ALLEGED IMPORTATION OF STRYCHNINE.

Importation and Innovation

Alleged Infectiousness of Malaria

report on Kala-Azar ; but, after reading the article through, I fail, save on one important particular, to find any facts or arguments not already advanced in his original report. These arguments have already been crushingly refuted on the various articles, editorial and communicated, that have already appeared in your own medical journal, and to repeat this refutation, as Captain Rogers has re...

Strychnine and Memory Process

feedback training can lead to large and significant changes in alpha densities when conditions have lowered alpha density below the levels seen spontaneously under optimal conditions. Subjects can acquire volitional control over alpha activity only under conditions which normally lead to decreased densities. Thus, during the initial orientation in the dark, when subjects experiment, but are not...

Strychnine in Fever

Sin,?Mr. Hall, of the Royal Artillery, in the last number of the Gazette, calls attention to the use of strychnine as a substitute for quinine in the treatment of malarious fevers, and " has never yet met with any mention, in books, of this medicine having been given as a substitute for quinine." In the Year Book of the new Sydenham Society for 1862, at page 51, there will be found a record of ...

Alleged allergenicity of latex gloves.

The Editor, I feel that Sawyer and Bennett (2006) imply that there is something intrinsically hazardous about natural rubber latex (NRL) gloves. The evidence shows this not to be the case. NRL gloves were used for many years in health care and laboratory work with only a rare incidence of latex allergy. The problem arose when the health care sector decided to adopt a policy of general glove use...