John Bruce Bittiner   Amelie Boyd   David Christy Dunn   Judith Anne Hardy   Leonard Shenfield

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q Aberdeen 1943), died from cancer of the pancreas on 30 May 1998.He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in India when newly qualified and returned to England to finish his training.He published the first described cases of asymptomatic carriage of gonorrhoea in men in 1955.He delighted in teaching medical students, nurses and midwives, and doctors, and this skill was aided by a rapport for young people and an impish sense of humour.He took great pride in his department, his staff, and the hospital, and in 1990 published Nottingham General Hospital-Personal Reflections.In the early 1960s he predicted the changes caused by the sexual revolution and the contraceptive pill, which were to alter the demography of the clinics from a domination by men to virtual parity of men and women.At the same time effective antibiotics and contact tracing put the traditional sexually transmitted diseases, such as gonorrhoea and syphilis, into decline.He became chairman of the Nottingham Stroke Appea

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