BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 7 FEBRUARY 1976 351 on 15 holidays between April and September. Tuesday, 10 February Edgware and Hendon Division-At Hendon Hall Hotel, Tuesday, 10 February, 8.30 pm, Mr Denis P Volunteer helpers are needed for these -At St Thomas's Hospital Burkitt: "The possible prevention of some diseases holidays. The society also publishes a list Medical School, 5 pm, Professor Cesare Fieschi characteristic of western civilisation." Br Med J: first published as 10.1136/bmj.1.6005.351 on 7 February 1976. Downloaded from (Siena): Experimental models of cerebral transient Hastings Division-At Hastings Postgraduate of holiday accommodation suitable for families ischemic attacks. Studies with platelet emboli, and Centre, Tuesday, 10 February, 7.30 pm, Dr S G who wish to take their mentally handicapped effects of preventive treatment. Browne: "Exotic diseases in the consulting room." Hereford Division-At Hereford Postgraduate member with them. 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INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY-5.30 pm, clinicopathological Manchester Division-At Boyd House, Tuesday, From September 1976 girls will be admitted conference. 17 February, 8 for 8.30 pm, Mr L Connolly: "The gut to the sixth form at Epsom for a ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF -Hunterian and arthritis." lectures, 2 pm, Professor Y B Kattan: Intrabiliary Northern Region-At Gosforth Park Racecourse, two-year course leading to A levels and rupture of hydatid disease of the liver. 3.15 pm, Thursday, 4 March, 7.30 for 8 pm, annual dinner.* university entry. Girls wishing to study Professor F Saidi: A new surgical approach to hydatid (Guests are invited.) cyst disease. 4.45 pm, Professor M R B Keighley: Rotherham Division-At British Steel Corporation, medicine at university will be welcomed. 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