December 14, 1999 / le 14 décembre 1999

CMAJ 1999; 161(12)

© 1999 Canadian Medical Association / Association médicale canadienne

Press release

In this issue · Dans ce numéro

	Editor's Preface · Mot du rédacteur en chef
1477	The value of a secondhand bookshop [HTML / PDF]
1479	Les trésors des livres d'occasion [HTML / PDF]

1481	CMAJ's Illustrated Dictionary of Holiday Highlights [HTML / PDF]

ESSAYS AND REMINISCENCES

1485	My friend who became my patient M. Valois [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
1489	Mister Jones! D.S. Goldbloom [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
1490	Congratulations! It's a ricocheting baby boy! C.J. Brown [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
1494	Why I will never be president of the OMA M. Greiver [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
1496	One morning in the OR V.M. Hanlon [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
1497	Skating before anatomy class R. Ruskin [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
1503	Sometimes it just works out P.B. Feldman Glaser [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
1503	Caught in the current R.L. Kirby [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
1505	Medicine and the art of methadone maintenance P.H. Mark [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
1506	Here's to you, Arvid C.J. Brown [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
1507	Angels, doctors and public perceptions T. Osmun [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
1508	The importance of a good history A.C. Macaulay [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
1510	"There's a man here who claims to be your father" R. Bayne [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
1514	You'll get used to it L. Hazelton [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
1516	Get your pine pyjamas now R. Gallagher [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
1519	Who won the game? R.C. Hamilton [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]

REALLY ORIGINAL RESEARCH

1520	Bubble bubble, abdominal trouble: a new test to chew on G. Worrall, P. Holmes, M. Robbins [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
1525	Fetal sex determination: the predictive value of 3 common myths S. Ostler, A. Sun [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
1527	The race of the millennium: CD-ROM versus the textbook J.S. Mann, Y.C. Lu, S.C.W. Grzybowski [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
1532	Is chicken soup an essential drug? A. Ohry, J. Tsafrir [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]

MEDICINE IN CANADA

1535	Two unusual penetrating injuries from playing ice hockey R. Barter [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
1540	Snowbound at Great Bear B.E. Hanley [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
1541	Special delivery A.C. Macaulay [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
1543	Smallpox and its control in Canada J.W.R. McIntyre, C.S. Houston [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
1550	There's snow machine like it C. Cheng [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
1551	Measles at the 64th parallel G.A. Mertens [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
1556	Please pass the strychnine: the art of Victorian pharmacy R.C. McGarry, P. McGarry [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
1559	The evolution of the Yukon Medevac Program in an environment of fiscal restraint V.L. Cunningham [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]
1562	Lipstick on the collar goes high-tech C.J. Brown [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]

THE LEFT ATRIUM

BOOKS . . .	[HTML / PDF]
1563	History's labour (review by P.F. Hall)
1564	Expiation and celebration (review by J. McSherry)
1565	Not just a pretty face (review by W. Peters)
1566	Food for the soul (review by I.A. Cameron)
. . . AND ART    [ HTML ]
1567	What's on at the galleries, from Charlottetown to Vancouver

DATA

1624	The last gasp [full article in HTML / full article in PDF]