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Correspondence colleges, Ludhiana, takes in an equal number of men and women medical students, and for its 50 places this year had 2,400 applications, a steadily rising number over the paist six years.-I am, etc., E. GERARD HOUSDEN. London S.W.19. Abbreviations SIR,-I should like to support most strongly the plea by Dr. J. A. Frais (21 December, p. 776) that some attempt be made to standardize abbreviations. Many abbreviations in current use mean different things to different people-for example, T.C.A. on outpatient notes may mean " to come again " ; or, to dermatologists, trichloracetic acid.-I am, etc., E. M. DONALDSON. Newcastle, Staffs.