Excerpt: The writer was a fellow-student of Conan Doyle. Together they attended She surgical demonstrations of Joseph Bell, at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. This man exhibited incredibly acute and sure deductive powers in diagnosis and in guessing the vocation of patients from external signs. Sir Henry Littlejohn, another medical lecturer heard by the two students, was remarkable for his sagacious expert testimony, leading to the conviction of many a criminal. Thus is t...
It has been recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that rigorous decontamination protocols be used on surgical instruments that have been exposed to tissue possibly contaminated with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). This study was designed to examine the effects of these protocols on various types of surgical instruments. The most important conclusions are: (1) autoclaving in 1N NaOH will cause darkening of...
Translation of Die allgemeine chirurgische Pathologie und Therapie
Pathology, Surgical
The chapters comprising the volume appeared originally as separate articles in the 'Military surgeon.' Upon their compilation a limited number of copies of reprints were obtained by this office and bound together for the use of the Medical corps of the army. The work was never published as a book.--Letter from the Office of the surgeon general, Oct. 19, 1916 ; Appended, Seaman prize essay. The comparative mortality of disease and battle casualties in the historic wars of...
United States. Army
Government Reference Publication
Excerpt: The purpose of the Cancer Prevention, Control, Behavioral, and Population Sciences Career Development Award is to support the career development of investigators who wish to focus their research endeavors on cancer prevention, control, and behavioral and population sciences. This mechanism provides support for 3?5 years of specialized didactic study and mentored research for individuals with a health professional or science doctoral degree who are not fully esta...
Excerpt: Polycarbonates, epoxy, and methacrylic resins are synthesized by reactions between individual chemicals, resulting in polymers with distinct physicochemical characteristics. As biomaterials they have multiple uses in human health applications; for instance, as manufactured products, for example, intraocular lenses (1), cements for trauma surgery (2,3), or bisphenol A (BPA)-based filling materials in preventive (4,5) and restorative dentistry (6). The latter requ...
Excerpt: (U) A. Mission Description The Program Element provides tactical, strategic, and covert aeromedical evacuation systems and medical treatment equipment to meet unique Air Force medical readiness and operational requirements. (U) FY 1998 ($ in Thousands) ... (U) $63 Transportable Blood Transshipment Center (TBTC) ... Performed Program/Engineering Support for production ... (U) $1036 Spinal Cord Injury Transport System (SCITS) ... Initiated EMD. ... (U) $324 Chemic...
Excerpt: Hi. My name is Bill Henderson. About 10 years ago, in November 1990, my former wife, Marjorie began her four-year bout with cancer. She died on November 1, 1994. Her many operations, chemotherapy treatments and intense pain made her wish often in her last two years for a quick death, or ?transition,? as she called it. After watching that, it was hard for me to believe that millions of people each year had to endure that same torture. I have read widely in these ...
Preface: [Being an extract from a long and animated correspondence with a friend in America.] I quite recognize the force of your objection that an invalid or a woman in weak health would get no good from stories which attempt to treat some features of medical life with a certain amount of realism. If you deal with this life at all, however, and if you are anxious to make your doctors something more than marionettes, it is quite essential that you should paint the darker...
Joint committee print ; July 11, 1988.
Taxation ; H.R. 1961 100th Congress ; H.R. 2792 100th Congress ; S. 2409 100th Congress ; S. 2484 100th Congress ; S. 2611 100th Congress ; S. 1239 100th Congress ; S. 1821 100th Congress ; S. 2078 100th Congress
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Curricula Catalogs
Excerpt: According to the National Vital Statistics Reports from the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 1993?1995, congenital anomalies are the leading cause of death in children under the age of one, the second-leading cause (after unintentional injuries) in ages one through four, and the third-leading cause in ages five through nine. Birth defects to many organ systems require surgical, medical, nutritional, dent...
Excerpt: Chapter 1. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES. IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon. The regiment was stationed in India at the time, and before I could join it, the second Afghan war had broken out. On landing at Bombay, I learned t...