Asthma--A New Conception

Asthma: a new conception.

Of the relatively few emergency calls made upon you in practice, the call for treatment of the acute attack of asthma will be by far the most common. In fact with some patients the calls become so frequent and at such inconvenient moment that both the doctor and his patient begin to meet with ill grace. The late Wilfred Trotter in an address on emergencies said this: "In a certain sense of the ...

A New System of Automated Eco-genetic Database and Modern Conception of Prognosis of Bronchial Asthma

The high epidemiological indexes of bronchial asthma (BA) and the high frequency of BA formation in early age groups, multiple genetic and external factors of phenotypic expression dictate the necessity of integrative study of eco-genetic characteristics of BA. At present, it is widely recognized that hereditary predisposition is the main factor for the formation of BA. A unified assessment sys...

A New Conception of Legal Insanity

ions are not at all that different from the personifications of the fairy tale" (p. 75). Statements about crazy behavior that ascribe agency to intrapsychic entities such as "impulses" or "internal pressures" are homologous to statements that the insane are ruled by demons. The anthropomorphisms of the former mode of explanation are more subtle and use terms that sound mechanical and impersonal...

A New Conception of Keratoconjunctivitis Sicca

The mammalian neocortex new pyramidal neuron: a new conception

The new cerebral cortex (neocortex) and the new type of pyramidal neuron are mammalian innovations that have evolved for operating their increasing motor capabilities while essentially using analogous anatomical and neural makeups. The human neocortex starts to develop in 6-week-old embryos with the establishment of a primordial cortical organization, which resembles the primitive cortices of a...