Letters to the Editor

Rains AJH Capper WM . Bailey & Love's short practice of surgery, 14th edn. London: HK Lewis & Co, 1968:989–96.

Schwartz S1 . Principles of surgery. New York: The Blakiston Division McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969: 998.

Racouchot JE Petouraud CH Rivoire JO . Saint Fiacre. The Healer of Haemorrhoids and Patron Saint of Proctology. Am J Proctol 1971;22:175–7.

Thurston H Attwater D , eds. Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints, complete edition. Westminster, Maryland: Christian Classics, 1981:400–61.

Brincker H . The sarcoidosis-lymphoma syndrome. Br J Cancer 1986;54:467–73.

Brincker H . Coexistence of sarcoidosis and malignant disease: Causality or coincidence? Sarcoidosis 1989; 6:31–43.

Brandt L Emanuelsson H Mitelman F Stenstam M Soderstrom N . Pronounced deficiency in T-cells and lymphocyte chromosomal aberrations in a patient with sarcoidosis, myelofibrosis and acute leukemia following thorotrast angiography. Acta Med Scand 1977;201:487–9.

Bordelon J Stone MJ Frenkel EP . Probable myeloblastic leukemoid reaction with disseminated sarcoidosis. South Med J 1977;70:1378–80.

Hermann C Andersen E Videbaeck AA . Acute myeloblastic leukaemia in sarcoidosis treated with methotrexate. Scand J Haematol 1980;24:234–6.

Hatake K Aoyagi N Takaku F . Acute myelomonocytic leukemia following remission of sarcoidosis. Oncology 1983;40:200–1.

Reich JM . Acute myeloblastic leukemia and sarcoidosis. Implications for pathogenesis. Cancer 1985;55:366–9.

Bataille R Klein B Luxembourg A Durie B . Relation entre états auto-immuns et cancérisation de cellules de la lignée lymphocytaire B. In: Roux H Luxembourg A Roudier J , eds. Immunorhumatologie SOLAL 1990:170–89.

Hanto DW Frizzera G Gajl-Peczalska KJ Simmons RL . Epstein Barr virus, immunodeficiency and B-cell proliferation. Transplantation 1985;39:461–72.

National survey of tuberculosis notifications in England and Wales 1978–9. BMJ 1980;281:895–8.

Kolawole TM Lewis EA . A radiological study of tuberculosis of the abdomen (gastrointestinal tract). AJR 1975;123:348–58.

Lambrianides AL Ackroyd N Shorey BA . Abdominal tuberculosis. Br J Surg 1980;67:887–9.

Wolfe JHN Behn AR Jackson BT . Tuberculous peritonitis and the role of diagnostic laparoscopy. Lancet 1979;4:852–3.

Das P Shulka HS . Clinical diagnosis of abdominal tuberculosis. Br J Surg 1976;63:941–6.

Bhansali SK . Abdominal tuberculosis: Experience with 300 cases. Am J Gastroenterol 1977;67:324–37.

Rippere V . Anatomy of a nonsense, or the common medical practice of dismissing the patient as neurotic. Newsletter of the Society for Environmental Therapy 1989;9:160–7.

Rippere V . Blaming the patient: The Flat Earth Society guide to successful medical practice. Newsletter of the Society for Environmental Therapy, 1990;10:161–9.

Slater E . The diagnosis of hysteria. BMJ 1965;i:1395–9.

Vickery K . Foreword to Richard Mackarness. Chemical Victims. London: Pan, 1980.

Rippere V . The mental state of dismissed patients — an enquiry into dismissal injury. I. A very peculiar practice. Newsletter of the Society for Environmental Therapy 1991;11(in press).

Ettedgui E Ladusans E Bamford M . Complete heart block as a complication of varicella. Int J Cardiol 1987;14:362–5.

Burn L Paterson JK . Musculoskeletal medicine — the spine. London: Kluwer, 1990.

Castillo E Rubin RT Holsboer-Trachsler E . Clinical differentiation between lethal catatonia.

Gelenberg AJ . The catatonic syndrome. Lancet 1976; i:1339–41.

Gjessing LR . A review of periodic catatonia. Biol Psychiatry 1974;8:23–45.

Berrios GE . Stupor Revisited. Compr Psychiatry 1981; 22:466–89.

Penn H Ravy J Lapham L Mandel M Sandt J . Catatonic behaviour, viral encephalopathy, and death. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1972;27:758–61.

Dowling GP McDonough ET Bost RO . ‘Eve’ and ‘Ecstasy’. A report of five deaths associated with the use of MDEA and MDMA. JAMA 1987;257:1615–17.

Suarez RV Reimersma R . ‘Ecstasy’ and sudden cardiac death. Am J Forensic Med Pathol 1988;9:339–41.

Brown C Osterloh J . Multiple severe complications from recreational ingestion of MDMA (‘Ecstasy’). (letter) JAMA 1987;258:780–1.

Schmidt CJ Black CK Abbate GM Taylor VL . MDMA-induced hyperthermia and neurotoxicity are independently mediated by 5-HT2 receptors. Brain Res 1990;529: 85–90.