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MEDICALJOURNALLEADING ARTICLESChemotherapy for lung cancer ................ 815Penile prostheses in erectile impotence........ 816First impressions confirmed ........ .......... 817

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Clinical practice and communitymedicine .................................. 817

Muscle compartment syndrome.............. 818

PAPERS AND ORIGINALSValue of emergency toxicological investigations in differential diagnosis of coma

MICHAEL HELLIWELL, GERHARDT HAMPEL, EILEEN SINCLAIR, ANTHONY HUGGETT, ROBERT J FLANAGAN .......................... 819Retrograde spread of hydrocortisone containing foam given intrarectally in ulcerative colitisM J G FARTHING, M D RUTLAND, M L CLARK ............................................................................ 822

Inflammatory bowel disease in the West Indies COURTENAY BARTHOLOMEW, ALAN BUTLER ................................ 824Finger clubbing in inflammatory bowel disease: its prevalence and pathogenesis G KITIS, H THOMPSON, R N ALLAN...... 825Viral infections in renal allograft recipients treated with long-term immunosuppression

ED)WIN S SPENCER, H KERZEL ANDERSEN .............................................................................. 829

Oxamniquine fever-drug-induced or immune-complex reaction? G I HIGASHI, Z FARID .............................. 830Gamma-glutamyltransferase activity in ascitic fluid in diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma

ROLF OLSSON, JOHAN WALDENSTROM ................................................................................ 830Trauma and severe proliferative retinopathy in diabetes mellitus

WILLIAM D ALEXANDER, MARGARET KEARNS, EVA M KOHNER, C M ASPLIN .................................................... 831Normal ileostomy output: close relation to body size G L HILL, S F MILLWARD, R F G J KING, R C SMITH .................. 831Neurological manifestations and mycoplasma pneumoniae infection J AIDAN TWOMEY, M L E ESPIR .................... 832Sialochemistry in evaluating bromhexine treatment of Sjogren's syndrome

A M NAHIR, H BEN ARYEH, R SZARGEL, Y SCHARF, D GUTMAN, Y BLAUSTEIN, Y SCHARF ........................................ 833Effect of PUVA on serum 25-OH vitamin D in psoriatics SARAH ROGERS, JANET MARKS, SAM SHUSTER, CARMEL J HILLYARD.... 833Chloroquine-resistant falciparum malaria in a Bangladeshi girl with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

JANET A SHIRLEY, SUSANNAH J EYKYN, T C PEARSON .................................................................... 834Treating irritable bowel syndrome with peppermint oil W D W REES, B K EVANS, J RHODES ............................ 835Drug names that look or sound alike H MCNULTY, P SPURR .......................................................... 836

MEDICAL PRACTICEWhat are accident and emergency departments for? BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT .................................. 837Royal Commission on the NHSA low-pitched scream JAMES OWEN DRIFE ........................................................................ 840"...From the cradle to the grave" PETER V LIPPIETT .842A rather sad document G P MCNICOL ............................................................................ 844Living with its disabilities RUDOLF KLEIN ........................................................................ 848

ABC of Blood Pressur. sMeasurement: The sphygmomanometer EOIN T O'BRIEN, KEVIN O'MALLEY ...................... 851Marital Pathology: Marriage and psychiatric illness j DOMINIAN .................................................. 854Thrall to the printed word JAMES ANGELL .......................................................................... 856Any Questions? . ................................................................................................ 850Chance, Coincidence, Serendipity WILLIAM EVANS .................................................................. 847Materia Non Medica-Contributions from STANLEY ALSTEAD, DAVID MELDRUM ............................................ 839Strange Encounters-WILL MACREDIF .............................................................................. 855

Medicine and Books ....................................................................................... 857Personal View R N VILLAR ........................................................................................ 862

CORRESPONDENCE-List of Contents.............. 863 SUPPLEMENT

OBITUARY........ 874 The Week ................................. 876From the Council: Council wants more facts on cuts 877

NEWS AND NOTES . .ViewsOt ................................. .Comm ssion 878

Epidemiology-Leptospirosis in man, British Isles, 1978.. 872 Clinical practice and community medicine E D ACHESON 880Medical News.873 Secretarial services for clinicians .................... 882BMA Notices ........... 873 President of new GMC................... 882

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