Ban on dental anaesthetics.

On Chloroform and Other Anaesthetics

Soon after the introduction of chloroquency of the pulse whilst it is being form I administered it to a gentleman, inhaled, it is occasionally followed by a aged about 55, whilst a fatty tumour was feeling of faintness, especially if the removed from the nape of the neck. It did patient remains in the sitting posture. At not turn out as fatty tumours usually do, one period in the history of med...

Blackburn on the Ban on Mixed

【Subject Class】Ethics, Meta-Ethics 【Keyword】Moral Realism, Moral Projectivism, Moral Facts, Moral Supervenience, Simon Blackburn 【Abstract】This is a realist response to Blackburn’s version of the explanatory inadequacy of the moral thesis based on the ban on mixed worlds, and to its possible explanatory reductionism version. First, the moral supervenience relationship is made explicit, for the ...

To ban or not to ban?

The past four years have seen a steady increase in the number of companies that offer direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing services and in the number of such tests for genetic risk factors, including a wide range of diseases and other non-disease-related traits. These companies sell their tests outside the traditional healthcare setting and often do not involve healthcare professionals for ...

Dental caries in children and the level of repeat general anaesthetics for dental extractions. A national disgrace.

Reflections on beta-adrenergic blockade in anaesthetics.

Sympathetic stimulation constricts the blood vessels of the skin and viscera and contracts the intestinal sphincters and the pilomotor muscles. Similar responses are elicited by adrenaline and are blocked by ergot (Dale, 1906). Adrenaline relaxes the non-pregnant feline uterus and the gall bladder. Cannon and Rosenblueth (1933) suggested that the differences in the effects of sympathetic stimul...