; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission Commentary: A spirited attempt BMJ 1994; 309 :1688; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission Effect of ale, garlic, and soured cream on the appetite of leeches BMJ 1994; 309 :1689; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission The killing season—fact or fiction? BMJ 1994; 309 :1690; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission THE INHUMANITY AND HUMANITY OF MEDICINE Dying for palliative care BMJ 1994; 309 :1696; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission Going private: time for change BMJ 1994; 309 :1699; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission The price of truth BMJ 1994; 309 :1700; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission Responses A passage through grief—the Western Australian Rural Pregnancy Loss Team BMJ 1994; 309 :1705; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission THE PATIENTS PERSPECTIVES Sartorial eloquence: does it exist in the paediatrician-patient relationship? BMJ 1994; 309 :1710; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission The lean and slippered pantaloon BMJ 1994; 309 :1709; (Published 24 December 1994) Permission