Geoffrey Slaney

Cancer of the large bowel

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Extent of Disease

Unfortunately Dukes staging was only available for the period 1977–81, so the results for the entire 25 years could only be analysed on a broad grouping of node negative cases (equivalent to Dukes AB) or node positive cases (equivalent to Dukes C).

Conservative Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis

from preceding page) telescopes. As -if this were not enough, he wrote three tragedies (only one of which survives), 29 comedies (of which 14 survive), and one tragi-comedy. He was the Italian Francis Bacon; a trumpeter calling others to combat. The Segreti and the Lincei were prototypes for later groups, like the German Academia Naturae Curiosorum (in 1652) and the Florentine Accademia del Cimento (in 1657). Their persistent quest for knowledge of the physical world, married to the anatomical investigations of Padua, did much to hasten the evolution of physiology. For when the famous medical school at Padua utilized the techniques of Segreti and Lincei they were able to explain the mechanical functions and apparatus of the body. Symbolizing this fruitful marriage. Santorio, born in the year after the Segreti was formed, published his famous De Medicina Statica in 1614, the year before della Porta died.

Vagotomy for Duodenal Ulceration

he puts forward. His theory on the synergistic action of a toxin from the obstructed bowel, however, while showing original thought, does not explain why this condition occurs in elderly patients only. He may well be right in thinking that certain toxins, specific or non-specific, may play some part in bringing about this condition. If, however, this is the complete answer, why is the condition not found in younger age groups ?-I am, etc.,

Palliative or No Treatment

For the sake of completeness an analysis of various palliative treatments has been undertaken and the results of these are presented in this Chapter. Some of the information, is perforce, incomplete and certain subgroups are too small to permit valid statistical conclusions to be drawn.