10 JANUARY 1970, page 12

Medicine

Go boil a kettle, David JOHN ROWAN WILSON There used to be a standard scene in films about doctors, where the old family physi- cian was called in for an emergency confine-......

Table Talk

The new-time religion DENIS BROGAN Washington—In a recent number of Time magazine we learn that the rumour so cur- rent a few years ago that `God is dead' is dis- credited. He......