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Reports of Societies

The Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow The fourth meeting of the 156th Session was held in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, 242 St. Vincent Street, on Friday, 14th November 1969, with the President, Dr R. L. Richards in the Chair. This was a joint meeting with the Southern Medical Society, and Dr Richards welcomed the President and Members of that Society. The Scientific Business took the form of an address by Professor J. Crooks entitled The epidemiological approach to therapeutics. Professor Crooks discussed 4 situations to illustrate the thesis that much fruitful therapeutic research originated from a situation in which an individual patient presented a diagnostic problem; this led to study of a population with similar problems (the epidemiological aspect) from which could emerge pointers for clinical research and perhaps eventually new therapeutic measures. The illustrative situations described by Professor Crooks were pregnancy goitre, hypothyroidism in thyrotoxic patients treated with radio-active iodine, osteomalacia due to malabsorption following partial gastrectomy, and the study of adverse drug reactions. In the 3 latter situations, Professor Crooks also showed how the use of a computer could make possible a type of research which could not be handled by conventional data processing techniques. After a thoughtful and provocative discussion, a vote of thanks to Professor Crooks was proposed by Mr A. J. Webster, President of the Southern Medical Society.