650 researchers moved on to field tests on four ranches. Choosing days after moonless nights (conditions that vampires cannot resist) the research team counted the bites on animals treated with ’Vampirinip III’ (warfarin 5 mg/kg) at the time of inspections a fortnight or so earlier. The proportion of cattle bitten had fallen by 75-90%.
Diary
SEPT.
Monday, INSTITUTE
M.R.C. ENVI[RONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY UNIT
and housed
Southampton General Hospital. Prof. Donald Acheson, professor of clinical epidemiology at the university, is to direct the unit. Its purpose is to study the aaiology of chronic diseases by epidemiological methods. Investigations will concentrate on three related themes: analysis of the striking geographical variations in disease incidence in Britain and at
their relation to environmental factors; identification and follow-up of people exposed to substances suspected of causing disease; and the study of people in whom cancer and certain other conditions develop at an abnormally early age. The unit hopes also to contribute to the training of research workers in this area. Index to The Lancet The index for 1979, vol. i, was posted on Sept. 17 readers who were on our subscription list on June 30.
23
To
29
24th
OF
12.30 P.M.
ON Oct. 1, work is due to begin at the Medical Research Council’s environmental epidemiology unit, which is associated with the faculty of medicine at Southampton University
of the Week
OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY, Queen Charlotte’s hawk Road, London W6 OXG Prof. M. T. Seppala (Helsinki): AFP in Pregnancy.
Wednesday,
Hospital, Gold-
26th
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND 12 NOON. (Sheffield City Hall) Mr D. M. Brooks: The Reconstructive
Surgery
of Flaccid Paralysis (Robert Jones Lecture). ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON, 11 St. Andrew’s Place, Regent’s Park, London NW1 4LE 5.40 P.M. Dr D. A. Mitchison: The Treatment of Tuberculosis (Mitchell Lec-
ture). ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL SCHOOL
OF
MEDICINE, Pond Street, Hampstead, London
NW3 2QG 5
P.M.
Dr A. M. Geddes: New Antibiotics.
Thursday,
27th
INSTITUTE OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNACOLOGY 12.15 P.M. Dr D. Rosenblatt: The Effects of Pethidine and Bupivacaine on Infant Behaviour. CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL CENTRE, Fulham Palace Road, London W6 8RF 7.30 p.m. Mr J. V. Jeffs: Cosmetic Surgery-How, When and Where?
Friday, 28th to
all
UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN 5 P.M. (Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Dublin) Prof. H. Neubauer (Cologne): Metallosis Oculi (Montgomery Lecture).
Mr William M. Darling has been elected chairman of the National Association of Health Authorities in England and Wales in succession to Mr John Bettinson.
International
Simpson Smith Lecture for 1979, entitled Children’s Surglimpse into the past, will be given by Mr Valentine A. J. Swain, at the Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London The Alex
gery :
WC1N IEH,
on
Oct. 9 at 5.30 P.M.
The Schorstein Memorial Lecture, on Medical Education in London, will be delivered by Dr John Ellis at the London Hospital Medical College, College Hall, Ashfield Street, London El 2AD, on Oct. 18 at 5
Diary
a
P.M.
The St. Cyres lecture for 1979, on Nuclear Imaging of the Heart: model for integrated research, will be given by Prof. Leon Resnekov in the Avon Suite, Wembley Conference Centre at 10 A.M. on Nov. 1, 1979. a
The first in a series of symposia with the theme Man’s Inhumanity Man will be entitled Mind Control and Brainwashing and will take place at the London International Press Centre, 76 Shoe Lane, London EC4, on Oct. 2 at 7 P.M. Details may be had from the Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights, 68 Tottenham Court Road, London Wl. to
The National Council for One-Parent Families is to hold a conference entitled Children in One-Parent Families, at the Bloomsbury Centre Hotel, Coram Street, London WC1, on Oct. 29-30, 1979. Details may be had from the Council at 255 Kentish Town Road, London NW5 2LX. A teach in for consultants on recent advances in obstetrics and will be held by the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Queen Charlotte’s Maternity Hospital on Nov. 26-30, 1979. Details may be had from the Symposium Secretary, Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Queen Charlotte’s Maternity Hospital, Goldhawk Road, London W6 OXG.
gynaecology
Correction The Gout-calcium-stone Connection.-In this editorial (June 12) we erroneously referred to F. L. Coe as F. L. Cox. We apologise to Professor Cox. Ref. 5 should have been Cox, F. L., Kavalich, A. New
EngI.J.Med. 1974,291,1344.
National Conference
on
High
Blood Pressure Control with the
theme, Challenges for the 1980’s: Shamrock Hilton, Houston, Texas, on March 23-25, 1980. (Conference Headquarters, National Conference on High Blood Pressure Control, 1501 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 600, Arlington, Virginia 22209, U.S.A.) course in Radiology in the Emergency DepartHoliday Inn Golden Gateway Hotel, San Francisco, California, U.S.A., June 18-20, 1980. (Radiology Postgraduate Education Section, Department of Radiology, University of California, Room 396 M, San Francisco, California 94143, U.S.A.)
Postgraduate
ment:
17th Annual
Meeting
of
Society for
the
Study
of Inborn Errors of
Metabolism, with the theme Transport and Inherited Metabolic Disease: Leeds University, Sept. 12-14, 1979. (Dr C. Toothill, Department of Chemical Pathology, Old Medical School, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT.) Conference of European Organisation for Research on Treatment of Cancer (Metastasis Group) on Metastasis, Clinical and Experimental: Royal Institution, Albemarle Street, London, W.1., Aprtl 21-23, 1980. (Dr K. Hellman, Cancer Chemotherapy Department, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2,
England.) 15th Congress of the European Society for Surgical Research (ESSR) on the role of Research in the Development of Clinical Surgery, incorporating a medical and surgical trade exhibition: Brussels, Belgium, April 30-May 3, 1980. (Congress Secretariat, ESSR 1980, Melia Travel Agency, Boul. Adolphe Max. 63, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.) 1st Latin-American Congress of Haemotherapy and Immunohmmatology Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov. 12-15, 1979. (Lavalle 162B 4 Piso, 1048, Buenos Aires, Argentina.)
6th World symposium on Cardiac Pacing: Montreal, Canada, Oct. 2-5, 1979. (Fernand Girard Symposium 1979, Institut de Cardiolope de Montreal, 5000 est, Rue Belanger, Montreal, Quebec, Canada).