1. The murder's vade mecum;Bbttiger, L.E.,1982
2. Douglas Aitken began collecting information about medical missions while working at the Donald Fraser Hospital in northern Transvaal. When he retired in 1%9, after 36 years' service, he continued his researches until his death. The incomplete papers were taken over by his lifelong friend and fellow Edinburgh graduate, George Gale, who had also spent his working life in southern Africa, but he too failed to finish the work before his death. In 1980 Michael Gelfand, professor of medicine at the university of Zimbabwe and author ofmany books on African medicine, inquired about records of medical missions and was given the Aitken-Gale papers, from which he has produced this fascinating and extensively documented account
3. The first 40 years of this century were characterised by a constant but ultimately successful struggle against adverse conditions and lack offunds to build up medical missions in many of the tribal areas of southern Africa. Devoted doctors and nurses gave their services free and often contributed money towards improvements. Although provincial administrations had a responsibility to support hospitals Miss Cecilia Makiwane, the first trained African nurse,1908