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LEADING ARTICLESInfluenza 1980-1 .............. .......... 527Refractory anaemia ........................... 528Function of the transplanted heart............ 529

Mechanisms of chemicalcarcinogenesis ................... 529

Suicide and epilepsy ................... 530

PAPERS AND ORIGINALSSulphinpyrazone in acute myocardial infarction: studies on cardiac rhythm and renal function

R G WILCOX, D RICHARDSON, J R HAMPTON, J R A MITCHELL, D C BANKS .....................................................531Actinomyces-like organisms in cervical smears from women using intrauterine contraceptive devicesHELEN L D DUGUID, DAVID PARRATT, ROBERT TRAYNOR .................................................................. 534

Sodium and potassium intake and blood pressure PETER BURSTYN, DEE HORNALL, CAROL WATCHORN ...................... 537"Benign" monoclonal IgE gammopathy H LUDWIG, W VORMITrAG ................................................... 539Cerebral thrombosis in two patients with malabsorption syndrome treated with vitamin KJON FLORHOLMEN, HELGE WALDUM, ARNE NORD0Y ..................................................................... 541

Dangers of storing glass syringes in surgical spirit D A LEIGH, G W HOUGH ........................................... 541A better system for polio vaccination in developing countries? T JACOB JOHN, ABRAHAM JOSEPH, P VIJAYARATHNAM........ 542

MEDICAL PRACTICEMathematics and medicine: Test reduction: I-Introduction and review of published work w I CARD, P A EMERSON.. 543Clinical Topics: Changing patterns of communicable disease in England and Wales: Part III-Increasing infectious

diseases N S GALBRAITH, PAT FORBES, R T MAYON-WHITE .............................................................. 546Procedures in Practice: Tapping ascites (2) E RYAN, G NEALE ......................................................... 550Scientifically Speaking: Old Turks and Young Turks BARBARA J CULLITON, WALLACE K WATERFALL ...................... 552Reading for Pleasure: Greene and Baron Corvo J D SWALES ...................................................... 554AnyQuestions? ...........k-.i... . ........... .. . . . ..E.. 545,549,553Materia Non Medica-Contribution from RICHARD WISE .......................0 t-i L i8 R 555Medicine and Books .......................................F. .- ...................... 556Personal View M RUSSELL LOCK . ................................ 560

P j C)ty.t >^,-_wtCORRESPONDENCE-List of Contents ..... ......... 561 OBITUARYp 8E 09 F ...- 568

NEWS AND NOTESMedical News .......... 570 BMA Notices .......... 570

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