The Sunday Times magazine - Frontiers of Medicine cover (6 December 1964)

The Sunday Times magazine - Frontiers of Medicine cover (6 December 1964)
Fair to good condition for age - there is a lot of yellowing and browning to edges of front cover - yellowing to page edges throughout

FRONTIERS OF MEDICINE - 5 pages
(article continues from the cover story)

EXPLORING THE BRAIN - Brain surgeons are getting tremendous help from radiologists who can now, with new techniques, diagnose and locate tumours and artery defects with pinpoint accuracy
2 pages (one-and-a-half page scan of the brain)

CORONARIES: QUEST FOR A CURE - Coronary heart disease hits people as dissimilar as the director worrying over decision and the Benedictine monk absorbed in meditation. Dr Alfred Byrne reports on research into causes and cure of this medical mystery
Two and three quarter pages

MEDICINES - Alfred Byrne has selected 40 of today's important medicines
2 page photos

THE NATURAL MAN - This is a breakthrough in medical education. Using an incredibly detailed cast, of which this is the head, surgeons now know the exact location of every artery in the body. The cast, prepared by Dr David Tompsett of the Royal College of Surgeons, was made by filling the arteries of a still-born baby with liquid resin and dissolving away the tissues after the resin set. The result shows the arterial system rising from the heart like the branches of a tree
1 page image

THE MAN-MADE MAN - Here, represented on the 16th-century Italian statue of Jason, are some of the devices used in implant surgery today
double page image

CANCER: NEW FRONTIERS OF DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT - Some of the elements that have brought two victories in the long, long fight against cancer
2 pages

MILLION-VOLT BOMBARDMENT - A patient lies in a pressure chamber, along in a bare, silent room. He is undergoing a new form of X-ray treatment for cancer
1 page

SUB-STANDARD MEDICINE - This examination of some of the Health Service's shortcomings and the reasons for them represents a frank and individual viewpoint. The writer is a consultant physician at a suburban hospital and teaches clinical medicine
2 pages

DESIGN FOR LIVING - What sort of toys do children like? We gave a toy-testing party to find out children's taste when they have a genuinely free choice. Their clear-cut preferences are reflected in what they chose to play with most. By Drusilla Beyfus
2 page photos (small photo of each of 26 children with toys)
(plus half-page article)

COOKERY - Cooking by Robert Carrier
This week: Garlic
One page