Benezech 1975
Benezech 1975
has signally failed to shed much light on the cause of this INCIDENCE OF ALCOHOLIC LIVER DISEASE
type of renal stone, and the epidemiological approach SIR,-Why are more figures from " other centres
might prove much more fruitful in this as well as in other around the country " needed; and what purpose is to be
" diseases of civilisation ". served by sending them to Dr Blendis and his colleagues
70 Rodney Street,
Liverpool 1. NORMAN GIBBON. (Sept. 13, p. 499) ? Figures are already available, 1-3 and
alcoholism is now the astiological factor in from two-thirds
to three-quarters of patients with cirrhosis in this country.
Dudley Road Hospital,
NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS IN 47,XYY MEN Birmingham B18 7QH. A. PATON.