A Merry Christmas

Click on web-address below to see and HEAR a good Christmas card. Turn up your speakers.

http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=2007134554829&source=jl999

'Blackberry' - The One Ronnie.

The One Ronnie discussing a 'Blackberry'.
Click on the following:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/clips/p00ctlvg/the_one_ronnie_clips_blackberry_sketch/

Merry Christmas

Hello Batchmates,

It would be a 'White Christmas' for quite a lot of you.

I have selected an appropriate song - it's history and its performance - on youtube link.

There are two versions the web-addresses of which I have shown below.

Please click on each of the 'youtube' links at the bottom of the words, separately.

The first link is a beautiful version with the words to sing along with.

I am sure all of you would sing along keeping in pace with the words.

Imagine that you are singing it along with your batchmates.

The second version is even better but there are no words which I am sure you will

know now by heart.

Here is wishing all of you a Merry Christmas.

Philip G V

White Christmas !

The song White Christmas is undoubtedly the most famous and popular of all the Christmas songs. The music and lyrics for White Christmas were written by Irving Berlin in 1942 and originally featured in the movie Holiday Inn starring Bing Crosby. The lyrics of White Christmas struck a chord with the soldiers fighting in the Second World War and their families who were waiting for them back home. The song and recording of White Christmas by Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter's orchestra and the Ken Darby Singers was so popular that it was later reprised in the movie called after its name - White Christmas. The film White Christmas once again starred Bing Crosby together with Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HrAy5xqzOs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOgaTRFbIlg&feature=related

Press the replay button on each link after the first download, to listen to an uninterrupted performance.

Names of Jewish scientists we came to know at the Medical Faculty 1960 to 1965.

The contribution of Jews to medical knowledge.

1. Freidrich Gustav Henle - Grandson of the Rabbi Feurth Germany. Loop of Henle, Henle’s membrane, Henle’s warts, Henle’s fissures, Henle’s sphincter etc.

2. Kaposi – sarcoma.

3. Unna’s – disease ( Seborrhic eczema)

4. Schamberg’s disease (Progressive pigmentary skin eruptions).

5. Lassars paste – Early substitute for Cortisone.

6. Wassermann – German Jew – Sero-diagnosis of Syphilis.

7. Ellie Metchnikof – Russian Jewish bacteriologist – Calomel in the early treatment of Syphilis. Nobel Prize.

8. Ernest Chain – Russian Jew (Isolating Penicillin). Nobel prize

9. Hans Krebs – German Jew - The Krebs enzyme cycle.

10. Otto Loewi – German Jew – Role of Acetyl Choline. Nobel prize.

11. Otto Meyerhoff - German Jew – Consumption of oxygen and production of lactic acid leading to fatigue. Nobel prize.

12. Konrad Bloch – German Jew – Cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism. Nobel prize.

13. Selman Waksman – Russian Jew – Invented the term antibiotic. Isolated Streptomycin. Nobel prize.

14. Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine – Russian Jew – Anti-Cholera vaccine

15. Tadeus Reichstein – Polish Jew – Hormones of the adrenal cortex, synthesis of Vitamin C. Nobel prize.

16. Jonas Salk – American Jew – First vaccine against Polio.

17. Albert Sabin – Polish Jew – Oral Polio vaccine.

18. Sigmund Freud – Moravian Jew – Psychoanalysis.

Albert Sabin gave us a lecture in the New Anatomy lecture theatre in ?1964

Food for thought

What have we learned in 2,065 years?


"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."
- Cicero - 55 BC

So,

Evidently,

nothing……………….

Movies in the 1960s

Jews in the US entertainment industry – A story of how immigrants made waves.

‘…the big five, MGM, Paramount, Warner brothers, RKO and Twentieth Century Fox, all of which were owned and controlled by Jews. And of the not-so-little three – Universal, Colombia and United artists – two were in Jewish hands. …

As the Scottish director John Grierson, observed after a stay in Hollywood: ‘After a few years in the place, your foreskin falls away’.

‘… Hollywood, the place as it was said, where ‘the son-in-law also rises’ was the last redoubt of nepotism,…’

‘… any Jewish actor or actress hoping to be built up as a star had to be processed and turned into an all-American boy or girl before they could be exposed to the public….

Marian Levee had to become Paulette Goddard.

Bernard Schwartz had to become Tony Curtis

Judy Tuvim, Judy Holliday. ..

Danny Kaminsky, Danny Kaye

Joseph Levitch, Jerry Lewis

Shirley Shrift, Shelley Winters

Lee Jacob, Lee J Cobb

Dustin Hofmann.

Barbara Streisland.

From the paperback ‘The Jews’ by Chaim Bermant,

Sphere Books Ltd, London,

Published in 1977.

How many hours of fun and laughter they gave us in the 1960s, when there were no TVs. Here is a hurrah to all of them.

Philip G V

The death of a King - Rajasinghe of Sithawake, Sri Lanka, 1592

Veerasingam PG: Analysis of the reported symptoms that preceded the death of King Rajasinghe of Sithawake (1592 AD). Ceylon Med J; 2002 Jun;47(2):65-7

 [Title] Analysis of the reported symptoms that preceded the death of King Rajasinghe of Sithawake (1592 AD).

 A copy of an ola leaf manuscript, the original of which was written around the late 1590s, was published recently.

 It describes the sequence of events leading to the death of the warrior King Rajasinghe of the Sithawake Kingdom (1521-1593).

 A study of the contents of this letter is presented.

 The dressing applied to a wound on the foot of the King is described in that letter.

 It is likely that this dressing would have been an ideal medium to produce the highly potent tetanus exotoxin.

 The toxin would have diffused into the open wound and produced the sequence of symptoms and signs mentioned in the letter.

 An analysis of the symptoms and signs noted during the King's last illness as described in the letter is presented.

 Laryngospasm, and tonic and clonic spasms are easily identified.

 In addition, a group of symptoms attributed in the 1960s to sympathetic over-activity in tetanus are also recognisable.

 The conclusion is drawn that the King died of tetanus.

 The intriguing possibility of the wilful use of a lethal dressing on an open wound as a biological contact poison is left open for discussion.