The Bristol Medico-Historical Society are pleased to announce the publication of their seventh volume of proceedings. This covers a large variety of topics ranging from Medical Fraud to X-ray pioneers, Childbed Fever to Old Age Pensions, Inebriety to Royal Operations. The contributors are experts in their field and include doctors, dentists, professors and medical physicists. The society was set up in 1986 by Prof John Clamp and Mr Michael Wilson. It is dedicated to the research and discussion of all aspects of medical history.