Editorials

F Hoyle

Halley's Comet and others: the bacterial star shells
J R Soc Med 79(12): 691-693  

PJ Taylor

Psychopaths and their treatment
J R Soc Med 79(12): 693-695  

J Temple

Achalasia: dilatation or operation?
J R Soc Med 79(12): 695-696  

Original articles

J R Soc Med 79(12): 697-700  

TG Thomas

Orthopaedic manholes and rabbit holes: some thoughts on medical negligence
J R Soc Med 79(12): 701-707  

JF Mayberry, HL Smart, and M Atkinson

Audit of surgical and pneumatic/hydrostatic treatment of achalasia in a defined population
J R Soc Med 79(12): 708-710 [Abstract]  

PJ Cox, JR Ausobsky, H Ellis, and AV Pollock

Towards no incisional hernias: lateral paramedian versus midline incisions
J R Soc Med 79(12): 711-712 [Abstract]  

K Williams

Orthopaedic operations: variation in case-mix over a 10-year period
J R Soc Med 79(12): 713-714 [Abstract]  

J Browning, A Bigrigg, and I Taylor

Symptomatic and incidental mammary duct ectasia
J R Soc Med 79(12): 715-716 [Abstract]  

S Cassidy

Emotional distress in terminal cancer: discussion paper
J R Soc Med 79(12): 717-720  

JS Whiteley

Sociotherapy and psychotherapy in the treatment of personality disorder: discussion paper
J R Soc Med 79(12): 721-725  

DC Taylor

Child psychiatric/paediatric liaison: discussion paper
J R Soc Med 79(12): 726-728  

MK Thompson

Not the James Mackenzie lecture--a concept of disease to educate the new type of doctor: discussion paper
J R Soc Med 79(12): 729-733  

EW Lupton

Management of urinary outflow obstruction after pelvic surgery: a review
J R Soc Med 79(12): 734-737  

DD Gibbs

Rendu-Osler-Weber disease: a triple eponymous title lives on
J R Soc Med 79(12): 742-743  

DA Cooke

Renal arteriovenous malformation demonstrated angiographically in hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (Rendu-Osler-Weber disease)
J R Soc Med 79(12): 744-746  

JP O'Hare, M Hamilton, JD Davies, RJ Corrall, and R Mountford

Oestrogen deficiency and bleeding from large bowel telangiectasia in Turner's syndrome
J R Soc Med 79(12): 746-747  

M Rhodes

Pasturella multocida meningitis in a dog lover (or don't kiss pets!)
J R Soc Med 79(12): 747-748  

Medical History

JR Gwilt

Biblical ills and remedies
J R Soc Med 79(12): 738-741  

Letters

J R Soc Med 79(12): 752-753  

AR Walker and BF Walker

Poverty and human development
J R Soc Med 79(12): 752  

R Minor

Effects of human feeding habits on domestic animals
J R Soc Med 79(12): 753-754  

JM Hutson

Cysts of the seminal vesicle
J R Soc Med 79(12): 754  

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